The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-29

tlce to themselves and who have quietly
laid their claims before senator after sena-
are the widows of General Walling and
General Fitzpatrick. Mrs. Walling, n plain,
middle-aged woman, has been most perse
vering visitor at the capitol, day
after day, sending her card to mem
ssrs on to reG susy the ea%
tee," or mot in,'' or. if member could be
seen, getting only a non-committal reply
and a courteous adieu from him. A few
weeks ago, however, Mrs. Walling's daugh-
ter, beautiful and attractive girl of twenty,
Joined her mother in the weary watch and,
whether this fact had any relation to the
main question or not. it happened that Mrs.
Walling's pension was very soon increased
from $50 to 800.
Colonel Casey Young, the well-known ex-
representative from Alabama, man who
is. as most southerners are, uniformly
courteous and kind to all who come to him
for help: says it is as dangerous for MEM
Der of congress to acquire the
reputation of being a good-natured,
sympathetic man as to achieve the
one instance, he says, he is assailed with
tears and in the other assaulted with cpl
thets; and it need not be more than said
that the tears are much the more difficult
to hold out against. Then, too, if he be
man mar Of r s good nature he will be sin
come to Washington-by them and their
sisters and their cousins and their aunts-|
not to speak of their sscond-crop relations
IF congressman wants to lead a tolera-
BILE life, secure alike from hot feminine
tears and hotter feminine yituperation, and
to escape from what is even worse than
either, the extravagant attentions and I'M
reasonable condolences of some women"
says Colonel Young, she must maintain a
stolid neutrality; he must retire within him
self and pull down the blinds.''
A chat with few of these women lobby
lists soon sets one right as to the character
lstlcs of the men who make our laws. For
example, one learns that while there may
be other representatives who are as suscept-
ible to feminine influence as Mr.. Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky, there is mono whose
manner is more pleasing to these ladies.
1t is politeness. gentleness, Difference and
patience under all circumstances where
women are concerned make him, they tell
me, their especial fayorite. "Why," said a
pretty little lady, who had but recently
which she had long been at work
Mr.. Breckenridge could not help me,
he told me SO in such perfectly lovely
way that felt good deal more comforted
by 1t than did by the manner in which
certain other congressman told me he would
help me. This other man made me feel as
If l were guilty of some objectionable
rudeness in merely asking him to help me.
though he did help me very considerably"
speaking of Mr.. Townsend, of Colorado,
little bevy of these women agreed that he
is the handsOmest man in the house, but
insisted that this lays great responsibility
upon him, since, as one of them put it, "a
handsome man in congress must live up to
his beauty"-that ia to say the ladies meas
ure his mental and moral nature by the lus-
ter OF bis eye and the classic cut of his nose.
The most abdurate men in the house, ac-
cording to the women who have been press
ing claims, are Messrs. Stone, of Missouri;
kilRore. of Texas, and Enloe of Tennessee,
On one o ccasion not long ago these men
were corraled in Statuary hall, and all the