The Washington critic., 1890-02-22
GOSSIP OF THE CAPITOL.
WtilSPERiNGS IN AND ABOUT THE
IOBBlES OF CONGRESS.

\ nc lODDlCS III INC AdpllOl nave over
flowed with visitors and people bent on
business during the past week. The
guides have roaped a rich harvest,
Jake" Kennedy is talking Of buying
residence at Atlantic City next summer
If business continues as good, and the
faces OF the other guides have been
bcaming with anticipation of eating
pound cake for the rest of the year.
The Congressman themselves have been
unusually active, which was caused
principally by the Worlds Fair agilu.
lion. and at no time since the session
opened have the galleries been iammcd
with such motley crowds of people
from everywhere as they were during
the week just past.
Among the many men ON business
around the lobbics in the ucighborhood
of The House was noticed the Lone
star labor agilalor. William A. A.
CaIscy. bill" Carscy, as every labor
man in New York is used to calling
him. is one of the hidden mysteries. 1t
is n wcllkuown fact that no labor or
gani2ation will have anything to do
with him, yet he is back and forth from
New York TO Washington every few
days with something new on hand
Just week ago "Bill' was in the lob
bies ms representative delegate from
the American Workingmon' Protective
Tariff League, claiming to represent
3,CC0 workingmcn in New York, who
were anxious to have the Farquhar
Subsidy bill pass The House, After he
spoulcd for The welfare OF the laboriug
people, which would be promoted by
the passage of this bill, he went home,
yesterday he came down with rush
as chairman Of the executive com.
mittcc of the Anti Monopoly League,
and appeared before the House
Committee on Postoiliccs and Post
roads in opposition to the Wanamakcr
Postal Telegraph bill, and said he rep
resented the workingmon of the couu.
try, 1t was rumorcd that Mr.. Carscy
has a move on foot with George ID.
Lennon and John W. Keogh of New
York to revive the old Union Labor
party and come down to Washington as
a representative from that body next
week and oppose something else.
Tom" Coakley, the always genial
leader of the messengers on the House
side. can take joke about US gracefully
as any man In the lobbies. but when a
complete stranger approaches him un
a%arcs and slaps him on the back so
hard that his teeth chatter and takes
him for an old. time friend, he draws
The line
This is what occurred to him yester-
day. He was standing near tho main
entrance TO the House in the afternoon
with cigar in his mouth and a smile on
his face, when muscular man came
up behind him and brought his hand
down on Toms" back with rcsound.
ing wback, that made the bones bend,
and exclaimed:
why, Tom. when did you get in.
Shake, old fellow; Pm elighted-yes,
awful pleased TO sec you; shake!P
Tom" shook, but il was with pain.
His brow clouded and he looked mad
as he said:
My friend, you're going it little
strong; don't you think soy My names
Tom but you've got "a horse on me-
| don't know you"
What Don't know me? Me?
Now. Tom. old fellow, don't say that
you don't know your old friend, Jim
wilkins. Don't go back on your old
friends because you have got to be Com
missioner of the Department of Public
Works in New York City. | heard
you were in the city, and hunted you
b up"
Tom Coakley grasped the situa-
lion. and admitted that he did bear a
striking resemblance TO Thomas Il. Gill
roy of New York, but never knew the
resemblance was so strong before.
Captain Mickey, who holds sway over
the document room, has always got his
eyes open for improvement. During
the past week he has had the local re-
poricrs and correspondents in his mind.
He has had constructed a number of
pigeon holes just on the outside of his
Office where he throws everything
which he thinks of importance TO the
press. so that each representative of q
newspaper can 20 to the pigeon hole
awarded his paper and get whatever
news the Captain has to give out with
out losing time.
Judging from what may be seen in
the rotunda at the Capitol, artists have
varied conceptions of how the original
John Smiths life was saved by Poca
hontas. Onc-group in niche over 4
door pictures John Smith with his head
on stone, with Il bold brave with up
lifted club i'll the act of beating his
brains Out, while the brave Indian cir
is Just about to throw herself between
John and the club. The artist who en-
ciiclcd the rotiuda above the doors
with freScocd groups has different
conception Of this almost a tragedy al
together. lie has John kneeling, while
The noble rcd man grasps his hair and
bends Johns body backward until hi,
tongue lolls out, and a club is raised il
The right hand Of the Indian. Poca
hontas is apparently making a running
jump for the club
It's not generally known and wa
discovered only by accident. and is G
fact, that there is one Congressman WHIT
wears n oelluloid shirt. front Whethe
il is because his expenses are so heavy
and he wears it as a matter of economy
or II is more convenient than liner
shirts, is matter that rests entirely
with himself.
Congressman Blount of Georgia sale
he is the third Oldest member in Con
gress. and has spent thirty five years o.
his life within the walls of the House
He said he is getting tired of it ant
wants TO remain at home hereafte
among the old red hills of his State,
One of the brightest little members il
Congress is j. L. Washington of Nash
vile, Tenn. lie is one of the younges
members In age, but can comprehend
more sound common sense in one sen
tcncc than most of his conferrees Wit
have spent years in the House of Rep
Iesentatives. lie is a man small o
stature. with wiry frame, picrcin