The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29

tol rs that of the funny little woman in
corkscrew curls, who has sol1 knicknacks
IN the House wing corridor ever since Cap
itol h'll was hole in the ground Promi-
nent among these are Mrs Johnson, Mrs
Samuel and Charlotte Smith, who devote
themselves to various reforms, and work
Tor glory much more zealously than some
oil the male lobbyists labor for gold. Indeed,
women lobbyists frequently do the work
Tor which men of the profession get the
pay; and some of them work for no remu-
neratlon but the glory of success There
are other women who have labored year
after year upon special measures such as
temperance reform, women suffrage, and
others still who have become familiar fig
ures In the lobbies and committee rooms,
Wnere they have, through session after
session, told over and over again the stories
Oh their Claims against the government
among those who have waited patiently
Tor what they deem to be Justice to them
selves and who have quietly laid their
claims before Senator after Senator, and
congressman after congressman, are the
widows of General Walling and General
fitzpatrick. Mrs. Walling, plain, middle
aged woman, has been most persevering
visitor at the capitol, day after day send
Ing her card to members only to receive
the unsatisfactory answer: BUSY in com
mlttee, or mot in" or, if member could
be seen, getting only non committal reply
and courteous adieu from him. A few
weeks ago, however, Mrs. Wallings daugh-
ter, beautiful and attractive girl of
twenty, Joined her mother in the weary
watch and, whether this fact had any re-
iataon TO the main question or not, it hap
pened that Mrs. Walling's pension was
very soon increased from $50 to $780,
Colonel Casey Young, the well known
ex-representative from Alabama, a man
VINO is, as most southerners are, uniformly
courteous and kind to all who come to
him for help, says it is as dangerous for
member OF Congress to acquire reputa-
tlon OF being good-n atured, sympathetic
man as to achieve the distinction of being a
orule In the one instance, he says, he is
aSsalled with tears and in the other as
saulted with epithets; and it need not be
more than said that the tears are much the
more difficult to hold out against. Then,
TOO, II he be man of reputed good nature
ne VIII be singled out by all the women
lobbyists who come to Washington-by
them and their sisters and their cousins
and their aunts-not to speak of their sec
ond-crop relations.
IF congressman wants to lead toler-
able life, secure alike from hot feminine
tears and hotter feminine vituperation, and
to escape from what is even worse than
either, the eXtravagant attentions and uu-
III,
says Colonel Young, The must main tain a
stolid neutrality; he must retire within
himself and pull down the blinds''
A chat with few OF these women lobby
lists soon sets one right as to the character
istics of the men who make our laws. For
example, one learns that while there may
be other representatives who are as sus-
ceptible to feminine influence as Mr..
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, there is none
whose nanpar mora N to no ladiac
His politeness, gentleness, Difference and
patience under all circumstances where
| women are concerned make him. they tell
me, their especial favorite. "Why,' said
| a pretty little lady, who had but recently
procured the adjudication of claim upon
which she had long been at work, MIR
Breckinridge could not help me; he told me
| SO in such perfectly lovely way that felt
good deal more comforted by it than did
by the manner in which certain other
congressman told me he would help me-
This other man made me feel as if 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,
a 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 is TO say the ladies' meas
ure his mental and moral nature by the
luster Of his eye and the classic cut of mis-
nose
The most obdurate men in tie House, &C
cording to the women who have been pres
sing pension claims, are Messrs. Stone. of
Missouri; kilgore, of Texas, and EuIoe, of
Tennessee. On one occasion not long ago
these men were corraled in Statuary hall,
and all the wit, logic, persuasiveness and
modest establishments of several OF these
women We're used upon them in the inter