The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-05-15
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EX.PRESIDENT
TO PRACTl
AND ADMITTED
E SUPREME
High Handed deasures of Republican
Congressman Will React on Their
Party "A Famous Novelist.
From Or Regular Correspondent.

through the prosaic performance OF
admission to the bar of the supreme
court OF the United States, an eXhi-
bitlon, where the ordinary lawyer is
concerned, of little interest, except to
the clerk of the court, who gathers in
a ten dollar bill every time a legal
chap secures the right to say "your
honor" before this august tribunal.
Mr.. Cleveland is the first president of
the United States who has ever sought
this distinction, although some were
practitioners before the court when
elected to the presidency. While now
a counselor of the foremost rank, for
lawyers are not considered to have
finished their legal education until
they have graduated in this higher
court, it is not the intention of Mr..
Cleveland to enter at once into active
practice before it, but he is retained
in several important cases which will
ultimately come here for final decis-
ion, and he availed himself of bust
ness visit to the city to become pro-
fessionally acquainted with the
court. 1t must have seemed strange
to him, too, to find himself
making obeisance to the justices, as
the supreme court demands respect,
who only a short while ago made an
annual official visit to him to do hon.
age to the head of the nation. But if
ever a man who has left the White
house recognizes the fact that he is
now but private citizen, it is Mr..
Cleveland. Indeed, so the leading
men say who had contact with him,
the retirement from the presidency
seems to have developed the affable
in his composition. His reputation,
you know, has been that of an austere,
if not harsh, man, and he gives no
evidence, other than worthy dignity
natural TO gentleman, that he has
ever held high, yes, the highest Office
under the government. In other
words, he has not inherited any of
that quality called the "insolence of
Office" which has been such plague
with many eminent men who have
been honored by the people. Asplain
Mr.. Grover Cleveland he was presented
to the supreme court by the late at.
torney general, Judge Garland, and as
plain Mr.. Cleveland he expressed him
self as content to be. In short, it is
Cincinnatus over again returned to
the pillow.
There is one thing, though, that it
is next to impossible to accomplish,
and that is to get the late president
to talk politics. Mention this one
word and he is as mute as an inmate of
Kendall Green. 1t can be said, how
ever, that his present visit has not
been without effect, in political
sense, as he has been enabled to
make the acquaintance of many new
members of congress who had never
met him before, and to tender, when
desired, words of encouragement and
advice. Altogether the short visit of
Mr.. Cleveland has been one of the
events of the season.
Leading Democrats in the house
say that the high handed way in
which the Republicans are doing the
public business will react upon them.
For instance, to rush measure in
volving an expenditure of nearly, if
not quite, $50,000,OO0, even if it is
pension bill, through the house with
only few hours discussion, is against
all legislative precedents and is not a
safe course to pursue in legislation.
The results of such hasty action, it is
claimed, will have an ill effect before
the day of final adjournment comes.
The truth is, though, that the Repub-
licans are working for record, as it is
generally acknowledged on that side
that only the most heroic effects at
this time can save them from an over
defeat next fall. Indeed,
that say quietly that unless an cleo
ton law is passed to bull.doze the
South, that there is little or no hope
for them in the next congress. 1t is
this which is making them so prodigal
in the expenditure of the public
and there is good reason to
believe that Harrison, who expe its to
stay little longer than the PRESENT
has given the Republican
to understand that they are
going even farther than he is willing
to follow, and nobody ever charged
him with being much of an econ
omist. One thing seems certain, how
ever, and that is, with the present
legislation gait maintained, they will
spend all the available money in the
treasury, and leave but empty vaults
when the people turn them out at
the expiration of the present congress.
Mrs. f. ID. E. NJ. Southworth, the
popular novelist, and who is well
known through her connection with |
the New York Ledger, has returned |
to this city to live, after an absence of
many years, during which time she
has resided with her son at Yonkers
New York. Mrs. Southworth owns a
pretty place in Georgetown, now West
Washington, called Prospect College,
a curious looking building, all jumbled |
up, as it were, and it has been in this
spot, overlooking the Potomac river
and the surrounding country, that |
she has written the books which have
made her name a household word in |