The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-21
ON THE RAGGED EDGE.
Gossip About Senators ingalls,,
Blair and Pierce.
THE KANSAS MAN CONFIDENT.
BIafr's Bill to Make Water Run Uphill
Senator Teller Determined TO
Pass Free Coinage Bill.

WAsHIsGToE CRY, Dec. 15.-ECopy-
righted, 1890 Three members of the
United States Senate will have no rest
during the Christmas holidays. These
three are Senator ingalls,, of Kansas,
Blair, of New Hampshire, and Pierce, of
North Dakota. All are candidates for re-
election, and the legislatures of the states
pass upon their return in January. Sena-
tor Ingalls, says he is confident Of his re-
election, but he will give no interview for
publication concerning it. The trouble is
Ingalls, cannot talk without saying some
thing, and his words are always distorted
by his enemies. He gave an interview
last spring to the New York World in
which he said, 'The publication of poll
tics is an irridescent dream" he
meant merely TO state fact,
but his enemies claimed that he believed
in impure politics and that he was brazen
enough to acknowledge il. Some of the
ministers preached from their pulpits
about this interview, and the senator re-
ceiyed something like 700 letters concern
ing it. There is general desire here that
Ingalls, may return The Senate has little
genius like ingalls, it cannot afford TO lose
him. Senator Sanders calls him the lurid
meteor of the senatorial sky, but he is
more than meteor. He has been for the
past eighteen years the fixed star of the
Republican side of the chamber,
and he has said more good things
and more sharp things during that
time than any other two men in
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of the Senate and he is as well equipped
for his duties as any other man in the
body. His head works like a steam en-
CINE run by perpetual motion and it is the
best idea factory in Washington ingalls,
does deal of work which never appears
over his own signature. He gives many a
newspaper man ideas for letters and edito-
rails, and the gems which drop from his
thousands of his expressions which find
their way into type.
Senator Blair tells me that the newspa-
pers cannot afford TO lose him either. Said
he Yesterday:
what viii the New York Times do when
] am gomez 1t has devoted half of its edi-
torial space for years to denouncing me
and 10 making fun of me. What will the
sun dog What will all the New York
papers do, and what will the other papers
of the country do if disappear? think,
however, am going TO be reelected NY
opponents say that have had two terms
already, and am a third-term candidate.
have not had two full terms and it seems
20 me il a man has had two terms it fits
him allthe better for third term"
- Rv tho wos- ~ Sanatar r aSkol tn
about your bin which was introduced when
you iirst came to congress, to make the
headwaters of the Mississippi dow into
Baffin's bay and the Gulf of ST LawrenceP
mean the bill which your enemies said
was entitled measure to compel water
10 flow up hill"
Il have never told the story of that bill ~
replied Senator Blair. al have been Iaurh-
cd at numerically in regard to il and have
been slandered concerning it from Dan to
Beersheoa. 1t happened at the close of
my first session in congress. Just at the
last moment for the introduction of bills
/ received letter from manufacturer of
New Hampshire asking me 10 present to
the Senate the petition enclosed.
There was only a moment to get the
thing in. looked at it and ii seemed To
be in proper form, and, without thinking.
| sent il up TO the clerks desk. Well. /
heord from il from all over the United
States. The man who had sent in the peti-
ton acted in good faith, and rather than
denounce him let the matter stand and
made no explanation. knew that was not
fool even if some of the papers did call me
one, and the poor fellow who sent the nett
ton felt so hurt at the trouble he had GOT
ten me into that he wrote 10 me again and
again about il, and offered TO do ANYTHING
he conld 10 remedy the evil. His peti-
ton asked for survey of the
land between the headwaters of the
Mississippi and those of the Canadian
rivers with the view of the construction of
canal bringing the two togethe-. He had
also scheme 10 make Hudson hay a
great inland thermal sea into which the
Gulf stream would flow. and thereby. as
he claimed. should equalixe the climate of
the continent. As to my election. how
ever concluded the senator. Il am wastjn,
no sleep, my digestion is perfect. | am in
prime physical condition, and | don't
think viii lose flesh If the ballot goes one
way or the other"
dropped into the National library To-
NAN anu AAsN y SA9k Win Mr.. SNNtfNFI a.
20 the great American brain. We are go-
ing through period Of wonderful literary
activity and more literary inventions ara
copyrighted every yesr than mechanical
inventions are patented. During 1Ss0
more than SS,eo0 copyrights have been
issued, and this is about 200 more than
were taken out during the same period az
last year. In addition 70 this there are a
number Ct applications for copvrichts
which are rejected. and copyrights are
taken out en- photographs. engravings
drawings and paintings as well as anon
hooks, The rejected articles during the
past year have been chiefly for railroad
tickets, coupons, advertising schemes and
mechanical drawings not connected with
the publication Of a book. \ great pun,-
Der oi copyrights are taken ont for news
paper articles. and the newspapers COPY
right their cselegramS from Europe.
Speaking Of cable copyrights. / heard a
curious story last night as 10 how Gov
ornor Gilpin, OF Colorado, had 70 nav
about 500 for one Of the first cables that
went over the ocean. Gilpin was a sooS-
n2tugea sort Il a fellow. ANA the nr6hsh,}-
lty IS that he came INFO the telerrsnh orf5rs
~ Denver and wrote out the cable. never
thinking lt would BEE sent Il Was sent
however, and be had 70 pay the bill. The
STORY Was sold me by Mr.. Rosewater. the