The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-25

Der OF private bills passed is four or five times
greater than the public bills. But Speaker
Reed and his lieutenants seem to be particularly
hostile to private bills, and make it a point to
throw obstacles in the way of their passage
whenever possible. 1t is probable that the rec
ord of the Fifty-first Congress when finally
made up will show that while the number Of
bills introduced was greater than in any other
Congress the number passed will be much
smaller than in several other Congresses.
X X X
Congress is about to lose by resignation its
smallest member physically. John Henry
Mccarthy, 'the little giant" of the Eighth
New York District, has resigned to accept a po-
sition on the New York City bench at $4,000
year-double his salary as Congressman. Judge
Mccarthy stands about five feet four, and
weighs 125 pounds He was the smallest
and lightest member of Congress physically,
but he has big, warm Irish heart and a clear,
strong brain. AS it was his first term in Con-
gress etiquette prevented him from putting
himself forward on the hoor but he was a use
ful and industrious committee worker, and was
popular with all who knew him. On the open
ing day of the first session of this Congress
general attention was attracted to Judge Nc
Carthy because of an immense floral piece seat
by admiring constituents which completely
covered his desk. 1t lowered higher than the
little giant himself, and was by far the most
elaborate tribute sent any of the members.
Because of this fact there was a general inquiry
for Mccarthy before the House met, and when
he appeared on the floor and was pointed out by
those who knew him there was laugh
at the expense of the little giant. Now
that he has retired from the House, Gen.
Wheeler, of Alabama, will resume the position
which he long held of che lightest-weight man
physically on the floor.
II II
Judge Mccarthy has been appointed by Gov
ernor (and now Senator elect) Hill to the bench
of the New York City Court to succeed Judge
McAdam, retired. Mccarthy studied law with
Judge McAdam, and thereby hangs tale which
should be told for the encouragement of Young
America. That is, supposing Young America
needs encouragement. AS rule he needs the
contrary, encouragement. When Mccarthy
was boy in New York he did not have many
advantages, aud his small size and not very Wig
orous constitution were against him. But he
got good academic education and gradually
worked his way up to be head bookkeeper in a
mercantile house. But his ambition was to be-
come lawyer, although his family and friends
thought this very foolish hope for Young
man of his build. But the young man was in
dead earnest and resigned his position as book
keeper which paid him the comfortable salary
OF 81 800 year, to accept place in law Office
at So week. The law firm was composed of
young Mccarthy worked and studied for three
years. AT the end of that time he was admitted
to the bar, and when Judge Brady retired from
the firm McAdam and Mccarthy shared the busi-
lawyer practiced he knocked out an income of
$4,000. When he came to Congress his income
was three times that amount.
Il X Il
There is man in Washington who is known
among the boys as "Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde"
His friends who don't belong to the boys are
puzzled to know how he won this title. 1t
came about in this way: The gentleman in ques-
tion is a statesman. To which House he be-
longs, or whether he belongs to either House, is
not necessary to state here. During the day
when he is attending to his public duties he is
cold, distant, naughty, and at times even dis
tinctly illtempered. In short, there is no APP
preaching him, and he treats his companions of
the night before with frigdity and rigidity
that is appalling. This is the platform ON which
he stand DIS before dinner. During this portion of
the day he is always spoken Of as Mr.. Hyde.
But after dinner all is changed. The simple
process of dining seems to transform his whole
nature. He becomes approachabe, genial,
chatty, the very best of good fellows Then he
men besides this one who undergo similar
change between morning and midnight, but the
change in this instance is very marked.
"New York gives me headache in an hour,n
said the Washington man. II go down town,
and the scrambling, the hustling, the endless
procession of people, the noise and the confu-
sion, makes me SO tired that am glad enough
to get back to my hotel, lie down, and take
nap before dinner. Life in New York is op-
pressive and brain-wrecking. Then the New
York man, a recent convert from Washington,
it should be said spoke up: 'When | come
haa1 ~" ,.1&,
lie buildings, and watch the slow, nerveless,
plenty -of-time-t tomorrow way that every one
behaves in, it gives me malaria and boneache
1t would drive me crazy with impatence if
had to stand much of it. AS for the noise and
hustling in New York, never notice it. l get
into the elevated train in the morning at Fifty
third street, begin to read my newspaper, and
never hear nor see anything until get down to
Park Place. A man is never freer from inter
ruption, never more secluded and alone than in
what people who don't know New York call
the bustle and confusion You've got to learn
how to live there; that's all. | never knew
what rest was until went to New York l can
be queter and freer from disturbance there in
the evening than l could on a Virginia farm"
II X Il
There was a little interchange of words be-
tween Senator Wo!cott, of Colorado, and Sena-
tor Sanders, OF Montana, in the Senate on Fri
day, the true inwardness of which escaped most
people When the Montana Senatorial contest
was up in the Senate last session Senators VOL
cott and Plumb refused to vote to seat the Re