The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-03
ncco STAINS AND SMELLS.


celAn Of the House door during the
Mn. The visiting New Englander,
u puttering about the deserted and
ing corridors had, ~ usual, drifsed
she empty House chamber, and after
ling up on the platform. proceeded to
# D0St himself on the vacant throne of
y while cxar-Thomas b. Reed. The
6neer, in following the invariabIe
1on Of sitting in the speakers
n6 and paving over his desk,
eovered by this act Of devo-
- the battered condition Of the
1w ssticle. This led to . conversation
N Mr.. Clancy, who informed the aston
- stranger that this was the second
s ~ top that had been pounded into pulp
II ~ late muscular parliamensarian, and
- new one must be prepared for the
4 1nocfatic gavel Of the Fifty-second con-
80 Ore-hslf Of the green desk cloth
= sefll bright and new, but the other il
tretozsd and cut from the center to the
nnndsTy line en- the right, and the wood
der Is Is in splin:ers. The visitor sue-
0n1ed that :sae next speaker be given .
11sk with . metal top, but the officer ex-
nnined that Il was not only impossible TO
{ - any sort Of metal, but that even hard
vppd had been found injurious to the
hond after brief trial
CONGRESSIONAL cAarErs-
Speaker Reed, however, was not the only
1nstructive statesman in the lower house.
H. spick and span and glarins green and
yellow carpet laid one year ago in that
! chamber is now defaccd and worn and
1zimy beyond words. A congressional
enypet suffers all the violence of both par
4 -. 1t il kicked and scraped and Uttered
7h fearful manner, snd Is used BY this
mall army as both doormat and cuspi-
oor. Nearly every congress finds new
Ozpet ready for dissertation and destruc-
Ion in the House. The Senate chamber
also 10 provided with new carpet for both
1oOr and gallery, and = heap Of
tnfbishing generally is going to take
Place in the two houses and the various
committee rooms between this and Deem
bef. 6ergeant-at-Arms Valentine SAYS
that the next Senate carpet win be selected
with view to harmony, and not contrast.
: II the newly furnished quarters Of the
oergeant-at-arms Is proof of thar officers
taste, t b safe to say there will be no rep
edition. Of the vivid yellow and green
ab0mination which now quarrels with the
soft golden green's and bronxes of the wall
decorations. More than this. Mr.. yalen-
tine says that in the purchase of carpets
ind pieces of furniture, and in the
Employment of decorations. American
manufactureFS and artists viii be given
tAe preference. The present covering Of
{ ~ Senate f1oor has been down four years,
1ut It IL not whit shabbier than the
House carpet, which has been in use but .
yoar. The visitor would be struck with
TO brilliant patches Of new carpet, which
ne st in At the foot Of the presiding off,
ew's platform. At either side Of the clerks
tenk. ON and just in front of the lowest
up, these bright patches in the else
ueEe faded carpet are particularly con-
o(6cuous. These steps are the seats of the
taeu, and the wriggiing and scufiiing of
ee small boy makes two or three of these
patches necessary during one administra-
About the LIST of May the Senate and
House carpets will be ripped up and
eoTied away, and not until July or August
WI the new 2, 800 yards be laid down for
- EHy-sccond congress. The desks also
MI be oiled and polished and put in read
0ess Ter oio occupants and the newcom-
- Tie new arrangement of seats has
okeady taken place. and the new members
nov what neighbors they are to have.
econd story added to the little single
lnuer desks in the Senate. bat
3enator Edmunds, who occupied .
mint seat in the synagogue, de-
eined any such new-fangied addition. As
VAS necessary to preserve . uniform
light, his desk had to be raised 10 meet
ne requirements. Senator Dawes desk,
nat Formerly occupied by Stanton, is the
e1iy other one without the new top This
80 Is hoisted up on extra wooden feet. Ii
tussous fact that the carye: under and
9ound Senator Piumh's desk Il worn more
nan that OF any OF his immediate neigh
eoss- II would seem that while he is said
g occupy his seat les. than any other SEN
etos he must do more kicking while he is
pessent
skxxy CARPET AND SORE THROAT.
TAcre IS second good reason for assum-
ms that no green carpets will be laid any
where IN the Senate wing during the super
nssndence of the present sergesnt-at-
0nm Colonel Valentine attributes per-
nanent throat trouble to 8 green velvet
eas2ef that VAS laid upon the House door
the beginning of the rorty-seventh
congress. Before the close of the
ma session throat affection became
prevalent that arsenical poison
eas suggested, and such . universal cry
seos up against the carpet that il was re-
: eeoseu ce.o-e the next session. A number
senator's complained Of this same diff
saHy lasi session, and Colonel Valentine
~ no hesitsney in .pronouncing these
sn carpets extremely dangerous, more
specially n the chambers OF congress.
~ Is explained by the fact tha. under
80 senator's desk Is ventilator. Car
- apssrd by this perpetual draught is
800 ci invisible and poisonous dust that
.Aieked AID scraped and shuiiied off the
tkmen.
sALls' CHAIR AND sPooSER's COAT CLOSET
Ane king is dead and another fellows
ne Is on the door-plate. Immediately
as7 MS defeat Senator Ingalls, had re-
soved nom his Senate coat closet the
8 cssss plate bearing his name. Senator
seys name shines instead upon the mar.
~ ooos. and hereafter North Dakota
ss.sef coat and overshoes will occupy the
8 pooasd so long dedicated TO the uses of
- elegant Kansas trappings.
.aes e also an unsightly space on the
u the closet belonging 10 Senator
~ Aoody's name is down, as is also
With the exception of these
9aies, no changes viii be made in the
a1s Cloak room, and none could be sug-
Eas 49, 1n.sss few hamnoeks and green
sesc added 20 these eminently CON-
y Table Quarters.
- pig chair in which ingalls, rocked
ga ssfaokcd in his elegantly me,hodical
nlon, has been reckoned good enough
S. "a. i =. ss'ons-whiske-ed successor. aud the
zx 1Aahef soGches that suited Senators
- fff.aau Moody only too well. are not
- sansea Tor the Devils Lake victor