Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-11
GREAT CHARACTER.
A NOBLE ITALIAN PAILANTHR0PISf AND HIS
PET IDEAS.
Bis Cheerful Opinion Of she King Of the Sandwich
Islands-Hs Merely Came Over to San Fran
cisco to Have Game Of ofPOker-Some
Big Senatorial Hands.
,pecial TsleQran. to he Sunday Register.

Special TELEGRAM, TO The Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, January 1O.-One of the
notable characters of Washington is Sig
nor C9sere Celso Moreno, an Italian, "A
friend of humanity and worshiper of
ideas Signor Moreno has a remarkable
history and has lived in many parts of the
world. Just what his mission is in Wash
ngton is difficult 10 say, but he seems TO
devote himself principally 10 contributing
articles 10 the newspapers denouncing the
pddrOnne system. In his warfare for the
triumph of his pet ideas and the ameliora-
ton of the general condition of humanity.
Signor Moreno was for time a resident Of
the Sandwich Islands, and for while oc-
cupied q position in The King cabinet. He
still maintains his interests in Hawaiian
affairs and knows as much about them as
any one in Washington. When asked the
other day what King Kalakaua was in
this country al present for, Signor Moreno
replied with characteristic shrug of his
shoulders: "Oh, he came over to San
Francisco to play little poker. That's
all. You know some time ago the Legisla-
ture passed law granting him $4,000 20
pay his debts. This is how he is paying
them. He loves a little game of poker
better than anything else in the world
except the ladies. There are lot Of
sports in San Francisco who. when times
are duh, take trip to the Islands ana
play poker with the King. They let him
win little. and then when the King pays
return visit TO San Francisco. they clean
him out He will probably stay on the
coast until all his money is gone, and then
20 home again. The King is good
hearted man, incapable Of doing any one
an injury. but he is weak here" and Sig
nor Moreno swung his hand around and
touched his back bone with his thumb
THEY ARE GREAT on A DRAW.
1t may shock some people to learn it. but
it is true, nevertheless, that many United
States Senators are as fond as less distin-
guished people Of a quiet game OF poker.
In fact, there is tradition that some Sen
atorial games are not as quiet as they
might be, and on one memorable occasion,
not many months ago, one digniiied Sena-
tor smashed another dignified Senator
over the head with a chair, as a result Of "a
difference of opinion as TO an important
point in the game. But that has nothing
to do with our story, which relates TO the
new Senators from Idaho One of the first
things their colleagues undertook 10 find
out about Messrs. Shoup and Mcdonnell
was the rank they were entitled to as poker
PLAYERS. So on Monday night they were
invited 10 join little Senatorial game
and gladly accepted the INVITATION
Al critical point Senator Nc
Connel threw away his hand and drew
five cards When he turned them up Sen
ator Wolcott. VINO was watching the play,
saw that he had drawn three kings and
two queens. The Idaho Senators, it should
be remarked, had 10 draw lots to see which
of them would have the short term, ending
on the fourth of March, and which the
long term, continuing four years longer.
When Senator Wolcott saw the hand SEN
ator Mcconnell had drawn, he immediately
turned to another gentleman in the room
and bet ten dollars that Mcconnell would
draw the long term the next day. Shortly
afterwards Senator Shoup threw away all
his cards but an ace, tn only valuable one
he held in his hand, and drew four more
cards. Senator Wolcott looked at what he
had drawn and then tried to hedge on his
ten dollar bet. Shoup's new cards consist
ed of three aces ana queen. The next
day, sure enough, Shoup drew the long
term and Mcconnell the short