The morning call., 1892-06-26
Chauncey Depew and the State Department.
Sorrow Over the Death Of Emmozs
Blaine.
Correspondence of THE CALI

doorsteps, and around on the south pOrtleo
of the White House the President may bs
seen taking the air ana his evening cigar IN
company with his friends. All over town
doorstep conferences are going on. The
giants of the Minneapolis fray and the
leaders who stayed at the capital gather by
consent on Senator Sawyers deep, cOGl
doorstep. The Attorney-General and Sec
rotary RuSk have centers of great attraction
In their grass plats aud broad steps, and
Secretary Foster, Secretary Elkins aud Sec
Tetary Noble are as adyautageOuSly placed
for open ailiug. Every Friday night Sec
rotary Foster intends to slip down the river
and look after his lighthouse and cutter
service and take a run out on the c0Ol, blu6
sea. An adjournment at some time IN Au-
gust is ali that any one hopes for now, for
although the House has passed all the ap-
preparation bills the real WORK Just begins
when the Senate takes hold of the ride
ulOus miser measures of Mr.. Holman and
increases the appropriations to sums that
will allow the Government departments 10
continue working. The Western Senators
and Representatives are indignant to man
at the wretchedly cheap and selfish mean
ness Of Southern and Eastern Democrats,
who are Topping off everything for land
surveys and who even proposed to abolish
the Geological Survey entirely.
Item by item, dollar by dollar the Senate
will have to 20 through the whole lot Of sp-
ference committees if the Government
machinery Is to run for the next year. AS
the American citizen is known the world
over for being anything but stingy or cheap,
it is not possible that the voters OF tbs
country will let such cheese-paring and
Gripping continue for another Congress.
TIE STATE DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Chauncey Depew's visit this week
has Increased the interest and suspense con-
corning the vacant chair at the State De-
partment. Guesses and rumOrS originating
only in guesseS have Tacked the town for 6
week. First every one leaped at MIR. John
w. Foster since be has been an acting
manager of the State Department for the
past year. having charge of all reciprocity
business aud personally negotiating several
of the treaties. being one of the eOnfeTrees
on the Boring Sea question this winter and
one Of the commissioners on the part OK the
United States to take part in the arbitra-
tion measures next winter. But Mr.. Foster
is unfortunately from Indiana, which
already has one member in the Cabinet,
and after his two years close following and
study Of the question II Is most essential Tor
the upholding of the United States inter
ests that he should 90 to the arbitration
tribunal a few months hence. Every one
holds to the hope OF Mr. DeDew's
seeing the advantage of giving up salary
of $4,000 year for one OF 5000, and OF ex-
changing private cars and special trains
and all the luxury OF modern travel Tor an
occasional ride 10 Mount Vernon or Fortress
Monroe on a Government vessel, with a
critical press bowling about junketing as
the Government expense Then ex-senator
EdmundS is talked Of, his mastery OF inter
national law being point especially dwelt
upon as an element in his greatness most
necessary to the Government at this time
of treaties and tribunals and delicate diDlO-
matte affairs Senator EdmundS resigned
his seat in the Senate not because OF MS
own health, as has been mistakenly re-
ported. but for the health OF his wife and
daughter who were forced to spend their
winters in a milder climate. For that same
reason there is little possibility of his eoH-
sidering any honor which would oblige him
to stay so closely at Washington as the full
performance of a Cabinet officers dUty
neeessitatts. The fact that Mr.. Depew has
given up his contemplated vacation IN
Europe taken a country house on the Hud-
son and ordered its connection with the
long distance telephone wires to Washing
ton is made the most of BY baffied prophets.
who cannot get word from him nor hint
from the President
THE DEATH OF EMAIoNs BLAINE.
The death Of Emmons Blaine created rs
profound a sensation here as either of the
events offs the two SATURDAYS preceding it.
Every one has the deepest sympathy for
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine, who, in their passion
ate fondness for their children are known
to have few equals. Mrs. Blaine, who
seems so cold, hard and unfeeling to tbs
world outwardly, is in her home the most
devoted, affectionate and indulgent mother.
She is liOness in her devotion and absorp-
ton in their care and welfare. their pIetec-
tion and defense. The death Of her
daughter, Mrs CODpinger, now nearly three
years ago, closely followed by the death Of
Walker blaine, were blows from which she
but slowly recovered, and at thought Of
w n hs G onaf q ~ -
those deaths occurred here at their home.
and after illnesses which in a measure pre-
pared them for what came. The sudden
death OF Emm0ns Blaine is far more terri
bic to them. coming without warning OF
any kind. Those who saw him at Mime
apolis last week in perfect health. working
day and night without rest or food or any
consideration for himself, admired the
spirit and the constitution Of this young
man who endured so splendIdly. Nothing
seemed to weary or daunt him and he was
as quiet aud cool, as fresh and eveu-tenOred
through it all as If fatigue were net. ALI
night conferences and work had no effees
upon him, and he left Minneapolis that hot
June morning rather better than the rest OF
the little party of his fathers friends, who
had s.oed with him in the fight
Every one here, regardless OF recent differ
ences. felt but the greatest sorrow for Mr..
and Mrs. Blaine. The President received
the news Just as he was taking Mr.. DeBew
down TO luncheon, and TO both is was 4
great shock. AT the time of the death Of Mrs
COppinger and Walker Blaine, in the first
winter of the administration. the President
did all that good, kind neighb0r could dc
for an afflicted family He assisted in the
little details of the funeral and ia every
way showed that delicacy. sympathy and
friendlineSS that avail SO much ia 4 mourn
ing home. When the greater affection came
TO Secretary Tracy, Mr.. Blaine said that
only that could seem greater than his OWE
sorrow. Both owned To all that the PreSi-
dent had been to them In their grief. Many
learned for the first time that the calm, quiet,
self-eontrolled, repressed manner covered
nature as deeply sensitive. as emotional and
sympathetic as any woman's, and both adj
visers could not sufficiently attest TO their
appreciation of those qualities.
Every one fears the effect of this blow
upon Mr.. Blaine, the hastY trip to Chicago
at this season and all the distressing things
that follow it. The superstitious. to whom
the old Seward house has been a house Of
Ill omen and spirits, tally one more tragedy
in its record. AT the time that Mr.. Blaine
took the house talk was rife about the i'll
luck that followed every tenant Of it. but
Mr.. Blaine was proof against all such. and
went on with his preparations for occupying
it. Within the first year his sen aud his
daughter died. Last year the stroke that
laid. him i'll for so long in New York and
kept him half invalid all summer was laid
to the house. His resignation of two weeks
ago. his defeat at Minneapolis and tue death
of another son are added to the score OF
i'll luck. III
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