St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-11
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
snecial to the Globe.

Special TO the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June S.-Congress is like the
proverbial pot 1t never boils while you're
watching it, bat just the minute your eve IL
turned III another direction 1t bOils up and
over before you know it. That is what hap
pened on the day when the Hatch anti-option
bill was passed and New Mexico and Idaho
admitted, and goodness knows what other
Important business transacted Nobody ex-
peeted the antioption bill to come up. and
nobody expected IL to pass. 1t was d sur
prise all round and source of unconcealed
disgust 10 It's opponents. II was a bill in
which the third house took great deal of
interest They and their hackers felt that it
Wust not pass. and-well. it did. but it is be-
lleyed everywhere that in less than week
there will be hundreds of thousands of dol
lars on the spot to kill that bill, if killed II
can be. Z. Wood Davis who has been en-
gineerinS the thing, has gone home, and has
left the weight of carrying thu measure
through the senate on the shoulders of Sen
ator Washburn. Wood Davis is q very great
man, with a very long head and he won the
house with great Witness, but Senator Davis
will have the fight of his life when the bill
comes up in the senate. Indeed. in the
words of Southern senator, he will find
himself in the hottest hornets nests he ever
met with. The boards of trade, and, indeed
the business interests of the country, will
antagonize him, and if he succeeds in get
ting the senate to license gambling he will
win for himself renown as u fighter.
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Yesterday Mr.. Blaine. as everybody knows.
went away to Bar Rarbor. The departure
was we'll arranged. The great man was evil
IDENTITY prepared for an ovation. He was
braced to meet it. and he was ready to re-
spond graciOusly to the paudits of a surg
ing populace, but the expected populace was
doing its surging somewhere else, and was
saving up its plaadits for other occasions.
There were perhaps twenty people at the
gate whenthe Blaines embarked. Then James
G. Blaine Jr. came out of the rear car. and
came back through the gate. Pa was plainly
to be seen in the rear car. Then one excited
train hand waved his hat, and in a perfect
frenzy of admiring enthusi asm, five perspir-
ing men took off their head coverings and
poked them through the iron bars of the gate.
Overcome by this bewildering exhibition of
partisan zeal, Mr.. Blaine bowed gracefully.
removed his hat and laid one fragile hand OH
his proudly throbbng heart. That is the way
Blaine left for Bar Harbor
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But James G. Blaine Jr. remained at home.
What is he like? Well, he's like his father in
the stoop of his shoulders. He is tall and
slender. His nose is large, and his eyes are
set close together, with a decided tendency
to watch both sides of the street at once
His mouth is sensual. and people who don't
like him cali it vicious At any rate, the son of
his father is not popular young mainland
he looks very young, too. The correspond
ence between himself and his former wife is
just now much discussed III Washington,
and those who know say that Mrs. Blaine
mere has it safely hidden away.
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Hattie Blaine is the most popular member
of the family. She has lived all her life long
in official circles. and adds to a knowledge of
the proper thing to do and when to do it, a
certain tact ell her own. She is well edu-
Gated and well read, dresses we'll, and is gen.
orally liked. Young James smokes cigarettes.
and they do say that, old as he is, whenever
he wants an extra V. he sits himself down on
j, the arm of pas chair. and Putfs cigarette
smoke into the old mans face while making
his request. The elder Blaine abhors moth
ing so much as cigarette smoke, and his willy
son is thus assured OF success.
(. OF course. it didn't really mean anything,
except rs chance straws show which way the
wind blows; but just as soon as Blaine's res
ignation was announced, the Marine band.
which all Washingtonians worship, forseok
the circle down back of the White house
where it had been playing-the place ele-
gantly termed the White house lot-and came
ep in front of Blaines house to play in La
fayette square.
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Mr. Hail. of Minnesota, is still detained in
eonnyaught, Pa, by the serious illness of his
brother
Mrs Jolley, wife of the South Dakota con-
gresham, returned to her home in VermIl-
ion, s. D., yesterday. Il. Is.