The Southern herald., 1892-03-25
FRAIL HUMAN NATURE.
legislators Who Sneoumb 20 tae
Wnes of Pretty Women.
some Of the Queer ThinEs That Can ne
Seen in washingfOn By q Clever OBJ
aerver-Bright Men Who Yield
20 Temptation.


LSpecial Washington Letterl
There are dinrnal demonstrations Of
the weakness and strength Of human
nature In the house Of representatives
IN great degree, and also manifestations
Of humanitarian characteristics in the
senate. This observation pertains
principally to these distinguished legis-
lative bodies before and after their
daily sessions
For an hour or more every morning
. number Of the representatives are in
their seats in the house endeavoring to
write letters to their constituents, but
khe senator's seldom enter the chamber
where dignity sits enthroned save at the
noon hour, when the gavel Of the vice
president announces that ''the senate
win be in order" After adjournment
a great many members remain in their
places in the house, and few Of the
senator's continue in their seats. Upon
these occasions the doors are opened
and the public has the privilege of the
floor, The men and women from vnri-
Gus sections of the country, who have
neither the nerve nor the capacity to
support themselves without the aid Of
others, approach the senator's and rep
resentatives with pleas for aid in secur-
ing official positions of some kind.
Many a statesman who has the moral
courage to face an enemy upon the
hustings or even upon the field of bat
tie, many senator whose dignity is
unapproachable during the sessions Of
the body Of which he is a member, will
fy from door to door seeking passages
through lobbies and down back stair
cases in order to escape from the capt.
tol by way Of the crypt or through the
bathrooms in the cellar, rather than
meet half a dozen or more weeping
women who are guarding the doors and
parading the corridors waiting for a
chance to beg for an office either in the
capitol or In some one Of the executive
departments.
There is a rotund gentleman from
a northwestern state whose head Is
bald and whose fiorid face is closely
shaven, except about the upper lip,
which is adorned by a bristling ard
carefully curled mustache, who is an
exception to the general rule. II is
well known that he is devoted to
"Wein, Webb und Gesang" and that
the visits of ladies', particularly II they
are young and beautiful, are as well
come to him as the flowers that bloom
in the spring. They have but to intro
duce themselves when he chcerfully
gives them seat beside himself
shakes hands with them, and retains
their right hand within both of his own,
fondling them and looking very lover
like into their eyes, while he listens tc
each tale of woe. II the applicant foi
congressional aid is in her teens, he
strokes her head in father-like man
ner and promises the earth
and the fullness thereof; but il
is well-known fact that his
promises are made to be broken
When the ladies' reception room was
located where the committee on ways
and means now is, this learned Judge
and eloquent statesman spent the
greater portion of his time in that room
interviewing the ladies. Since the re-
ception room has been closed and lit
tie section of statuary hall has been
set aside for the accommodation oi
visiting citizens OF the gentler sex, he
seldom permits himself to receive
them in that public place. 1t is gener
ally believed that his moral character
Is not above reproach, and the womer
who are seen conversing with him, il
young and innocent, usually receive the
commiseration and pity of beholders.
The house is called to order every day
promptly at noon by the speaker AT &
quarter to twelve one of the messengers
steps to the clerks desk in front of the
speakers chair, hammers upon it, ant
says; 81 am directed by the doorkeepei
TO announce that all those who are mo-
entitled TO the privilege OF the fooi
must now retire. The rules of the
house require the same" This stereo
tvped expression is usually received bN