The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-07-02
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Some Interesting Side Lights Valu-
able to a Close Student
of Politics.
From our own CORRESPONDENT.

Washington, June 70, 1892.
There is little interest in Wash
ington this week in anything but
the Chicago Convention. The Cap
ital has been a very quiet place,
neither house of Congress having
been in session much of the time.
OF course, a large number of the
leading members have been absent
at the convention while those who re-
main here are devoting most of their
time to correspondence and talking
politics. Senator David B. Hill is
perhaps the one man most deeply
interested among those who did not
90. He appears to be taking mat
tiers coolly and attending quietly to
his other duties. If the New York
Senator is a badly disappointed man
he does not show it. Probably he
would have felt less disturbed had
the nomination fallen to any other
man than Cleveland. The enmity
between them dates back to the
time when they were Governor and
Lieutenant Governor respectively
and grew out of Mr.. Cleveland's l.
IDEAS of superiority. The outcome
of the present campaign is, OF course,
variously estimated here. There are
some Republicans who do not like
Harrison and some Democrats who
do not admire Cleveland and proba-
bly, a few voters IN both parties who
will stake to the woods" but the
chances are that we shall see about
all of them falling into line before
the campaign is very old.
Some fun loving Senators got
considerable sport out of the
fact that Senator Mitchell, of Ore
gon, has just shaved off his beard.
Ever since the Senator first came
to Washington as a Senator from
Oregon,in 1873, he has worn a lux
uriant beard that grew thickly from
his face and fell down we'll over the
front of his vest. In all the nineteen
wears and more that he has frequent
ed the Capital no razor has ever
touched his face, and when he turned
up Tuesday morning with it shaved
as smooth as that Of a school boy al
most every man in the Senate need
ed an introduction to him. Senator
| Cullom came in late, and some OF his
colleagues took Senator Mitchell to
him and introduced him to the Him
OILS Senator as a man from Nebraska,
who had been an earnest advocate or
the nomination of Cullom for Presi-
dent. Senator Mitchell carried out
the joke very we'll, and the two had
been talking some time before Gull
lom recognized the man he was talk
ing with. Vice. President Morton
was also a victim of the sport, as
when Mitchell arose to address the
Chair he seemed very doubtful about
giving the stranger recognition.
Mr.. Depew could not decide sud
denly whether he would accept the
portfolio of State. He spent two
DAYS in Washington and returned
without giving a decisive answer.
In spite of his important business IN
~terests there is no doubt that the po-
sition tempts even a great railroad
magnate. 1t is an honor second on
ly to that Of being President of the
United States. In one respect it IS
even greater, for, as DR.. Depew him
self says, we have never had a chump
for Secretary of State. The whole
line, beginning with Alexander Ham
ilton and ending with James e..
Blaine, is more illustrious than the
line of Chief Executives. Mere fin
ancial sacrifice can hardly weigh with
such a man as Depew against an
honor so great as to occupy a place
in this line. But it is perhaps not
wholly his OWN personal interests
which Mr.. Depew had to consult in
this case. The possibility of throw
ing off responsibilities entrusted to
him by others had to be considered.
There is no other American who
would better grace the position.
The PRESIDENT, 1t seems, IS not SO
much in favor of reciprocity as has
been imagined. In a state paper
sent to the Senate in answer to a
resolution of February "a inst, call
ing for information relative to rec
iprocity negotiations with Canada,
the President sounds the death knell
of that project and plants a mile
post in American history by deliber-
ately, in effect, recommending that
Congress proceed to retalliate upon
the Dominion for it's persistent de-
NAL of the rights of American citi-
zens, guaranteed by the treaty OF
Washington, in connection with the
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