St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-16
Senator Hill Talks About His
Remarkable ConSti-
tuition.
He Says Neither Cigars Nor
Stimulants Are Agreea-
BILE to Him.
A Smiling Reference to the
Recent Elections in New
York.
Specimen of Grady's Humor
"A Word or Two on Har-
rison.


has fine parlor in one of the upper
floors of the Arlington hotel, right at the
corner, room perhaps forty or fifty
feet long by twenty-five or thirty wide
it has it's own vestibule. with a cloak
and hat table there, and the bedroom
rather darkish, to the left of this vest
ibule, as one enters, says Gath in re-
cent letter. Col. Farnsworth, who was
Oh the staff of Cleveland. as well as Hill
sat down with me awhile, and said
"That large picture of the Harbor OF
Venice, up yonder, by Moran, the gov
ernor's staff bought and presented tc
him; all these pictures here are his
own"
Gov. Hill came in smiling and wei
coming, and as he sat down upon sofa
in the full light of the windows at the
farthest corner. [ remarked how per
fectly healthy and white, as if he had
never taken anything but mothers
milk, were his face and hands. and.
almost unconsciouSly. | asked, did
yau ever drink any liQuor?'
VERY little. 1t never agreed with
me. | am a great deal better off with
out it. find in campaigns when l &c
around with gentlemen who drink that
| can wear them all out, though | touch
neither malt nor spirit. Indeed, all
those SedativeS, irrltants and stlmu-
lantS disagree with me. l do not make
war on the tastes and habits OF my
friends and fellow men because nature
has made it unadyisable for me to either
drink or smoke"
IL should think you might catch cold,
governor, making night speeches, and
never taking drop of stimulant."
mo, do not catch cold. singularly
enough. At the close of the last cam
pagn, you may remember that the
Democrats had great procession, fol
lowing one the Republicans held i'll the
afternoon, these professions winding up
the campaign. L stood four or five
hours in the night air, bare-headed and
bald as | am, and it is wonder L did
not get my death of cold. but L did not
take cold at all"
KEe Has Never Been Sick.
81 suppose you have never been sick
much of anything?
mo, have had but very little sick
ness during my whole life."
do you exercise especially, such as
riding horseback"
Not much: i think | would like to
ride horseback, but how can l? Some
bodyis always coming in, and l can't
get off. l walk some, and enjoy walk
ing up to the capitol and back again.
Washington is pretty dusty place, or L
would enjoy the walking more.''
do you ever get downcast or moody
from seeing your name and virtues and
otfenSes so much III print?"
mo | don't get very blue ever, u r
ever very eXultant. l try to be indus
trious, and occupation soon dissipates
both Encouragement and vanity"
Have you any home now"'
'Not much of homs; you know |
have been at Albany several years, and
that has broken up part of my arrange
ments in Elmira."
"Where is your law library?"
81 lent it to friend who went down
to New York city to practice law, and
he dying, l allowed his partners TO re-
tain it, rather than store it away some
where, and let the books be useful to
them. | value my books, however, my
law books especially"
Doesn't G ct Time to Read.
"Do you ever get much time to read"'
Not very much. | am in my official
place nearly all day, and reading is
nearly out of the question. When
night comes, l am seldom alone. l,
therefore, read for specific ends. Some
times | become interested iD the theme
and follow it up. OF course |
have to read great many newspapers.
When ii man belongs to the people Off
cially, and has accepted their steward
ship, he must keep his door open and be
with them. If | ever were disposed to
get blue, it would be that life i'll these
official positions is cut up into so many
details hardly connected with each
other, no one thi ne being carried out to
logical conclusion"
That is what President Harrison
said to me, governor; that he was busy
all day, and wondered at night if he
had accomplished anything whatever"
Eyes, | sympathize with him. | have
seen him, and know that what he says is
rue; am glad he went off cunning;
hope he will go cunning whenever he
needs it, He is entitled to it,
you covered yourself with magnan-
unity when you received Harrison at
Albany, not merely in official terms but
expressing your personal appreciation
of him?'
Harrison Has Done His Best
Yes, ! looked him right in the eye
and said Just what [ meant. | think
Harrison has behaved himself and tri
to do his best" | referred to Mr.. Ell
kins as being prosecuted by callers,
even after O'Clock in the evening, at
his department., as | had but Yesterday
observed. 'E!kinS is nice fellow"
said the governor.
What do you think of the capitol at
Washington as compared, for instance,
to the Albany state capitol?'
INV appreciation of the capitol at
Washington is not an unmiXed one.
There is something about it pleasing,
fine, and yet there is something want
ing. When | came here to be sworn in,
and stood forward in the senate cham
Der, the impression came over me of be-
ing in pit of some kind. a hole dug,
walled in, and people Deeping over, and
it was dark. Sometimes as l walk
through the capitol observe that l am
in mere corridor or screen, instead OF
being in a large building with ample
width. Houses which are enlarged &C.
cording to later necessities, of course
lack the unity of original buildings al
built at once.
One of Henry Grady's Thoughts.
81 suppose you knew Henry Grady,
said the governor. "Grady came to me-
and liked him, and | went to Georgia
to attend the fair there, and afterward
to unwilling Grady's statue. lie got of
some very good things, and, perhaps, as
with other men, some of his eXtempo
raneous things had been pretty wei
thought out before. But one of his
thoughts remains in my mind about this
capitol. He drew picture of the fire.
side, the parents and the children. fam.
lily obedience. love. loyalty, the prayer
the meal, the kiss. the blessing,
the going to bed, the rising up, and,
having finished his picture, he said
There is the beginning of govern
ment. Then he described coming tc
Washington and seeing the great mar.
BILE capitol. with its many chambers aud
halls, its arches aud dome, the courts
In session, the representatives in thell
chamber, the senators in session, all
system and power, and he said: There
is the end of government. And the
capitol in its uses will always be i'm,
pressive to good citizens as the end OF
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