The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-03-04
FRAIL HUMAN NATURE.
Legislators Who Sucoumb to the
Wiles Of Pretty Women.
Some of the Queer Things That Can BE
Seen In Washington by q Clever OBJ
server-Bright Mon who Yield
to Temptation.
Especial Washington Letter.l

Especial Washington Letter
There are diurnal 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
the senators seldom enter the chamber
where dignity sits enthroned save at the
noon hour, when the gavel of the vice
president announces that 1.-THE senate
will be in order" After adjournment
great many members remain in their
places in the house, and few of the
senators continue in their seats Upon
these occasions the doors are opened
and the public has the privilege of the
foor The men and women from vari-
Gus sections of the country, who have
neither the nerve nor the capacity to
support themselves without the aid Of
Others, approach the senators and rep
rcsentatives 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 a senator whose dignity ia
unapproachable during the sessions of
ha 81 xu1h Al, H. &c
fly from door to door seeking passages
through Hobbies and down back stair
cases in order to escape from the capt.
toi 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 f1orid face is closely
shaven, except about the upper lip,
which is adorned by a bristllng and
carefully curled mustache, who is an
exception to the general rule. 1t is
well known that he is devoted to
-'Wein, Webb und Gesang" and that
the visits of ladies, particularly if 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 cheerfully
gives them a 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 to
each tale of woe. II the applicant for
congressional aid is in her teens, he
strokes her head in father-like man.
ner and promises the earth
and the fullness thereof; but it
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 a lit
tie section of statuary hall has been
Set aside for the accommodation of
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 women
who are seen conversing with him, if
young and innocent, usually receive the
scommiseration and pity of beholders.
The house is called to order every day
promptly at noon by the speaker. At a
quarter to twelve one of the messengers
steps to the clerks desk in front of the
speakers chair, hammers upon it, and
says: 81 am directed by the doorkeeper
10 announce that all those who are not
entitled to the privilege OF the floor
must now retire. The rules of the
house require the same" This stereo-
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