The Portland daily press., 1892-07-28
REST FOR THE WEARY.
Congressman Preparing to Enjoy
Their Vacations.

Members of the House Will Go Home
and Hustle for Reelection, While sena-
tors Seek Relaxation at the Seashore
and Mountains-The Presidents Outing.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, July 21.-This session
IF congress is drawing to close, and
Dur statesmen are preparing to get away
on their annual vacations Only few
senators and score or SO of repre-
sentatives really work hard, but all are
convinced they have toiled long and
arduously, and that they must have
rest. have heard it said you can tell
what sort of man one is by the man.
ner in which he spends his vacation.
Whether this be true or not, it is inter-
esting to note the different ways public
men have of passing their idle hours.
Inls is ''tTouDle year among the
members of the house, and the great
majority of them will go home to their
constituents and begin working for re-
nomination and reelection. Fully 200
Of the men who now sit in the lower
house will take the first train out of
town after the final fall of the speakers
gavel few days hence and make bee
line for home.
The hot days of midsummer and early
autumn will find them making their in
dustrious round from voter to voter,
fixing up petty local leaders and making
themselves ''solid" with keepers OF sa-
looms BY sstreating" the thirsty-the
ever present mob Of thirsty city citizens
at the bar.
A few senators will find it necessary
to get out and hustle for reelection too.
Senator Mills left here two weeks ago
Texas. Senator Hiscock-magnifcent
but indolent-will have to look SHARP in
New York Senator Sanders, from FAR
away Montana, will have to forego the
pleasures of his mountain ranch and
take long railway and stage journeys on
campaign matters intent.
was amused few days ago at a lit
tie performance of this amiable and pop
ular senator. He does not often speak.
and there was general surprise when he
rose to address the senate on matter in
which he was not known to have any
interest. The explanation was that a
large number of his Montana constitu-
ents were in the gallery and that he was
showing off" for their benefit. His de-
sire was to show his friends what a
smart senator they had, and so he be-
gan criticising the senate-and heaven
knows the criticism was deserved-for
the manner in which it had habitually
discussed matters not germane to the
pending business.
After a five minute talk, and pretty
good talk, too, on this theme, the senator
sat down with self satisfied expression
upon his face, and with q glance OF two
at his admiring constituents in the gal
lery. But what is this? It is sly Sena-
tor Hale addressing the senate, and say
ing:
'sMr. President, wish to remind the
senator from Montana that he has
spoken for five minutes without saying
one word on the pending amendment.
In the laughter which followed this
palpable hit Senator Sanders joined
heartily, though he would have been
better satisfied if his Montana friends
had left the gallery Immediately upon
the conclusion of his own remarks.
President Harrison Will spend most OF
his vacation at Cape May. The presi-
dent is infatuated with surf bathing
which | am told he had never INDUCED
in before becoming president. Its de-
lights came to him as sort OF reyela-
ton, and while at the seashore he bathes
regularly twice a day. Private Secre-
tary Halford, on the other hand, prefers
a sea voyage. He took one last year
and will go again after the adjournment
of congress if the president can spare
him. Senator Sherman is also fond Of
the sea. Every summer he rides the
waves either on trip to Europe or
from Baltimore to Boston by the sea
route. His colleague, Senator Brice,
spends his summers at Newport, where
be has splendid establishment.
Senator Frye has a rational method Of
passing his vacation. He goes up the
Rangeley lakes in Maine and camps out
in the woods, where the trout streams are
frequent and fascinating. When the
trout begin to run in the early summer
Senator Frye shakes the dust of Wash
ington from his feet and HES to the
woods. After two Or three weeks of
sport he returns to his senatorial labors.
He is here now, but it is easy to see, as
he dozes in his chair, that he dreams of
the woods and the fish. Senator Hale
has fine place at Ellsworth, across the
bay, eighteen miles from Bar Harbor,
and there he spends the summer months,
near enough to be neighborly with his
friends, the Blaines.
Senator Chandler is too busy to have
vacation. Work is rest for his ener-
getic, indefatsgable soul. Senator Proc
tor takes long drives through his be-
loved Green mountains. The senator
who does most driving across country is
Cullom, of Illinois. At his home in
Springfield he keeps an old mare and an
antiquated vehicle which he calls a
SCOOP" though it was built long time
ago for a coupe. With the old horse
and the old scoop" Senator Cullom
drives at leisurely pace over the prai-
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