Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
HILL ON HARRISON,
The Senator Thinks the Pres.
ident Has Behaved Well
and Done His Best.
so HE C0NFIDES TO GATH,
Complains That Official Life Is Cut
Into Too Many Details.
no THE TO READ OR STUDY.
a Chat With Attorney General Miller
Showing His Caliber.
so HE CONFIDES TO GATH,
o TINE TO READ OR STUDY.
MUCH TO ADMIRE IN HIS LEGAL MAKEUP
CORRESPONDENT OF THE prspArcH.l

NASh1NGTON, March 1.-THE same day
recently, talked with David B. Hill ant
Attorney General Miller, seeing one in tn,
morning and the other in the evening Th,
one comes from Oneida county, New York,
and the other from Chemung; the one re-
mained at home and became the principal
politician of his day there; the other went
away from home and is at the head of the
bar of the United States, as the Attorney
General is the chosen and official lawyer OF
his Government
Governor Hill has fine parlor in one of
the upper floors of the Arlington Hotel,
right at the corner, a room perhaps 40 or 30
feet long, by % or so wide; it has its own
vestlbule, with cloak and hat table there,
and the bedroom, rather darkish, to the left
OF this vestlbCie, as one enters. Colonel
tarnswo-th, who was on the staff of Cleve-
land, as well as Hill, sat down with me
awhile, and said: ''That large picture of the
Harbor of Venice, up yonder, by Moran,
The Governors staff bought and presented
10 him; all these pictures here are his own"
Indulses in Nothing but Champagne.
Governor Hill came in smiling and well
coming, and as he sat down, upon a sofa, in
the 1UlI light of the windows, at the farth-
est corner I remarked how perfectly
healthy and white, as if he had never taken
ANYTHING but mothers milk, were his face
and hands, and almost unconsciously, 1
asked, ''Did you ever drink any liquor?''
Very little. 1t never agreed with me.
I an great deal better off without it.
ind in campaigns when 1 go around with
-lntlemen who drink that can wear them
all cut, though L touch neither malt nor
spirit Indeed, all those sedatives, irritants
and stimulants disagree with me. I do not
make war on the tastes and habits of INV
friends and fellow men, because nature has
made it unadvisable for me to either drink
or smoke
i should think you might catch colo.
Governor, making night speeches, and never
Taking drop of stimulant' %
NO, / do not catch cold, singularly
enough. At the close of the last campaign.
YOU may remember. that the Democrats had
q great procession, following one the Repub-
licans held in the afternoon, these process
sions winding up the campaign. L stood
four or f fe hours in the night air, bare
headed and bald as 1 am, and it is a wonder
/ did not get my death of cold, but did not
take cold at all.
He Has Never Been Sick.
81 suppose you have never been sick
much of anything?'
''No, L have had but very little sickness
during my whole iife.''
''Do YOU exercise especially, such as rid
ing horseback"
IN OF much; 1 think would like to ride
horseback, but how can 1? Somebody is
always coming in, and 1 can't get of. L
walk some, and enjoy walking up to the
Capitol and back again. Washington is a
pretty dusty place, or would enjoy the
walking more"
DO you ever get downcast or moody
from seeing your name and virtues and
cfenses so much in print?''
No l don't get very blue ever, nor
ever very exultant. 1 try to be industrious,
and occupation soon dissipates both discour-
aCement and vanitv.''
Have you anv home now?'
mot much of a home; you know I have
been at Albany several years. and that has
broken up part of my arrangements in
EImira 3"
where is your law librsry?''
81 lent it to a friend who went down to |
New York City to practice law, and he |
diving, l allowed his partners to retain it,
rather than store 1t away somewhere and |
let the books be useful to them. / value |
nv books, however, my law books espe- |
cia-ly.'
Doesn't Get Much 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 |
ont OF the question. When night comes. / |
am seldom alone. 1, therefore, read for
specific ends. Sometimes become interested
ia the theme and follow it up. OF course
how Ia ID
When man belongs to the people officially
and has accepted their stewardship, he must
keep his door open and be with them fl
ever were disposed to get blue, it would be
that lie IN these official positions is cut ND
into so msng details hardly connected with
each other, no one thing being carried out
to a logical conclusion %
That is what President Harrison said to
me, Governor: that lie was busy all day, and
wondered at night if he had accomplished
anything whatever"
Yes, l sympathize with him. / have
seen him and know that what he saws is
true: / am glad he went of cunning: /
hope he viii go cunning Whenever he needs
il. He is entitled to it,"
''Nou covered yourself with macnapimity
when you received Harrison at Albany, not
merely in official terms but expressing YOUR
personal appreciation of him?''
Harrison has Done His Best.
eyes. ! looked him right in the eve and
said lust what j meant L think Harrison
has behaved himself and tried to do his
best" / referred to Mr. Elkins as being
persecuted by callers, even after O'Clock |
in the evening, at his department, as had
hut Yesterday observed. "Elkins is a nice
i.llow." said the Governor.
"What do YOU think of the Capitol at |
as compared, for instance, to
ne Albany State Capitol?'
.'My appreciation of the Capitol at Wash
iprton is not an unmi1ed one There is
something about it pleasing, fine, and vet |
there is something wanting. When L came
ere to be sworn in and stood forward in |
he Senate chamber the impression came
over me of being in pit of some kind, a |
1ole dug, walled in and people peeping
over. and it was dark. Sometimes as I walk |
through the Capitol 1 observe that L am in
4 uere corridor or screen, instead of being
IN a large building with ample width.
Houses which are enlarged according to
.ater necessities, of course, lack the unity of
7riginal buildings all built at once,
One of Henry Grady's Thoughts.
q suppose you knew Henry Grady"
.aid the Governor. 'Grady came to me,
and I liked him, and / went to Georgia to
- go.- nd of ID 70, / ,