Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-25
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The silver Senators Weakening-The
situation for a Day or Two Pasta
Complex Condition of Afairs-The
BelIigerent Pop MISUNDERSTANDING
FaiIIng-Society Life In Washington
Its Various Grades-A Paradise for |
Young LOvers-A MIxture-Gas VS.. |
Electricity-United States Treasurer |
Morgan.
From Our Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The early sur |
render of the silver senators seems at this |
writing to be impending. The situation
for day or two past has been as follows:
The probability of an early conclusion of
the financial question had been regarded
as doubtful. While the democratic mem
bers appeared to have gotten together
upon terms of compromise their plan was
considered likely to be vigorously opposed
by large number of republican senators,
and also by tho entira populist delegation,
While the first section of compromise
allowing the Sherman purchasing clause
to remain in effect for year proved OBJ
noxious to several of the republican sena-
tors, great opposition has been manifested
to the second section, which provides for
coming the ssiguorage of the bullion now
in the treasury. Silver certificates are
outstanding to cover the purchase
cost of this silver metal and
| issuing of further silver certificates for the
difference between the purchase cost and
| the present ratio, it was claimed would
leave such issue without any real assets
/ with which to meet such extra indebted
| ness. The seignorage, as estimated,
| amounts to something like fifty million
dollars, which in reality will be a net
| profit to the government and is made
necessary according to the views of Score
| tary Carlisle by the probable deficiency in
| the revenue Of the country.
The bankers and brokers of the east have
| been pouring in letters upon the senators
| from their states, oharacterizing the seign-
| orage proposition as not only likely to
affect the credit of the government and
| confidence in the soundness of our money,
but as fagrantly dishonest.
The sei2norage proposition Is nkened by
/ some to a watering of stock, in which fifty
million dollars of water will be placed in
| the currency of the treasury.
The government itself should not do, 1t
/ is contended, what is regarded as question
able if not dishonest in the practice of q
| private corporation.
There is also strong opposition to the
| compromise on the ground that it makes
| no provision for the sale of gold bonds by
| which to strengthen the gold reserve and
insure the maintenance of the two metals
| at parity.
| The populists, on the other hand, con-
| tended that the terms of the compromise
are all in favor of the administration and
altogether lacking in provisions for the
| increase in the volume of money in the
country made necessary by growth of pop
ulation and the increased business trans
actions due to enlarged needs and wants of
individuals in an age when the comforts
and necessities of the masses are and
should be what the luxuries of the classes
were in the past.
It was conceded also that there was like
/ ly to be trouble in reaching conclusion,
| in that opportunities to flibuster still ex
| listed.
However, 1t must bs admitted that con-
siderable progress has been made in hsr-
monizing the democratic senators and that
the outlook for final settlement upon
come terms, If not upon those of the pres
ent compromise, is better than at any time
since the question came up before the SEN
ate.
SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
and temporarily throw politics aside, we
will take peep at society as 1t is and as it
is considered at the seat of the nation.
The only requirements for entering official
society life of Washington seems first to be
introduction by man of prominent posi-
ton; then, no matter what a mans real
standing may be, with glib tongue, light
toe and dress suit he is Immediately in
the swim.
HE GETS THERE.
| Henceforth he receives invitations to
this, that and the other entertainments
until he has the entrse int official So
ciety.
WHERE IT DIFFERS.
The society of Washington is different
from that of any other city in America.
The qusdrsnnisl change in it's composition
| prevents 1t from being exclusive like that
/ of other large cities, in which the follow
ers of society usually reside permanently.
While wealth and birth give prestige to
those who desire to become prominent in
social life, as Is the case in Boston or New
York, the seeker for social position and &C.
quaintance not particularly possessed of
either, can succeed, as he cannot hope to do
elsewhere without them.
A YOUNG LOVERS TRANSFORMATIONS
MADE EASY.
| While Washington Is considered rather
poor place for mothers with eligible daugh-
tiers who desire to marry them we'll, 80 far
as this worlds goods are concerned, young
men of good education and refinement
find 1t modern Mecca. If young man
can secure an introduction by a prominent
official in public life: if he can dance we'll,
talk well and is determined to make him
self pleasant and agreeable, he soon re-
csives all the invitations to social func-
tions which he can attend.
OFFICIAL SOCIETY.
Official society, composed of the presi-
dent, the cabinet, justices of the supreme
court, the diplomatic corps, senators and
representatives, and the heads of the
| various bureaus and their various assist
ants, is national, with a tinge of cosmo-
politanism, as in other society in this
country.
AN INCoNGRUoUs MIXTURE.
It is the incongruous mixture of the
highest intellectual culture of the century
with the crude Enlightenment of repre-
sentatives entirely unfamiliar, both by en-
vironment and education, to the usages
and customs of polite society. There is
the literary man from Massachusetts, with
his taste for paintings and books, gradu-
ate from Harvard; the cattle raiser from
Texas, who has lived his life on his i'm
mense ranch and been in his saddle riding
and breathing the air of the prairies daily;
the Virginian living, perhaps, upon one of
the old colonial estates where Madison or
Monroe or some other statesman so highly
localized in history, and the pushing, hust-
ling, money making representatives. from the
more newly developed west.
While many of the representatives from
the southern and country districts do not
take active part in the social life, they are
as much part of it as a member of the
cabinet and entitled to all the privileges
and .prerogatives of the most cultured
members.
A STORY.
Apropos of the ignorance of some mem
bsrs of modern improvements, story WAS
told me yesterday of Representative
Martin of Texas. Martin was elected to
the Fiftiesh congress from cattle raising
section. He had never travelled much and
before coming to Washington, had prob
l e3J of