The sun., 1893-08-06
THE COMING EXTRA SESSION.
PRESIDENT CLkVELhHD ARRIVES AND
GOES TO The WHITE HOUSE.

GOES TO The WHITE HOUSE.
A Crowd OF once Seeker, In Front OF the
| METROPOLITAN Hotel the Chier Thing that
| Attracted His Attention-Sccnes Attend
ant upon the Canvass for the Speakcrsbip
and Other Omces In the Cir OF the House
| Tho New York Delegation Throws
Icen,sn Turner Overheard and Eo-
dor.e- Felix MctIoskey for Doorkecper.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 5-The convening of a
| new Congress- in the middle OF summer is
| such an unusual event that the people Of
| Washington can hardly realize the good luck
| that has fallen to their lot. For two months
| the city has been dull. hot. and neglected. To-
| day tho hotels and boarding houses are full.
and on the hill the big white Capitol building
| has been put in full winter dress, awaiting the
| coming OF the statesmen and the great crowd
! that always follows upon their heels. The
| scenes attendant upvn campaign for the
| Speakership OF tho House OF Representatives,
| and for the loaves and fishes OF official patron
| age, are much the same as those witnessed at
| the timo OF great political convention. al
though ON much smaller scale. This year
| tho ca paign has been especially novel; The
| Coneressmon and their friends are auartered in
| all parts OF the city. but because OF the fact
that Judge Crisp lives at the Metropolitan.
| most of tho Congressional campaGners have
| made that hotel their headQ uarters 1t Is the
! one great Southern resort OF Washington.
! owned by q Southerner managed by a
| Southerner and patronzed almost exclusively
| by Southerners. The hotel is a great rambling
| white stone building. down town on Pennsyl-
| vania avenue. within six blocks OF the Capitol.
and no man who comes to Washington from
anywhere south Of Mason and Dixon's line fails
| q o,,l,. L., ita ata Nav ,f
the true blue Southern m embers OF Congress
make this hotel their permanent Washington
! home. and Its lobbes and cafe are filled daily
| and nightly with those residents OF Washing
ton who claim legal homo in the Southern
States
Southern Congressman and Southern men
generally In Washington are q class distinct
! from the other inhabitants. As O rule. they
mngle very little in the social life OF the city.
which is about all there is in Washington dur
| ing the winter season. aside from the daily
meetings Of Congress. They spend their days
at the Capitol and their nights at the hotel.
Gossiping. playing friendly game Of cards.
| or more often discussing with their friends
and constituents the grave affairs Of state. In
the main lobby Of the Metropolitan Hotel. UP
stairs. there Is great broad fireplace. and on
any winters evening during session
| Of Congress a group OF Southern mon
can be found sitting about the cracking logs.
whose faces habits. and manner Of dress dis
tinguish thom at once as residents OF the
| former slave States These men discuss politi-
| cal questions with the same earnestness and
thoroughness that they did in the days Just
before the war. and seem to take much moro
serious view Of lawmaking than do their col
| leagues OF the North. East, o. West Some OF
the most prominent and best known OF the
Southern men in Congress have made this IA
nous hotel their lodging place for many con-
sscutive years. and such types us Speaker
Crisp. Judge Culberson OF Texas. Senator
Ransom Of North Carolina. Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton OF South Carolina. and other Southern
statesman Of long standing would think of
wear soft hats and chin w6isters. 81 and nd are at
| all times radical. old-lno Democrats.
| AT CRIsP's HEADQUARTERS.
-. 1t was In a little suite OF two stufIy rooms in
| this Southern Hote that Judge Crisp made his
cfPbrasn for bs ths hs two
part Of the house. where. while talking to bis
his eys at The Ref Sss SHa P.nn
sylvanin avenue and talk about its beauty
hood OF Judge Crisp'a, rooms the va
osSs SrRsdaf' of hs House s'FHSs hsy.
their headluarters also where every day they
oSe a0Sd SHAKE S DeS % e .n
army Of statesmen. political wirepullers oflce
at the Mstropoitsn Hoiei during ' this cam. cam.
paign i: the same old crowd that is aIways on
silk hats. long black coats. dark cravats. thick.
ropolltan Hotel invaders this year have worn
straw hats alpaca coats without vests thin
! trousers, and russet shoes
THE SIDEWALK CROWD AT THE METROPOLITAN.
| ha haaf fnf Waa ia nj
sive but 1t has been more demoralizing than
usual this year. and it's effects have been seen
people IN town: HAD ia Kodak mani ipais.S5
shS s as s1'hss s
afternoon and printed the picture he took. the
asFafs e'ns tSs ey
caricature; however. could be as Interesting.
novel. and amusing as a true picture OF this
honors. was there in full force. together with
years W ago. S is fully cor convinced that he knows L
all In and opt among the cr9Td pushed ths he
hume orous men whom they employ to look out
for new arrivals and steer them into the vari-
ssowasa ns ,Ss Il me
until the overflow was compelled to take TO
the sidewalk no one seemed to he "a" ale to teil. ell
little Interest except to the candidates them-
ments under them. Strangely enough. too,
| In all the hubbub and hustle and pushing and
crowding, wirepuilinS and % LHtt9nh9ling; t not
financial crisis that has compelled tho
calling. together Of these sweating states
men for the purross OF ven enaeating ahng,o re.
man said last night after he had been
| in town twenty four hours. tbat the people Of
know that the groups OF men standing about
the hotels engaged in earnest conversation
| but the question Of the distribution Of the
loaves and nshes. Said he:
- know that my constituents In New York
| CITY think these men are gathered in Wash
ington eagerly and anSlously dis;cussing the
taising OF nothing but, tho crumbs OF
| patronage. for among the score OF mon
| in town, not one has said anything eXcept
| to ask me how stand with regard to the selsc
tion OF Tom. Dick. or Harry ns one OF the OIL