Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-07
FROM THECAPITAL.
An Interesting Budget of Gossip
From the National Seat OF
Government.
How Tripp Was Tripped---Per-
sonal Mentisn-.-The ssExes''
Very Much in the Swim.

WASHINGTON, March 2s.-Mr. Tripp
was tripped up ut the last moment.
1t was not the square thing to treat
him thus, either. For he did not
seek the Office, neither did he wish to
be the commissioner of the general
land office. But for some reason,
known only to the inner circle, his
name did not come out of the box.
Mr.. Senator Villas had better "pull'
than did j. j. Hill who gave 800, 900
to secure Mr.. Cleveland's reelection.
Mr.. Villas is very solid with this ad-
ministration-the senatorial spokes-
man thereof. This case reminds me
of Southey's line: "It is the sudden
trip that fetches man to the
ground.n
MISTAKEN.
A Mitchell paper states that
Johnny Pease says he has been APP
pointed clerk of Senator kyle's COM
mittee. In the presence of Senator
Kyle l today asked Duncan McFar-
land who is the clerk of this commit
tee, repeating what Pease is alleged
to have said. Mack, the Scot, said:
Perhaps he is; but I've been sworn
in and am drawing the pay
GOING SLOWLY.
The senate is going quito slowly.
They have two or three meetings a
week-or, to be exact, they've had
nine sessions in three weeks. The
president is very slow in sending in
nominations-iust as any man would
be who has to talk daily with scores
of applicants for office. No president
has been more persistcntly besicced
for Office than Mr.. Cleveland has
been in the last three weeks. And
when the applicants reach his room
they are nearly rude in crowding up
to him and saying: "Gimme this"
or "Gimme that" The president is
patient and not SO brusque as he was
in 1855.
But was speaking of the senate.
This body has before it the question
OF admitting three gentlemen who
have been appointed by their gov
ernors after the legislatures had the
opportunity and failed to elect. No
senator has ever been admitted to
this body under such conditions. Ii
these gentlemen are refused admis-
sion, their states will only be half
represented until their legislatures
elect-perhaps two years hence. The
cases have been referred to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections.
where majority and minority reports
have been prepared. These may re-
quire a week or more of debate.
There is to he an attempt made to
elect new officers of the senate. The
democrats have made their NOM
inations, Eut they have not bound
themselves to support these nomina-
tions, for there are, it is said, about
fifteen senators opposed to turning
out the officers at a special session of
the senatc-an act without precedent
in the history of the senate. But
even with these two questions before
them they ought to and expect to
adjourn by April 10th at the latest.
FEW LEFT.
Most of the South Dakotans have
gone home. A man needs to have
held fat Office for year before he
can afford to stop month in first
class hotel in Washington. About
the only one of your citizens who
wears a smiling facet is Major Anthony
v. Leiben of Pierre. He is SO sure of
that Indian inspectorship that he
wouldn't give l2a cents to be insured
on getting it. Gov. Couchman is his
principal local competitor. Leiben
says of him: ale is not a Cleveland
man at heart: he's the only one OF our
delegation to the Chicago convention
who voted for Hill. And he refused
to withdraw from the state ticket
last fall so we could defeat the re-
publicans." How a mans failings do
shine when the man is in anothel's
way!
THE INEs MoLLIF1ED.
The latest news from hcadqual ters
is that the president decides an sex
Can have different position from the
one he held in 1859: but not the one
he filled in that period. 1t is being
told that the western ''relative'
whom Mr.. Cleveland refused to give
an Office is a cousin of Mrs. Cleveland
and used to edit a paper somewhere
in Minnehaha county, South Dakota
Know him?
MIR. CURRY CURRIED DOWN.
A man named Curry was appointed
commercial agent at Yarmouth, N
s., by new assistant secretary o.
state who had no authority to do it
a letter of introduction from Private