The Washington times., 1894-03-18
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.

Wilson,. OF washington, fs always light
ing for his State. He claimed the other
day in the House that it yielded more
net revenue to the Post Offlce Depart
ment than all OF the Southern States put to.
gether, which is a fact, and he emphasized hii
position further by declaring that six-sevenths
Of all the millions of the River ard Harbol
appropriations went to the Southern States.
Some Of the Mississippi members tried to call
him off, explaining that some arrangement
satisfactory to him might be made. There
was crossflre urging him to go on, however.
"Give it to EN-, John, the Voice behind
him said: sit is a damn steal"
The voice was the voice of Tom Reed.
Whatever anybody in Washington may
have thought of Senator Hill year ago
everybody is now admitting his power and
prowess. His victories over Hornblower
and Peckham, though chiefly his double
victory over the President in these eases has
caused all the brood OF vacillating ones to
flock to him. He is contentcd and confident
He drew heavily upon his resources IN these
Supreme Court fights, however-for you
know Senators lend themselves to one
another with the greatest freedom-and the
bring to bear will be somewhat weakened for
time but it is expected that Mr. Hill will
fully recover himself. He is becoming more
and more the center of those Democrats who
are dissatisfied with the Wilson bill and more
and more the reliance of the protectioiist
Republicans.
Senator Murphy has become a pronounced
success also, but his is social rather than po-
litical He lives in the finest style in the old
Stanford house, at Seventeenth and K Streets,
and here with his sons and daughters about
him he entertains lavishly and jovially, and
his mild manners and general political liabil-
ity. as Senators call it. enables him to accom-
plish a great many things in the Senate,
things sometimes which his more aggressive
collaboration fails to do. Mr.. Murphy's private
secretary is Harry Walker, the correspondent
here Of the Daily America. Mr.. Walker
bears of more or less consequence with the
greatest freedom, and yet it seems to get his
chief into no trouble whatever.
prominent Republican advocate Of the
nomination of Senator Allison for President
in '96 talked to Senator Wolcott, OF Colorado.
the other day about the various important
merits Of his favorite.
"We must have man this time" ne said,
''who will represent the great West. He must
be somebody from west of Ohio
Would you mind amending that to make it
west of Indiana" Mr.. Wolcott inquired
The Senator from Colorado never liked Mr..
Harrison. He used to call him all sorts of
hard names.
Nobody here has been able to find traces OF
the four Pinkerton detectives who have been
souri, by Editor Charles H. Jones, of the
New York World. BY some the departure of
Col. Jones from the editorship of the ST.
Louis Republic has been attributed to Mr.
Vest, whether justly or not We cannot say
This circumstance, however, gave some
color to the report that the suspected rela-
tions of Mr.. Vest with the sugar people had
caused Col. Jones TO send down his minons
for u thorough investigation. Mr. Vest
knows very well now to shrug his shoulders
virtuously If anybody accuses any member
OF the Senate of the slightest shadow of cor
ruption. Some have thought that he pro-
tested entirely too much. There is no ques-
ton that number of Senators seriously
feared the proposed investigation of the OPP
tIAlIOus Vi lut sugar trust mere MI Seartes,
the eminent treasurer of this combination
who has manipulated the affairs of the SEN
ate Finance Committee and the Senate eau
Gus with so much success during the past
few weeks. is back here again at his former
stamping grounds at the Shoreham. His
room is the center of activity. and many of
the friends Of Senators. if not the Senators
themselves, have found it intensely interest
ing to visit him for private information.
1t is stand-off. so to speak, between the
producers of lead ore and their enemies. At
first the lead trust. with its interests in the
Kansas City smeter and the railroads run
ming to Mexico and in the Mexican mines,
caused lead ore 10 be put upon the free list,
but big Democrats. and Republicans too.
keeping in the background somewhat,
pounced in here from Montana. Utah. and
other Western regions where silver and lead
are produced and these visiting statesmen
made i. so lively for the lead trust-for they
actually caused the duty to be taken off the
finished lead products. which also the trust
controls-that the combination was glad
enough TO cry quits. Silver has had terrible
tumble. however, and We are told that there
has doubtless been more suffering in Colorado
and in the other Western silver communities
than at any time in the p asst six months.
By the modern method much of the lobby
ing is now done within the halls OF the Senate
or the House themselves by ex-members
possibly, who are entitled to an entrance
there, by important persons who visit the
ante-rooms only rarely, or who far more
often draw about them in the privacy of their
hotel rooms the various Senators, Representa-
tives. and agents of all sorts who do their bid
ding for some consideration or other. The oc-
cupation of the old-time lobbyist is probably
gone. and l cannot help thinking Of our old
friend, Felix McCloskey. so well remembered
rs a veteran assistant sergeant-at-arms of the
Charleston convention. as an elevator man at
the Capitol. as friend and biographer of
Spinola. Fine. old Felix sits in the corridor
OF the Arlington Hotel. talks with people, and
seems to imagine that he is influential. He is
interesting, though. and fine looking, and a
stranger in the house might easily pick him
out for a Senator. il not for an associate
Justice OF the Supreme Court. His beaver hat
looks digni1ed. and his grayish blonde locks
cluster about his ears after the fashion of
Clay, Webster, and the sages of 1910.
The ''keen advertis ing instinct of Con-
gresham Morse. of Massachusetts. writes a
correspondent VI tuC NAHUM. has iouS uteu d
distinctive trait in that gentleman's charac-
ter On at least one occasion it placed him
in peculiarly ludicrous position. This was
sometime before he entered upon his Con-
gressional career while he was member of
the Massachusetts senate. A measure in
which was especially interested was on the
calendar for a certain date. Mr.. Morse pro-
posed to speak on it. and had sent the text of
his remarks Qiberally punctuated with ap-
plause. it is fair to presume) to the evening
papers. On arriving at the senate chamber,
somewhat late, he was Mortified to find that,
no one asking to pass it, the bill had been ad-
vanced stage without debate. The good
nature of his fellow-members saved him from