The Washington times., 1894-06-25
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.

1t is interesting to watch the venerable Ten
nessee Senator. Mr.. Harris. eat his lunch. 1t
is always simple so far as the food is con-
eerned but it is just as invariably highly sea-
soned. If he takes-what is a very usua,
| lunch with Eim-hard boiled eggs and bot
lie OF beer, he takes good care to dip his eggs
| into the salt until they are absolutely coated
with it. When he eats raw oysters he never
| fails to cover them with layer of red pepper
that would set any other man sneezing for the
day. Senator Harris is very virile old gen.
tleman and he exhibits it in every way posi-
ble
Speaking OF the lunchers, Senators Hale
and Joe Blackburn are the Senatorial pair
who keep Mr.. Page of the Senate restaurant
| up TO his highest standard. There's nothing
that is too delicate for the paIates OF these
two bon-vivants, and they cause pretty
steady drain on Mr.. Pages caves as we'll:
| for they know the merits of different vintages
as well as most men.
Representative Meredith OF Virginia prob
ably has more personal requests for office,
etc. made to him than other man at the
Capitol. For all that he manages to keep as
cool and unruffied as if his business were
merely that OF signing appointments. instead
Ot having to suggest to insistent applicants
the wisdom OF setting to work on their own
account rather thnn trying to help Uncle Sam
| With ali this Mr.. Meredith Is popular down
in Virginia, and one OF these days is going to
be Governor.
Senator Villas is one of the members OF the
Senate who has fewer warm personal friends
| than most men. large part of the time he
is not in the chamber at all, and when he is
he is usually in his own seat pretending to be
very busy.
1t is amusing to see the Wisconsin Senator
come into the chamber in his of1icious L m
just-from-the-W -White-House manner. and then
gaze around 10 see how many Senators there
are who would like TO hear all the news from
the other end of the Avenue. But the time
when Mr.. Villas is the most exasperatng is
when the eyes of the country are upon the
President awaiting veto or a message. At
these times the Wisconsin Senator has his
I-promised-not-to-tell manner,
which is positively uncomfortable
There are about dozen members OF Con-
gress who are SO anxious to avoid being bored
and pursued by their constituents that they
refuse to haye their addresses printed at the
end of the Congressional Record or else
addresses. or what is about the same. ad-
dresses where they cannot often be found
This practice sometimes lasts half the term,
and sometimes for the whole term. and is the
most noticeable in the cases OF Congressman
who come from districts near Washington.
and are hence more or less AT the mercy of
constituents. There are not n few. however.
who want their time for their own work, who
pursue this plan Of avoiding interruptions.
ana it would take a detective a week to find
out where some Of them really live.
Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, has long been in IA
vor of state and national control of railroads
the former in the case of rates and regula-
tions within a state, and the latter where the
business is of an interstate character.
This control would go beyond the simple
matter OF traffic and include the questions of
stock and bond issue and capitalization, rate
Of dividends, &c.
This, Mr.. Bailey declares. is good Demo-
cratic doctrine. and he hopes the time
may yet arrive when legislation can be
enacted which will result in the holding of
railroads up to the implied contracts 10 the
state involved in the acceptance of charters
from the state.
If a Democratic member OF Congress is ab-
sent nowadays he is very likely to be ques-
toned by his colleagues on his return rs to
chow he found his fences" This seems to be
the imputation, in face of docking system
which makes 1t cost money to member to
absent himself from Washington.
As a matter OF fact very few Democratic
Congressman care to look after their renomi-
nation until they see where the tariff bill is to
land them. and there will probably be very
little Republican campaigning at the present,
to say the least.