The Washington times., 1894-04-14
CORRIDOR AND CURB.

tary Lamont has returned from his whir
around the circle among the post exchanges
| CElkins' name for post canteens), but mus
say, nevertheless. that he wants to look oul
and behave himself pretty well or he will lose
=, his firm and past connection, his old-time
very Intimate connection, in fact, with his
former and present chief. the President. Mr..
Cleveland has never got over disliking Mr..
William c. Whitney. He recognized Mr..
| Whitney's services at Chicago, knew that
they were essential to him, admitted it: but
| Mr.. whitney's friends. if not Mr.. Whitney
4 himself. kept drumming upon this old string
SO long that Mr. Cleveland grew very tired OF
| it. de kDews Of Mr.. Lamonts very close in
! timacy with the ey-Secre:ary OF the Navy, and
| that has been one of the causes of the slight
| estrangement between the President and his
/ former inseparable Dan, an estrangement
/ which may be corrected If all of the interested
parties read THE TIMES. Mrs. Lamont has
not called upon Mrs. Cleveland this Winter
and their relations have not been nearly so
cordial as they used to be. Moreover. and
chiefly the President believes that Mr.. Lamont
is meddling in several important legislative
matters in the wrong way. This is in the
! strictest confidence to you. OF course l
shouldn't want it repeated.
Mr.. Whitney, by the way, is greatly de-
voted to the Vanderbilt interests. He had n
chance to buy and did buy the New York and
Northern railroad, an affair leading out OF
New York, atrording the only entrance
into the metropolis. in fact, besides the New
York Central. He sold it to the Yanderbilts,
pocketing by the operation about 81 100000,
but putting himself under obligutionseto the
New York Central interests for important
political purposes. II some time you should
notice that these people work together. the
Vanderbilts and the Whitneys, it is very
likely this is the explanation. This road was
all important to the Central, as Alec Mcleod
was after il for his New York and New
England entrance into the city. Now the
| only way is by New York, New Haven. and
Hartford, and no matter how early you may
| start from Boston and no matter how fast
/ you may run. you are simply tied TO the end
of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
trains and towed into New York, and as this
New York. New Haven. and Hartford interest
is allied with the Vanderbilt line. there is
really no competition. Mr.. Whitney helped
/ this TO be so. and he made million. as say.
and important alliances into the bargain. Il
is well to recall also that the Nanderbilts don't
control the New York Central and the Van
! derbilt properties, so called. They and the
| English bondholders. who are represented by
Drexel, Morgan d Co., do control it. however.
and one of Mr.. Depew's chief offices is to
keep these same English bondholders feeling
good-natured.
see that Hon. Jack Robinson, member of
Congress from the Media Pa, district. is am
bilious TO run for Lieutenant Governor of
Pennsylvania. Evidently Hastings is slated
for first place. This ambition of Hon. Jack
Robinson is counter to the plans Of Senator
QUAY, who is in favor of State Senator Walter
Lyon. of Pittsburg for Lieutenant Governor.
Probably the Hastings and Lyon ticket will
go through. One trouble with Mr.. Quay,
though, has been that he makes his states up
too long time in advance, and they are some
times liable to be broken. That wasn't the
case in the Deamater campaign, though 1t
was a good example. as Mr.. Delamater was
slated for Governor two years in advance.
But the Senator could not prevent the defeat
of his candidate. and. as l have been led to
believe. brought about his nomination only
unwillingly at the end. So 1t is uncertain
tnat something unpleasant may not happen
to the ticket of Hastings and Lyon.
1t is already reported that Congressman
Billy Muson would like to be Senator from
Illinois. 1t is hard to see where his show
II.
eye ex-schoolmaster would shake some OF the
skeletons in q most noisy and disagreeable
fashion il he ever got to the upper branch.
Besides being distinguished for his wit. Con-
gresham Billy Mason was also noted for his
seven small children. OF whom he had a pic
ture. standing all in a row; and recall how
bitterly he took it when one Of these prides
and Joys of his died. Another member well
known at that time, chiefly. too, for his seven
small children. was Hon. Frank Rockwell. of
the Pittsfield district of Massachusetts. Mr..
Rockwell is at his home now practicing law.
entirely retired.
Hon. William Dudley Foulke hOnored us
with his presence for few days recently. and
ne is now honoring Philadelphia. We hardly
know what to expect of Mr. Foulke. he is so
fertile, SO resourceful; but probably he is
sending circulars to removed Republican
postmasters to find out from these men them
selves direct what the causes were for their
removals. He played that game with con-
siderable success in the last administration.
and is doubtless hard at work upon it in this
one. OF course. the testimony being that of
soreheads. malcontents, or ineolnpetents. will
be entirely vaueless: but a great noise will be
made about it by the so-called civil-service
reformers. The real civi-service reformers
ODJect 10 ali lulS tuIhB. Decduse IL DriueS tue
cause SO much into jisrepute.
1t appears that Senator Hill has ordered
5000 copies of his speech, which are doubt
less intended for all corners. and 1000 extra
copies for one of his Democratic colleagues.
He has been flooded with letters OF congratu-
lation from the far West. and his committee
room, we are told. is piled up with letters
and kilograms, AL of which go to encourage
the Senator and make him forget somewhat
the neglect OF his Democratic colleagues" 1t
is pointed out by Mr. Hills friends that ne is
very right in his general attitude. for Albany
for one thing. where one of the most noted of
the cuckoos represents congressional dis
trlct. went Republican largely. and in Jersey
the only place where the Democrats held their
own was Paterson, which is the home of Con-
gresham Cadmus. who voted against the Will
son bill. These election returns encourage Mr..
Hill, and as Harry Walker says. and he is
Senator Murphy's private secretary and ought
to know, ''if Mr. Brice will hold out it looks
mighty like the Wilson bill would be de-
feated.'
One of Gen. Weaver's Wrecks.
From the Iowa State Reg isterl
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