The Washington times., 1894-04-22
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.

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The week which has just closed has been
rs dry period, 80 far as debate is concerned,
as could be possibly imagined. Republican
speeches have been made almost exclusively,
and it has been all too evident that the major
ity were intended for constituents and not for
the Senate. Each Senator has taken the In
dustrios of his own state as his golden text
and held forth accordingly. But they have
taken some time to deliver. and that certainly
is part Of the object they were intended to
accomplish.
The New Hampshire delegation have a. last
swung into line and are now helping to talk
about the election for the Senatorship which
Chandler now holds and which expires next
year.
OF course that Senator is ready an6 willing.
II nothing more, to succeed himself. But
there are two more men in the field against
him already, and these may:put up very
good fight One Is none other than Henry
W. Blair who enjoys distinction in number
Of ways, the two principal OF which are his
anti Chinese views and the experiences he did
not experience in his short hold on the Chinese
mission; the other his use to the Senate and
fall back into the House. The other is Gen.
Burns, ex-Attorney General, and of much ex-
perience in the state senate. Frank Jones,
the rich Portsmouth brewer, says that Blair
will get the place. That means that Frank Is
tired OF Chandler's TRADES on railroads i'll
general and Boston and Maine, of which
Frank Jones is president, in particular.
But Chandler has lots of friends besides
lots of enemies, and those who know best and
talk best say he has first mortgage on his
seat and does not fear foreclosure.
There are four Coopers in Congress, three
Hendersons, and the same number of John
sons, Stones and Wilson's. Bakers, Bells and
others are plentiful in couplets, but strange to
say. there are only two Smiths, a solitary
Jones and Robinson.
The 800 New Jersey workingmen who came
all the way to Washington to see their Sena-
tors and protest against the passage Of the
Wilson bill were not in a very pleased frame
of mind when they discovered that both had
lodged them and were quietly at home 'to
spend Sunday" The chairman OF the state
delegation expressed himself in pretty plain
language. He said the Senators knew per-
fectly well that the delegation was coming and
could not give any good excuse for not stay
ing over to receive them. Senator Mcpherson
in particular seemed to have aroused his ire,
and he said that that Senator need not look for
labor support in getting back into the Senate.
In this matter Quay showed his hand. He
has kept the floor the past few days to be
ready TO do any good turn to labor delega-
tions he could. And so when the men ar
rived yesterday he received them in the
marble room. secured an escort to provide
them with seats, and then went with each into
the Senate chamber and had their petition
and memorial read.
And yet Quay is no more friend OF labor
than a dozen other Senators who are not
shrewd enough to play their cards. A year
or two hence Quay will remind the labor peo-
pie how he received them in Congress, how he
prevailed on the Democratic members of the
Finance Committee to have their petition
read in the chamber, and then-well, Quay is
all right.
Senator Voorhees, says he has had enough
Of ''hearings." 1T you hear anyone talking
about getting hearing from the Finance
Committee, y he said yesterday, "you may
know it is false. There are not going to be
any, II we should once begin, you know just
as well as where the bill would be a year
hence. No. the people who tell Of hearings
are rumor breeders. like insects, which give
birth to other insects and these in turn to
others. till the air is full OF them"
After this apt simile the tall Indianian
hurried back into the Senate.
The Senate chamber is free from one abuse
that the House is not, one that during the
past three weeks has been first rate nuisance
in the House. and that is the bringing of chill
dren into the chamber during business.
The Other day one woolly westerner came
in with two. and he could not have handled
either of them alone. Another member had q
youngster of an oratorical disposition. The
Sergeant-at-Arms two or three times sent
word to the member of the violation Of the
rule, but that worthy, not to be downed. sim
ply got few feet further back and sent word
that "it was all right"
.'For members only" appeared for the first
time yesterday on large placards at every en-
tranceto the House Of Representatives rest
taurant. 1t was restaurateer Murray's pre-
cautionary measure against an invasion of
the subsistence branch of the House.
.'Itwill remain, said Mr.. Murray. "as long
as there is any indication of an unusual
crowd at the Capitol. and it will apply to the
public at large as well rs to industrial armies
and Coxey's men. The House restaurant is
intended to expedite public business. as it al
lows members TO eat their lunches without
leaving the Capitol. There are only 100 seats
for 356 members, besides the CLERKS, en-
plOyeS. ana others connected with Congress.
II an unusual crowd fills the seats the men,
bers must go elsewhere. As this is not pub
lie restaurant, but a private one intended for
members, thc signs merely indicate that the
place is to be run rs il should be.
There is an idea that the places where Sena-
tors and Representatives eat may be centers
for the underfed Coxeyites.
Mr.. Hepburn's speech in Congress yester-
day provoked some rather spirited cross
firing. and in the attempt of the chair
man of the committee of the whole CAIr
Bailey to secure order the bead OF the gaye
with which he was pounding left its handle
and went whizzing past the ears of the OFF,
cial reporters and whirling down the center
aisle. This incident seemed to subdue the
rising turbulence, and order was speedily
secured.
Mrs. Blackburn Did Not Furnish the Money
from the Courier-JournaLl
Mrs. blackburn authorizes the Courier
Journal correspondent to say that the state
ment made and reported in the press that she
has rendered Madeline Pollard any financial
aid is wholly untrue. Mrs. Blackburn says
fhat ha baso civ nt no Ii