The Washington times., 1895-02-26
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.

A member OF the North Carolina delega-
tion relates a good story tending to Illus
trate the powers OF imagination.
"I was campaigning in North Carolina
on one occasion" he said, with friend.
We put up for the night at an old-fashiGDed
tavern, and were compelled to occupy the
same room, owing TO the crow led condition
OF the hostelry. The night was sitting hot,
and some time after we retired arose and
attempted to open the window Not sue
ceeding, ! smashed il with my bootheel and
returned TO bed.
while the room was still hot, we felt that
as a result of the broken window the tenn
perature had fallen number of degrees,
and we slept soundly during the remainder
of the night When awoke in the morning
j discovered that had broken the glass in
an old-fashioned wardrobe which stood in q
corner OF the room and that the window was
still intact. "
CJl. Walter Evans. of Louisville. Ky,
who succeeds Arthur Caruth in the next Con-
gress, was on the floor ofthe House Saturday.
| Time has dealt kindly with Col. Evans. who
is still pleasantly remember here as Pres
ide.s Arthur's Commissioner of Internal
Rcyt nln. He said that AIthur's defeat for
the nomination in Chicago in 1884 had
chaLged very greatly the course of American
political history.
Hal Arthur been nominated" continued
| Col. Evans. ''he would, in the opinion of all
| Republicans, have been elected, for he would
! have polled the entire Republican vote
/ His success would have left Garfield III the
1 Senate, TO which body the Ohio Legislature
/ had previously promoted him. Blaine would
have stayed there, for he would have had no
! purpose in resigning, and Conking also
would have retained his seat
This trio ofbrainy men, added tothe 9TH
ers of distinction in the Senate, would have
made il the greatest parliamentary body
! in point of intellect in the world In the
/ course of nature all three would have been
alive to-day. As Senator Garfield would
not have fallen victim to the bullet of
Guiteau; Blaine would have been spared
many of the annoyances and embarraSs-
ments which, no doubt, contributed mate
rally To shorten his days, and Conkling,
instead of being exposed TO the blizzard in
New York, which laid the foundation OF
the disease which carried him Off, would
have been here, and thus have avoided II.
The defeat of Senator Dolph for a re.
election recalls his efforts few years
ago to discover the methods which the
newspaper correspondents employed 10 Sc
cure reports of the executive proceedings
u lhe Senate The Senator was greatly
chag rined at the publicity given TO a Ger
tain executive session in which he had
prominently figured. and which he was
specially desirous should not be know
ou.sde Of the chamber.
He succeeded in passing a resolution
through tie Senate for the establishment
of a spc j; ] committee In can certain of the
corre>I oidents before them and learn from
whola tI,,. secrets were obtained. These
whD we-, Subpoenaed We're A. j HalfOrd
OF the Associated Press; Frank De Puy, al
the NJ y ork Times; NJ. q. Seckendorf, OF
the New York Tribune, and Jules Guth
rid-a o" the New York Herald. Eact
of the quartet declined to answer the com
mttec's questions, and at the close or the
hearing they We're notified that they would
no. be discharged, but that they might holC
themselves in readiness to be called. agalI
at some future time.
Tie committee meanwhile called every
Senator before them, and each Senator
promptly rcpudiated the suggestion tha
he had ever spoken outside OF the Senate
Chamber with any person regarding the
executive proceedings. The pages, mes
sengeTs and even the elevator men were
similarly examined.
AfteI the lapse OF some weeks, Senator
Do!pli offered a resolution in executive
session that the four newspaper men be re
ported to the United States district attorney
with instructions that they may be punished
! for &C, tempt in refusing to answer the com
mittee's question The resolution was
defeated, although it received the supper
OF nearly all the Southern Senators.
The newspaper men the following dal
We're then notified that they were dis
charged. Each promptly presented claim
of So day for witness fees during the fifty
one days of the examination, although
each had only appeared before the com
mittee once Their claim was as promptly
allowed, and each received for his single
appearance before the committee the nea
| little sum of Sl53