New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-13
ROTH HUNGRY AND THIRSTY.
r,,oCpAr1C EX-sTATEsMEN WAITING
PATIENTLY FOR THE PRESIDENT
ELS ACCORDING TO ALL ACCOUNTS EN'of ING
HIMSELF But THEY ARE FULL OF
TROUBLE AND ANXIETY-How
THEY KILL TIME.

INV r,rcRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.]
uosh;,,+o, March IA full week has passed
.inca the President and Commander-n-Ch!ef or
the Army and Navy of the United States exc
cr,ed with such mastery skill and brilliant sue
cess that sudden. unexpected and daring flank
movement in the face OF desperate and sleep
,ess enemy which. in wink as 1t We're. placed
him among the foremost strategists OF the age.
.ooo-dine TO the all too meagre bulletins that
have been received in Washington from the
front the week has been one of undsturbed re-
nose and unalloyed enjoyment for the distin-
eushed and puissant fisherman and duckhunter
whose name and the fame OF whose prowess and
skill are household words. 10 speak, among
the fnny tribes of Buzzard's Bay and the Dis
NAL swamp Canal. as we'll among the feath-
cred tribes of Pimlico Sound and OcracOke Inlet.
They are said to hold him in high esteem as a
merciful sportsman who seldom sacrifices the
life Of fish and fowl in his pursuit of pleasure
and game. The bulletins say. as they Usually do.
that the weather has beer unpropiticus. but that
is a matter Of small moment The Commanders
in-Chief OF the Army and Navy of the United
States is a man full of resources-a Nefsd'he
man-and wthal a man Of keen ana pruoei'
foresight who never negects to provide before
hand whatever may be needed to satisfy 'he
cravings OF physical hunger and thirst Anu 80
the week has been happy one Tor hlrn' ~ 10
not believed that he has pinned even Tor the c'''i
panionship Of the faithful and gifted lhuroeF' or
that he has once said or sung "DO They Miss Me
at Home?" and yet. in the silent watches OF 'he
night he must have realized that he was missed
sadly missed in Washington.
The week which has been so happy and Joyous
q one for him. has been joyless, gloomy. dis
couraginC and almost heartbreaking week for
the notical dereliCts who are tossing and drift
ing hther and thither or sea OF DOUBT ana
painful uncertainty which. small as II IL, seems
10 them to be bounded by the horizon OF their
future Day after day a few OF them phndF
and airlessly drift into the Capitol and sigh as
they recall the days-days that Will never more
return-when the official stenOgraphers hung on
the eloquent and more or less limpd sentences
that pushed from between their lips. and the
sergeant-at-arms cheerfully accepted and PAID
their drafts on the National Treasury to rea-
sonable amount and their acquisitions on the
Administration pie counter" were occasionally
honored. Halcyon days. indeed. were those, ana
how different from the present.
The official stenographers have vanished the
Sereeant-at-Arms passes them by with a cold and
distant nod Of recognition-only that and nothing
rnore-and the Administration pie counter" is
hid from their view. 1t is true that they still re-
tain the privilege Of free baths, but statesmen
out Of a job"-especially Democratic statesmen
cannot live on bathing privileges alone They
must have food and drink and places in which to
Sleep and all these things cost money-n they
cannot be obtained on credit.
few OF these disconsolate ex-sta tesmen are
daily visitors 70 the Supreme Court room where
they listen with greater or less apparent interest
TO the arguments for and against the income tax
which they helped to saddle upon the people.
Among them are Springer. who vvidly recalls
the time when he appeared before the same hGh
tribunal to attack the consutuuonality or an IN
come tax-the time when he was himself subject
to the payment of such a tax. Then there Is BY
num- Of Indiana. who has not felt real hopeful
since the vacancy in the Mexican Mission was
filed. and who expects revolutionary outbreak
in case the Income Tax law is declared to be I'M
constitutional; and Montgomery. If Kentucky.
who helped to frame the Income Tax law. and
who cheerfu1y hopes and expects to be rewarded
with United States Judgeship in Indian Terri
tory-an office Springer says he wouldn't accept
on any terms In the midst of these eX-statesmen
sits former associate whose name 10 stu borne
on the Government payroll OF statcsmei-Mc-
Millin. Of Tennessee. the author OF the income
tax appendix TO the Sugar Trust Tariff law. He
Is most attentive listener. and seems to be sin
cerely and painfully anxious and eager TO ind
out IL possible, what the provisions that he drew
really and actually mean. He is not individually
of the statesmen TO whom Mr.. Edmunds al
luded yesterday as gentlemen who had disap-
peared from off the face Of the political earth
since they enacted the law. but ne realizes that
he has had mighty narrow escape, and that
the unhappy fate that befel Springer and Bynum
and Montgomery. and 50 many other statesmen
OF he same sort, may and probably will overtake
him next year.
But most OF the derel!cts must be sought IN
other places than the Supreme Court room " one
expects or desires TO find them. good many o.
them are among the daily visitors and steady
eitters'' in the Government departments but
fate seems 10 be against them. The Secretary OF
State and the Secretary OF the Treasury are both
unable. on account Of Illness. 10 SIC office ekers
the Secretary OF War has been absent; neither
the Secretary of the Navy not the Secretary OF
Agriculture has any Offices 20 bestow; the AttOr
neyNienerai Is busy defending the Income Tax
law, which he privately abhOrs and dctests: Hoke
Smith has filled all the vacancies that he could
create In the Interior Department with Geor
CLANS and North Carolinians there Is
an interregnum In the Postoffice Depar
ment. and Public Printer Benedict having fur
loughed some scores OF employees Of the Govern
ment Printing Office, has fed and hid himself
II will be SEEN therefore that the situation Is n
most trying. II not altogether desperate one FOR
the hungry ex-staesman In pursuit OF a crumb
from the Administration pie counter" whose
chief is chasing or being chased by the water
fowl Of the North Carolina waters when will
he return" is the question that they sadly and
constantly put to themselves and one another
but not any longer 10 Thurber.
Some Of them cannot afford to wait much longer
while Others. whose homes are moro remote from
Washington. say that II Is cheaper for them to
remain here until tho "COnsecrated One" returns
than II would be TO 20 home and make the re-
turn Journey. Besides. the weather and roads
Will be more favorable for pedestrian travel in
April than they in Marcia consideration
which may become practical one In the minds
Of some OF these political wrecks when the time
shall come that they will be compelled TO leav
the scene OF their past achievements and tri-
umphs and face a frowning world"
Mr.. TcAGG'S NEWPORT PURCHASE