The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-21
WASHINGTON.
Marshall Cushing's Budget
Of Gossip.
Hill, Higgins and Thurston in the
Senatorial Eye.
The Ponderous Cabinc:-Mrs. Tom
Reed is Bright, Too.
specIal correspond enee Of the News.

Special Correspondence of the News.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2i.--The President
and his Cabinet are now dining together
at tho White House and the Cabinet
houses most ferociously, and it has come
to be noticed that inasmuch as the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet INCLUDE large num-
Der OF very large men, about twice as
much room as is customary TO allow for
each guest at taole has TO be provided at
these sitdowns, as We might call them in
the country, where some of US were
born. The President, himself, Is no
slouch, a good man, in fact, weighing BIZ
pounds at last accounts. Hoke Smith Is
very large, but he is rather more shapely.
Postmaster General Bissell is probably the
biggest Of all our group of rulers. II was
necessary to have special chair made for
him at the postoffice department, and
am told that he requires the room of two
chairs at a Cabinet dinner. His heart is
very big, though, so it is all the same.
Senator Till was talking with a friend
the other day, before no made his second
lively attack on the income tax, and ne Is
quoted as saying that he did not care
much how the thing came out, this mat
ter of the tax, but he wanted to stir up
the Senate, and he proposed to do it. He
cares not snap for Senatorial courtesy,
and enjoys stamping on the very prece-
dents that are the dearest to the old
timers in the upper branch of Congress.
H. L.. 4 a.. f,I
low-Senators old women, and we have had
several evidences that he enjoys giving
them a shake up.
We have all heard that Mr.. Hill has
just crossed swords with German Of Mary
land; that Is perhaps as good a way as
any to put it. Hill is more like the
broad-axe, though, and German more
like the scimitar. Hill appeals 10 the
groundlings outside the Senate. He plays
to the gallery. German pays great atten-
attention to Senatorial courtesy, and
addresses himself to the Senators
themselves. He is about the
smoothest citizen in this republic, II you
would believe it, the most wonderful
master of details or of detailed inform
alton here in Washington. He never
misses committee meeting, always knows
everything that is going on; so that it is
by kind of law of natural selection that
all OF his fellow Senators, on which
ever side they may happen to sit, 60 10
him for advice.
As it happens, one of the best OF the
Senators, Anthony Higgins of Delaware,
is having, perhaps, tho hardest fight of all
to get back. The gasman, AddicKs, has
six votes, and swears that Addicks shall
be Senator or nobody. lie acts, in short,
like q sort OF Delaware Cesar. But the
good people Of Delaware, and good Re-
publicans everywhere, still hope that An
thony Higgins will win. 1t Isl funny little
State, this State of damaged peach
crops. The Bayard and the Salisbury
dynasties controlled it for generations.
A grocer beat one of the Bayards, who
was candidate for Senator, and this par
ticular Bayard declared that he would be
hanged before he would live in State
which sent to the Senate to represent il a
man who sold se-collars, for
the grocer was also saddler;
and this Bayard promptly moved to
Philadelphia to live. One Of the Salisbury
brothers was Senator, but he drank badly
and digusted his State, as one of the other
brothers said, and this ono declared that
he would fight him and beat him. The
brothers fought, but third, Eli Sauls-
bury, got there. He laid low and waited
for his chance to slip in.
There Is a big Drained Republican COM
ing TO the Senate from Nebraska, John
M. Thurston, who is about the strongest
Republican in all that country, although
he does happen to be big railroad attor-
ney. 1t was he who was the first presi-
dent of the National League
of Republican Clubs, and he has
been at the head of the
Nebraska delegations sent to the national
conventions. 1t was he who dared to
tackle young Congressman Bryan In joint
debate in this last election. He is young
man, vermonter, think, tall, broad
browed, gentle in his manners but of
fiery eloquence il he really grows at all
excited.
II is useless TO think that this Congress
will enact any financial legislation. The
leaders of the Democrats, or the so-calied
leaders OF the Democrats, may turn from
one scheme TO another, try TO compromise,
may imagine they are accomplishing
something, but 1t is all vain hope. The
Southern Democrats want State bank is
sues practically; the Northeners won't
have IL, and there you are. Secre-
tary Carlisle, perhaps from no special
reason, but just on account OF his nature,
grows more and more unpopular, espe-
cially with tho financial and busin9s ss in
terests, with whom, say what you viii, IL
is necessary for the treasury 10 DO on good
terms ~ it can. OF course he Is not going
TO bo kicked out OF tho treasury, but the
bankers and business people generally
wish that he might be. They are at lenst
contending that the Democrats might let