The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24
THEY STAY IN WASHINGTON.
CONGREsSMEN WHO HAVE SUFFER
ED DEFEAT LINGER AT THE
CAPITAL.

An Anecdote of the English Minister.
Holman Stiu Gives Advice-The
Members of the Chinese Legation
Learning to Ride BicycIes-Othcr
Matters of Interest.
Washington. Nov. 22-Thera is some
thing about the atmosphere of Washing
ton-one hardly knows what to cal it
that mesmerizes everyone who inhales it.
No matter how prominent a man may he
I'm his own state. as soon as he has he
come inoculatcd with the Washington
air, he wants to breathe it all the rest Ct
his life.
Take old Judge Holman, for instance.
Here is the old man to-day. hanging
around Washington. with no reason in
the world for being here. He was de-
feated for congress last fall and he ought
in all conscience TO be on his farm in In
diana. As a watchdog of the treasury
he has no longer any bark or bite or
claws. The government is going along
just the same, but he seems to think that
he ought to be here and so he hangs
around the capitol, his chief occupation
being the gratuitous rendering of advice
to new members as to how the nation
ought to be managed.
Perhaps, before long. Judge Holman
will hang out a sign here and begin to
practice law. That is the ultimate ex-
perience of most congressman. Some
make money and others hang on by the
skin of their eyelids. The best known
law firm in Washington to-day-Shella-
barger & Wilson'S composed of a couple
of defeated statesmen. Brookshire of
Indiana. who last year was member of
the appropriation committee of the
House, has recently opened an Office. Ben
Butterworth, formerly as prominent in
Ohio politics as Foraker, is now
rarely heard Of except in the
Washington courts Ex-Congressman
J. Hale Sypher is in the claims business,
ex-senator William Pitt Kellogg practices
his profession here, and so on down a
long list which includes not only men who
have been I'm congress, but department
officials and army and navy officers.
Nearly all Of the latter come to live in
Washington after they are retired from
once in a while the flavor of Washing
ton life is transferred to the stage. There
are any number Of Washington plays,
but very few of them are anything but
caricatures, written by people who had
evidently never been in the midst of the
Washington whirl. I see that there is a
new drama of Washington on the road
THE Capitol" ] think ii is Called-but
it does not seem to have been great sue
/ cess. The VIE one OF the Lyceum
| successes, was a Washington play. The
Sena tor is one of Crane 5 best parts,
and is pretty true to life, while For
Murphy. as Maverick Brander, in The
! Texas Steer gives splendid repre-
+ sentation of n jay congressman's eS-
perience in Washington, although the
/ sketch has been broadened to make it
4 more humorous.
As a matter OF fact life in Washington
I is one continual drama, fun of romance,
tragedy, pathos, love, ambition-every-
thing that goes to make up an Interest,"
! ing story. Even now, with congress COM
ing back again, the streets and hotel
I Hobbies are beginning TO hll up with ia
miliar faces of men who have claims and
] 1obs-some legitimate ana more OF them
/ frauds-and every mans history, if it
could be written, would rival a French
I novel. 1t is no wonder that a man who
/ has once been a part of this strange. eX-
I citing life should get inoculated with it
and want to be always in the midst of
its stirring events.
The cosmopolitanism of WASHINGTON
/ makes life here interesting. 1t was only
/ yesterday that l saw Sir Julian Paunce-
! fote, the ambassador of Great Britain
J standing on a street corner waiting for
! a car to ride home to the embassy. With
/ all his rank and title and money-for his
[ salary is as much as we pay the President
/ OF the United States-he is thoroughly
I democratic. He lives upon car line and
/ all the drivers and conductors know him.
for he has pleasant word for each Of
them. AS he stood on the street corner
ne presented the picture of a typical En-
I glishman, tall, well-built, fiOrid-faced. with
. side whiskers closely trimmed and fast
I whitening hair. He was dressed. as he
T always is, very neatly, but not dandily
ana wore a tall silk hat. As the first
/ car that came his way was crowded. he
/ stepped back to the pavement and patient
/ ~ waited until the next one came along
could not help recaIung, as l glanced
al the British ambassador, an incident
I in his career that created a tremendous
! amount of talk at the time One day as
I nj II,
Z a street car. newspaper CORRESPONDENT
I who knew him engaged him in CONVERSE
I ton about the Boring sea troubles Sir
/ Julian spoke with great frankness and
I apparently without any reservation or
hint of secrecy The correspondent who
represented syndicate supply news to
I foreign papers, cabled the substance of
the interview TO London. Then there
was stir; and the funniest thing of in an
/ was that the English papers did not criti-
else the ambassador so much for talking
as they did for riding in what they called
/ a common tram car. This broke their
English hearts-to think that the repre-
+ sentative of the queen rode in a street
car like other people. Their criticism
! however, does not seem to have had much
I effect Tor Sir Julian rides in the street
cars 2s much as ever But 1 notice that
he doesn't talk as much.
IL ism only the British amba ssador WIN
Z is an interesting parsonage. The China
( men at the Chinese legation are a CON
I slant wonder and delight.
They are curious looking creatures ar
/ best, and now that they have taken IA
riding the hicycle-which is their latest
tad-they are source of amusement
and JOY to the small boy and the stran-
ger.
The members of the Japanese legation
wear American clothes but the China
man is always in his long blue silk gown
/ with his black cap bearing it's red man
DARN button, and his white shoes. with
thick wooden soles. Astride OF the bicv-
Gle, with his round olive face with rs
/ almond eyes, wreathed in smiles his gown
! nylne in the wind and his queue stand
I ing out straight from his head the Cbi,
ainan ON wheel is q sight FOR gods ana
| men.