Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-13

oned we could stand it If he could. Well,
we walked long time-way out to the
Aaueduct bridge: At that time a bill for
the expansion of the currency was I'D in
Congress. 1t had passed the House. and
Morton had charge Of it, and was pushing
1t In the Senate. Grant brought 1t up rs
subject and talked about it for half an
hour. He looked at 1t from every eide and
approved 1t from ALL When I got home
after we separated, got word that Seua-
tor Morton wanted to see me. I went down
was very anxious that the currency ex-
pansion bill, which had passed the Senate
that day, should be signed by the President
and had sent for me to enlist my aid.
knew nothing of the bill, as my head was
full of my investigation, and I don't re-
member now even what 1t definitely pro-
v1ded for, but remembering the Presidents
talk little while before, I told Morton
that he need have no uneasiaess about
Grants approval, and repeated what Grant
had said to Mattingly and me. I thought
nothing more about it, and three days af
terward I was on the floor of the Senate
passing out when Babcock came in. Wait
minute he said, and hear this: He sent
the documents he carried to the Vice Presi-
dent and then the clerk read a message
from Grant vetoing that expansion bill.
Babcock went out with me, and 1 expressed
my surprise, and told him of what the
president had said three days before, Won
mind. Babcock smiled and said he could
explain that. Then he told me that when
Grant had the bill before him Hamilton
Fish called his attention to some message
or other document Grant had formerly
written, in which he took grounds opposed
to those in the expansion bill, and that
Grant, IN spite of his own absolute belief
in the merits of the measure, vetoed it, in
order that his record might be consistent
Morton naturally felt after that that I
NJ tau ii,islepresenteo Ininss 10 MIN ABOUT
never had anything more to do with each
other afterward. have often thought that
on TINS account ne inspired the bitterness
oe nv "r Mnr. a.terwaro showed IN pursuit
think h, was the STRONGEST and oh,ast ma
the republican party has ever had
ConLIiur md c,r6o,d
rho ,1
ihe name Oh morton seemed 10 con1ure
up "reminiscences of his great contempor-
aries
Roscoe Conkl;n, was ano+bar crawl
~o I.n - -,
MN. Let's see He died in March, 1888.
after being caught in that blizzard in New
York. Well, just before that, in February
I was coming over from New York to
Washington and Cor king was on the train
He saw me when I came in the car and
called me- making room for me to sit be-
side him. He was like a high-strung wo-
man in his Temperament and sensitive to
always felt when he. had the difference
with President Garfield that sympathized
with his side of the case. I told him that
I did heartily Then in a manner, 1 will
not say pitiful, but pathetic, Roscoe Conk-
ling told me all the facts that led to his
disagreement with Garfield and his resigna-
ton from the Senate. He was wrong in
resigning," said the governor, with mean
ing emphasis. He should not have done
that, but he was right in everything else"
washiurtoD =, Mo,1a1 CITY
" "o ~
Returning 10 the sup1ecr or washington
asked him If he had given any attention
to the proposed extension of the civ he
vond its nrasen4 ,in,,ts ond h. so,d +b.+
- 4'i's' anu NC sou .n'''
ne hao' 50 lar as ne was apie at sucn
remote place from Washington as Bato-
pIlas, and being dependent entirely upon
the newspapers for his information
in the world, and it ought to be in the best
country on earth" he said. washington
has the plan and the opportunity to be
made such city, and hope and believe
deal of criticism over the snmaren. ZEN.
dency of the District Commissioners to
def!ect the extension of some of the streets
anu avenues M from .nelr presenI hnes py
lows to i've. 5llel nm as wei, as for making
access easier to prominent outside locali-
ties, and from economical motives and ask
ed him IL he thought engineering or other
difficulties or EXPENSE should be allowed to
stand in the way of continuing the pres
emit plan of the city without change as far
as it might expand. He looked at me
quickly.
"You know 1 always said Damn a
grade" he calculated shortly. I'm remind
ed CT a good story in that connection One
morning Mr.. Forsythe the District sur
veyor, a good man, brought me a plat
of what he said was the grade he had de-
termined upon for the improvement of
Maryland avenue northeast. He had ar
ranged it so that 1t suited every property
holder along the road, and went up and
down like a hired man walking over a
hilly farm in accordance with the wishes
of the interested parties, whom the good
old fellow had desired to placate and salts
fly. l looked it over and said it was very
pretty. Then I said: Bring me a ruler
Forsythe. He handed me the ruler and 1
laid it on his plat, and with a pencil drew a
straight line from the Capitol to the Boun-
Diary. There's your grade, Forsythe' re-
marked. You ought to have seen him. And
that's the grade today"
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VI
Il shall always believe" continued the
governor, that one prominent Senator
fouptt INV nomination for Commission
er ard fought me otherwise on account
Of that same question of grade. He owned
house up on Massachusetts avenue, and