The Washington times., 1895-02-25
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.

Congressman Grosyenor, OF Ohio, has,
returned from visit to the Buckeye State.
He speaks enthusiastically of the Mckinley
boom. He denies that Foraker is knitting
the Governor. and says that Foraker him
self insists that Mex lnley shall have solid
delegation from the State at the next con-"
vention.
Gen. Grosvenor has no doubt that the
legislature which viii be elected in Ohio
next autumn and which viii in turn choose
q successor to Senator Brice, win send
Foraker to the Senate as the formers
successor.
The promptness with which Senator
Ransom, of North Carolina, was confirmed
Saturday as minister 10 Mexico furnishes
substantial proof of his personal popularity
with his brother Senators. Gen. Ransom
has been for twenty three years a member
of the United States Senate. He has the
quiet dignity and agreeable personality
of the gentlemen of the old school.
President Cleveland never made an ap-
pointment which is more generally APP
proved by public men, and this sentiment
is shared by Republicans as well as by Dem
ocratS, for Ransom's popularity is not
bounded by party lines.
George Washington Murray is the name
of the only colored Representative III the
present Congress. He lives at Sumter,
S. c. He is fouy-One years old. and was
born a slave. His biography states that
'bereft of both parents, thrown upon the
rugged shores of early emanc ipatlon,
after a cruel ana dehumanzng-w had
deprived the population of all the finer sen
sbilitics OF human sympathy and phllan-
thropy. he entered upon the fierce combat
then in progress in an Impoverished section
forthe Indispensable bread oflfe; among the
waits of his neghborhood he acquired an
imperfect education. etc.
His opponent al the last election was Col.
Elliott. who has at various times H the past
filled the seat Mr.. Murray claims that he
was counted ont. and he is now collecting
testimony with q view TO Contesting FL
liott's election. He believes that Rcpub-
lican House VIII give him the seat
The only other Colored contestant VIII
he ex-CongreSsman Cheetham, who win
contest the seat of Mr.. Woodard. from the
Second North Carolina district.
Congressman Charles s. Randall, of New
Bedford, Mass, celebrated his seventy first
birthday ON Thursday last. The announce
mcnt was a surprise 10 such OF his friends
as were not familiar with his age Mr.. Ran
DAN would readily pass FOR man Of sixty
His figure is as erect and his step as light as
it was half a century ago.
He offers 10 bet a case of champagne that
he can walk from the Metropolitan Club
TO the Capitol and back again in less time
than the majority OF his Cong reSsionaI as
sociates, although many of these gentlemen
are much younger men. He ridicules the
suggestion that he shall lead an idle life
( after his retirement from Congress. He
insists he is too young man to spend
the rema nder of his days doing nothing,
and he expects, Immediately after the 4th
OF March, to devote his attention to the diff
ferent enterprises in which he is more or less
largely interested.
The report reaches here from Ottawa
that the Canadians, who favor the an
nrXation of the Dominion to the United
States are anticipating a strong moral and
financial backing from their friends in this
country. One otthe members Of the Senate
Committee on Relations with Canada
said Saturday that not cents could be
raised in this country as a contribution TO
the campaign furd Of the aneXatiouists
in the elections in Canada next autumn
The average American, lie continued, re-
gardcd the annexation of Canada iEdiffer-
emily. He believes that citizens of the
United States ought not to interfere in the
Canadian elections, especially where the
annexation question VIII be one oftlp, issues.
Such course, in his opinion, would defeat
the end sought to be accomplished.
II was understood at the Capitol Satur-
day that a delegation of California poll
ticians viii start East shortly with n view
of seeing personally the Eastern and South
ern members of the Republican National
Committee, and endeavor to secure their
cooperation in the plan to hold. the next
Presidential convention at san Francisco.
The national committee will meet in this
city in December next and determine the
location Of the convention The Califor-
mans propose anticipating their action, as
far as possible, by securing pledges from the
members in advance that their influence
Will b. used in sending the gathering to the
Pacific slope -'ts-
The Californians have vainly tried for
many years to carry the conventions OF both
political parties Ia their State. II is prob
able that the objection TO san Francisco
when the National Committee meets will be
the great distance to be traversed and the
fact that the delegates and Others who de-
sire to be present would be absent from home
for a period OF three weeks.
Moreover. the limited teee rap phic facil-
tiles on the coast would render it impossible
to secure satisfactory press reports for the
morning Eastern newspapers. There is a
difference of three hours in time against the
East and when il is remembered that in adj
dition TO this fact the number of wires cross
ing the continent is comparatively limited,
it viii be seen that no important happening
after O'Clock in the evening could be trans
mitted East in time for publication the fol-
lowing morning.