The sun., 1896-02-10
LIVE WASHINGTON TOPICS.
UNINrITED GUESTS ST THE WHITE
HOUSE RECEPTIONS.

house RECEPTIONS.
The Crowd. Getting Larger and More
Dcmocrntic-Chnnuc In the Attitude OF
the Administration Toward Hawaii
Reed on Guard Against ExtrnvnEance.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.-oflcial receptions at
the White House are becoming cach--year more
serious and n,olcrable impositions upon the
hosts and the Invited guests, and II Is thought
that some method for inspecting cards of invi-
tation viii soon be devised. Each winter tho
President and Mrs. Cleveland give four card
receptions Mt night. The first In honor OF the
diplomatic corps. tho second In honor OF the
army and navy, the third In honor of Con-
grcss, and the fourth to the general public. At
each OF these receptions the wives of the men,
bers Of the Cabinet assist IN receiving, and back
of the line stand two or three hundred specially
invited guests. Invitations are sent to the Ell
tire official world OF Washington and TO several
hundred persons. moro or less. who have no off-
cial positions. Members OF the receiving party
and other personal friends OF Mr.. and Mrs
Cleveland receive with their official invitations
q little red card, which permits them to drive
into tho grounds by the southwest gate and
enter the Executive Mansion by private door at
the south front. All others must approach by
the main driveway and enter the little narrow
north door and file into the dressing rooms,
and thence to the Blue Room. where the receiv-
ing party stands to greet them. For a great
many years 1t has been the custom not to re-
quire the presentation of cards of invitation at
the door, and the result has been that every
body who wishes to attend one Of these recep-
tions does so and takes with him anywhere
from one tU a half dozen guests. This is the
real cause of the constant complaint that more
persons are invited than cnn be accommodated
In the spacious rooms Of the White House. and
to t,,,v, tt tipn mi
dents have rebclled. but to which none has had
the temerity to apply remedy Every Tom,
Dick. and Harry In Washington, who desires to
get q glimpse of what is generally called social
life." crowds into the White House and makes
himself rs much at home us II he we're speciahy
ON Thursday night last the uninvitcd crowd
was greater and more democratic than usual.
The crush was awful. md mingled with the
the aTy snd nayS a ths
and less deserving people. who went TO the
White House In In spite p1 or the fact tn, that they
and behaved as we'll rs the more distinguished
guests. must have felt that they were enjoy
Washington public regard the exclusiveness Of
these card receptions Is afforded by the remark
who was standing in the great crowd outside OF
tho door last Thursday night awaiting his
the s men "a and Women in full evening dress he
SAID as ;qRsf"" bseSs ought to have worn our
There were hundreds of people within the
brilliantly lighted rooms who did not wear their
dress suits and by actual count there were more
and at least half of that number with their
hands, and gum shoes on their feet. They went
down the line OF the receiving party. were an
nounccd with great formaity by Col. Wilson.
and then wandered about through the flower
hedecked rooms into the conservntory and the
East ROOM listened to the Marine bnnd playing
nnnnrPntly & home
church sociahic in Jayville. A large number
of these, women were accompanied by half
grown children, who wore their street clothes
and stood about abashed at the pomp and glitter
of the occasion. At least one gentleman paid his
storm overcoat and carrying his hat, and ap-
Ssd% Who s@'a sataSy
IL o'clock the band played Hail to the Chief"
dent and Mrs. Cleveland. made the circle Of the
East Room. much as the prize animals do at
Sr ns ooe s they could pe get to- them
stared in their faces. and when the procession
passed through the corridor and up the stairs
out OF sight. they reluctantly sought the outer
air and the street cars. concentrating them
selves on being citizens OF free country like
Somehow the little republic OF Hawaii and its
representatives in the United States have taken
new dignity in the eyes ofthe Cleveland Ad-
ministration. Only a few weeks ago the former
Minister to the United States, Lorin a. Thurs
ton, gave to the public an interesting account Of
the humiliating treatment which he received
from President Cleveland and tho Secretary OF
State while acting as Hawais representative at
the capital of the United States, and graphic
ally set forth the series OF petty insults visited
upon him. and which finally resulted In his re-
who were in Washington at the time the policy
Of the Cleveland Administration to restore
to aid sfe na ar0ns was 70 be
told that Mr.. rhurston and every other man
connected with the Government OF tn, tho
White House and the state Department. The
persecution by the President and Secretary OF
State went SO far as to order the name OF Mr..
Hastings the Hawaiian Charge d'Ahares. to
be stricken from the list OF those to be invited
an insult never before visited upon the dipio-
matte representative of any country whose cre-
pie, however. OF the repeated Sights put upon
the Hawaiian representatives by the officials of
the Administration.
Now. however. n change has come. A week
ago Mr. latch. the Hawaiian Minister who sue
ceeded Mr.. Thurston, and Mrs Hatch gave tho
first OF their official receptions at the home OF
cial world Of Washington was among the guests.
including practically al OF the higher Admins
traton officials and the members of the diplo-
matte corps. Among Others, present were the
of state and Mrs. Olney. Secretary and Mrs.
Carlisle, Secretary and Mrs. Lamont. Attorney
General and Mrs. Harmon. secretary Herbert
Mrs. Wilson. secretary Morton and Miss Nor
ton the Mexican Minister and Mrs. Romero. the
Austrian Minister and Baroness Hengelmuler.
the Chinese Minister and Mrs Yang, the Swiss
Minister and Nine. Pioda, the Spanish Minister
and Mrs Dupuy de LONE. the German Ambas-
sador and Baroness yon Ihiemann. the French
Minister. the Gillian Minister and Mrs Do
mnqnez. the Turkish Minister, Mavroyeni Bey:
the Venezuelan Minister and the Misses An
drade. the Russian Minister, Senator Quay,
Mrs. and the Misses Quay. senator Bihnenard,
Brice. Senator and Mrs. Burrows. Senator and
Mrs. Call. Miss Call. Mrs. and Miss Cameron.
senator and Mrs. Frye. Senator and Mrs. Cor
man. Senator and Mrs. Gray, the Misses Gray.
senator and Mrs. Lodge. Senator and Mrs. Nc
MILAN. Senator and Mrs. Martin. Senator and
Mrs. Mills. Mrs. Stewart Miss Stewart. senator
Wemure. Miss Wetmore, and Senator and Mrs.
Davis.
Speaker Reed maintains his attitude of de-
termincd opposition to anything like cxtrava-
gance in the appropriations OF the House of
Representatives. but the friends Of public build
ings and rivers and harbors and various other