The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-12-17
TIE OPENING
OF CONGRESS.
4 Sketch Of How Some Of the
Senate Solons Looked.

4 Sketch Of How Some Of the
Senate Solons Looked.
THE OLD TIMERS FADING.
Men who Think thsv are Big tnnotiesd
BY the Crowd-1hs Presidents Aesssge.
or Part Of 1.-THE Mere Important Sub
j.ets Treated.
Congress convened on Monday,
December 7th. The New York Jour
nal has sketch OF the opening day
from which the following extracts
are taken.
When Vice President Stevenson
brought his ivory eavel down today
with the slam of horse auctioneer
and declared the Senate of the Uni
ted States open for business neRoti-
atoms with the House and the Pres
ident, he faced q full and brilliant
audience. Some seventy Of our sage
Senators were in their seats, while
the galleries were full of people and
Mark Hanna.
But let US get down to the Senates
The desks-at least two dozen of
them-were banked with flowers
They represented, these posies, a
sum equal to the hire of prince.
There is something pathetic about
this flower giving. They represent
the applause, the respect of nobody.
They emanate from appointive office
holders, clerks of the poorer sort,
who thus seek to propitiate ''their
Senators" and perpetuate Themselves
in place.
And they cost poor folks mint Of
money. It illustrates what Col.
William Nelson, Of the Kansas Star,
once said to me on the subject of
gift making.
at comes simply TO this" said
the epigrammatic Colonel" some fell
low who can't afford it gives some
other fellow something he doesn't
need"
Palmer was the most interesting
figure to come into the Senate. Not
because he knows any more than the
others, or does any more. But the
old gentleman thinks that he has re-
Gently been running for the Presi-
dency, and this fallaey on his par,
makes it worth ones curious while
to note how he is received by the
others, especially by the silver Dem.
ocrats, who hold Palmer to be q
traitor worthy of block and cord.
Palmer was one among the first
to find his seat. He was filling il
full fifteen minutes before Steven
son called "time." If the old gen
tleman expected an ovation he wa.
prey to a frightfuI setback. Pal
mer's reception was what theatre
people call "frost." Harris, Cock
rell, Vest, German even, and all thu
regular, or silver Democrats eithe1
gave him the cut direct or yielded
him the chilliest and briefest O.
mods. Palmer was left severely, al
most painfully, alone. Not maj
vent near him, and his aged fac
began to redden and glow with tn,
isolation and the insult of it.
At last Villas was struck by Pal
mer in his pain and neglect. Villa
is gold cuckoo. It was sucl
schemers as Villas, working out tn
Buzzard's Bay behests of Cleveland
that tickled the aged, childish vanit,
of Palmer and got Kim to make hi
recent foolish run. Villas at lea:
owed Palmer some attention.
Villas evidently thought so, for h
| journeyed over to Palmer's desk 8
last, on the rear row, and rather effu
sively shook his hand. A momen
later Villas had tipped the wink t
the Republicans, and Aldrich az
others came around the 1llinoi
Senator and extended their bands.
| Hill, of New York, the late reclus
of Wolfert's Roost, Jared no NOR
hilariously than did Palmer. A
Hill is always sallow, wan and pale
one cannot say he looked the white
for it. But he got the cold shoulder
one could see that, from the enti1
Senate Democracy.
There is an agreement, whe thu
, tacit or otherwise, on the part of tt
Senate Democrats Of regular part
habits and who were not foregathe
!, ing with the Republicans to ostraci1
both Palmer and Hill. They wi
have but little power and limits
"pull" in this session. AS Hill 60
down and out on the All of Mare
his day of Senate usefulness may
! described as already done.
= Tlllman was quiet and subdued
a back seat. The "pitchfork" atmo
phere had deserted him. The 81.
he got in his own Palmetto Stat
when the Legislature recently pic
d ed up Tillman's best enemy to gi
t him Senate seat as Tillman's q
| league, has decidedly modified I'll
n man and dulled the teeth of his fer
;. cious exuberance. l prophesy
d verbal violence on Tillman's pa
d this session. He looks as if he "
Is thinking of changing his system.
n Brice was there, sharp alert, f,
o reting, with foretoppy red hair ov'
n hanging his forehead. Brice is ode
l. game" He brings with him 70
It Board Of Trade air. He mount
70 scarlet boutonniere, and was o
1t of those favored ones who was hea
10 lily "foralized" as to desk.
10 Teller still mounted the same
le of sadness and determination viii
r he wore when he shook the party d.
le from his feet in June. Teller
l. penis nothing apologies for no
Ia ing. He will pursue the stern ter
t. of his silver way this session.
70 viii fight the Dingley bill, antagon
ID any and every tariff proposal of
s. Republicans until they give him f
IN silver.
10 Dubois looked as grim as Tell
is and now his hand is to the pillow
ID will not turn back. But trou