The times., 1897-03-12
VISITORS WERE CONGRESSMEN
Senator Penrose Makes His Debut
at the White House. Ex-Secretary
OF State Foster Says Few Words
About Hawaii-Phii Sheridan,s =
Widow Has a. Brief Audience.

the smirk and smile of the officeseeker.
1t was almost 800 o clock and not a pace.
hunter in sight.
IN truth, 1T was not the place -hu nter' S
inning. The new rules which stipulated
certain hours when the President Gould he
seen We're instrumental iii giving the Presi-
dent nuch-needed rest. While the office
seekers Were not present IN person, they
were there 10y proxy, as it were. in the shape
of their Senators and Representatives III
Congress.
The time for the payment of political
debts has arrived, and none are more
willing 10 have these obligations dis
charged than are the Senators and Repre-
Scntatives.
The asscmbiage of the plain people was
small They did not number more than
100. or that number there were not
twenty who could be truthfully classed
among the OfficeSeekcrs. Senator Pen
rose, the new man from Pennsylvania
who won fame in his own State for
having defeated the merchant prince and
his money, AIR. John Wanamaker, for the
Senatorship, was early at the bat. He
squared himself for home run in having
! appointed two political friends to good
puSiuonS thus paying of party debts in
the State to those VINO had helped elevate
him from ObScuIity To the Senatorship
senator PcRrose spoke for his great and
good friend, Hammond, OF the classic little
City OF Altoona, who aSpireS 10 be one
OF The Assistant Secretaries OF the In
! terror He also presented the long and
almost unpronounceable name OF Weidcr-
sIielTn, OF Philadelphia, for Commissioner
OF Patents. Senator Penrose talked quick
ana to the point, as though he expected
the President TO make the appointments
there and then.
Senator Billy Mason, another OF the
hoy wonders from Illinois, sent three balls
through the hoop at one time Each OF
them were labeled. Huntington " NilSon of
Chicago, Il man who, like Higeinbotnar,,
once wore a dress suit at breakfast, wants
to lie made secretary of legation at Paris.
Judge Elliott, an assistant attorney gen
eraI, and the famous Tom Needles OF the
Cairo Swamps, to be given charge Of the
poor Indians, in the shape uf commissioner
Senator Mason was given the glad hand
by the President, who smiled as if TO say,
Just tell the applicants you saw me-
Following came Senator Frye and ex-
| Secretary Of State John W Foster, who
sought to enlighteu the PRESIDENT upon the
subject of Hawaii There was little said,
| as tte 7 resident indicated he was not
ready TO take up thaU question at this time
| Senator Hale, WHO is commonly referred
to as the Senator from SPAN, dressed i'll
his usual faultlesS style, had an audience
OF unusual duration.
| The widow of the dashing soldier who
made Winchester famed in song. Mrs. Phil
II. Sheridan, was admitted through the
private doors, and she, with other ladies,
saw the President for some fifteen min
utes or more.
! Senator SpOener, who might be mis-
taken for a boy orator OF the mighty
West, accompanied by his once. fatherIy
colleague, Uncle" PhileSus SAWYER, came
with sturdy tread. Following behind
was Richard Guenther, who fled from
Germany 20 escape political tyranny and
who afterwaru came to Congress from
Wisconsin. Mr. Guenther was appointed
consul general to Mexico by Mr. Harri-
son, and ne would like The place under Nc
kinney he chances are that he VIII
get it, rs he and the President We're
great friends when they served in Con-
gress together.
| The dulineSS OF the day was greatly re-
| ieved when, in company with National
Committeeman w. T. Durbin, of Indiana,
the illustrious '-Oom Jack" Gowdy, the
man who held the party in Indiana up by
the tail during the late campaign, made
bis appearance. This was ''OonI jacks
first visit to the White House since he
arrived in the city the day before the in
| auguratiOn. "Oom Jack is now booked
for the general consulship at Paris, though
he does not look the part. The great In
l z....
whiskerS, rawhide boots, Prince Albert
coat OF many seasons ago. He did have
on collar, and no mistake, which was
out OF the usual, and goes to show that
the great and only "Oom Jack" has pro-
gressed even in the few days he has been
in Washington No door custodian could
stop 'Oom Jack" He walked in at the
private secretary's door with all the
grandeur of a Partisan prince He bowed
to an acquaintance in pure Partisan fash
ion, which sent dismay to the hearts OF
the colored messengers, who pride them
selves on politeness, but none could touch
that Of "Oom Jack soon to start for
bis post at the great French capital.
Tennessee flashed up a candidate for
Register of the Treasury, i'll the person of
j. c. Napier, of Nashville a colored ap-
| VINO NdS pIiOJcu " tHc Stdb Ol
power by Hon. John NJ. Langston, who is
himself an applicant for District Com
missioner. The present Register OF the
Treasury halls from Tennessee, and that
seems to encourage p rof Napier that the
State can not do without it.
a committee from the District cam to
say to the President thatt they wanted him
to be governed by the home rule idea when
he came to making appointments, which he
said he would consider well.
A delegation Of colored citizens, who
had an appointment with the President
which had been made the day before, saw
the Executive to ask the appointment of
Mr.. L. ii. Saunders as a District Conmis-
siuBer.
There were some fifteen or twenty men
in the delegation. Among them were Rev.
P. ]. Mcintosh, Rev. George ". Lee, D. d.
Rev. j. II. McMullin, Rev. w. J. Howard,
Rev. Wiseman, DR.. Charles Marshall, Dr.
John II. Lewis, Lawyer E. Y. Davis, and
Mr.. George c. Mason and Mr.. Clayton,
president and secretary, respectively, of
the Cullom Association. MIR. W. C. Payne,
the defeated Mckinley alternate of this
city, headed the delegation. The name
of John C. Dancy, colored, of North Car
olina, was presented as an applicant for
recorder OF deeds
Jay II. Neff, of Kansas City, was
the only man OF his kind who called yes
terilay with the exception OF DR.. Talmage