The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-11
LIVE WASHINGTON TOPICS.
"soCKLESs" JERRY SIMPSON, BIOS
SONS INTO A DUDE.

SONS INTO a DUDE.
A michigan Editsr's Estimate or the Chinese
Civil service Examinations An Assault
on tho CONVERSATIONAL Record by Frcc-
silver CampaiEners-A Poatmastor's Joke.
WARRINGTON, July 1o.-Jerry Simpsons old.
time friends who know him whom he was sock
less would hardly have recognized him as no
stood leaning against tho gildod wall OF tho
Senate Chamber on Wednesday afternoon
while tho vote was being recorded on tho pas
sage Of the Tariff bill. Jerry has been slightly
lame lately, as n result of n street car accident,
and 30 no carried n cane, which added some
what to his dudish appearance. He was dressed
in tho ~strictest nineteenth century ummer
style. He wore white duck trousers, rolled up
two inches at the bottom, russell shoes, blue
sack coat, standing collar, and small tie, and
instead of a vost wore tho regulation summer
belt. Some Of the Senators who have known
Simpson ever since his entrance into public life
wore compelled to walk over and look directly
into his face before they:could believe it was no.
A few years OF Washington life has wrought
striking changes In many q man, but In no case
has tho metamorphosis been moro complete
than In the case Of Jerry Simpson Of Medicine
Lodro.
James NJ. Shepard of Cassopolis, Mich, was
recently appointed Consul at Hamilton, Ontario,
and for two or three days hc has been sitting
In q room at the State Department answering
o lot Of questions propounded by q Foreign
Once clerk in order to test "Jim's' fitness
for the place. Mr.. Shepard is one of tho best
known Republican politicians In Michigan.
GUS weekly Newspaper and has been Tor Sew:
eral terms a State Senator. He was the trusted
va Palmer 'aR%spq ali tRRe e't time t tSat GENIAL I' fr inSno Of
humanity was In the Senate and while he was
Shepard had passed through the state Depart
him at tho Capitol and said:
well, did you passf'
did you answer all tho questionsT'
and dNq then by SAL. a d1u thSt was ! a1 enSssS for sr 4 a f ilttio
place that only pays ~. 900 salary and 6 ,20Q
In fees; For an office with a bigger salary
might have answere all the questions, but |
got too much for its money"
Tho Congressional Record was one Of the
greatest sufferers in tho debate that closed on
Wednesday by the passage Of the Tariff bill,
and tho issues Of the last two days Of the debate
suffered worse than any. Nearly eighty pages
of Wednesdays Record were taken up by the
publication ofstrce-silver speeches. arguments,
and pamphlets, all inserted for the purpose of
sent. out by the free-silver managers as cam
paign material. One OF the pamphlets so
ga tsn y and M@f historical soGSxi s Anfns' and the a TSa"
ton has now been raised whether. the Senate
has not violated the law in publishing 1t In the
ton of book-lovers and book buyers of Washing
ton. who recently retired from business, claims
to own the copyright for this work, and he raises
the question whether the Senate in thus using
his private property has not. made itself liable
s q ls as@1 sSnbe = q Rf"R speeshes sy Of fiS William nl'gJ sn:
nings Bryan and others, and arguments by the
irrepressible A. J. Warner are among the mass
| NJ frAn-nirar nv tint Will nv hninn rnh-
lished in the Record, be sent to voters through
out the country at the expense of Uncle Sam.
The following brief letter was received at the
Post Office Department a day or two ago from a
fourth-class Postmaster in a Western town:
Hon: J. Z; Brtsto,s. Fourth Assistant ?. N. General,
srR: At O'Clock A. M. of juno =. 1897, in d,.tr,but,
e%s q, tn weighed asiSs sishs pounds ; SasdS.s postage ialIy paid. and
plainly marked; have held packaSe now one week;
myself and call him Bristow Shaner.
John ". shelden Of Orange county. Virginia, tho
old darky who walked all the way from his little
White House and pray for a return Of pros
perity. appeared again on Friday at the E5;
to have q quiet little chat with the President,
does duty at The main door OF the Mansion,
had seen Mr. Shclden's eccentric little capcrs a
rev weeks ago ana COnCluueu lHuI nc was. NOT
the kind OF person to let inside the White
House. SO he barred him ont. Friday was
public reception day and hundreds OF persons
passed in and out OF the White House. Seeing
mon OF his own race go inside unmolcsted. Mr..
Sheldon, thought, there was a conspiracy &c
do" him., and he soon began TO assert his
rights. Gathering up his hat and faded UNI
brclla, he started inside only to be met at the
door by the officer.
'Tou can't come in here" insisted the blue
coated guardian.
well, l wants to SEQ dc President said
Mr.. Sheldon, assuming an air Of independence.
Hes not in" replied the policeman. III
you want to see him badly and can't wait until
he gets back, YOU. can 60 down to the White
House stables, push an electric button. and tell
the man, who answers IT TO show you TO where
the President is fishing"
'Fshin' T":spoko up the old darkcy in surprise.
Yes, fishing. The President Is fishing right
this minute down back OF the White House
ing about the por,ico were copyulsed with
hook, and sinker, but no took the pOliceman's
word for 1t and trotted of at a Nancy Hanks
gait to the stables.