The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-22

in his irony as any man who ever sat in
the senate. Call, in all the rearns OF the
Record which are burdened with, ms
speeches. never gave utterance TO nasn
OF wit, never coined a telling sentence,
never uttered an idea that Will be re-
membered. Ask any one for reminis-
cence OF Call and the answer will be
that he is the senator who stuck his un-
shod foot upon his desk, and even that
unsavory story was coined by a wicked
newspaper writer. And yet Call was an
unusual figure. In private conversation
one discovered that he had many al
vanced ideas in accord with the best
economical scientists of the day. These
he never uttered in the senate. His whole
study. was to remain In the senate, ana
therefore his record is that of schem-
er and a demagogue.
A Joy forever is an outing of the dis
trlct bench and bar, which occurs once
year. 1t is not confined to the district
legal and judicial fraternity. The SUI
preme bench and a seasoning of lay cit
liens are always In evidence. The prop
er caper is to take a sail 16 miles down
the broad Potomac to Marshall hall,
fascinating river resort the chief build
ing of which is one of the old mansions
of the famous Marshall family Plsnked
shad is the main diet, with anything 10
wash II down that is sought by the fancy.
1t is simply a glimpse of paradise to wit
ness the happiness of the grave justices
of the Supreme bench at free-and-easy,
go-as-you-please entertainment OF tnls
kind, where all restraint and judicial
solemnity and sable gown business are
thrown aside for the satisfaction of an
appetite which is historically and proven
bially good, but which Is whetted TO
greater capacity by the sail on the river
and the bracing air of the green lawns
of Marshall hall" Harlan, Gray. Shiras,
Peckham and Brown. of the Supreme
bench, were of the great shad-devouring
assembly of last Saturday, and to say
that they were unfrocked and unbenched
is merely to say that they are human,
and entered into the affair with as much
gusto as any young lawyer just RID OF
horrid Blackstone.
A few of the congressman, like Sena-
tor White, of California, profess to be
extremely profound touching this matter
of sending aid to the suffering Ameri-
cans and Cubans in Cuba. Caffery. OF
Louisiana, is another who fears that
grave precedent will be established. Per
sons who are interested directly or indl-
rectly or politically in the production oi
| sugar in this country take this view to
a man. 1t is curious, but 1t Is true, tha'
| there are congressman VINO Woulo ior'
| sake the greatest principle. moral or re-
| ligious, amt possibly forswear their par
entage, in response to the real or fanciec
demands of their dear constituents who
| elect them to office.
While removals are going on apac'
| in the various departments / am remind
ed by a watchful friend that there ar
four or five of the near relatives, ant
heaven knows how many more retain
ers'' of the Carlisle family filling snut
positions in the treasury department
They were doubtless appointed on &C
count Of their superior abilities, as Lo
gan Carlisle was too conscientious to sc
lect them for any other reason, and ye
it is suggested that they might, just a
a matter of form, be tested as to thei
accomplishments in reading, writing an
arithmetic. There are persons even II
Kentucky who are not experts in tn
! three RS.