The copper country evening news., 1898-01-10
Not Easy to Find a Substitute When He
Wants a Rest-Plans of the Social Sea-
son-Dinner Giving Is the Fad just Now.

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The silver senators are: Cannon, Utah
> Mantle, Montana; Stewart and Jones
Nevada; Pettigrew and Kyle, South Da
kota; Tellor, Colorado. To those Mr.
Wolcott of California should be added IL
certain contingencies and possibly th'
two senators from Wyoming and Mr.
Hansbrough of North Dakota
The Populist senators are: Allen, Ne
braska Butler, North Carolina; Harris,
Kansas; Heitfeld, Idaho; Turner, Wash
ington.
No Terms Expire.
The term of none of the senators expires
in March. Under the law senators are di-
vided into three classes, and the terms OF
all In one of these classes expire every 9th
er year, always in an odd numbered year.
A year from next March, therefore, 80 sem
ators, if not reelected, will come to the
end of their service. The senator's who
have but year of their terms remaining
are:
Republicans. .-Aldrich, Rhode Island; Bur-
| rows, Michigan; Clark, Wyoming; Davis, Min
nesota Hale Maine; -, Ohio; Hawley, Con-
nectcut; Lodge, Massachusetts; Proctor, Yer
mont Quay, Pennsylvania Wilson, Washing
| ton; total IL.
Democrats. Bate, Tennessee; Cockrell Mis-.
| souri,; Daniel, Virginia; Faulkner West Vir-
| ginia; Money, Mississippi, appointed ad inter
i'm; German, Maryland; Gray, Delaware (;
Mills, Texas; Mitchell, Wisconsin; Murphy,
| New York Pasco, Florida; Roach, North Da-
kota; Smith, New Jersey; Turpie Indiana |;
White California; total, To-
Silverites Cannon, Utah Mantle, Montana !;
| Stewart, Nevada; total, g.
| Populist.-Allen, Nebraska total, !.
At least two o-thirds of those are likely to
be reelected by their states.
Not Ambitious For the Gavel.
Vice President Hobart tells me that,
contrary to tho general idea, very few sem
| ators care to be called to the chair when
the vice president wants to go away for
| luncheon or rest. AS matter of fact,
| only few senator's have sufficient conf
! dence in their knowledge of tho rules and
their self poise to undertake tho arduous
| duty of presiding over the deliberations of
the senate. 1t is not as easy a job as 1t ap-
| pears upon the surface. The senate rules
and methods are quite complicated There
are traditions as to the practice which one
cannot learn from the rules and besides
the dignity of the body is great and sol
| emn thing, which the presiding officer is
expected to maintain at all hazards There
are only three or four men in the whole
| chamber who really like to preside, and
| there are often times when the vice presi-
| dent would like to find q substitute will
ing to take the gayel for little time and
| cannot do IT..
In few days the first of the evening
! receptions given by the president and his
wife in the White House will be held.
President and Mrs. Mckinley will then
make their first bow to Washington So
Giety rs the first man and first lady of the
nation. IL Is easy to see that there is 90
ing to be great crush in the executive
| mansion on this occasion. There is SO
much curiosity TO see tho new president
and his wife and the new ladies of the
! cabinet that every one who has an invita-
tion, and perhaps a good many persons
who have no invitations, will be on hand.
Efforts have been made TO diminish the
| size of the crowd on this occasion by di-
viding official society into groups, one
group only to be invited to each reception
of the series. But notwithstanding this
precaution the apartments and corridors
OF the White House are sure to bo filled to
the danger point
Washington Dinners.
The dinner giving season is now at its
height in Washington. Every evening so.
ciety regales itself with all the way from
dozen to 90 formal dinners. The num-
Der of guests is usually limited to 10 or 10.
Every one that Is any one finds it neces-
sary to give at least three or four dinners
during the season in order to "even up"
on favors extended to themselves AS a
rule, it is very difficult to find a member
or the cabinet or a prominent senator OF
representative after o'clock in the even
| ing In these times. Call at his house, and
you will almost invariably be met with
the brief but unsatisfactory explanation,
"Out TO dinner"
Particularly fond of dinners are the
wealthy residents who have been attracted
to Washington as "a comfortable and en-
| Joyable place to live. This colony of rich
people, who live here simply because they
like the place, its quiet, cleanliness, socie-
| ty, Libraries, associations, Is much larger
than is generally supposed Just at this
moment occur to me the following names
of such people: The Letters, the rich dry
! goods, real estate and grain family of Chi
cago, so well known on both sides the At
lantic; Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page.
the former being the we'll known author
and the latter the widow of a brother of
Marshall Field of Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs.
Westinghouse, of airbrake fame; the Ward
ors OF Springfield, o., the late Mr.. Warder
having been RICH manufacturer Of farm
machinery; john II. Mclean. the famous
Ohio politician and owner Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer; Professor A. Graham Bell.
inventor OF the telephone; the family of
the late Gardiner Hubbard, also connect
ed with the telephone and one of the
grandest men that ever lived; Mr.. Elver-
son. owner OF the Philadelphia Inquirer,
whose daughter married M. Patenotre,
late ambassador from France to the United
states and now French ambassador to
Madrid. There are many Others. Th,s
colony of nonofiicial residents Ia erowIng
every year and Is already most disnifled
and admirable part of the social fabric
here. WALTER wELLMAN.