Show AT HJBADQIJAJ1TEKS I 1 In and About the Haunts of i I r i the Lawns kr fs i r iI I PEOSPEGT i OF LONG SESSION I ConEretttmen heady to Mpetk on the Tariff Queulau Uolmel Carter I Matnn of the Mormon Problem WASInNGTON D C Jane llUi From our Own Correspondent The present ConKnsj is the dullest that has convened ia the Capitol fo many years This li admitted upon every band Not a tingle measure err national importance has been attempted robe passed Seven months have beet wasted In pdt r chatter talk Fron the members of thts Democratic Congress Con-gress the people of the country asked for bread and have received a stone Almost everything they did not want has been rammed down their throats everything they did want has been p r aiatently refused The sub ect or coast defense has received no consideration whatever The question of building r navy in response to the demand of the people has been entirely ic Ieuttu The tariff question has been put off until un-til the eleventh hour and nobody expects ex-pects that anything w 11 be done with it this session at all It may come ut for discussion 1 feel cnvinced it will f and much time will be consumed in solid talk A Congressman informed me last night ttat no less than 251 members of the House had given nolle of their intention to speak ou the taiil question and that over sixty memben were prepared to talk upon the sonic ubject in the Senate Talk of an adjournment ad-journment J Why if the tariff question ques-tion gets fairly under discussion bearing bear-ing in mind the app opriatiou bills yet to be passed the middle of August may see Congress still in session the fall elections to the contrary notwithstanding notwith-standing Speaking of the vast number of speeches to be made on the tariff quej tion brings to my mind a very familiar character fishing ton Ills name is COLOJfEL CAETBn He can be seen on Pennsylvania Avenue every day He frequents and is well known at all the principal hotels of the city The colonel is a man 1 1 should imagine about GO years of age tall well built long ironcrcy locks hanging over his shoulders strongly marked features which are lit up with a pair of small steelblue oyes Everybody knows the colonel and the colonel seems to know everybody In the forenoon he is very frequently seen standing ut the Willard Hotel newsstand news-stand reading the papers and discussing discus-sing with a group of friends the topics of the day What does he do Well his time il i almost entirely occupied in writing speeches for Congressmen There areas are-as must be well understood scores o f men in Congress who couldnt write a speech upon say the silver question to save their lives But their constituents must not know their inability in that line They must make a speech upon that subject and right here is where the value of Mr Carter comes in He is a brilliant lawyer a man of vast research re-search has been engaged in literary work all his life and so thoroughly conversant Is he with almost any subject sub-ject especially of a political character that he is prepared to write upon it anyway any-way his client desires If a Republican asks him to write the Republican view of n certain question he can be accommodated accom-modated upon short notice Upon he same question a Democrat is similarly suited In this way Mr Carter a very indispensable manus man-us aiming OCT SPEECHES by these re The Congressmen who engage him feel that he is competent and he is paid accordingly but he was never known to divulge the name of a man for whom he wrote a speech When the time arrives for delivering t ie = e speeches the Congressmen possessing posses-sing them are in their places and if they dont read them they get leave to print which insures their insertion in the Congreuional Record This Is all that is required The speeches are struck off in pamphlet form by the thousand and constituents are favored with copie5 They read the speeches and the members who make them are voted the cleverest men on earth Mr Carter of course is not known in the matter He din his work got his pay and is content to remain in the baC cronna But Mr Carter is not at all confined to political speeches He would as soon write a sermon as anything any-thing He Is partial I am told te Methodist sermons He can get off Methodistfcal requirements In the most Improved fashion and a three gaarters of an hours discourse costs him very little trouble Mr Carter it is said has made a great deal of money in hIs day but I should imagine that he has pent it as freely as it came In conversation the other evening a well known Congressman referring to the subject of THE caw ASTIPOITOAXT BILL said If that bill was not reached this session he believed that Mr Baskin would go into consumption This of course caufr I a laugh all round bu theirmarkv indicative of MrBasklns anxiety in tL matter One thing sure the House calendar is very much crowded and as the session draws to a close members who have private axes to grind are In no mood to give way for the consideration of bills out of their Agular order So far as additional ItrHtttion for Utah Is concerned there is no rxatPiuent here upon the subject It is only by constant agitation on theo the-o tit of a few that the question is kept in sigh The newspapre take very little notice of it Kate Field occasionally occasion-ally contributes a puny article on the taeue but the whole subject is very flat As I have remarked in previous letters Congress Is SICK OF TUB MOKMOK QUESTION fcnd would be glad to get quit of it at at any price Scores of members JO not believe in such legislation as is now proposed for Utah and several have etated that they hope to have backbone enoieh to show their opposition upon the floor of the House u the new bill should he reached this session I bat e heard it tiiiiUd that several of the mew uera of tbe coihmutee on judiciary in the 3uate art nut at all pleased at the manner in which the Ommittee on judiciary in the House hpvecnt Clashed anti amended the lkt bill of Mr Ed mundt I am afraid however that Mr Kdmunds is just ani Mormon though to be ready to accept anything that is unfavorable so the people r Utah He may feel that Mr Tuckers committee has taken unpardonable Hb rites with his bill but to satisfy his half of everything that pertains to the Mormons be may as the chairman ql the committee on judiciary in tbe Senate Sen-ate talk the members of his committee into accepting the amended bill if it jMioutd COin over from the HOI1 cUp c-Up n the other liana if i Mr Imunds takes it into his head he would think nothing of tossing the amended bill Into thu waste paper basket and if he lid so a majority of the committee xould be sure to sustain his action He always has a following no matter what jjie docs He is virtually boss of the iterate When he sneezes a great many others sneeze at the same time Thereon fi + There-on nian intheSenateboweverwhom no member cares to attack I refer toUr to-Ur Infills of Kansas When heat tack a man it is with words of fire His invective terrible Nobody cares to come under it He has such a command com-mand of language ana he is able to apply ap-ply it in such a style that an ordinary man when he comes under the lash ol his tongue is simply annihilated I have been told that tbe only work he studies is Websters Unabridged and I can believe the assertion Mr Inpalla is a middleaged men about six feet in height and as thin as a clothes prop He has a long peculiarly shaped head His hair is iron grey and carefully parted part-ed ia the centre He wears a heavy pair of gold spectacles and dresses in a 80MCWIIAT DUDIHU VASHIOS 1 The Senator from Kansas doe not speak very often but when he speaks he generally gen-erally sayssomething He hates talkative talka-tive people more especially talkative Senators Mr Morgan of Alabama was once classed among the latter class but Mr Ingalls one day completely cured him Mr Morgan so a correspondent corre-spondent toM me the other evening was always on his feet talking about something Nothing could come up but he would have his say The warhorse war-horse from Kansas could stand it no Ito I-to 11 brer Af er Morgan had made a speech Ingalls walked down the aisle facing the President and addressing that dignitary said that it anything could possibly beat the Senator from Alabama for throwing off wind it was tbe engine in the basement that was used for pumpingair into the Senate Sen-ate chamber This sarcastic remark it is said completely cured Morgan of hU talkative proclivities for a long time Even now he is only heard from occasionally occa-sionally Some time ago Mr Beck of Kentucky Ken-tUCkY introduced a bill into the Senate shish provided that no Senator should be allowed to take any fee as counsel from a railroad company while acting in tile capacity ol a Senator This was too ouch of a good thing for some of the big railroad kw ers of which Ed munds Evarts and others might be named A reporter of tbe Washington Punt got off very good thing upon the subject It occurred immediately after the Senate had adjourned when several of tbe Senators met in the street can wending their way up town Thn following fol-lowing is what the 1Stt reporter is supposed sup-posed to have heard see here Evarts wasnt that bill ot Decks an outrage said the thrifty Vermonter as hey met in a heroic after the daya labor Outrage I should think so1 response re-sponse the ex Secretary of State It was an insinuation dont you so regard in The measure Is despotic despotic 1 exclaimed Mr Edmunds it would prevent a man from earning an honest iring How can we afford to fool away our time here over these big railroads unless we can extort retainers from them t themAnd that awful penalty five years In the State prison for every offense piped the excited William pulling the strap with one of his natures and then shouting to the driver Go ongo on What are you stopping for Yes concurred the vermonter solemnly yon Ive been figuring on hat and I find that if Bck should mak it retroactive I should go to jailor jail-or 742 vears However warm weather isnt It How the corn will jump ahead nowl The point that struck me in the above was the retroactive i art of the business to which Edmunds objected Of coarse he Is perfectly willing that the Edmunds awshall be made retroactivethat the egregaticn process shall be nine in that a man flUALL ZB SENT TO FBISOX for 742 years for unlawful cohabitation with his wives but when come to a penalty of five years in the State prison for every offense of takiaga retaining fee from railroad company wale acting as a Senator Edmunds objects decidedly decid-edly objects It makes all the differ Jir Uecks eace whose or is gored f > nil however was none the less a good oae The retainer received by Senators Sena-tors from many of the big rulro1ds have donbtUssbeen thecaue of a jrtH deal of jobbery if not downngU robbery rob-bery President Cleveland after spending about a week at Deer Par is now at the White Monte with his wife Tile excitement consequent upon his marriage marri-age has now entirely subsided the only thing that Is being lookedforward 10 now being the grand private reception to be given by the President and his wife on Tuesday and the public recep tion on Friday evening It is said that over IOj cards have been tent out for the formerjjud as for the latter if the weather is tine It will be the greatest event in the annals or White House receptions re-ceptions The public will turn out in great force that evening in fact bo great will be the rush that hundreds will never get near the White Howe J far less SHIRK UABD3 WITH TILE PKE3IDEXT I and his wife Next Thursday will t > e an interesting I day in tho House Colonel Morrison has given notice that he trill then male I a motion to take up the tanfl bill for consideration The motion is to be resisted re-sisted by Mr McKinley who claims that there will be a majority of fifteen I votes against consideration Colonel Morrison himself is doubtful of tho result re-sult No announcement has been made of Mr Randalld intentions but it is I presumed that he will muster strength to ctll the tariff bill down This tariff I dispute is a finemnddteand how it will I end it is hard to predict One thing sure it is about time that Congress settled down to legitimate business unless un-less it is proposed to sit right through until the next Congress Jour lamer |