Show legislation ly rhy adjournment the private acts of those who make our public ianita the noral moral jn in luence of the espionage of or wives who will throw the stone at matt carpen carpenter ger ter T scenes around he the Capitol Widow butlers malden maiden speech etc etc washington oct 24 1877 IN editors deseret there seems to be but little disposition on the part of congress to get to work the house spent most moyt of last week in adjournment while the senate maneuvered fenced and felt for a position on the louisiana case hackneyed but forever cursing the country with new phases this week was introduced with a variation the house tilted on the colorado case and then adjourned till wednesday was it for I 1 or the races at pimlico while the senate adjourned after a session of thirty five minutes this is in brief what the congress has done to date in its legislative capacity what the members and nod senators have done in their individual relations is not on record in this world at lat least and will perhaps never be unless some of them are garrulous in their sleep I 1 would not make the impression that the private life of politicians politician s Is much worse than that of other men but it would be well for our minds to be disabused dis abused of the truly rural non sence that our solons are all truly good some of them may be as pure as snow but the longer one stays in washington the more skeptic skeptical alwill will he become and the farther will he go to see the statesman of long residence here to whom ginger is not hot I 1 P the mouth aj and for whom there are no more cakes and ale the brilliant matt carpenter wm was remanded to private life not because he was worse than the ninety and nine in this sodom but because his wicked wickedness ness nesa had more honest effrontery about it what V hat other senators do under udder assumed names hames and inthe of luxurious committee rooms he blazoned on hotel reg rog registers Mers there are those as little suspected as cvek cvet ars wide wife quite quito as culpable as carpenter one learns many things in a long residence things not easily proved and not desirable to be proved for the woman in the case is toofie too frequently not of that class that has ne no character to lose she has hag been brought here and placed on the government pay roll by the hon senator she was in in L society as the saying is at home and is 19 in what is js called society he here re and anil I 1 only hint at a condition of affairs affair which I 1 know to exist and of which others if they exist could tell in order to give reason for the s suggestion u 9 that in the future when we elect a man to congress we invariably elect his bis wife to come with him the espionage of an alert vigorous better hetter half balf will have a moral conservative influence on the private acts ot of those who make our public laws than all the prayers of the government chaplains with hymns and tracts of the Y al C A thrown in nor do I 1 mean to hint that the women in the departments are worse than other women but many of them are subjected to incessant temptation without the refuge of a home or the defense of a family and they are lost before they have time to hesitate I 1 would not advise a friend to send a daughter here unless she were ill favored and it is a significant fact that the ill favored are no not t successful in securing places in no place are contagious blast ments more imminent than here where old senators as sedate a judges become fesal festive e and baudes as chaste as the queen become gay I 1 have been led into these reflections by observing the abandon with which the average member enjoys an adjournment from day to day in this enchanting capitol and by a series of lobby tableaux that the frequenter of the capitol cannot help see seeing irig tr por instance 1 I observed observe dj to daya dayla prominent democratic oo ratie member from brooklyn cornered in one of the deep recesses of the front lobby by a female whom a friend that was with me pronounced whether the congressman succumbed to her blandishments blandish ments and promised her a place or a vote for the bill is not matter of record but bho she held him there for an hour in full view of the passing throng ho he loosed a little bored add and a little ash amedor at least one would think he ought to look that way but it 1800 isso is so common for gorgeously dressed women to keep beep statesmen away from their public duties and they have on oil important questions the he t kind consideration to leave the government a quorum that scenes like this occasion little remark on monday widow butler made his maiden speech in the congress the curiosity to hear him after his long retirement was sufficient to fill tile the galleries while democratic members panting f for or distinction and not unwilling to display their courage before their constituents tackled the monster with questions which he answered with his old readiness the impression now is that congress at its present rate will exhaust its capacity for adjournment by the of december and will remain in cession session till spring C A B |