Show OUR washington ON CORRE S FONDEST washington D C june lath 1882 ile lle being neing ang ing almost overcome by the heat and with every stitch 1 I have on me saturated rated with perspiration I 1 dont feel in the best beat of humor for wrIt writing Izig la in suei such a I 1 would much rather drop in ino 0 one ol 01 the numerous parks iu in thee ty and there under the shade of a tree endeavor to cloi ctol rayh elt elf down with the alj ai ali J of a five cent fan yet am 8 m people bave lave the audacity to tell thil me that this is nothing earring to the neat heat why air baid said a gentleman tome to me the other day thia this is the coolest I 1 eason I 1 have known in for years if you will only wait here alother another month you will then have a chance of ex perien perlen cing what hot weather is ive been here when it was absolutely necessary to change my underwear twice a day abd and as fir fi r a linen collar why you wont have one on half an hour before every par martiel particle tiei tiel of starch there ever was wab in it IL will hav starch there ever was wab in it IL will hav disappeared from my knowledge knowledg e of tile the veracious chara character ctr of the gentleman referred to I 1 am compelled to accept his bate aate statement ment as absolutely true the of the hot weather however has baa by n means tied jo to any degree the work in congress the work in tue tile senat is said to be well lon lor orward ward waid yet wet senators diena riena tors take things veny very easy in deed while the house cuete every morning at 11 t e senate denute does dots lot convene MI til noon and the latter laiter Is generally the first to adjourn again agaid the huhti house of late ha has had one night session every week but bui the senate benale not only ha ba never nev r had a night bitting sitting jut out u n generally adjourns on the fri a evening evening until monday mondays the house husset busset hns has set every almost since the beginning of the ae behlon slun hion sion and could not afford even eveen to adjourn over decoration day bu but then tle alei senate is an aristod atle atie body it i the upper houses house 0 aa as they would any say in england not only in name nam el but in nature io vo verity thia this it ib its only nece necessary biary to visit both housea while in se session aslon in the hos there are noise and c albeit every member h Is 0 ois oth the tho alert and knows exactly what is going on the house indeed eena leem to delight in being noisy I 1 have otten witnessed be the most eu discuss discussions ions ioos take place upon ome tome important amendment or other chenin ons quente quento f the absen absence ct of order it must have bei be n a tre mend ua tax on the speaker to find out what the wa about sometimes some dome timea the desput ants get very exel etl ed members leave thein their beati ath ati and gather in toe tuo vicinity of the wordy combatants comba lauts te porters dodge around ho he bt bat st way iney they can ami an at st last when something very butny is cau ing roars zoars of ia in ehler the sip tip laker taker commences to r vigorously on the tl sk with witti his gavel gave houting ks at the tho pitch of h h i the houe roue hou rou e wiil will c me to order I 1 members will resume their jete lete eto etc now in the senate n the iho other hand while there are oc cc casion casio ally RIlY some vey tey ve y lively scenes amongst the Bena senn toie tose yet jet the pro ce edings taken as a whole are of A much more orderly character than thusa ot of the house home there ian air of dignity in the senate that to me is conspicuously absent in the house A stranger can actually itei ikel ikei itel the dlf dif difference ferene ferenc when he passe passer from one house houst to the thu other daring during tue past weck week and up to thi pre pro ent time the tho legislative exe appropriation bill with here and there a break has been under consideration in the ibe house and it is a matter of surprise Bur sur prise to me that members member have stuck BO so tenaciously to business from prom its very title it will at once ba seen that the ihu legislative executive and ju li JJ cial clai appropriation bill must necea barfly involve the 0 au ua amount of money it amounts in tho the I 1 beleve bri Dri leve to nearly twe twenty ty millions ct of dollars I 1 have visited the house on several occasions during the consideration of this bill but bat in the very nature of things the proceedings are of the tamest character the bill covers some one hundred and sixty pages of closely printed matter full of tabulated figures yet the wiseacres wise acres of the nation have to undergo the infliction of having it read and they are suppo supposed sect reci to have their weather eye open all the ilme lime to be abie ablo tc plant an objection to the passage or any item stat bas baa the ap appearance if vf extravagance the tho bill biu anaida ing its biza and importance has been pushed through in a surprising shore short time indeed at time or ot writing it if may be eaid said to have virtually parsed the house mouse the next important bill to be considered by the house is the river and harbor bill which ia is under consideration today to day and may be passed before mia thia leter letter appears iu in print then will follow the invalid pensions bill which la Is ready teady pr for report hv by the committee commett ca on appropriations and which ag for au ut one hundred million dol do lare and n at will come I 1 pup tup nippo poke ee ibe the navy bill over which unless I 1 am greatly mistaken there thero will be much muen animated not to speak of personal pe ronal acrimony my previous letters buve hinted at this and notwithstanding that robeson Ko beson has in previous years had as much money ampro appropriated for naval purposes aa as would have built and equipped a navy almost equal to that of england and france robe bobc eon has cheek enough to wk ask for any number of millions to I 1 ulla and equip what should have been built ald aid ai ald d equipped long ago agu a ble navy tor lor the republic of the united st tes rob bob eon Is one ono of two thinks things he is either tho the basi lesi abused man in america judging from the comments I 1 lead about him or tie fie i an unmitigated thief thiet I 1 do not amert lie he is elu el her er on the con eon tr y I 1 have al always w nys ays noticed that when his naval carter la Is attacked attai ked on the ibo floor of tte the no lie la is ever ready to repel these attacks the moat most vehement indignation dig nation outside of the business in con gruba greta there Is nothing worthy of particular note going on in the capital city As the draws to 0 a close and as the log hoi weather crees in the hole s v are le beginning to have a detert cli til appearance appearances then their occupants lav hav ng departed tur tor the tho seashore beas seas bhore shore or he the mountains or other places more congenial in dimale t oan nan the city of u ashington at this time of he the year yet there is 18 always kometh ng ot t interest Rn for bor 2 or instance in con can khatib what whal sh known a aa the winky rill mr hir N U C buell tho the edit r of the critics a Is whort ao ago made wade bome soma very re e lous loua rh frh agen again tit two wasil wasla lugton ington arre s namely mr 11 li Ne ILum icum of tiie tile B oon tuu must eust I 1 and mir mr charies charles es na N 9 0 ot ihu new nev york berald butil buell open ly accursed ii thae thre th re gentlemen ith bavine beu be ben u bri bad to write up the bili bill iu in question que stion and anil be he even went fo f o far an to that calu oain n ven were not free irom the same taint to jiu anve investigate such sueh be fee ious loub ct charges larges a el com mitt mitts e was a al pointed ted led by the senate before walh h bubb but bubil bubli B was summoned lummon hummon ed to appear he an ap ear od ed and when ai biked asked ked to state stute the batsis balsia or lila tiia charges he be coolly replied th that 8 t wha t he batir written lien lieu w inere ly hla hia his opinion formed upon u PO birus suspicions ions lons be he lad had heard expressed bj by certain individuals whose names ho he refu ed to divulge buell again m api spi aphea pa ed before the committe yes yea ho he ed his baliff tha ahm tile the two correspondents correspond enis euis m n honed were on the mahe maht Y yo but w wt en pre pro ernd hend fed in cross closs examination he be admitted that this was simply hib his and that a had no knowledge of any fact which would justify uch A charge or of any peron who had bad sueh such knowledge personally so Pio how the matter mailer lii lil III end it ia to say buell ia in threatened with legal lesal proceedings lings on tile the ground of mel while whilo n the other othen hand it is suggested sugg eted that buell I receive sucro siw a hing a s to 10 leave him unrecognizably by his hia nearest friends the tae critic is a journal of tte tue blackguard type lype a d 1 tib tin ae who run it maist must soom boom r ar later expect to see a vacancy v cancy in the editorial department or otherwise ot h elwee the editor c malmed maimed that he will not net abuse th the characters of respectable men for some titue to coak the star route trials d ag wearily along even judge wylie complains at the slow rate of progress A more uninteresting proceed ng r ever baw and I 1 certainly pity the who are cn ell eli ed eti to elt eit and laten to 0 o tho the detsil detail placed before them at this az stage kage wage of the proceedings it ja is of difficult to say what will ba be the result of the trial bat but if I 1 were to hazzard a gregs I 1 should say the tho accused will be acquitted A great deal hns has been written and much hag has been inferred in reference to the alleged d tar route cons tut but iut if what I 1 am urn told is c the government ut will rill not be toe able to establish a ease case and the Adminis tra tion don which commenced the proceedings will wid wih be shown made a mountain out of a mole hole J I 1 L |