Show It LAINES AT THE TILE CRIB soine sollie a to rela long orte or he alep tib licin candidate new york bun sun washington TON june 29 anex an examination of the bluebook throws some additional light on the list of air blaines relations whom he lie has tethered to the public crib during I 1 the year 1880 apart a part zali c h saw mr blaine at the head iid of the state department artmont art ment mr mn blaine hia his so SOD dab lila brothers his nephews and ills his cousins drew from the united states treasury within a fraction of 30 that was not bad for on one year most alost of the appointments of mr blaines relations date back to 1876 but some ome of the them then n go back to 1871 his I 1 brother robert G blaine hadin had in that year an applin appointment t at the capital which wag was worth 2160 subsequently the pay in increased but lately he has b been een glad glad to get a place at 14 1400 00 but he 0 has drawn a salary from the united states continuously ifor for thirteen years the appointment it of araj major or blaine in in t the h e pay corps of the army was effected by A a trade with general grant it was about the time when fred grant was wag made a Ii lieuten eute ant colonel on Sheri dans staff the army ring was in ia full blast and among other jobs was the in creasi crease of the pay corps without any corresponding increase in the army blaine lent his aid to the scheme on condition of putting his brother in with the rank of major the result it is that iho the pay corps is th the in most ost ti top dp heavy beavy branch of the service there arc are 48 paymasters for an army of men to say nothing of the large force of paymasters clerks more than thirty being employed in the pay paymaster master G generalis ene ralis office in washington alone taking the of 1880 as a starting i ng point it is a moderate estimate that the Blaine family has cost the peo people ae every year yeav since 1876 one of the most laug laughable hablo things I 1 ahat hat occurred during mr blain blames S last days in the senate was a terrific sortie forde he made on the democrats lunging down the aisle straight for judge thurmand Thur mans chair where he lie atoo stood facing the great oh ob loan ioan and shaking his fist in thurmand Thur mana mans face as lie he dramatically arraigned him ant and his methods to which judge thurman merely responded spon ded Sif down sir sit down M mr r president lets proceed to business the senate ate roared with merri ferrii ment and mr blaine himself 0 joined o ined in he ile afterwards declared hu hi feelings as those of a whipped school schoolboy bov there Is is one phase of mr blaines ambition which haa has singularly escaped notice it is a craving for social distinction while be had bad a long struggle and a hard one to get into Gar garfielda fields cabinet yet noti nothing ing like his domination over Garfi garfield elf was ever known his extended to the smallest particulars particular ns he regulated the bique etiquette ti tte at the white house as much as he did the conduct of the state department mrs blaine had bad mrs garfield under her thumb aa as completely m a mr blaine had bad the president mr west the british Mini minister had just been accredited to this country he ife brought with him his eldest daughter to preside at the british legation his wife being dead he ile had ma mar ried while stationed at Ma madrid drida a spanish lady who had been an actress his family in england had been much incensed on account of the marriage and had hid nev noticed the wife ll 11 but t after he her r death when her daughter was seni sent to england to bo be educated they re the daughter Soni something ething about the spanish actress story had preceded miss bests arrival here lierd and washington was electrified by the news that the blaines were afraid the british ministers daughter quite good enough fo for r them and they would decline to recognize her mr blaines most judicious friends went to 10 him and urged that he would be going too far in this and might make serious serious trouble for himself it was dincov ere ered d however by dy some lucky Blain eite that miss aliss west had been received by queen victoria this argument at once pr prevailed availed ev ailed and the Bl itic concluded not to ostracize miss MIA west wea a |