Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-05-22
A Day in the Legislature Of 1893
AN ADMIRABLE SATIRE.

sion this morning upon the resolu
ton Of Mr.. Henpecket, deductin;
a days pay from members for eacl
absence on the taking of any vote
Mr.. H. said he did not wish tt
make individious or unpleasant re
marks, but it had become notorious
that the ar-ied female member
Of the House were in the daily
habit Of absenting themselves fol
hours together when the most i'm
portant business was pending, with
ont so much as excusing themselves
He thought it a crying wrong
against the constitution Of the de
linquents and against the State o.
Massachusetts.
Several female members rose to-
gether in an excited manner, and
held up their pencils in a menacing
attitude, but Mrs. Wideswarth, o1
Nantucket, obtained the floor. She
had seen before specimens of mean
ness from the other side of this
House, and should not therefore say
that she was astonished by the at
tack Of Mr.. Henpecket on the re-
served rights Of the maternal men,
bers. She we'll understood the mo-
tive of this movement. The gentle
man wished to compel the mater
nal members to resign their seats
and thus remove their restraining
influence from this body, leaving
the single female members tnpro-
tected and exposed to the evil in
fuences of the other side of the
House. Begging the pardon of the
Chair if she seemed to stoop to
personalities, she begged leave to
say that she could not doubt for a
moment that if Mrs. Henpecket
was also a member of this House,
the gentleman, her husband, would
never have offered a resolution
striking so fatal a blow at the COM
fort Of the maternal members
Great sensation on the male side of
the House.)
Miss Frostbit did not wish to put
her nose into what seemed sort of
family quarrel among the unhappy
married members Of this House,
but she did think the frequent out
running Of the Materials, for pur-
poses perfectly natural and credita-
BILE to their feelings, was an inter
ruption otthe business Of the House,
and must be particularly unpleas-
ant in the way of association Of
IDEAS, to the married male members.
Cries Of 'shame" from some Of the
fathers and mothers.) She would
nave both sides of this House know
hat she was not to be put down by
cries. But it was not her
'hject to widen the breach between
lie opposing sides Of the House.
IN the contrary she had risen to
suggest compromise. which she
believed would accomplish every
proper object hadin view by Mr..
Jenpecket and at the same time
enable the maternal members to
ultill all their duties without de-
rauding the State Of their services
N this floor. Indeed, the idea had
'een suggested to her several weeks
ince by the Governors husband
J very excellent and trustworthy
Gentleman, as many ladies who had
their band-b xes and 9TH
# valuables to his care, would cheer
ally testify-who had remarked to
Ter that the office Of the Secretary
f State was a very comfortable
DOM and might easily be made
onvenient for a nursery f r the
'onng children Of the maternal
members, and thus prevent the
ecessity of their going considera-
lie distances to their boarding
ouses during the sessions, to salts |
: the importunate calls Of their
ender offspring. She (Miss Frost.
'i+) had no experience in the mat
she could say with all
and sincerity, that she
vas not unreconciled to this fate
ut she had heard and had reason
0 believe that long separations Of
be mother and the nurseling were
ot consistent with the health and
cmtort OF either. The wind
,4 ~ + I