Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-11-20
THE LEGISLATURE OF 1900.

vote. Mr.. FL. said be did not wish Il
make invidious Or unpleasant remarks
ont it bad become notorious that the mar
ried female members of the House were
In the habit Of daily absentiBg thomselve;
for hours together when the most import
ant business was pending, without SC
much as excusing themselves. He thought
It a crying wrong against the constitution
Of the d~eliuquents and against the State
Of Massachusetts,.
Severa! female members rose together
IN an excited manner, and held up their
pencils in a menacing manner, but Mrs.
Wideswarth, Of Nantucket, obtained the
floor. She had seen before specimens of
meanness from the other side of this
House, and should not therefore say that
she was astonished by the attack OF Mr..
Heapecket on the reserved rights Of the
maternal members. She we'll understood
the motive of this movement. The rem.
tleman wished to compel the maternal
members to resign their seats and thus
remove their restraining influence from
this body, leaving the single female
members unprotected and exposed to the
' iha4uShSNo " bAIG OlutE sue Oh tue
House. Begging the pardon of the
Chair if she seemed to stoop to personal.
titles, 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 q blow at the comfort Of
the maternal members. (Great sensation
on the male side OF the House
Miss Frostbit did not wish 10 put her
nose into what seemed q sort of family
quarrel among the unhappy married
members Of this House, but she did think
the frequent outrunning of the Materials,
for purposes perfectly natural and credi-
table to their feelings, Tas an interrupt
ion of the business of the House, and
must be particularly unpleasant in the
way of association of ideas, to the mar
ried male members. (Cries of " shame
from some of the fathers and mothers)
She would have both sides of this House
know that she was not to be put down
by seuseless cries. But it was not her
object to widen the breach between the
opposing sides of the House. On the
contrary, she had risen TO suggest a com
promise, which she believed would ac-
complish every proper object had in view
by Mr. Henpecket and at the same time
enable the maternal members to fulfill all
their duties without defraudiug the State
OF their services on this floor. Indeed,
the idea had been suggested to her sew
eral weeks since by the Governors bus
banda very excellent and trustworthy |
gentleman, as many ladies who had en-
trusted their bandboxes and other valu-
abies to his care, would cheerfully testify
who had remarked to her that the office
of the Secretary of State was a very
comfortable room and might easily be
made convenient for a nursery for the
young children Of the maternal members,
and thus prevent the necessity of their
going considerable distances to their
boarding houses during the sessions, to
satisfy the importunate calls of their
tender offspring. She Miss Frostbit)
had no experience in the matter-and
she could say with all simpiici
ty and sincerity, that she was not unre
conciled to this fate-but she had heard
and had reason to believe hat long sep.
arations Of the mother and the nurseling
were not consistent with the health aud
comfort of either. The wind Here
the speaker was interrupted by the laugh
ing of ill-bred boys in the galleries, WHO
were summarily elected by the Sergeant
at Arms The wind, as she had been
about to observe
Here the Speakers hammer fell, and
Miss Frostbit was told that her time was
np' The reporter is informed by the fair
speaker that what she ment to say when
thus unfortunately cut off the second
time was, "The wind should be tempered
to the shorn lambs" and a very pretty
and appropriate figure it would have
been tor a peroration.
Mr.. HeDpecket rose merely to say that
he deprecated any unp~leasantness, and
regretted that this question had taken a
personal turn. He approved the suggest
ion of Miss Frostbit. He thought the
nascent legislators Of the State could be
very well taken care of in the Secretary's
Office, and he was permitted to say. on
behalf OF the gentlemenly men Of leisure
who occupied that room as clerks, that
it would give them abundant pleasure to
devote their leisure to the service of the
little ones. while their anxiouu mothors