The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-07-08
CONGRESSIONAL RUNNERS.

out of the pockets of the people, nave aife"uy
reached San Francisco, and commenced upon
their chief game of splurge aud oumcomoe'
Tho committee consists of Hon. Samuel Hoop
er. Massachusetts,; Hon. W. B. Allison, Iowa;
Hon. VIM. D. Kelley. Pennsylvania; Hon.
Fl. Maynard, Tennessee; Hon. d. Mccarthy
New York; Hon. Austin Blair, Michigan; Hon.
James Brooks, New York; Hon. S. S. Mar
shall, Illinois, with George A. Bassett, of New
York city, Secretary; F. H. Smith, of Wash
ington City, stenographer; j. S. Samson, of
New York city, Deputy Surgeant-at-Arms; w.
H. Smith, (colored) caterer. The Committee
will visit the big trees of Calaveras and Mari
posa, perhaps to see whether they can get
along without reconstruction by Congress; the
Yosemite Valley and the wonderful Falls, like
wise to investigate whether they come up to
or exceed the requirements of the Revenue
Act; the Geysers, to inspect the manner and
gauge Of distillation and flow there; the Gala
yeras Cave to search for smuggling operations;
the great quicksilver mines of New Almaden,
to ascertain how much they will yield in retort
the noted lodges of California and Nevada, to
learn how much each will pay; and nearly all
the vineyards and distilleries of the whole
coast, to discover if the wines or WHISTLES are
adulterated. They will, on their return, be
able to publish, Us pub. doc" large volume,
muchly for the profit of the Congressional
Printer, and greatly to the glory of Smith, the
colored caterer, whose narrative of the tour
will be without doubt as lucid, Ineligible, and
surprising, Us that which Porte Crayons ele-
phantine negro servant, Little Mice" gave of
his sightseeing on a tour of northwestern Nlr-
ginia And, by the way, perhaps we ought to
notice the fact that Mstah Smith sab, caterer
of dis Committee Of 'stinguished gemmen
which is white, sab, is the identical WIN. H.
Smith whom Senator Colfax backed for the
Stewardship of the White House under Grant
and though black Smith he is an accom-
plshed cook
The Committee have been banquetted BY the
Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco Gall
white men, unhappily), and have hobnobbed
with the tyee Cinnamon of that great city.
Whether they partook of feast with chop
sticks, and had muchee licee and sinking fish
Ito remind Hooper of his native cod), and
uuaffed gobets of arrack and smoked pipes Of
opium, and added aching heads to previously
big heads, we are not told; but the papers tell
how Fung Tang besought the Committee (in-
GLIDING Smith, colored, of course) to have a
law passed which should repea, all special, poll,
and mining and other taxes now levied upon
his celestial countrymen, and place them (not
Smith and the Committee, but Fung Tang and
his countrymen) on an equal footing with the
citizens of the soil; and how, in response, the
Committee, through their spokesman (not
Smith, however), quite as much as promised
that they (the Committee) should endeavOr to
secure the passage of just such laws Us Fung
Tang and all other Cinnamon (Burlingame in
cluded) would ask for. And unless Smith,
colored, and his kind, do not object, very likely
the Committee will astonish themselves and
the world by violating all precedent and observ-
aug tuClL
The Committee propose to visit Portland, to
"hold an official session there" in some ban.
quet halll, and thence proceed to Alaska.
Seward purposes to 60 to the same hospltable
region. We suggest that the Committee have
Seward brought before them, in the strongest
fort in Sitka harbor, and that they then pro.
coed to try him by Commission or by any other
of the patent-rght lawless courts which are
now organized by the lawmakers of the ma
ton, upon any charge they shall choose to pre-
fer Conviction cannot fail if they wish it); that
they sentence him TO confinement at large in
Alaska during the remainder of his life; and
that, even as they voted themselves this mag
nifcent tour at the public axpense, so shall
they vote themselves to be the keepers of Sew
ard, and remain in Alaska to guard and hold
him until he shall be no more. And let this be
the finishing touch of their cumming tour.
CRoPs-The California and Oregon papers
generally complain of the late serious damage
which has befallen the grain crops in those
states, in every section. Prices have conse-
quently advanced of wheat and flour, and
similar condition of things il noted at the East
an1 IN Eurona