Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-06

That IS my name, SIR
II am Mr.. -, member of Congress
from -. | have read your letters
Mr.. -, the editor of our paper, told
me to look you up"
~ am glad to know you sir. Take IL
scat. What can do for you?"
81 want some passes, b" he said, seating
himself,
"What sort of passes?n
"Raih oad.n
~ fear | cannot help you in that way,
Mr.. -. | had pass for m rself and
family from the Baltimore 4 Ohio II r.
but because, in return for the compli-
ment, said the president had loco
motive in his belly. 1 am cut of. But
why do you want passes? Are you pre-
pairing t. run away?'
81 wish ] could" he answered sadly.
wish / could. No, that is not it. |
am run down by office-seeliers from my
district. They pile in on me AT my
boarding house. | have been sleeping
every night on my bedroom IL or They
follow rae about, and chase me dow \.
| They have smoked all my cigars and
drank up all my whskey, and now they
are getting out of money and want TO
borrow. | heard where to find you |
made an excuse to 90 into an alley, and
l ran away. A police officer thought
was thief, and ran after me. l told
him | was a member of Congress, rum
ming from the oflice-seekcrs. He said
that was rough, and let me go. There
| is onc-a WOman-worac than all the
rest. She wants the best post office |
have. What in the internal jinks does
Grant mean by setting such an exam
pie? All the females in my district are
writing to me, and two hundred will be
here, somehow, if we don't repeal this
foolish law and fill the offices. his
woman torrents my life out; and yet,
if give her the office, | won't dare go
| home. She follows me up like Satan.
l can't sleep, | can't put on a clean shirt,
if | had a railroad pass"
How would that help you?"
I believe, if could say to her, l
can't give you an office, but here is a
railroad pass, she'd take it and go. But,
Lord love you, want a hundred. They
are getting out of money, | tell you,
and if only had 'em. Now, can you
help me? You newspaper men always
have lots of passes. The editor in our
town hasn't paid railroad fare for more
than twenty years"
l had to assure my poor friend that L
really could not help him. suggested
| W illIu 10 ScIa sigh palnleu - Slllall-pOA
in this House." and put it up over his
door.
"Pooh," he cried, "do YOU suppose
they'd care for that? Every bloody one
of 'em would get vaccinated, and work
in on me. Cholera would not keep 'em
off. l wish I'd been sunk in eternal
thunder before / consented to come to
Congress. Consented? [ worked like
a mule for it. 1t cost me all of $500
more fool I. What can I do? My
neighbors and constituentsw wanted ma
tional dog law, for the better protection
of sheep, and to raise the price of wool.
Why, it would take a fellow two years
to learn tie rules, and then I don't
tn ink 1 could do hooter. But cuss
these oflice-seekers."
You are safe on the floor, however"
Devil a bit. They get around the
doors and send in their names. They
run up in the gallery, to see ifI'm there
and then down they come. L hid in the
barber shops every day for week, be-
fore they found me out. And then Lit
tlebang, who wants to be minister to
Europe, wrote home to the paper ant
said | had ben made chairman of the
standing committee on hair"
How long my friend would have con-
tinued his lamentations / cannot say,
but he " IS interrupted by an arrival o
sixteen of his friends, and left very e.
jected. ID. p.