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THE LEE.
Her Arrival at the Wharf Last Night
She ModestIy CLOVIS under her HoHors
HE a Young Beauty that was
Gagged and Is Free"

The beautiful steamer Robert Z. Lee
arrived at the wharf, foot of Monroe
street, last night, shortly after dark. A
gun was fired very appropriately in her
honor by the merchant who supplies her
with coal. When it was known that the
fine craft had tied up at our landing quite
a number of visitors, river men and mer-
chants, went aboard to satisfy a harmless
curiosity. She looks sober now, not the rak-
ish, reckless dashing, tearing, snorting
thing she was when we last saw
her going up the river at
midnight on q great race. Her
deck last night was numbered with great
piles of freight, vulgar corn sacks and
barrels of -four and pork, and her ''roos-
tiers" were taking in coal from a barge in
boxes. During the race 1t was thrown on
deck in the widest possible manner Up
in the cabin there was observable a
sedateness and an austere grandeur that
was quite overp0wering. She takes down
a number of fashionable people as passen-
gers, and after being laid up at Mound
City for nearly w months and having
Sl5 coo worth of new bolts, bars, pins,
wedges and paint put into her, she looked
exceedingly neat. Her e~verhauling at
Mound City was thorough, so that she
might launeh forth again upon the rapid
river the proudest craft that floats up
on his broad bosom. Conspicuous in her
cabin are displayed the trophies which
she conquered last July. In a glass case
there is q beautiful silk flag, presented
to the steamer r. Z. Lee by the ladies of
st. Louis" There is also a solid silver
set. presented to Captain Cannon by Lou
isviIle admirers, for the Captain. be it re-
membered, is a KentuckiIn. There are
also the horns of the Princess, so proudly
borne away from Natchez during the
race, and the immense horns of the j. M.
White. sent from New Albany. The last
boat that carried these horns was the A.
L. Shotwell, for the fastest time from New
Orleans to CairO-three days, three hours
and forty minutes-the Lee took in con-
sequence of showing a record of three
days and One minute. The Princess
horns were surmounted by a golden
scroll, asking, "Wby don't you take the
hOrns?" Under this the trip to Natchez
on a shield, seventeen hours and thirty
minutes" The Lee replies, "We have
taken the horns-seyenteen hours and
eleven minutes. Beat that and take the
horns"
She goes into the regular trade now, for
the fall and winter, and Captain Cannon
is her commander. She left at an early
hour this morning.
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THE Springfield MOI Leader says, at
an election in Barton county, on Thurs
day last, over thrse-fourths of the tax
payers of the county voted in favor of the
su Inscription by the County Court of stock
to the amount of 100000 to the Kansas
City and Memphis railroad. With such
instruction from the people of the county,
the court cannot hesitate to make the or
der of subscription. While we are thus
receiving the most cheerful accounts of
the progress of the enterprise from the
north of us, we are pleased to know also
that the people of our sister State on the
south are equally active and enthusiastic
in the work.. Cross and Jackson counties.
Arkansas, have both voted 500, 900 of
bonds to the road, all that any county is
permitted to subscribe to such an enter
prise under the constitution of that State.
Other counties are also expected to vote
o upon a similar proposition, and
those having in charge the southern
division of the road are sanguine Of
the most liberl subscriptions along the
entire line. Col. B. B. Waddell, one Of
the surveying party, writes from Cross
county under date of the 2lst: eve have
found one most practical line through
Crowley's Ridge, and now want another
to be able TO compare the two lines. By
the first line surveyed we can get through
with less than fifty feet TO the mile grade,
and less than a twenty-five feet cut, and
that cut not more than four hundred feet
long at the base. We hope to get through
to ~Jscksonport by the first of September"
The survey of the route through Jack
son county, Missouri, has been completed,
and, as we have previously stated, Col.
Richardson expects to have the engineers
in the field in this county within a fort
night. Thus the work seems to be pro-
crossing in every quarter, and the pros
poets of the contamination of the enter
prise were never more favorable. Major
EIdridge, Vice President of the company,
will be in Memphis during the week,
when we can give full details of the pro-
gress of this most important work.
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I summer aILGrOuOUs ana evenings 10 tn6
curious notes of Katy Dds. Touch 6 tree
in which the Katy Did is telling its story,
as told in the appended singular and in
geniOus verses, and such is its electric
sensitIveness that there is instantly the
silence of death. The writer of the follow
ing is VIII. Ward, of Macon, Mississippi:
Naughty Katie, ssucy Katie,
Is your secret aught to me
That you hide it, nor divide it,
In a tree2
In a tres before the t%rellis,
Whers l ave a secret hid,
And provokingly you tell us
Katie did,
Katie didn't,
Yes, she did,
No, she didn't,
Katy did.
Prithee, Katie, by what penauce
Are you nightly doomed 10 be
Trilling TO the quiet tenants
OF the tree,
Safely shielded from espial
OF what Katie said or did,
That incessant, shrill denial
Katie did,
Katie didn't,
Yes, she did,
No, she didn't,
Katie did.
LiJtle QlHputanJ, securely
Ambushed, from intrusions free,
Don't / see you, so demurely
From the tree,
Peeping thro' the latticed branches,
Where the moon its sorrows slid,
Popping forth with cunning glances,
Katie did,
Katie didn't,
Yes, she did,
No. she didn't,
Katie did.
VIII you tell it, Katie, never,
Must it still q secret be,
And forever, and forever,
From the tree
viii that answer, shriu and lonely,
Mock us with its secrets hid,
With these accents varied only
Katie did,
Katie didn't,
Yes, she did,
No, she didn't,
Katie did.
NEW dress goods just Opend at Menksn
Bros.
REMEMBER, Memphis Theater, Tonight,
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NOTICE.

The friends and acquaintances of the
of his establishment will be continued the
same as usual. Grateful for past favors
and patronage, Is Is hoped that by prompt
attention to business by experienced
hands, the same win be continued by q
generous and kind public.
Mrs. OWEN SMITH.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-07

IHAvE for the past eight months con-
stantly used me of the Sl2 Oride Gold
Lever Watches, manufactured by
Charles p. Norton & Co., SO Nassau
street, New York, and found the total
variation in its time but one-half minute
(thirty seconds), and it retains the same
appearance of gold as when purchased.
Several of our men use them with the
same results. 1 eheerfully recommend
them for correctness and wear.
HORACE ". whitaker,
Erie Railroad.
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THE CONVENTION To-moRROw
Nominations Of state Senator and FIOatsT
TO be Made.

For the benefit of our political readers,
we re-publish the list OF delegates from
Shelby county TO the Senatorial and Flo
serial Conventions which meet in this city
tomorrow. The
DELEeATEs TO THE SENATORIAL coNvEN-
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These delegates were elected at the re-
cent mass meeting held at the Greenlaw
Opera House, in this city, and are ex-
pected to sppear tomorrow, promptly at
IL o'clock, at the place designated by the
Executive Committee of the county,
who have the matter in charge.
INSTRUCTIONS TO SHELBY COUNT FLOA-
TERIAL DELEGATION.
Pursuant TO a notice the delegates from
Shelby county to the Fqoaterisl COnven-
ton met at the Second Chancery Court
room, on the 9Th of September, when Will
liam II. Stephens was elected permanent
Chairman of the Shelby delegation. and
Dbney NJ. Scales permanent Secretary.
The delegation then adjourned to meet
at the Second Chancery Courtroom on
the morning of the 9Th of September, at
81 O'Clock, at which time sll the delegates
are requested TO be present, preparatory
to assembling in general Convention.
VIM. II, STEPHENS, Chr'n.
d. NJ. SCALES, Secretary.
THOSE beautiful canaries Of Haselmay-
ar'G af . n m
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DNESDAY, lSEPTEMBER 4. IL

MASONIC ELEcTIoN.--At q meeting Of
Calvary Chapter Of Ro3e Croix, A. A. s.
R, the following officers were elected 70
serve for the ensuing torn: Charles w.
Adams, 32d, NJ. W.; L. Hamilton Pike,
82d, 8. W.; A. Z. FARMLAND, SD. ]. w;
@. V. Rambaut, 18th, Secretary; !. Hap
pek, 18th, Treasurer; L. V. Dixon, SD.
Chretien, 32d. Tyler. A public installa-
ton Of the officers, together with the OFF,
GERS of the other Masonic bodies elect OF
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,
will take place during the visit of the
Sovereign Grand Commander, Albert
Pike, early in the month of october, of
which due notice will be given.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-07

HTTE q CoRwINE, Proprietors Of the
Job Printing establishment in the AP-
PEAL Building, IA Union street are
now prepared to execute orders o Job
Printing on the shortest notice. Tn pa
irons Of the APPEAL viii bear thlss:in
mind and sct accordingly.
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B. LowENsrEIN & Bros. have about two
hundred patterns of those cheap striped
and checked silks on hand yet. Ladies
who ave not yet looked at hose cheap
silks would do well to give B. Lowenste Elm
& Bros. a call this week.
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WANTED.

g CHoOL-AL LADY, OF several years expe
- rience in teaching, who is prepared to
teach Latin, French, Music and the usual
English branches, desires a situation in a
school or family. Can furnish satisfactory
references. Address L., box 50, Somerville,
Tennessee. auT
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WE promise to show to our patrons the
most complete stock of fiannels and me-
rinos in Memphis, in every color and
quality, as well as at the very lowest
prices. HERZOG q BRO,
294 Main street.
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PEABODY HOUSE is painted, repaired,
reftted and refurnished from cellar &c
turret. The number of visitors to the
city Is steadily increasing and the grow
ing number of guests at cur hotels is in
dicative ct brighter days coming for ouI
mercantile community.
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THE contemplated change in the firm
of Smith Il Webb, General Agents for
Wilcox d Gibbs Sewing Machine Com
psny, has been abandoned, and the firm
will carry on the business as before.
Il. A. SMITH,
J. W. WEBB.
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THE acknowledged heslthfulness, I'M
rivaled flavor, delicacy, great convent
ence, and extraordinary cheapness of SEA
Moss FARINE, win always keep it in the
foremost place among articles intended
for a table dessert.
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WHEAT WANTED.

TNHE highest market price paid for wheat
Il at Denies NIL, Nos 70, 70 and q second
street, Memphis. Choice Family and Ora
ham Flour, CornmeaL. Shorts, Chop Feed and
Bran always on land. tss5l JOHN ING.
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MEssRs. FARGAsoN & CLAY are in re-
ceipt of the first bale of new cotton from
Pamela, Mississippi. 1t was raised by
Captain w. d. Chamblin, on Colonel l..
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EDUCATIONAL

For a thorough business education, go
to Leddin's Commercial College, 23S Main
street. Evening sessions, commencing
Monday, September 9th.
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PIANO players should secure a piece of
Hsselmayer's melodious music. Only a
few copies left at Benson's music store.
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BLACK DIAMoNDs.-Bigley, Mellersh q
Co, dealers in Pittsburg, camel and n
thracite coal, and Pittsburg and gas coke
corner Main and South Court streets
Memphis, Tennessee.
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1 HAVE broken up several long-stand-
ing cases of Chills ond Fever with Sim
mons Liver Regulator. 1 also find it a
great remedy for Dyspepsia and Liver
Diseases, J. W. ANSLEY,
Rueua Vista. Georgia.
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Brown & JONES, 2S2 Main street,
Bethel Block, wholesale and retail dealers
in Pittsburg, Camel and Ohio river Goals,
and Gas Coke. Both city and steamer
trade supplied.
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FOR FRIAR's POINT.
FOR WHITE RIVER.
For V e

st. Louis and Arkansas River Packet Com
pany-For Little Rock. Van Buren,
and Fort Smith.
Haney, master
This elegant and swim steamer IL
will leave as above ~
WEDNESDAY. It'll inst. at 5 pm.
LARRY HARMSTAD a CO., Agents.
aeS Mosby Block. 5O4 Front Row..
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FIFTY HoURs-NEw YORK DALIEs.-
Joe Locke, 236X Main street, receives the
Herald, World, Times, Tribune, Sun and
Journal Of Commerce; also, the weeklies,
etc, through in fifty hours.
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CHINESE SPEoIFIc.-This medicine is
advertised by Mr.. j. V. Russell, an old
citizen, known to be a man of integrity,
umn,
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SIZE advertisement Of DR.. Butts Dis
pensary headed, Book for the million
MARRIAGE GUIDE-in another CO.
una, it should be read by all.
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W. E. WARDS Seminary for young Ia
dies, Nashville, Tennessee, the largest
school in the South, and the most COM
plete in its Boarding and Literary arrange
ments, opens on Thursday, September /.
For catalogue address W. L. WARD.
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GET your reserved seats for the Hasel-
mayer Performance, at the hotels and Ben
sons music store.
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ALI of the latest weeklies and month
lies, just received ct Joe Locke's, 2S6H
Main street,
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THE S12 Lever Watch, No. 1850, pur-
chased from Chas. P. Norton & Co., SO
- an street, New York, January 9th,
cen carried by me over six months,
with a total variation in time of only
w enty-six seconds, without the slightest
regulating, and presents the same bril-
liancy of color as when purchased.
JAMES r. WILTON,
Sec. American s. N. Co., N. Y.
New York. july so. 1870.
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RAILROADS.

FALL dress goods, new styles just
opened at Menken Bros.
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N. w. Horse Nail Go.
MANUFACTURERS OF
PATENT HAMMERED HORSE NAILS
20,

QUE Nails are manufactured entirely from
" Benzon" Iron, and are unsurpassed by
any nail in market. They are the 7
STANDARD HORSE NAIL.
81 ONCE, ga West Van Buren, street
Factory, 66 TO ga West Van Buren,, cor
ner Clinton street. Cb1CaEOs
N. C0RWITH, Pres't. A. W. KN6sLAND, Secy.
g. W. SHALLEY, sup't. :
- Send Sar sample card and price list,
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NEW style dress goods for the fall
opened to-day at Menken Bros.
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/ EVERY lady will get a bouquet this az
ternoon at 2 pm, at Professor Hasel-
mayors performance.
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HAsELMAYER explains his drum to-
NIGHT. ~ ~ A.
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ALL the schools are going to Haselmay
er's matinee, at 2 pm.
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PUMPS AND FrxrUREs-8l5 Second st.

THE Stylocsrfe of Professor Haselmayel
is made of India rubber.
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FALL style hats at Wheaton & Co.'s,
sign of the tiger.
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PERSONAL.

The Nashville Union and American, of
Sunday, publishes the painful news of
the death OF our eminent fellow-citiz IN,
Rev. }. B. Ferguson, who died at his resi-
6enee Saturday morning, three miles
from Nashville, after a lingering disease.
Some years ago, when Mr.. Ferguson was
pastor of the Christian Church, he en-
joyed a reputation for pulpit oratory sec
ond to no man in the South. He COM
menced life as a printers boy, and was
emphatically a self-made man, having by
studious attention, while employed at the
printing business, fitted himself for the
ministry. He was a man of popular
manners, warm and o~pen-hearted in his
nature, and greatly esteemed by q large
circle of friends.
Messrs. Addison Hayes, of the City
Bank, and Z. Z. Jones, ofthe DeSOto Bank,
returned yesterday from a trip to the
North, very much improved in health.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
Names Of Delegates to the Congressional
Convention from hardeman
and Tiptoa.

We are indebted to a friend for the fol-
lowing list of delegates from Hardeman
county, elected on Monday last, to the
Congressional Convention to meet at
jackson on the 10th inst.
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BROWNE & BRowNE-s15 Second street
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THE first bale of new cotton from Pa
nola county, Miss, and raised by w. II.
Darby, was received yesterday by Rootes,
Vance d Co., and classed strict middling.
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WANTS.
FOR SALE.


MINE Casks-One hundred 60-gallon Wine
" Casks Apply TO 80 Front street sex
DESIRABLE FARM of FoRTY acres for
n sale, dve miles south OF Memphis; wei
improved; fine orchard; excellent water ana
all necessary buildings.
Apply TO John Brown, on the premises OF
10 Judge Thomas leonard, 81 Main street
Nawnb Tennessee. aux
ENGINE AND BOILER.-A stationary en-
r. sine sud boiler, capacity lO-horse power,
in good running order. Apply at TAFFE
SA1NT'S Planning Mil, Sl Second St auIO
PRUCF BEER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. q
- Co.'S Spruce Beer Mandatory, corner
Third and Mil streets centre business ana
good viii; established in this city May, 1904
auto JOE W. l. Proprietor.
Z AND-Six Hundred and Forty Acres Of
Land miles above Memphis, - miles
above Mound City, Ark; one hundred and
forty acres in cultivation, well fenced; a
good new gin and press; good welling-house
and -out-houses; fine young orchard OF very
choice fruit Of one hundred and twenty-five
trees: one hundred aud sixty acres trOntlng
on tile river, well timbered; a chance for
SUM man in the wood trade: a large stock
OF cattle, mules, horses, hogs and farming
uteustls will sell a part or the whole 10
suit the purchaser. For particulars inquire
Of James O.. Berry, of Mound city. AK or
on premises, or HARRINGTON HOWELL,
OF Memphis. There Is a good growing crop
On the premises. aus
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aAs Frrr1re-s15 Second street.
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The delegates from Fayette TO The Con-
gressional Convention were elected yes
terdsy and will be published in the AP-
EAL of tomorrow.
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STEAM FITTING-3I5 Second ST
Do not see Hsselmayer.
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HAsELMAYER, at ths Memphis Theater
at 2 pm. and pm.
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POLITICAL.

THOSE beautiful canaries of Haselmay.
er's, at 2 PIN.
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Go and see Haselmayer, at 2 pm. and 8
N m
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REMEMBER, Memphis Theater, Tonight
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The same gentleman has also sent us
the following list of delegates from Tip
ton, elected on Monday TO the Congress
sional COnVantion.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-02

passed away there is no reasonable excuse for
its continuance. General Butler hit the nail
on the head when he said yesterday to the
friends of the tax that the country demanded
the abolition Of the tax, and it must be abo-
lished or else the places that now know them
would know most of them no more forever.
And Judge Kelley demonstrated that the tax
was unnecessary, by stating that the revenues
for the present year would be in
the neighborhood of 1920, 100000, while
the estimated expenditures for the
next fiscal year were $29O,OOO,0OO. II the
taxes can safely be reduced without embar-
RAISING the Government, the reduction ought
to be made, and there is nothing better to
begin with than the income tax, which is
nuisance to all classes in society. A large
surplus in the Treasury is continual inoen-
tive to extravaganza, and if members of
Congress can be inspired with some idea of
the necessity for real economy in the expendi-
ture of the public funds by the loss of the
revenues from the income tax, its abolition
will be benefit, Independently of the graft
ication afforded to all who are now oppressed
by it,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-02
THE FRANKLNG PRIVILEGE


The bill to abolish the franking privilege
came up in the Senate yesterday for the third
time during the present session, and, as on
former occasions, its consideration was post
poned on the plea of more urgent business.
1t is very evident that the Senate will not
pass this bill, or even discuss it, unless under
such a pressure of public opinion as will
make further delay dangerous to the political
hopes of those who oppose it, Last year the
expenses of the Post Office Department ex
ceeded the receipts by $5,000,00o and the
Postmaster General charges large
proportion of this deficit to the enor-
by members of Congress. Mr.. Cres-
we'll has been roundly abused both in
the Senate and House of Representatives.
but his facts and figures have not been dis
proved, and are not likely to be. During the
whole of the present session of Congress
economy and retrenchment have been the
theme of eloquent speeches by Senators and
Representatives, but all attempts at reform
have commenced at the wrong end, and no
real effort has been made to curtail any of
the extravagant expenditures that Congress-
men ana proleSSloual pollticlans are lnCe-
rested in, and the franking privilege like
many other abuses, is likely to remain a
burden upon the taxpayers of the country.
The members of the House of Representa-
tives who voted for the abolition of the
franking privilege probably counted upon
the bill either being rejected point blank or
else quietly smothered to death by the Sen
ate, and from present appearances they are
not likely to be disappointed. 1t is great
scandal that this abuse should be continued
by Congress after the decided expression of
public opinion on the subject, but it is a
difficult thing to persuade man to quietly
give up valuable privilege that is worth a
large sum of money to him annually, and the
majority of the members of Congress are not
noted for that lofty and unimpeachable virtue
that would induce them to deny themselves
in a matter of this kind simply because 1t
happened to be a little burdensome to the
already overburdened people who have to pay
for such extravaganza.