White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-02-24
Correspondence.
TorkxA. Feb. 5, 1870.

10 yourself, no eouo', !ou h-'e no fePoitei
here. to keep your readers posted on the do
ipss ofthe two branches of the Legisl, ture7,
lie sensae and the Mob. This is wrong onf
YOUR ,ars; Ills worse than wprg-m Is erin 4
inal. The pasent Legislative b the bsst, the
visess, ths nss, brain-y evsr sss-enbled N
Kansas. Esow this to be true, for ! have
heard it frSaa majority of tbe nenSer them.
selssss 1.-the VI
things are serene. Every now and then,
matching niehe's '~ish his :
brother Solon, to move that the, Mob be in !,
formed that as soon as the Cherokee resolu
tions are passed, the Senate is ready to ad-
iSufn Snd thereupon resumes his game, and /
overriding is lovely. jenkins, Of your conn' 7
.ty.hss again hssachcd his. .gold bug theory"
which he wor ks up UPON the hypothesis of the
gopher; aud Snyder has intrD duced q resoiu- /
ton d c.aring the ground-hog iniallible. With
the exception of drawing their pay and post
age stamps, this is all the Senators have thus
far done.
Across the hall, the owls of the State have
dis-organized themselves into s ...t
MOD, |
and are raising he'll. 1t is a working body,
though. In the short space of 25 days, it has
done wonjers--it has performed prosidies."
In that time, it has Investigated everybody;
it has resolved" everything; it has develop
ed great men; it has made leaders (their name
is ie-ion) for the Republican partyi it has ip-
troduced 237 bills, and passed ONE, declaring
section line, public highways in some Town
ship or other); it has deiIauded the State, by
Drawing pay for services that are worthless;
aud. in short, it has beautifully illustrated the
old axiom, "the higher monkey climbs, the
more he shows his &C."
The leader of the II use mob is huge. HIS
name is Snoddy, Sherry, Burris, Pierce. San
ford, Wright, Bishop, Babbit, "a lawyer from
Brown County, whom the boys were wont, in
old times, to call "OId Necessity" because,
like necessity. lie "knows no law,O and 60
or ~ others, whose rames are about as TT to
be picked in history as Judge Bailey q bree-
ches are to be chopped up into cold-saw.
Snoddy plays roots +on the rest, by.running
double geared CAB machine on the House.
lie talks for an hour by wind power. and then
has the l5;h Amendment Page bring him a
glass Of water, q pre- ,ume,) and runs the ma.
chine by water for another hour. sl 4t
Sherry carries water on both shoulders, as
usual, hut slops over and vets himself occa-
sionally. .r,',.. .s........
Burris, the lon-bearte d, roars with the best
of EN-, but don't make fist class l;on-his
beard is too short, and his body too sm iil.
You don't know Pierce-more's the pity!
He is a character. If his own story, which he
tells 100 times a day, with unvarying fidelity
ITO details, is true, he has been several times
a member of the New York Legislature, and
tthere acquired his eloquence and his unswerv
ing devotion to the people. He is an insight
6cant, amiable little creature; stands with hi:
hands behind him, looking for all the world
like the great Pickwick in his farewell addres.
to his Club; has but one joint, and that right
in. the middle, SO that be doubles up like q
graceful barn door hinge; and he throws his
head forward, to initiate the bold, defiant
ssoop Of the eagle, but shows ludicrous rt. .
semblancs to a buzzard in the act. His elo-
quence is stunnHg-very stunning, in fact
and he unbotties it with a perfect looseness
on all occasions-resRlutions to impeaeh some
body, or q motion to adjourn-anything, in
fact, that comes up. Long may he scoWl be-
nsnantly behind the specsacles irom which
some wags have removed the glasses.
Mr.. Wright,of Davis County, the leader o.
the Mob, belongs rather to the past than the
present and in his mellow voice he tells the
other owls, twenty times a day, no matter
what or WHO is being cussed or discussed, thai
, he intends to hew to the line, let the chip:
fall where they may" or course, no one sees
the fitness Of The simile, but that is just the
beauty of the thing, as it resembles th.reia
all the other eluqreuce let loose in the House
upon suffering world.
Sanforl claims to represent the Land Lea
guers Of the Neatral strip. but is really moi
entitled to seat, AS he was fairly beaten by
his opponent. TO hon certificate of election
was given. Sanford contested, and got his
seat-his opponent not appearing, having been
, bought OF by this A, l, shy.t.r. Sanford lit
orally represents the A,-cijebt rather IL. Ii tie
/ Orient Sanford is regular bug cater, and
> when the Federal Offices are peddled out .tc
, members, I hope he will be sent to Russia
to carry CUTS to the Russian bear.
'Rasbit is-well. he is the leader Of the
House. .Is-..
: Bishop is a very clever young LAWYER. with
long. curly locks, and is a very fit man forthe
place he occupies-as leader of the House.
Kellogg would have been the leader Of the
House, bet some one has turned him upside
down. and flied him full of shot, so that, like
Jim smiley's frog. Dirnel Webster, he can't
: jump. ''.' '''.'''' ..,. '.'.'.'.,l ''.' -
u / don't mean to be unkind to the members
but they Won't xash;, they wear their bowels
trather high up, bus they can't palm then of
tfor brains. '-vs t'rc-
TIE sUPnEME COURT,
like the mills Of God, grinds slow. Judge
kingman goes about his business in a quiet
lawyer-like way, and does il. Hrs opinions
are said by lawyers to be sensible. short. and
to the point Valentine is an improvement, on
Bailey, as he keeps awake on the ben-b, and
tries to lcok like he understands what is going
on. Knowing ones say, however, that he is as
felic.tous as bis predecessor in his inability to
see the point in '' little story" or Law case.
Senator Voss, brother Of the Cardiff Giant.
is trying to get S.. 900 appropriated to repIeu-
ish the Lsw Library. This is nght-the To
peka lawyers need additions to their libraries