, 1874-01-02

n Congress when there ia money involved.
About half of the members have d price on their
beads and al that il necessary 10 put through
any measure is to put the money in the right
place."
do not know that ever wrote 50 sweeping
charge rs this and yet who that IS acquainted
With tho facts can gainsav it
4 man Of q sincere, pure. and aggressive
character in Congress Is always unpopulat' anu,
if Lc pays more heed to public opinion than to
Congr essonal opinion, he iH always called
demagogue, or 3 sneak. or 4 hypocrite. When
Judge Hoat was Attoruey-General. be was larry
bounded out, and then repulsed from the su-
preme Bench. to which the p1 esidont bad noml-
uated him, on account OF his furitah lhteeI1ts
and impotence with peculators and party c1im1-
mails.
GEN. nuTLEn,
whom l think, considering his influence. to DO
the worst man in public life, openly a1drosses
Congressman, bidding them to stand together"
against both tho press and the public. The
dread Of this man is such that, some Tine ago,
buy large piece OF laud adjacent to their
grounds, which are virtually city park, in order
to kocp Butler from getting a bill! through Con.
gtess compelling them to give their lasge fund
to the volunteer a.ylums, OF winch lie ana the
politicians had control.
This 1und was entirely made up Of donations
taken from the common soldiers OF the regular
army, who sacrificed q few cents of their month
ly pay in order to be insured a comfortable re-
treat in old ago To save the money from
it, the Governor Of the Sold rs' Home paid
nearly $500 100 for a piece OF ground not reslui-
site to his institution. It will be . fuo orua-
ment, however, to this city.
The most remarkable fact about these s"1n-
dliug schemes ia, that they ara uniformly abet-
ted by the very politicians who arc most d4'sent
to widen tho field OF human liberty It IS e1-
traordinary that Butler. the author OF the salary
gtnb the defender OF Auaes ard the Credit MO-
bilcr culprits, the advocate OF greenback
renud;ation and q hundred other fantastic
fallacies, should be the peculiar champloa OF tue
Civil Rights bill. But thus human nature goes:
Il costs nothing to have liberal principles, and
it sets of with 3 certain blazonry the mo1a4
darkness Of ones material career.
REFLECTION.
We cannot have again tho governmental SIM
plicity of old times, and it IL no. necessary that
wo should. The institutions Of government
expand and become extrBrapant relAtlFe!y WILL
tho peope. But the terror Ut our period ID,
that corruntiou and extravaganza exist together,
.Eeitipc each other. until at last We haVa such
noonstrous declarations as that Of John a. has
aon. that Congress would vote itself 1ntenor to
the Cabinet, Executive, and Judges, by RAISING
their salaries higher than its own. .....
: 4 gentleman vino long boarded at the most e1-
trayagant and foppisl Inn OF Washington, ono
day TOOK his quas1urly bill to the landlord, and
sail:
II was absent nearly the whole Of tEo months
from your house, but I do not wish you to maize
any deduction for that. l do think the clreun.
stsuce, however, should have had enough weight
with you to make you omit the charge Ut u e1-
ttG every time you sent d cup Of tea or conee TO
my room"
The landlord answered. in an insolent way:
"Judse. when boy, WAS Ye.C goot at
addition aud multiplication, but heFes 1ealned
how to subtract"
That is the way with Congress, which has been
voting money since 1861 with such rrofusion
that it does not know how to respond when the
Secretary Of the Treasury asks it to cut down
the estimates. It cannot even begin with the
salaries Of members dishonorably augmented.
CONGRESSIONAL HCuoR.
The aggregate hu1nor in the history OF the
American Congress, although no very great pro-
portion, is probably as notable as any Legislative
Wien there is some fun going on; for you hear
very little about jokes IN the passionate and
tragic careers OF cations, as when the Girondns
banuueted together aud tue Jaccblns sent them
to the scafrold, and when Jacoblns II turn were
subjected to the same treatment. without q
Joke on the part of tue majority. Probably the
old I,ish Parliament, with all its corrnPtions,
afforded as E,ucn badinage and banter as any
legislative assembly equally willing to sell lta
own existence
transition stage between the border OF gro
tesQuerie Of men like David Crockett, James
MuIlens, and one of the present members. Mul-
lam Crutchdeld, aud the more refined humor
aud keen attorneys satire OF men like Noah
Davis. Ben Buter, and s'Sunset Coz. Some
times q kindly man, VINO does not suspect hla
own lgnor1nce, comes amongst us, like Mr
Wbalev. OF West Virginia, whu grarely rose and
objected to seeing 3lr. Et AL receiving so many
appropriations without explanation. indeed,
there lB nc eort Of man moro apt to make fun
thun the noun. ain-U Uuionists OF the South, who
aro generally allowed to stay there by reason OF
their quaint good-nature. Old Bourbon dis
tricts OF Ohio. Kentucky, and Egypt, often pro-
duce . Good-uatu1ed, worthless sort OF Con-
srcssman, ike the late William Mungen, who
always brought lis tiddle to Washington with
him from the Hoop-Pos District, aud almost
every night went out With certain boon fellows
to give = TIE Arkansas Traveller with accom-
paulments OF anecdote.
Proctor knatt Of kentucky, who distinguished
himself by a speech on Duluth, was good a.
penc,l-caricature as well, aud one of his we'll
known Sketches was made at his desk, when.
Butler and Schencg. after long quarrel, arose
iu Congress and exunerated each other. knatt
drew picture Of these redoubtable worthless
in close hug. while meantime Butler was lift
ing n pack of cards out Of Schenck's
oat:el1-pocict, mud S:hcnck oxtracting
Spoon from Buffers. Kuatts speech
on Duluth is said to hare been written u good
Lumored Satire by Guthrie, Beck, Breckin.iIge,
and other kentuckial,s, who had made unproht-
able investments in SUI Fcrior City, the rival Of
Duluth. Just before making the speech, the
Kcntuckiaca, to whom this was sore topic,
Ind the orator put the joke upon the place
across tho way.
willard Salisbury aud James McDougal1
were often very amusing men By the inco?cr-
cnco or unexpected lucsdity Of their ronarks.
SALISBURY almost equaled that great diving Joke
of ArteInus Ward where he laf: largo for
tune which had no existence, to friends III Eu-
rope and America, and set them hunting for it,
Salisbury forgot when his term in the Senate
had expired, as noon on the 4th Of Marcl, ana,
retaining his scat. proceeded to mako speech
in the chair Of his successor. Another Senator
rose to 4 point of order.
-sWhat il your point OF order ?" said sauls-
bury
THE gentleman is not q member OF the
Senate"
Salisbury sat down with twinkle in his eye,
and, turning round, said to Garrett Davis:
~ had forgotten all about it. WAS going to
give Chandler IL" GATH.
4 REPENTAhT KLEPT0MAElAc.
TO the Editor of Tic Chea1o Tribune: