The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-01-24
The King Of the wsshington Lobby.

The King Of the Warrington Lobby.
The Congressional investigation con-
corning the spending of over million dol
lars by the Pacific Mail Company, for the
purpose of procuring, q large annual sub
sidy,- has been very rich in develop
ments. Recently Mr.. Samuel Ward, who
received 90. 500 for bis influence in behalf
of the Company, testified as follows:
I was retained, suppose. because the
s:King's name is a tower Of strengthened
I am called the ''King of the lobby, but ]
am not the treasurer of the lobby, !" shat lie
certain /; If you were here for entertain
| ment could entertain you with histories
Of we'll concerted plans which all disap-
peared just at the crack of one Of the mem
ber's whip perhaps o matter Of caprice,
perhaps q matter of accideut-you cannot
| tell which We who are of the regular army
know when we are whipped-but gentle
men of little experience come down here
and peg and peg on till the end of the ses-
sioD, and never understand why they had
better 60 home ito introduce . bill pro-
perly, to have it referred to the proper
committee, to see that some member In that
committee understands its merits to at
tend to it to watch it to have q counsel
to go and advocate it before the committee,
to see that members of the committee do
not oversleep themselves on the morning
of important meetings; to watch the COM
ing in of the bill in Congress-, day after
day, week after week to have your men
on hand a dozen times, and to have them
as often disappointed to have one of those
storms which spring up in the Adriatic
of Congress until your men are worried and
worn and tired, and until they cay to them
selves that they will not 60 up to the Ca
pitol to-day, and then to have the bird
fushed, and all your PREPARATIONS sud-
denly brought to naught. These are some
of the experiences of the lobby.
THE PH1Losor ny OF GOOD DINNERS.
Another point-the uestion of entertain
ments-is spoken of. There is nothing in
the world SO excellent as entertainments of
a refined order. Talleyrand says that dip
good dinners people do not talk ''shop,"
but they give people who have taste that
way, the right, perhaps, to AJAX "a gentle
man civil question aud get civil an
swer-to get Information which his clients
want and that can properly be given.
Sometimes q railroad msa wants inform
alton sometimes patentee wants his pa
tent renewed-that 10 q pretty hard fight.
Then q broker wants to know what the
Treasury Is going to do about Q certain
Sometimes Q banker 10 anxious
about the financial movements in Congress,
GHeo0
things we do constantly, and we do not
make any charge for them.
A CERTAIN CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
We keep up certain circle of friends,
and once in while An opportunity comes
Of getting something that is of real service,
and for which com pensation is due and
proper but the entertainments are pro-
portioned TO the business of the session
when the business is good 80 are the enter
and when the business is not
good the entertainments are meagre.
SAM TELLS A STORY.
Mr.. Irwin told me story of King of
Spain, who was lost in the woods with his
hunting party /; he ordered one of his atten-
dants to climb a tree and see whether there
was any building in sight the man saw a
chateau on the top of an adjacent hill, and
the King said, "Let us go there )" they went
and were received at the door of the cha |
teau by the grandee with his head uncov-
cred the King announced who he was,
family had dined an hour before, and the |
servants had consumed everything that was |
left. The cook was sent for, and said His |
Majesty would be served in an hours time. |
They had very pleasant dinner, and the |
King was rather surprised at the taste dis |
ner, commencing the excellence of the re-
past, he asked what it was composed of. |
Luckily it was not Friday. The grandee
sent for the cook, who came in and said,
"Your Majesty, no animal has contributed
it's life to your dinner" and he went to the
window and showed che King fifty two pigs
with their cut off. Said the King, |
"A man who can make such repast as
that from the ears of fifty-two-pigs shall be |
made governor of q province"
Mr.. Niblack-Is there not o great deal |
of money wasted on good dinners
HOW TO FEEL LIKE A SAINT.
Witness-I do not think money is ever |
wasted on a good dinner if a man dimes |
badly he forgets to say his prayers going |
to bed but If he dimes well he feels like |
a saint.
A SERIOUS CoRREcTroN.-Tbe American |
Protestant papers have published miles of |