The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-20

Call Of the House.
1t will be Impossible for me to forget
the first eXperence on a call of the
House. 1t was in the merry month Of
May, 1858. Itoccurred on a private bill.
| had not then learned The secrets OF The
prison-house. Being caught by the
sergeant's officer on my way to my duty,
l Was graciuusly allowed the freedom OF
the mail wagon. How ehafed under
my first arrest! WHAT would lynx-eyed
cons LiLuents, and especialiy my oppo-
nents,, in o i'd thinkI L trenble as re-
call these apprenenslons. was brought
before the bar with Zollicofer and
James b. Cay. The then leviathan OF
the House, Humphrey Marshall, was i'll
the chair. How he glowered on me with
ponderuus savagery! He made me ieel
Lnat [ mad personally atronTed hirn. L
told him that was sorry TO waist his
precious time, and would lean on his
mercy; but tnere was no mercy ins him.
Wnat company there was that night!
Minister WashDurne, General Quitman,
Jones OF Tennessee, Governor H0ustou
of Alabama, General SicKles, Grow,
Stevenson, Coltax. Bishop of Conneoti-
cut, Bingham, Lamar. .Grussbeck, Pendle-
Ton, GoVernur smith OF Vngiria, Gid
dings, Earnsw orJn, John CoeArane, and
many others since then ministers, gov
ernors and senator's. Some Of them are
in the cold, cold, grounds. "Where be-
their gibs nowp Another SCALP has
summoned them to a more serious seS-
sion. But it happened ON that night, az
| frequently since, that the vigilaht ana
leaaing men were absent, while tile dlia-
tory ways were on guard. How they oe-
| lighted TO catch MIR. j. CLANCY Jones,
| Chairman OF the Ways and Means, at
| lJv,
What a RANT row was made over his
white tie and rubicund face ana tne
| Pennsylyanla delegation, with the I'd.
| B.D brand on their DrOWs, fresh from ies-
uyityl Few excuses were received,
lhouwll many were rendered. A mem
| ber from Niagara had 'paited OFF, with
his W lie; another telt 50 bad because ms
| wife had gone home, he could not partlc-
| ipate in deliberations; u memoer lroui
MARYLAND was remarked as showing
dIspusilion to be i'll the hail, by being in
tue gallery; one member lound lne ser
geaut before the sel geant found him,
and asked to have That officer fined; a
| Kentucky member had attended all day,
| Iexuecting to die in his tracks, tor Il Id
| write measure; but as the measure did
mot come up, he could not DIE, 80 ne Ielt
lior home!
| Wnen John Cochrane was called, we
1all knew he had been to the Presldentlal
Edinuer: and his eXculpatlon was not OH
Inv a tine piece OF oratorlcal humor, Dut
HE turned Jne tables on the House, as he
1 did on the "lell sergeant who had
A shocked hlm by the arrest. Inc mS.n,
pny slological, was astounded, VIE man
Epyscholol ical, was apaned.. -, iedera
constitution trembtsd- Ind nature gave
signs OF woe tnilL iii was .osl, ior had LIT
NOT Deeh rDruely grasped by me hana 0
authVritj? He had been called nign-ht
lh---s iow; and then some one suAsest yea
that the sergeant-at-arms held Jack
and the game. Upon these occasloni
Itne native style vi the member thus
comes out. A dozen members explain
chat they mad gone out lof a bite, etc.
} but General Uochraue dlsdalned The OF
binary Saxon tongue, anu saLeu lntt
The empyrean oil Eplcurus.
The stately Gruespeck is brought in
He asks Ior counsel. Counsel Is freely
/ rendered. lie makes solemn plea II
eXtenuatien, Whereupon Hughes, VI LII
dlans, ltkenS it to the sermon the OLE
lady heard, The best sue ever neard. sue
could not remember the text, OF bnt
poiuts. or The sermon, but it had such 4
podly tone! General Curtis, Of Iowa
comes i'll voluntarIiy; and ne is tined ioi
: coming in Without compulslon. Thei
| lurlses the member from Tie Wld-cat dis
trict OF Pennsyi Mr. Gillis. ID
makes his excuse. Is 1T expected tina
he should know tne rules OF such dis
orderly bouy? He confessed that h
, mad been to dine VITA the President
All he knows OF etiquette is TO din'
, when asked, and he IS willing TO pay 10
it like "a man. He had heard that ne wa
, to be arrested, and flew, not to The horn
r of the q tar, but to The horns OF "ol
!, Buck" Harry Philips, OF Phliadeipnia
! wac had himself moved tue call, ha
0 abandoned tue House lor the dlnnei
S he was eau sht. lie claimed to be tle AT
tuor OF tueT amusement, anu Inre'
hlms eli on their gratitude.
Anu so.on through the long night tn
/ llmprisoned menIDers indulge IN wha
: seems tue Very puerlIty Oh lria o!ity.-
!, Tue Hon. s. s. Cox, in Harper's Magi
y zlne lor November.