The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-24
Fine Job Work Specially.

committee, made a proposition to resign
and take the blame if as much of the de-
tails as related to his family were omit
ted from the report This the eommis-
tee refused to do, and Belknap braced
himself to bear his disgrace like sol
der
These facts will come out officially be-
fore long, and it will also be shown that
there was a meeting at the Arlington Ho-
tel between the Marshes, Mrs. Belknap,
Blackburn and his wife, and others IA
miliar with the facts, at which hrs. Bel
knap insisted that her husband should
not alone be disgraced, but that others
who were guilty fall with him. Mr.. ely
mer's committee, having made q sensa-
ton, and having furnished political cap
ital for New Hampshire, declined to in
vestigate farther But farther investi-
CATION was forced upon them, and the
facts will soon all be known.
This man Robbins, ON Clymer's COM
mittee, is a queer specimen OF q Re
former 10 be found investigating cor
ruption and bribery. 'Twenty-dchar
Robbins they call him now, Xxx Rct-
bins" and the Republican the other day
had a burlesque romance entitled Saw
buck Robbins; or, the Tar-heeled Bribe-
taker of Dismal Swamp" The city pa
pers are full of lampoons and epigrams
upon him. ''How much are Robbins
worth this mornings" is a standing joke,
and in one of the papers to-day was the
following apt doggerel:
There was a pure statesman named Robbins
Who rode to his seat on old Dobbins,
And bartered his vote
For Xnote,
This virtuous statesman named Robbins.
And now that virtuous committee
Are to sit on man-more's the pity-
In high Office and fame,
Who dishonored his name,
Robbins sits on this virtuous committee
/ pity Robbins. He cannot turn '.is
head: he cannot lift his eyes; he csalot
look to the right hand nor the left band
without meeting a glance of curiosity,
or seeing a finger pointing at him as tF.s
s'Saw-buek statesman OK the dismal
swamp" He cannot read newspaper
without seeing his shame ridiculed.-
People who go into the galleries OF the
House no longer ask where Blaine sits,
or Morrison; everybody wants to know
(which is Robbinsg' If it had been
300 OCO people would have admired bis
shrewdness, even while they reproached
his shame; day before the publication OF
this incident in his distinguished career
Robbins rose in the House, and swelling
ont with the consciousness Of greatness,
said, in his pompous way;
81 am North Carolinianl North Car
olinians believe it is the duty of every
man to obey the mandates Of the courts.
As a North CaroliniaD, / went to the
court, but not to plead my privilege"
Poor Robbinsl A $50 North Caroiini-
an.
Notwithstanding the general solemnify
of the week, and the seriousness OF ev-
erv one in the face of these sad disclose.
ures, there has been great deal OF incl
denrar run. The other day, wnen ov--
was making one of his trifiing, tawdry
speeches. Mr.. Simpson, the bill clerk OF
the Senate, came to the bar OF the House
and announced that the Senate had
passed ga bill for protection against the
rayages of insects" The epithet Butler
applied to Cox, ''Shoo-Hy," !" was on the
lips of every one, and Cox was infer-
rupted till there could be hearty laugh
While the same bill was under discus
sion in the Senate, Logan perpetratsd
one of his witticisms The bill as origi-
nally drawn, referred only to grasshop-
ners. Some amended it so as to cover
the Colorado beetle, another wanted the
chintz bug put in, and Senator Steven
SON insisted that the tobacco worm re-
ceive attention. Logan go. mp very sol
emnly and moved to amend the bill 30
as to include the Presidential maggot--
Morton, Conkling, Thurman and Bay
ard looked very solemn, but the rest OF
the Senate enjoyed the joke. The next
day that genial old Pickwick OF the
Senate, McCreery, of Kentucky, was
the victim of singular accident.
Those who have never seen McCreeFy
cannot appreciate its ludicrousnsss from
a mere description of his appearance.-
His figure resembles very much that Of
the venerable hero of Dickens's cslebrar
ted papers, and he wears the same sort
of rusty swallow-tail broadcloth, heavy
watch fob, and cloth gaiters, which were
the characteristics of Pickwick. His
face is large, round, shayen and smooth.
except where there are dimples and
creases made by smile. His head is a.
bald as billiard ball, and as pink in cob
or as q rose bud Around the base Of
the cerebe llum is a rank growth of black,
straight hair, like curtain hung from
ear to ear to cover up his neck. He
looks for all the world like an actor,
''made up" for genial old gentleman
part in a comedy. He sits all day long
in Senate the very ideal of dignity and
benevolence. The other day some awk-
ward new chairs were introduced into
the Senate, and McCreery got one. In
his old chair he could tip back safely, and
bestow his benevolent smiles upoE the
occupants of the galleries, and he tried
II in one of the new chairs. He was
Gazing compIaeently around above him
while Edmunds was drawling of an ar
gument against Pinehback's admission,
when all at once, ereak, fiopl went the
CHAIR, and McCreery, watch fob, CATERS,
aud ali, was dumped sprawling on the
Senate floor. Senators rose from their
seats, and a dozen messengers and pages
rushed to see what was the matter; but
the old gentleman gathered himself MP,
brushed the dust from his clothing, and
sat down again as calmly and coolly as
if nothing had happened
-
Bur ONE SESTIMENT.-Tbea attempt
to saddle Belknaps crime upon the Re
publican party is as senseless as the at
tempt to saddle the crime of default
ing employe on the man he has robbed,
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