Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-05-26
should be emb0died in CIymer,s re:


d. c., Deer. Is, 1875.
Dear: ] have been trying ever
since my election to write to you,
but have been besieged from light
in the morning until one or two at
night. Ihave had about one hund-
red q thirty appointments TO make
q have had reckon without exag-
Grafton three thousand applications
besides men women & children pull
ing me every time would put nv
head out of my Office. / have had
to keep two ushers & two or three
clerks ever since the hour of my
election in nay Office, q it is now FIVE
O'clock in the morning that | have
gotten up TO write to you. In re-
gard to | tried to save a
place for him, but the members are
so cIamorous for their constituents
that so fur it has been impossible to
do so, my force after christmas will
be increased and then 1 viii be able
to do something for him & l will
stick him in, Fay (Fitzhugh's son)
arrived on Saturday morning all safe.
l set him to.work on Monday at a
81, 100 place and he is the most de-
lighted fellow you ever saw.
wish you could be here with me do
try q come on, the Govt furnishes
me with a fine turnout q spanking
pair of horses & before s. after the
house sessions 81 recess l have cxclu-
sive use of them, colchman comes
down every morning for US, that is
Fay 81 myself aud after driving
around to my breakfast take me to
my Office, come on & I viii give you
"a good time. Congress is invi-
ted over to the Centennial on friday,
we will have q good time-come
back on Sunday. ! may draw on
you for one hundred d twenty five
dollars tomorrow which you can
draw back on the lst Jan. | got
your telegram telling me to draw
for two hundred if needed, but tried
to do without any, & may not have
to draw tomorrow, but all of our
members are like myself tight up
on first mo q / hate to ask them, J
w come on christmas for a few
days d we viii have glorious time,
l have more invitations to frollicks
with the members and Senators than
any man In Washington. | am a
bigger man now with the members
than old Grant, / cannot put my
foot on the floor of the Hall but
they make break for me & some
times dozen begging at me at once
for places for some friend, / scarcely
ever get out of the Office to go on
the floor of the House, have under
kme the Folding rooms, Document
rooms, File rooms, all committee
rooms, all employees in the South
wing of the building & entire south
wing of capital, l have Supt & as
sistant in each department & about
a dozen book keepers besides my Of
fee clerk, & we do things up in
stile have boy TO take my hat q
coat or / can't turn round without
some one at my beck & call, & when
| get all my new appointments bro
ken in, shall have a nice time
= - am making
up party already, to come out to
Texas on the adjournment, S. S. Cox
is to head it, he is the warmest
friend of mine you ever saw, also
the New Speaker Mr.. Kerr, Fay &
myself spent the evening with Mr..
g. Mrs. Kerr last evening, | am
great favorite of hers Mrs. Coxs &
Mrs. Senator Gordon-quite a con-
trast here q Austin, I can't turn for
friends here. | have now fifty let
ters from my southern friends all
parts of the South congratulating
me, thus wags the world, let a man
be prosperous q every Eman is his
friend, must close, tell will look
out for him & if l cannot make a
place myself l can get him in some
of the Departmts after christmas,
write soon to Your Devoted Friend
Z. Fl. FIPzHuGH.