Nebraska advertiser., 1877-02-01
4 SPICY LETTER.
Nebraska Advertiser.

4 SPICY LETTER.
| Correspondence. Nebraska Advertiser
LINCOLN. Jan. %, 1877.
| Since the Senatorial contest there
has been more quiet and repose at the
capital. Nearly all. except the mem
bers, have gone home. The button
holed members have repaired their
garments and come down to business.
IN mingling with members Of a
legislative body, it Is curions to OBJ
serve the great variety of objects in
view, especially in 80 large body,
and composed of so many new MEM
bers as the present Nebraska Leglsla-
! ture. The fewest number have legit-
innate legislation in view: That is,
upon the principlesof 'the greatest
good to the greatest numb ber." Law
yers are prone TO run to "amend-
ments to the code" with q view, too
often, to meet special case. The
| farmer law-maker, in too many cases,
aims to legislate for his class exclu-
sively; and so on with all classes and
professions, failing to recognize that
ell are embraced In the common
good"
1t is particularly amusing to wit
ness the details of some bills gotten
up by members who claim that all
ills, of whatsoever character, can be
regulated 10y legislative enactment.
The Diploma" Doctors IN Nebraska
have had an idea for years that some
law could, and ought to be- nAssed
fa-oi.,ss the AFFLICTED TO patroniza only
those who carry "sheep-skins" IN
their pockets. They have a bill up
now, In substance, making iCa penal
offenSe for doctor, not gri +date, to
practice in the State: and If some
poor unfortunate one dies under the !
treatment of non-graduate, the dead !
man shall be incaroerated in the pen
itentiary during his natural life"
One member thinks the G.. Hopper |
can be exterminated dy ld1O. Just get |
law on that subject upon the
books, and Mr.. Hopper is gone where
Jim Fisk's wOodbine twineth. The |
Hopper is first to tenotiiied in legal
form" that he must not trespass upon
the farm or garden around which a /
ditch is thrown. If he does, be shall
be arrested, taken before the Judge,
Mayor, or nearest Justice of the
Peace, and dealt with according to
law and thus you have ''got him."
On the subject of Temperance: if
you can secure the passage of law
declaring it ,aald,gfuL for a man to take
"horn" under any circumstances,
public or private. except in a we'll
governed, first class drug store, Sll
the old topers In the land will at once
become John 3. Coughs. and the oc-
cupation of every manufacturer and
vender in the land will be like that of
Othello's-gone
On the Bird question If law can
be had exacting an obligation from
any bird 10 live entirely on grasshop-
per eggs and young hoppers under ten
days old, for the next ten years, and
in quantities as indicated by Prof.
Aughey in his late paper on birds and
insects, it shall be considered mis-
demeanor to kill that particular bird,
uOdar epv oi-cnD1atSDoa nr at ony
season of the year. To birds not thus
obligating themselves, they, their
children, children's children, and
other relatives to the tenth genera
ton, are to be permanently stricken
from the roll of existence, with
special proviso that no future legisla-
ture shall have power or authority to
remove disabilities and restore the of
fender to bird citizenship.
George Washington E. PIuribus
Unum Ambrose, one of the Upton
Warner accessioDs to the Democratic
party of the State, and at present Sem
ator from Douglas county, is now
hugely on the SMELL His princi-
pal legislative labors are devoted to
attempts to raise special smelling
committees, with powers to send for
persons and papers, in order to inves-
tigate the Republican party of Ne
braska. This seems to be the stock
and trade of the Democracy through
out the country. George Washington {
is ''hefty -cuss," and is possessed of c
a probocis of wonderful SID Yelling pow g
ers. If he should succeed insfiBdipg
a chen on" somewhere, he will be +
entirely too large for Douglas county q
fact the State would
hardly hold him. f
These sloUghings off from the Re- i
publican party, who left it because t
they could not run it, and thus ar z
gued they were not appreciated. have !
that said party was sal t
ways fearfully corrupt" and the De- t