Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Something More About Senate and
House EmpiOyes-DOings of u Cor
rupt Gas Light Company.
From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26, 1879.
Those Democrats who have been
bounced" by the Senate and House
continue to make damaging charges
sgainst their late "bosses." Ofcourse,
like good Democrats as they are, Sd
long as they were feeding at the pub
lie crib, they We're as mute as lambs.
and not only declined to reveal Demo-
cratic secrets, but were ready to enjoy
q part of the plumber. But they are
barred out now, and the Washington
news-gather finds no difficulty in get-
ting "botton factsn from them.
Among other thirgs they have told
how the President of the Washington
Gas Light Company. Bailey, is the
disbuTsiug officer Of the House Of
Representatives. Mr.. Bailey is a
wealthy man, and promptly offered
to go on Clerk Adams bond. OF
course Adams highly appreciated this
kindness. for had it not been for Bailey,
perhaps he could not have given
a bond, for the average cspi>
talist up North looks with
great suspicion upon Kentucky
gentlemen because of the lack
of financial honor among the denf-
zens Of that State. When Mr.. Bailey
"scratched" Clerk Adams back by
going on his official bond, Clerk
Adams SCRATCHED" Mr.. Bailey's back
by appointing him discussing officer
of the House. Some writer remarks
that a man should always keep on
good terms with his ply stefan. If
this writer had lived in Washington
he would have said that men should
keep on excellent terms with the
p resident of the Gas Light Company
These discharged Democratic emu
ployes charge that at least fifty Demo-
cratic Congressman never pay a cent
for the gas they consume al their resi-
deuces; that at the end of each mouth
receipted bills are sent them. It is
also whispered that these gas bills are
liquidated as ''contingent eXpensesp of
the House of Representatives..
It is also rumored that
prominent House employs, while
recently the clerk of Democratic COM
mittee, was approached by soldiers
widow, who invoked his aid in getting
a pension bill passed for her deceased
husband. The aforesaid clerk dee
manded $500, which the poor woman
raised by mortgaging her modest
home. In less than a month this
Shylock demanded another pound of
flesh from the widow in the shape of
800. But her suspicious being
aroused, she repaired TO humane
Washington lawyer, who furnished
her the 500 to lift the mortgage on
her house, after which he took her
affidavit setting forth the foregoing
facts. This affidavit is now IN his
hands, and will soon be published in
the New York Sun. When l look at
the class of men to whom the
Democratic majority have given
employment in the two houses of Con-
gress, I wonder if they selected from
the best accessible material in their
reach. More than one of the number
have been indicted for grave offences
in their respective States, and others
among them are known to be very
questionable characters. Ex-Door
keeper Fitzhugh openly states that the
reason he was bounced" was, lot
because he spe!t bigger with one G,
but because he would not permit lead
ing Democrats to use him in perform.
ing dishonest acts. If the honest
Democrats Of the country could visit
Washington and look in at the two
houses they would see daily perpeS
trated acts of villainy which would
bring the blush of shame to their hon.
orable cheeks.
In this connection, I will state fact