Connecticut western news., 1881-02-09
SECURING A SUBSIDY.
A Story Told of the Legislature o1
 the Sandwich Islands.

the SanO"lCn 4S1dHuSs-
 Not long ago, says a newspaper cor respondent, I met an acquaintance in this ciy who said that te had recently return from the Sandwich Islands. He told me what he had been doing there. asd his account was so amusing that if It shall meet his eye I trust that he will excuse me for repeating it.
 "WAat was your object in going to the Sandwich Islands ?' asked. "You certainly were not missionary?
 "Nq, not much,", he replied. ''I was theregetting Q subsidy for the Pacific Mail.'
 "Ahd did you get it?"
 "Ibu bet I,did. Sit down and I'll tell ;pu all about it. It was a good joke, he continued, as he drew a match and lighted his cigar, ''but 1 am really little ashamed of it. Still you know business is business.
 s'You see they have sort of Mede and Persian law in their Legislature, only with this differences law may be annulled within twenty-four hours after its passage. If they allow that time to elapse without reversal the act is irrev- ocable. After canvassing the house pretty thoroughly I found that my measure was unpopular, but that's. @ difficulty that never stands in the way of an experienced and persevering lob byist. All I wanted was bare major ity, and so I selected thirty five of my opponents and kept them very steadily drunk till the day the question was to be decided. Some of them, it is true, were then so drunk that they could not vote at all, but enough of them were just sufficiently exhilarated to be grate- full to me for the gin, and the bill was carried by majority of five. However, I was not out of my difficulties by any means; the great trouble now was how to bridge over that dangerous twenty four hours. Just as feared, that night one of the ministers came over to my room, and after very little beating around the bush-they don't beat the bush so much there as in Washington he told me that if didn't give him Q thousand dollars he would move a re. consideration of that bill at two o'clock next day-just before the usual time oi adjournment. Now, I had no idea o1 paying the fellow thousand dollars il 1t could possibly be avoided, and tc gain time for reflection I gave him ar evasive reply, leading him to suppose that the money might possibly be forth coming. When he had left I happened to think that I could avail myself of the aid of one of my voters, a white man who was big stalwart blacksmith, { Representative from Maui. This fellow had been made very sore by the carica lures of a native artist, one of his fellow legislators. Meeting him next morn ing, I stirred him up little more ant then asked him why he did not thrasl the rascal.
 CT would,' he replied, if it wouldn' be so expensive
 "'Now, look here, said I, If you vii walk over to his seat at just ten minutes to two o'clock and thrash him soundI, I'll give you fifty dollars and pay you fine into the bargain.
 "'I'll do it, sir said the blacksmith And he was as good as his word, an' better too. Over he went ut the ap | l. T. H. associate, rained his blows right ant left, not only on him, but capsized hi whole neighborhood and stirred ul such general row as there had no beeen since the murder of Captail Cook.
 "'I move this house adjourn,' crie' another of my friends, and the hous did adjourn forthwith, so that the Pa cifc Mail subsidy was saved!'