Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-10
VANISHING STATESMEN.

Tender Tributes to Noble Esossers.
Speaker Hewitt received the usual assOrt-
ment of presents yesterday. which include
an ivory gold banded gavcl from Clerk
Huhn silver service from a number Of
the members Of the House. to which many
of the more reputable representatives. such
as Wolfe. Mapes, Law, Moore, Mckee,
French, Slack and others. refused to con-
tribute, and gold lined spoons from the
pages Dir. Hackett, is the member Of the
House who had the courage to offer vote
Of thanks to ''the abettor of ringstcrs, :"
aud it passed uica coce. The Times says
there is another present that touches his
heart in tender spot 1t is a set of silver
knives, forks and spoons. Tho handsome
" engraved inscription ON q silver plate
reads thus: "TO Hon. Benjamin Hewitt,
speaker Of the House Of Representatives,
session Of 1881. From Joseph Il. SOuder,
Thomas J. Rice, William II Hazlct and
j. B. McCleery."
There were no presentation speeches in
the Senate. The presidents pro tenn. got
his present of silver service.
Chief Clerk of the House Harry Huhn
put gold watch in his pocket, hung a
gold chain on his vest and thanked the
pages for set of knives. Re aiding Clerk
Pierson was given diamond stud, Jour-
nal Clerk Patterson . silver swinging
pitcher, Chaplain Beck gold watch and
the cheif of the pages y watch.
Before adjournment q bold lobby, aided
by the Philadelphia ROSTERS. defeated the
bill to prevent speculative life insurance.
Among the most important bills which
were defeated or failed for want of time
this session were the prOhibitOry cOustitu-
tiOnal amendment, the Philadelphia deliu-
quent tax bill, the recorder repeal bill, the
Pittsburgh elevated railroad bill, Flinn's
Allegheny license bill, the free pipe bill,
the anti-discriminatiOn bill, the chattel
mortgage bill, the telegraph anti -cOnsOlida-
tiOn bill, the proposed new bankrupt act,
the act to appropriate $40, 900 to the Penn
sylvania BIZ Centennial, the state board of
health bill, the bill to prohibit speculative
life insurance, the appropriations to the
Gettysburg and Valley Forge memorial
societies, tho act to give the marine hOspi-
tai at Erie to the United States govern
ment for the soldiers home, the bill to
change the location Of the capital to Phila-
delphia, the bill to fix the sessions of the
supreme court permanently in Philadelphia
and the legislative apportiOhment bill.
State Treasurer Butler, under the advice
of his private counsel and the attorney
general, having refused to pay tho mem
bers their eXtr:, $500 salary, they appoint.
ed a joint committee to prosecute their
claim for it and gave S5 each to retain out
side counsel. Geo. w. Biddle, of Phila-
delphia, and J. w. SimontOn arc their at
torneys, and the case will 20 as any other
case to the Dauphin county court and the
court, and may not be decided
for months.
800 Vote.
A Press correspondent describing the
scenes on Wednesday night when tho in
surancc bill failed to pass for want of a suf- |
ticient vote says Tho insurance lobby |
were on hand. A bolder band of bloated |
bullies, reeking with i'll gotten wealth, has |
not disgraced the legislative halls since the |
riot bribery business. Members were |
openly approached and offered money.
One hundred dollars was tho price for a |
vote. One member who was Supposed to |
have great influence was promised votes |
for pet scheme and 500 besides for his
vote against tho insurance bill. He said
he didn't take it. At least he voted for
tho bill and thereby contributed his whole
strength in favor of the reform.
His name is Edwards and he lives
in st. Clair, Schuy kill county. Every
deatll-bed insurance mill had |
it's representative in the House. Presi-
dents, secretaries and general agents
the passages, and tho great Amer
can blunderer in letter-writing, Mr.. Beltz-
hoover, of York, member of Congress by
over five thousand majority, worked him
self into reeking perspiration in his cf-
forts to beat the bill. Mr.. BeltzhoOver
stayed ON the field until Representative
Hackett, of Northampton, called attention
TO him, and then he went out with Mr..
[ahOads, of Cumberland, for a little recre-
stiOn and the subsequent proceedings
bothered him no mOre.''
1t is only fair to say that of the Lancas-
Ter county members all were present except
5nader and voted for the legislation which
the rOosters prevented.
Patriotic Methods Mt Albany.
In the New York assembly yesterday,
Mr.. Bradley said he chad received
s., 900 to pay him if he would vote for
Chauncey NJ. Depew instead of Platt,
which sum he had handed to thh speaker"
md he asked for an investigation. The
speaker corroborated Mr.. Bradley's state
mint, and said he had the money in his
pocket. After some debate a committee
vas appointed to investigate that and
'ther charges Of bribery. The admins
ration people denounce Bradley and his
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