Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-05-16
PROHIBITORY BILL IN THE
SENATE.-A STARTLING
TEMPERANCE
TREAT.
Arthur Accused of Logging Gus
tom House Etiquette Into His
Mansion and Breaking
the Idols set up
by Hayes.

rider in the House, the similar measure
introduced by Senator Mcknight, to
which no rider is attached, passed
second reading in the Senate to-day.
All the time spent upon it after its de-
feat in the House cannot accomplish
ANYTHING this session except putting
the Senators on record. Three hours
were devoted to the bill to-day, nearly
all that time being consumed by q
speech from Senator Nelson, the mild
hammered, old styled gentleman from
Wayne, who is q local Methodist
preacher and sometimes takes the
chaplain's place in opening the Senate
with prayer. His attack upon Presl.
dent Arthur and the present social
customs in the White House seemed
entertaining to a majority of the Sena-
tors. even to such Stalwarts as Cooper,
Handy Smith and Reyburn. Every
body was awake during that part OF
the three-hour exhortation but when
the sensation was over even the vigi-
liant constitutional oracle, Laird, went
to sleep at his desk for the first time on
record.
SHOOTING AT BIG GAME.
As Nelson is not one of those who
have been running race to see which
could get the most eloquence into the
Legislative Record, nobody seemed
disposed to object to his prolonged
effort to-day. Some of his fellow Dem
ocrats and Field Marshal Cooper at
times drew close to the speaker, as il
to encourage him. When he said that
he desired to call attention to what was
going on among men in the highest
positions in the gift of the people, all
ears were pricked up. GAS long," ne
said, "as the accidental, not Providen-
tial, President of the United States
spreads his costly liquors before his
guests at State dinners, with six wine
glasses to every cover, l have no
apology to make for advocating Con.
stitutional reform. Under the admin
istrations of Messrs. Hayes and Garfield
reform began at headquarters. The
bottles and jugs were dumped into. the
Potomac; the National mansion was
scrubbed from cellar to garret and dedi.
Gated to sobriety, virtue, purity and
prayer. How changed the situation
to-day. 1t is enough to make every
patriotic citizen blush and hide his face
for shame.
PRETTY HARD ON ARTHUR.
"Arthur in the New York Custom
House is Arthur in the White House
The Ethiopian cannot change his skin,
nor the leopard his spots. Driven out
of the New York Custom House by
Hayes, as the Master drove the Scribes
and Pharisees out of the temple with q
scourge, made Vice President by the
votes of the people, and, in less than
six months after the inauguration,
President by crank, taking the oath
of Office in his own parlor in New York
city in such indecent haste at O'Clock
iu the morning, so soon after the death
of President Garfield at Long Branch,
and then carrying into the temple OF
virtue and purity his nasty, filthy New
York Custom House and rot-house
practices of card-playing, treating,
drinking, Sabbath breaking and Sun
day fishing excursions He gave all
the public evils national sanction and
notoriety"
Stalwart Davies could bear this no
longer. He interrupted Nelson by
asking if the latter voted for Garfield.
Nelson replied that he had not. He
voted for Hancock
"And do you think there would have
been any difference between Hancock
and Arthur ?" asked Davies triumph
antly.
"Aha," chuckled Cooper, looking at
Nelson, "you'd better get away from
that ground or you will be defeated" "
Nelson got around Davies point by
remarking that Hancock was not Pres.
ident. 1.-TWO years more of national
humiliation and disgrace to come," he
lamented. After quoting from new s.
paper the account of the White House
frolic carried on by the Presidents son
while Arthur, as Nelson said, was in
Florida fighting aeas, shooting ALI
gators and catching catfish, with
Chandler to bait his hook" he thanked
heaven "that no woman shares with
the President the responsibility of this
retrograde movement" and for the
credit of the nation and the sex he
hoped that none ever would.
AS Nelson described "The shameful
exhibition of drunkenness" by the
statesmen who went to GarReld's
funeral, tears moistened his cheeks and
bis voice was broken by efforts to re-
press emotion. When he began to
speak of the Yorktown spree, Cooper
mischievously suggested that Nelson
withhold his remarks on the subject on
account of the temporary absence OF
Handy Smith, who was one of the COM
mittee to arrange for Pennsylvania
representatives at Yorktown. Just
then the jovial Smith entered, and after
listening to Nelson's itemization of the
Yorktown rum bill, he said, with a
sigh, that be never had the good
fortune to be commissary on an occa'
sion so great as that.
Suppose 1 come little near home,' u
said Nelson
eyes, tell US about the legislators
Virginia experience last week." sug-
gested Evans, of Northampton, one OF
the many members who had come over
from the House to hear the speech.
A WEEKLY JAMBoREE.
Nelson had not been on the Virginia
trip and would not speak of it, but be
said he was informed that there used
to be 'jamboree" every week on the
trains carrying the Legislators home
from Harrisburg-sprees just like the
one that recently brought fatal disaster
upon tie New York legislators train.
II guess it was the Wayne and Pike
men whom your informant saw" said
COOper.