Arizona silver belt., 1883-12-15
"How kin YOU tell?'


 "dar isn't a Congressman cums frum de yves, but chews plug tobakker, and doesn't let tooth brush git acquaint. ed wid his teeth.
 You see dat old couple by de echo pilasters?"
 Every one saw the couple, of course
 "Dcy's from Cumberlan' county Dey allays cums to sec de House opened when de blackberry and per. simmon crap am good
 "Good mo min, Genel Burnside"
 "Good mornin'" said a portly col ored man, whose short crisp beard was dressed like his celebrated namesake used to wear his, and whose breath was as noticeable for the-"old rye" on it, as his blue vest was for its brass buttons.
 "Dar goes Colonel Pinchoner; (hes California claimant and dar goes | bokas of flowers fur some member s table-he gives dem to himself-and dar goes man wid claim as ole as de Potomac ribber (McGarrahan) an as hones' as de fish dat swim Tn it. I heard something about "Ingersoll'' as was moving out of hearing; and sure enough there he was, portly, ruddy-faced and ,cheery.
 went to the Senate chamber. The galleries were filling up, the floor" was being cleared of visitors, and the "potent, grave and reverend seign- CUTS" were chatting as pleasantly as if they were all ready to sink old diff ferences and build up party of fu- sionists. Beneath the urbanity of the senator, there turks, after all, the weakness of the man; and by and by Logan the Stalwart will be at outs with Lapham the Half-breed, and a half reconstructed Southerner from South Carliny" will sit down on Ma hone-if the little Virginian will let him. The new senators are few, so that it is not likely that radical changes will take place in the com mittees.
 In the other wing of the building far enough away to prevent the zeph- yrs reaching from the leave of the winds" to the "fog bank"-an inn mense crowd surged about the House of Representatives. The lower body of legislators is called the popular branch" and the anxiety displayed by the pushing, jostling crowds at the "House" door, at the lobby door, and at the gallery doors proved it. Blacks and whites, armed with the open se- same of members ticket, were all striving for position. From my van tage ground could see the gathered wisdom of all the States and of all the Territories. Protectionists, free-tra- ders, and fair traders .,How they will shout, and not make themselves hoarse; hit, and not hurt each other over the tariff business this winter. They'll laugh beneath their buster, and smile between their blows. The tariff? Lord love you, they'll not bother that! The Presidency and a hundred thousand offices are worth more than the establishing of a prr- ciple, even though it gave cheap suglr to 5O,OO0 of people, or stopped every spindle from Manchester, N. H., to Augusta, Ga. These politicians are veritable Jerry Bagstocks - they're "devilish sly"
 1 looked for Arizonas delegate, but could not make him out among hia 516 compatriots. 1 wanted him to see me. The moral strength that a solitary constituent (even though did not vote for him) would have given him, would have been immense. Philander Tompkins and Jabez Sniffleton who stood rear me-redolent of the barn yard and the hay-mow-were straining their nccks to see the member" from their respective "deestricks s-some little patch the size of Rhode Island, perhaps, in Illanoy, Indiany or Ar kansaw, but they could not find him any more than 1 could my man, and he represents all the land that lies be- tween Utah and Mexico, and New Mexico and the Colorado river. I felt my Territorial back getting up at the thought that Arizona's 119,000 square miles had only one representative, while her Indians alone gould furnish enough soil in complaining time, from under their finger nails, to make state as large as Maryland or Dela- ware.
 Ina few days the organization will be complete and the work CD commence. More than thousand bills were in- troduced last session that never reached the committee stage of thelr existence. Over four hundred had the