Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-10

mas DrOuRnC mere cOHbluueS aS ouooNiou0 o'
ever. Its men are everywhere, in and out
of congress. Under the rules of the house
and senate ex-members of congress are
permitted to enter the house and senate
during the hours of the session and con-
verse with members, and this fact gives
many an impecuEious ex-congressman a job
and accounts for many curious legislative
feats. Thus the lobby not only besieges
the doors of congress, but actually enters
and occupies its seats and influences the
votes and actions of members during the
pendency of legislation. A member In
speech the other day referred to those OK
members who come in the interest of
monopoIists, as "going from seat to seat
in the house to control the tariff legisla-
tion." 1t is in the lobby, however, the
broad corridors running about the halls of
house and senate, that they are most to be
seen, and here and at the hotels they reign
supreme. One gentleman who has excel
lent facilities for observing their move
ments, remarked to your correspondent
recently that the lobby just now was tho
| SbIOuGcSb anu lnOob NjROIOuC hO AAoO cOO4'
"Where do they come from?"
Everywhere in this country. and good
many from abroad"
'What! you don't mean to say that the
foreign manufacturers are lobbying to get
the American tariff reducedT' >:~-.
''That is just what mean to say, for I
can prove it to be fact, too. They have
their men here in large numbers, and
watch every point affecting them very
closely, making the best use of their time
and opportunities, too, can tell you"
''Will the tariff bill pass, do you think?"
s'No.'
CONTESTED SEATS.
The cost to the government Of the con-
tested seats in the present congress will
run to about $150,O0O in money paid to
contestants for their expenses, to say moth
ing of the salaries paid both claimants and
thetime of members taken from other duties.
Already the sum allowed by the committee
exceeds 100000, and there are number
of cases not yet reported on. 1t is said
that the actual expenses in the Frost-Ses-
singhaus case alone amounts to nearly this
sum, though of course congress will not be
expected to pay the full cost of this. The sum
allowed last session for the expenses of
contest in cases settled in that session
was about $4,000, and that recently rec
commended for this sessions contests to
date is $4,000. Chairman Calkins, the
| head of the committee on elections, speak
ing of the matter to your correspondent,
thought the total. would run something
over 100000.
CURIOUS STORY
is afoat here and is creating considerable
gossip in quiet way. The Unitarians
have fine church here and large con-
gregation, including in the number
many of the New England congressman.
| During the winter a. number of
prominent divines are invited to preach
here and usually accept. A couple of
weeks ago Rev. DR.. Savage, Of Boston
preached at the church on "Constructive
Rationalism," presenting some very start
| ling views, considering that they came
| from The pulpit, holding that the torch OF
reason is the only light in which the Bible
his sentences were quite on the Ingersoll
order, such as this: Rather let me lie down
in a dreamless sleep at the end of life, than
to accept heaven where l should be rem
| dered forever miserable by the walls of the
damned and the lurid flames of hell just
beyond" Those remarks were rather start
ling as coming from the pulpit, but
would have passed without special com
ment but for the fact that the reverend
gentleman went from the pulpit direct tc
the society of Col. Bob Ingersoll, dining
with him at the residence of mutua
friend, and spending the afternoon witt
him and other friends.
| TOM OCHILTREE.
A good story is told in the Critic. I
runs: A distinguished member of con
gress met Tom Ochiltree in the lobby O.
Wizards, last Friday night, and tapping
the warm-haired statesman fam iliarly OF
the back, said:
''Hello, Tom, did you get an invitation
TO the Dcll III uOLlOI VI tAo 1uttId uIS "
Lorne?"
''Invitation, H." said Tom, Il didn'
want one."
II wanted to go to that ball very much,
said the congressman, ''and I feel quit
indignant because Minister Westneglecte'
to send me an invitation"
''Why didn't you go, anyway, invitation
or no invitation?" said Tom; 'that's tn
way we do down in our country. 1 jus
read an article from Texas paper givini
an account of how Billy Grubb, who ha
failed to receive an invitation to bal
went anyway, and when he was remonstra
ted with he drew his pisto
and shot two people. Some of thes
days we will send Billy Grub
up here to congress, and then see if tn
British minister will neglect him in tn
manner he did you" Ochiltree is boomin
things in advance of his imagination as
congressman His dinner the other nigh
} to which ali high-toned correspondents re
sponded, was a success, and impresse
many with the necessity of new treat
with Mexico embracing special clauses i
relation to the We'll & Labra claims.
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