National Republican., 1883-01-11

at any time during his life occupied any sort
of social position goes to pieces he can fall
deeper into the mud and roll around in it with
more apparent enjoyment than any other per-
son in all the rest of the world. When he
loses his grip, self-repect goes with it, and he
actually revels in his degradation and adver-
tises his abasement like an outcast woman of
the town."
Then drifting into personalities he said :
" By the way, would not be surprised to
learn of Walsh sending Senator William Pitt
Kellogg challenge. If he ever intends to
return to New Orleans he will have to do
something or he can never hold up his head
in the community. Kellogg has called him q
blackmailer in plain and unequivocal terms
and offered to prove it, He has stigmatized
him as disreputable in every way. Walsh as
sumes to be chivalric southern gentleman,
and few years ago he tried to establish
reputation as fighter, though / never
heard of his having established a
graveyard, During the Yarmouth regime
in Louisiana Walsh got the governor into q
little back room, and paraded up and down
with cooked revolver threatening him with
all sorts of terrible punishment. Walsh had
the drop on him, and the governor took his
medicine like little man, but never heard
of him attacking Yarmouth afterward, though
he made blood d-curdling threats 1t was about
| that time that Yarmouth won a standing by
dsemboweing statesman who was after him
with homicidal intent, and Walsh may have
concluded that discretion was the better part
| Of 40 nf hn
Kellogg Walsh discussion yet"
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The doorkeepers ON the east side of the
hall of the house of representatives, in view of
the ways and means committee rooms can
tell to a nicety what the committee is doing
by the class of visitors. One day the barbed
wire makers are on hand in force, buttonhol-
ing members as they pass in and out another
day the steel rail lobby monopolizes most of the
space; then the jute butt fellows show up,
and they are followed in turn by the distil-
lers and their hired men. The tin men, the
sugar refners, the Standard oil company
lobby, the plate glass manufacturers, the to-
bacco men, and the representatives of every
other industry take their turn, and they are
| always ON the alert. The buttOnholes of the
poor tortured members have suffered terribly
from the strain. Yesterday the shipbuilders
Joined the throng and pervaded tho entire
south end of the building.
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The whisky lobby is hopeful, but not over
confident. Its shrewdest members have the
greatest difficulty repressing the exuberent
representatives from the moonshining dis
tricts, who are bent on bridling congress and
driving it into the commission of whisky
legislation forthwith. They do not want to
wait minute, and the lobby is praying to
high heaven to be saved from its rough riding
friends, who are liable to kick the fat into the
fire by their misapplied zeal. The whisky
men do not find their path one of unalloyed
pleasantness or unadulterated joy, Pitfalls
abound.
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"I want to see the friendly meeting between
Indian Commissioner Price and Senator
Plumb, when the latter returns from bleed
ing Kansas" observed an evil-disposed per-
son on Capitol hill yesterday, "These good
men have been talking about one another,
and the senator may take it into his head
to say something mean about the pous
gentleman in charge of the Indian bureau.
He may call for information as to the
way the agencies are conducted, with
a view to ascertaining whether there
is any truth in the reports aaoat out
esttouching the queer proceedings of some