National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-31


If it were not for the high freight rates ON
Central Pacific railroads, We would
get our 'sweotnin' for much less.
As it is now, sugars from the
east cannot bo shipped to tho Pacific coast
and compete with the rofneries there. It's
not tho treaty, but the monopoly fastened on
us by the exorbitant freight tariff, that makes
our high price for sugars"
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Eyes I'm n constable" said tho man with
the limp, but tell yer things have changed
here in the last forty years. Oncet such n
thing as going for the household goods or
vallybles of member of congress or q gov
ernmont clerk was never hearn tell of Now,
by links. we are arter 'om moren anybody
else and have a hard time with 'em, too.
DO yer see that SCARF Well the vito
of southern congressman hit mo
thar with fiat iron while l wor trying to
levy on the baby's crib and her husbands
voleeco for 'hfy' issued on bill for seal
skin coat We gifts all battered up at times,
and then tho business don't pay, no how.
Last week ! was sent down TO that dime
museum on Ninth street to make levy.
Well, when got thar there wor nothing loft
but boar CONSTRUCTOR l mado an effort to
git the burned snake inter u bag so | could
git him down stairs and inter push cart
1t ended up by the reptile Dustin outn the
sack, nearly stranglin the niger, and then
eatin up my hat | tell yer what's wanted
in this deestriclS is revision of the law or
we'll starve dead certain"
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81 shall not vote for tho resolution giving
each congressman q private secretary" said
Mr.. Lacey, Of Michigan "There is no doubt
but that some of the members, especially on
this side of the house. are overworkcd and
haven't time to attend properly TO the work
for which they were sent here because of the
mass of letters they are obliged to answer.
But many of tho members on tho democratic
side have no more use for private secretary
than toad has fox two tails. Their
constituents arc not writing to them
about pensions, and bounties, and federal
offices, and their correspondence is not so
great but that they can attend to it.
Its different with us. | have so much work
to do that am compelled to employ clerk,
but shall not vote to have the government
pay him. look at it in this way. When
was elected l knew what the duties were;
how much work l should have to do. / knew
just what tho salary was and that the govern
ment did not pay for n clerk for me. was
not forced to accept the Office on these con-
ditions, but, having accepted it, ] Consider
that there 10 sort of contract, between me
and my district, and am to live up to it,"
ut is reported" said the Avenue Man,
chat the new private secretaries which tho
senators have voted to themselves and APP
pointed will have to whistle for their pay, as
the house will refuse to appropriate money
for their salaries. What do you think of
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"They will get their pay without any
trouble. That matter will be settled by con-
| ference committee composed of gentlemen who
understand that the senate is responsible for
| its own expenses and must take the RESPONSE
bility before the country for its action. The
house will vote as an appropriation for senate
expe nses just what the senate asks, although
just now some members may kick against
| it,"
81 don't intend to say" continued Mr..
Lacey that this movement to furnish soma
tors and representatives with clerks is
altogether against the interests Of tho people.
1t costs more and more every year for con-
gressmen to live and the man who has a
family and is obliged to live on his salary is
all the time in Strengthened circumstances.
The present tendency is to drive poor men
out of both houses. and / don't think that is
in the interest Of the people, To furnish
clerks to those who are now obliged to pay
them from their own salaries would be just
,nurh Of n Of IN
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The Indiana man looked lovingly through
some eleven-year-old whisky in the glass
which no held in his hand, then he tasted it
and pronounced it good, and then he said
II know where there is some old peach
brandy that is worth its weight in gold,
although l suspect it couldn't be bought for
money. Some time in tho year 1872 Hugh
Hamer moved to Lawrence county, Ind, and
settled near where the town of Mitchell now
stands. One of the first things he did was to
plant peach stone. The peach stone
sprouted and the peach tree grew. Old Hugh
who was young Hugh then, took the first full
crop of peaches that the tree bore and made
barrel Of peach brandy. That was before
1890 and there's some Of that brandy left
yet. Old Hugh never sold drop of it, bu
about once year he takes few of his choseI
friends to that barrel, and they get about
gill Of it. The barrel has q big room all tt
itself in Hamer's great stone mill, and wher
the doors of that room are opened you col
smell that brandy for fifty yards. Py'
tasted it just once, and
know the effect. It's as smooth
and ropy as strained honey, and tastes just a
innocent, but pretty soon the man who
drinks it wants to sing and dance on tn,
railroad track, and do something extrava
CANT. lie is happy and cheerful and at peac
with all the world. The mill is in one o
the loveliest and most romantic places yol
ever saw. Its overshot wheel is turned by
great stream of water that comes out o
Hamer's cave, about 200 yards farther up the
!, valley. ] think the whole valley is filled
with the aroma of that brandy. It's good"
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"When tho committee of forty made its 70
, port on the Danville massacre" said Con
grossman Sam Miller, 81 wrote rather a Ions
letter to the chairman, Mr.. w. II. Sutherlin
: j told him that one great objection ! saw t
that sort of riots was the fact that the.
always killed the republicans. | told hin
; that IL would seem fairer to me if the
killed just rs many democrats as ropubli
cnnl aud | wantel him to aXDlain tn