National Republican., 1884-03-29
ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About Men and Meas


lead 10 some very amusing incidents. The
legislators who rejoice in exact duplicates
are Hon. Phil Thompson, of Kentucky and
Representative Horr, of Michigan 1t 10 not
an unusual thing for Mr.. Thompsons brother
to find himself gathered by the arm by one of
the Hon. Phil's democratic colleagues and
dragged in on the floor of the house and the
injunction thundered in his car, "Why tho
devil don't you get in your scat and vote
Our bill Is upon its passage"
The other day Mr.. Horr's brother ap-
preached the main door of the house, and the
polite democrat in charge promptly snatohed
open tho green baize door and bowed him Ia
on the house floor. The Michigan twin
strolled over to his brothers seat, sat down,
and took part in all tho opening ceremonies
Of the legislative day except that he failed
ITO answer the roll call. Representative
Reed, of Maine, who has some peculiar
Jway of identifying the Horr brothers,
conclude cd he would have little fun, aud
slipped over and posted tho doorkeeper.
That flnctionary stalked over to tho desk of
tho Michigan statesman aud informed the in
truder that ho must come out. But" said the
occupant Of the chair, my namo is Horr,
I'm from Michigan" The democratic door
slammer looked hard at the intruder, and
would have weakened had not Mr.. Reed
made signs for to go ahead, that it was all
right. But you're not Represon tative Horr,"
said tho guardian of tho house, "and you must
como outside" Just then the real represen la
! tive of the eighth Michigan district came IN,
and the doorkeeper glared at the two in evil
dent dismay. "All right" said Represen tativo
Horr'to his brother, you go outside and I'll
come out and talk to you" AS the twin
passed out the doorkceper took sort of
mental photograph of him with his eyes, and
said to his chum I'm be blowed if he
comes that gamo on me again" In a
moment or two Mr.. Horr left tho floor and
joined his brother in the corridor. After
they had finished their chat the
representative said to his brother, you go
in now and take my seat again" AS he
passed the portal the doorkeeper smiled con-
| fdently, and said. "All right sir. l know
which is which now" When Citizen Horr
was again in his brothers seat Mr.. Reed
again beckoned to the doorkeeper, and said,
"Great heavens, you've let the wrong man
in again." and then pointed TO Representa-
tive Horr, who was coming in from another
door, The bewildered doorkeeper looked at
the two Horrs, and then, as the cold sweat
gathered on his brow, he stammered out,
"For Gods sake, mark 'em in some way, or
I'm likely to turn the other fellow in O
caucus any night"
ION whom are the Florida democrats going
to throw away their votes this II" was the
question put to Col. Amber, prominent
democrat of Jacksonville, Florida. "They
1 want the old ticket" said he, "and especially
the Tilden end of it. They want to right
the great wrong of '76, and they will be dis
satisfied unless they havo that opportunity.
Tilden is regarded as the greatest of living
democrats, and the democracy of oil the
southeastern states are for him."
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The senate was discussing the Blair educa-
tonal bill and Senators Riddleberger and
Vest were talking back and forth with more
4 warmth than ordinarily enters into senate
\ rial dobate. An old gentleman of short
stature, with bald head and very long white
4 whiskers walked across the floor of the
4 chamber In the press gallery there was a
young man who writes very entertaining
Senator Sabin is queer looking man, isn't
ho?" he said to his friend, at the same time
NJ pointing to the bald-headed, long -whiskered
> man down below.
THAT isn't Senator Sabin," said his friend.
what, that old man with the long white
whiskers is not Senator Sabin?"
Certainly not. Senator Sabn's hair is a!
black as John Logan's and his moustache il
nearly as big. He is about four times as larg,
as that old man and about half as DID,"
"Is that so?" said the correspondent, in
melancholy way. Somebody told me tha
was Sabin, and described him for Sabin in
letter that l wrote to my paper, and all tn
papers in Ohio have copied that description
It's too bad"
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} "If ever bill WIS killed by its friends,
said the gentleman from Philadelphia. II
was the whisky bill. All that was necessar.
to defeat 1T was to compare She contradictor,
speeches of its friends. Hurd wanted tn
whisky men relieved because, although the
stood in the attitude Of criminals convicte
and fined, yet they were not q bad sort q
fellows and ought to have their fines II
mitted. Several other members claimed tn
relief for the whisky men becaus
they were SO truly good. Then cam
Phil Thompson with his talk about temper
ance reformers taking a drink from tn
bottle behind the door, thefeby setting ever
temperance man in the house wild to s
down on him. The whisky bill was reall
temperance measure by preventing chea
whisky, but that speech was enough to 81
the faces of all the temperance elemei
against it. But Hewitt finished this proce
of killing by kindness when he said he shoul
. vote for the bill with the expectation thu
the internal revenue law would be repeale
, and the tax remain forever unpaid"
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There were halfa dozen men, all democrat
coming down from the capitol together. Or
, of them, who talked like very wise ma
indeed, and who appeared to be q new men
ber, was explaining to the Others who we
his visiting constituents, that the administr
ton couldn't fool him. "lve never been
Washington before" said he, "but ] know
, thing or two myself. / had heard about tl
gongs on here, and 1 knew just rs we'll
If I'd seen it that the agricultural bureG
was run in the interest Of the republics
party. So when / got my assignment
q seeds from the department / didn't just scr
o away the packages to my friends, like foe
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