The Red Cloud chief., 1884-03-21
ssTKE THIRD House."
Its Good and had Members-Ths Remark.
able Experienced Of . Close Observer
Of Its Workings During .
Long Residence ut
Washingtoa.

Ton. IL Is estimated mat UuFluS Tue ScS'
sions of Congress twenty-five thousand
people, whose homes are in various parts
of this and other countries, make this city
their place of residence. Some come here,
attracted by the advantages the city offers
for making the acquaintance Of public
men; others have various claims which
they wish to present, while the great ma
jority gather here, as the crows flock to
the c~arrion, for the sole purpose of getting
a m0rsel at tine public CRIB. The latter
class, as a general thing, originate the
MANY schemes which terminate in vicious
bills, all of which are either directed at
the public treasury, or toward that reve-
nue. which the matchmaking of corpora
tions or private enterprises may bring.
While walking dow Pennsylvania ave-
nue. the other day / met Mr.. William NJ.
Ashley, formerly of your city, whose long
residence here has made him unusually
well acquainted with the operations OF the
lobby.
Having made my wants in this particu.
lar direction known, in answer to an in
terrogative, Mr.. Ashley said:
"Yes, during my residence here l have
become well acquainted with the workings
of the Third HOuse,'as it is termed, and
could tell you Of numerous jobs, which,
like the Heather Chinee,' are peculiar"
"You do not regard the lobby, as a body,
vicious, do you"
.Not necessarily so; tl.-re are good and
bad men comprising that body; yet there
have been times when it must be admitted
that the combined power of the 'Tnird
House has overridden the will of the peo-
pie. The bad influence of the lobby can be
seen in the numerous ~blood-bills that are
introduced ut every session."
"But how can these Dc discovered"
EASILY enough, to the person who has
made the thing a study. / can detect them
at a glance"
TELL me, to what bill do you refer?"
swell, take the annual gas bills, for in
stance. They are introduced for the pur-
pose of bleeding the Washington Gas
Light Company. They usually result in
an investigating committee which never
mounts to anything more than a draft
upon the public treasury for the expenses
of the investigation. Another squeeze is
the dbdttOir bills, as they are called.
These, OF course, are fought by the BUTCH
erS and marhet-men. The first attempt TO
force a bill of this description was in 1877,
when a prominent Washington politician
offered a fabulous sum for the franchise"
Anything else in this line that you
think of, Mr.. Ashley"
Eyes, there's the job to reclaim the Pc.
tomac flats, which, had it become a law,
would have resulted in an enormous steal.
The work is now being done by the Gov
eminent itself, and will rid the place nf
that malarial atmosphere of which we
hear so much outside the city,"
During your residence here have you
experienced the bad results of living in
this climate"
swell, while I have not at all times en-
joved good health, l am certain that the
difficulty which laid me up SO long was
not malarial. 1t was something that bad
troubled me for years. A shooting. sting
ing pain that at times attacked different
parts of my body. One day my right arm
and leg would torture me with pain, there
would be great redness, heat n swelling
of the parts; aud perhaps the next day the
left arm and leg would bs similarly at
fected. Then again it would Locale III
some particular part of my body and pro-
duce a tenderness which would well nigh
drive me frantic. There would be weeks
| at a time that l would be afflicted with an
| intermitting kind OF pain that would come
| Oh every afternoon and leave me com-
| paratively free from suffering during the
balance of the twenty-four hours. Then l
would nave terrible parOXysms OF pain
coming on at any time during the day or
night when l would be obliged to lie upon
my back for hour and keep as motionleSS
as possible. Every tim l attempted to
move a chilly sensation would pass over
my body, or would faint from hot flashes.
| l suffered from u SpaSmodlc contraction OF
| the muscles and a soreness of the back II
bowels, and even my eyeballs became sore
and distressed me greatly whenever l
peevish, ~fretful, irritable and desperately
Respondent"
"Of course you consulted the doctors re-
garding your diticulty?"
"Consulted them? well l should say 1
| did. Some told me | had neuralgia: others
that l had intiammatory rheumatism, for
which there was no cure, that / would TO
afflicted all my life, and that time alone
would mitigate my sufferings."
"But didn't they try to relieve your mis-
eries:.'" Yes, they vonited and phySlcked
NE, blistered and bled ME. plas cred and
| oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything
but froZe Inc, but without avail"
But how did you finally recover"
: 81 had a friend living in Michigan who
had been afflicted in a similar way and
bad been cured. He wrote me regarding
his recovery and advised me to try the
remedy which cured him. l procured q
bottle and commenced its use, taking q
tablespoonful after each meal and at bed
time. / had used it about a week when l
noticed q decrease o. the soreness of the
| FONTS aud q general feeling of relief. !
persevered in It's use andsfinally got so l
| could move around without linplns, when
| told my II ends that il was Warmers
Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put ue on
my feet"
land DO you regard your cure as pernia-
| nent!"
| Certainly; / haven't been SO well in
years as l am now, and although l have
been subjected to frequent and severe
changes oil weather this winter, l have not
felt the first irtimation of the retu.n OF
my rheumstic trouble."
"Do you object to the publication of this
interview, Mr.. Ashley"
"Not at all, sir. l look upon it as a
| duty l owe my fellow-creatureS to alleviate
| their suffarings so far as l am able. and
| any communication regarding my symp-
toms and cure that may b. sent TO lie at
5U6 Maine avenue will receive prompt and
careful attention"
.Judg.ng from your recital, MIR. Ashley,
there must be wonderful curative proper.
| ties about this m~edlcine!"
'lndeed there is, sir, for no man suffered
more nor longer than did l before this
remedy gave me relief"
"To go back to the original subject, Mr..
Ashley, / suppose. you see the same famil-
lar faces about the lobby SESSION alter ses-
sion"
mo, not so much as you might think.
New faces are constantly seen and old
ones disappear. The strain upon lobby
isis is necessarily very great, and when
you add to this tbs demoraliziny effect Of
late hours and Incorporate habits and the
fact tuat they are after found out in their
steals, their disappearance can easily be
accounted for"
"Wnat proportion Of these blood-bills
are successfully"
"a very small percentage, s;r. No.
| outstanding the power and influence of
the lobby, but few of these viciou meas.
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