The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04
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Correspondence Rochester Democrat
No city upon the American continent
mas a iarger floating population than
Washington. 1t is estimated that dur
ing the sessions of congress Twenty-Five
thousand people, whose homes are in va
rious parts of this and other countries,
make this city their place of residence.
Some come here attracted by the adyan-
tages the city offers for making the ac-
q~uaintance Of public men others have
various claims which they wish TO present
while the great majority gather here. rs
the crows flock to the c~arrion, for the sole
purpose of getting a morsel at the public
crib. The latter class, as q general thing
originate the many schemes which ter
inmate in vicious bills, all of which are
neither directed at the public treasury,
or toward that revenue which the black
mailing of corporations or private en-
terprises may bring.
While walking down Pennsylvania
avenue the other day / met Mr. William
M. Ashley, formerly of your city, whose
long residence here has made him I'M
usually we'll acquainted with the opera
lions Of the lobby.
Having made my wants in this par
ticular direction known, in answer to an
interrogatiye, Mr.. Ashley said:
Eyes, during my residence here have
become we'll acquainted with the work
ings 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, there are good
and bad men comprising that body; yet
there have been times when it must be
admitted that the combined power OF
the Third House has overridden the
will Of the people. The bad influence
of the lobby can be seen in the ume
GUS blood bills hat are introduced at
every session"
"But how can these be discovered?
Easily enough, to theperson who has
made the thing a study. / can detect
them at a glance"
"Tell me, to what bills do you refer r"
well 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 II
an investigating committee which
amounts TO anything more than draft
upon the public treasury for the expen-
SEES ofthe investigation. Another squeeze
is the abattoir bills, g they are called.
These, Of course, are fought by the
butchers and market men. The first at
tempt to force a bill of this description
was in 1877, when Appointment Washing
ton politician offered a fabulous sum for
the franchise"
eAnything else in this line that you al
think of, Mr.. Ashley"
Eyes, there's the job to reclaim the
Potomac flats, which, had it become a
LIZ wcala@ have resulted In an enor-
nous steal. The work is now being
done by the Government itself, and will
rid the place of that malarial ,atmos-
phere of which we hear SO much out
side the city"
During your residence here have
you experienced the bad results of liv-
ing in this climate?n
"Well, while i have not at all times
enjoyed good health, / am certain that
the difficulty which laid me up so long
was not malarial. It was something
that had troubled me for years. A
shooting, singing pain that at times
attacked different parts Of my body.
One day my right arm and leg would
torture me witL pain, there would be
great redness, heat and swelling Of the
parts and perhaps the next daythe left
arm and leg would be similarly affect
ed. Then again it would locate In some
particular part of my body and produce
q tenderness which would well nigh drive
me frantic. There would be weeks
at a time that / would be afflicted with
an intermitting kind of pain that would
come on every afternoon and leave me
comparatively free from suffering during
the balance of the twenty-four hours.
| Then I would have terrible paroxysms OF
| pain coming on at any time during the
| day or night when I would be obliged to
| lie upon my back for hours and keep as
m~otionless as possible. Every time | at
temptedt to move achilly sensation would
pass over my body. or / would faintf from
hot flashes. / suffered from o s~pasmodic
~co1traction Of the muscles and a Sore
ness of the back and bowels, and even
my eyeballs became sore and distressed
me greatly whenever / wiped my face.
T became ill-tempered, peeyish, fretful,
irritable and desperately Respondent. 7
"Of course you consulted the doctors
regarding your difficulty"
nConsulted them ? well I should say /
did. Some told me / had neuralgia
others that I had infiammatory rheuma-
tism, for which there wasno cure, that !
would be afflicted all my life, and that