St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-03
"TnE THIRD House."
It's Good and bad Membcrs-The Remark.
able Experiences of n Close Observer
of Its Workings During
Long Residence at
Washington.

pldft Oh IeSIIencc. SOM come mere
attracted by the advantages the city Offers
? Tor 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 {
the carrion. for the sole purpose of getting
! morsel at the public CRIB. The latter
class. as a general thing, originate the
| many schemes which terminate in vicious
bills, all of which are either directed nj
tue public treasury, or toward that reve-
nue. which the Matchmaking of corpora
tons or private enterprises may bring.
While walking down Pennsylvania ave
nue. the other day l met Mr.. William NJ.
/ resi- ience here has made him unusually
well acquainted with the operations of the
lobby.
Having made my wants in this particu.
lar direction known, III answer to an in.
terrosative, Mr.. Ashley said:
| "fes, during my residence here have
Become well acquainted with the workings
OF the Third Hou ,e. as it is termed, and
| coull tel You Of numerous Jobs, which.
like the Heather Chinee,' are peculiar"
.ion do not regard the lobby, as a body,
| vicious. do youI'
Not necessarily so; there are good and
bad men comprising that body: yet there
have been times when it mus. lie admitted
t that the combined power of the Third
/ House has ovarridden the will of the peo-
/ pie. The bad Influence o; the lobby can be
seen in the numerous blood-bl.s that are
/ introduced ut every session."
but how can these be discovered!''
Easily enough, to the person who has
| made the thing study. ! can detect them
at a glance.'
TELL me. to what bill do You refer?"
"N ell, take the annual gas bills, for in.
stance. They are introduced for the pur.
t pose of bl eding the Washington Gas
Light Company. They usually result in
an investigating committee which never
amounts TO anything more than a draft
upon the public treasury for the expenses
i of the investigation. Another squeeze is
the 9, dbattotr bills, as they are called.
These, of course, are fought by the butch-
ers and market men. The first attempt to
force a bill of ii is 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"
Yes. there's the job to reclaim the Po-
tomac flats, which, had it become law,
W uld have resulted in an enormous steal.
The work is now being done by the Gov
eminent itself, and Will rid the place If
that malarial a mosphere of which We
hear much outside the city0
During your residence here have YOU
experienced the bad results of living in
this climata."
well, while l have not at all times On.
loved good health. am certain that the
difficulty which laid me up so long was
not malarial. Il was something that had
troubled me for years. A shooting, sting.
ing pain that at times n tackled different
parts of my body. One day my iight arm
and leg would torture me with pain, there
would be- e. eat rednesS, heat and swelling
of the parts: and perhaps the next day the
left arm and leg would b, similarly af-
fected. Then again it would loca.e in
pnf ylar ort # I.,.lx
duce tenderness which would well nigh
drive me frantic. There would he weeks
ut time that l woul be afflicted with an
intermittins kind of pain that would come
OH every afternoon and leave me CON-
Iaratiyely free from suffering during the
balance of the twenty-four hours. Then
would have terrible paroxysms of pain
coming on at any time during the day or
night when | would be obliged to lie upon
my back for hours and keep as motionless
as possible. Every time l attempted to
move chilly sensation would pass over
my body, or | would faint from hot flashes.
/ suffered from a spasmodic contraction of
tue muscles and soreness of the back and
bowels, and even my eyeballs became sore
and distressed me greatly whenever I
wiped my face. l became ill-tempered,
peeyish, fretful, irritable and desperately
"Of course You consulted the doctors re.
garding your difiiculty:''
"Consulted them: well l shonld say l
did. Some told Inc had neural sia: others
that | had intlammatory rheumatism, for
which there was no cure, that L would lie
afflicted all my life, and that time alone
would NIT ate my sutferings."
but aidu't they try to relieve your mis- |
cries ~ Yes, they vomited and pnyscSed |
ME, histerei and BLEED Inc, plas. cred and |
oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything |
but froze me, but without avail"
no., Il 81,
81 had friend living in Michigan who |
had been afflicted in similar way and |
had been cured. He wrote me regarding I
his recovery and advised me to try the /
remedy which cured him. / procured
bottle and commenced ITS use, taking a |
after each meal and at bed /
time. | had used it about a week when / |
noticed a decrease of the soreness of the
JOINTS and a general feeling of relief.
persavered in its use and finally got so |
could move around without limpin:, when
told my fir ends that il was Warmers
Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put the OH
my feet.o
And do you regard your cure as perma.
nent:"
Certainly; haven't been so well in
years as am now, and although / have
been subjected to frequent and severe
OF weather this winter, l have not
felt the first irtimation of the retu;n of
my rheumatic trouble"
'Do you object to the publication Of this
Mr.. Ashley"
mot at all. sir. | look upon it as
iuty l owe my fellow-creatures to alleviate
her sufferings so far rs l am able. and
my communication regarding my symp-
oms and cure that may b. sent to me at
'UG Maine avenue will receive prompt and
.areful attention.
Judging from your recital, MIR. Ashley,
here must be wonderful curative proper
les about this medIcine:"
"lndeed there Is, sir, for no man suffered
more nor longer than did / before this
emedy gave ME relief"
I" To go back to the original subject, Mr.
ishley, suppose YOU see the same famil-
ar faces about the lobby session after ses-
;ion."
mo, not so much as YOU might think |
sew faces are constantly seen and old
mes disappear. The strain upon lobby
SIS is necessarily very great, and when
lou add to this the demoralizing effect OF
ate hours and intemperate habits and the
act that they are after found out in their
teals. their disappearance can easily be
ccounted for"
O. What proportion of these bIocd.bills
re successfuln
"a very small percentage, sir. Mo-.
the power and influence of
be lobby, bn. few of these vicious meas.
res pass. Were they successful it would
e sad commentary upon our system OF
overnment, and would virtually annihi.
,te one branch of it. The great majority
them are either repor ed adversely or
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