The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-03-26
s'THE THIRD House."
It's Good rud bad MemberH-The Remark
able Experiences OF a close Observes
Of It's Workings During
Long EenidonCo nt
Washington,

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 CarriOn, for the sole purpose Of getting
q 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 at
the public treasury, or toward that reye-
nue. which the black-mailiug Of corpora
tiOns or private enterprises may bring.
While walking down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. the other day I met Mr.. William M.
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 porticu.
lar direction known, in answer to an in
teTTOgative, Mr. Ashley said:
eyes, during my residence here I 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 body,
vicious, do yOuW
"Not necessarily so; there are good and
have been times when it must be admitted
that the combined power of the Third
House has Overridden the will of the peO-
pie. The bad influence Of the lobby can be
seen i'm the numerous blood-bills that are
introduced at every session"
"But how can these be discOveredP
Easily enough, to the person who has
made the thing a study. l can detect them
at a glance"
,,Tell me, to what bill do you rofer2"
"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 in
an investigating committee which never
amounts to anything more than a draft
upon the public treasury for the expenses
of the investigation. Another squeeze is
! the dbdttOtr bills, as they are called.
These, of course, are fought by the butch
eTs and marSet-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" 4"
Anything else in this line that you
think Of, Mr.. Ashleyw
eyes, there's the job to reclaim the Po-
tOmaC fats, which, had II become a law,
would have resulted in an enormous steal.
The work. now being done by the Gov
erument itself, and Will rid the place of
that malarial atmosphere Of which we
hear so much outside the city.N
"During your residence here have you
experienced the bad results Of living in
this climate"
"Well, while have not at all times on-
joyed 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 attacked different
parts of my body. One day my right arm
and leg would torture me with pain, there
would be great Tedness, heat and swelling
T
! left arm and leg would be similarly af-
| fected. Then again it would locate in
some particular part ofmy body and pro-
] duce a tenderness which would well nigh
| drive me frantic There would be weeks
| at time that I would be afflicted with an
! tntermitting kind Of pain that would come
on every afternoon and leave me COM
! paratively free from suffering during the
| balance Of the twenty-four hours. Then I
would have terrible paroEysms Of pain
coming on at any ti5aa during the day or
night when 1 would be obliged to lie upon
my back for hours and keep as moGouless
as possible. Every time I attempted to
move chilly sensation would pass over
my body, oTI would faint from hot flashes.
i suffered from q spasmOdiC contraction Of
the muscles and a soreness Of the back and
| bowels, and even my eyeballs became sore
and distressed me greatly whenever
wiped my face. l became ul-tempered,
! peevish, fretfpl, irritable and desperately
]
"Of course You consulted the doctors re-
| garding your dittiCultyP
Consulted theml well 1 should say I
did, Some told me l had neuralgia; others
that had inflammatory rheumatism, for
which there was no cure, that / would be
afflicted all my life, and that time alone
would mitigate my sutferings."
"But didn't they try to relieve your mis-
eriesP'' Yes, they vomited and physicked
me, blistered and bled me, Plastered and
oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything
but frOze me, but without avail"
"But how did you finally recoverP5
81 had friend living in Michigan who
had been afflicted in a similar way and
| had been cured. He wrote me regarding
| his recovery and advised me to try the
remedy which cured him, / procured a
! bottle and commenced its use, taking a
! tablespoonful after each meal and at bed
time. l had used it about a week when 1
noticed a decrease Of the soreness of the
/ joints and a general feeling Of relief
| persevered in its use and finally got so /
could move around without limpiug, when
! ] told my friends that it was Warmers
Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on
'And do you regard your cure as perma-
nentw
"Certainly; haven't been so we'll in
years as / am now, and although 1 have
been subjected to frequent and severe
changes OF weather this winter, / have not
felt the first intimatiOn Of the return of
my rheumatic trouble"
"Do you object to the publication of this
interview, Mr. AshleyP
"Not at all, sir. 1 look upon it as a
duty owe my tellOw-Creatures to alleviate
their sutterings so far as 1 am able, and
any communication regarding my symp-
toms and cure that may be sent TO me at
DOG Maine avenue will receive prompt and
careful attention"
"Judging from your recital, Mr.. Ashley,
there must be wonderful curative proper
ties about this mediCiueW
"Indeed there is, sir, for no man suffered
more nor longer than did 1 before this
remedy gave me relief"
" To 60 back TO the original subject, MT.
Ashley, / suppOsssyou see the same famil-
lar faces about the lobby session after ses-
sion"
emo, not so much as YOU might think.
New faces are constantly seen and Old
ones disappear The strain upon lobby
lsrs Is necessarily very great, and when
you add to this the demOralizing effect of
late hours and iutemperato habits aud the
fact that they are after found out i'm their
steals, their disappearance can easily bo
accounted for"
What proportion Of these blood-bills
are suCCessfulY'
"a very small percentage, SIR Not
withstandiug the power and influence Of
the lobby, but few Of these vicious meas
ures pass, Were they successful it would
be a sad commentary upon our system Of
government, and would virtually aanihi-
late one branch of it. The great majority
of thom are either reported adversely or
smOtlered i'm committee by the watChlul-
ness and loyalty Of our congressman"
j. E. ID.
DRUNKEN msn are seldom hungry, but
the man who is sleepy drunk is possessed
or uuppy tglt,-BDStgu Star.