Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-03-27
s'TBE THIRD house,
nts Good and had Members-The Re
markable Experiences OF q Close
observer ofits workings During
q Leng Residence at
Warrington.
espondence Rochester Democrat.


Correspondence Rochester Democrat.
No city upon the American continent
has a larger floating population than
Washington. 1t is estimated that dur
ing the session 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 ad-
vantages the city offers for making the
acquaintance of public men; others
have various claims which they wish to
present, while the great majority gath
er here, as the crows flock to the car
ron, for the sole purpose of getting
morsel ut the public crib. The latter
class, as general thing, originate the
many Schemes which terminate in
vicious bills, all of which are either
directed at the public treasury, or
toward taat revenue which the black
mailing or corporations of private en-
terprises may bring.
While walking down Pennsylvania
avenue the other day l met Mr.. Ashley,
formerly of your city, whose long resi-
dence here has made him unusually
well acquainted with the operations of
the lobby.
Having made my wants in this par
ticular direction known, in answer to
an interrogative. Mr., Ashley said:
"Yes, during my residence here l
have become we'll 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 youP"
mot necessarily so, there are good
and bad men comprising that body;
vet there have been times when it must
be admitted that the combined power
of the Third House mas overridden the
will Of the people. The bad influences
of the lobby can be seen in the numer-
GUS blood-bills that are introduced at
every session"
"But how can these be discov-
eredp"
Easily enough, to the person who
has made the thing q study. l can de-
tect them at glance"
"Tell me, to what bills do you re-
ferp"
"Well, take the annual gas bills, for
instance. They are introduced for the
purpose of bleeding the Washington
Gas Light company. They usually re-
suit in an investigating committee
which never amounts to anything more
than draft upon the public treasury
for the expenses of the investigation.
Another squeeze is the dbattoir bills,
as they are called. These, of course,
are foug hit by the butchers and market
men. !rhe first attempt to force a bill
of this description was in 1877, when a
prominent Washington politician
offered fabulous sum for the fran
chise.''
'Anything else in this line that you
think of, Mr.. AshleyP"
Eyes, there's the job TO reclaim the
Potomac flats, which, had it become a
law, WOO I'D have resulted in an enor-
nous ste al The work is now being
done by the Government itself, and will
rid tho place of that malarial atmos.
phere of which we hear so much outside
the city"
During, your residence here have
you exreri enced the bad results of liv-
ing in his climatep"
1Wcn, while have no. at all times
enjoyed good health, am certain that
the difficulty which laid me up so long
was not malarial. 1t was something
that had troubled me for years. A
shooting pain that at times at
tackled different parts of my body.
One day my right arm and leg would
torture me with pain, there would be
great ledness, heat and swelling OF the
parts; and perhaps the next day the
left a,'m and leg would be similarly ef-
fectetl. Then again it would locate in
some particular part of my body and
prodnce tenderness which would well
nigh drive me frantic. There would
be weeks at time that / would be at
Hict ed with an intermieting kind OF pain
that. would come OH. every after
noon and leave me comparatively FREQ
from suffering during the balance OF
the ty yenty-four hours. Then | would
have terrible paroxysms of pain coming
on at, any time during he day or night
wheIi would be obliged to lie upon
my back for hours and keep IS notion
less as possible. Every time l attempted
to NJ owe q chilly sensation would pass
over my body. or l would faint from
hot flashes. l suffered from spas
mWlic contraction of the muscles and q
soreness of the back and bowels. AVID
even my eyebails become sore and dis
tressed Ine greatly whenever ] wiped
my face. l became iu-tempered. peev-
ish, fretful, irritable and desperately
despOudentD
''Of course you consulted the doc
tors regarding your difficulty P"
Consulted them well sht ,uld say
did. Some told me had ne, ,ralgia
others that 1 had inflammation, rheu.
matism, fer which there was no cure,
that / would be afflicted all my life,
and that time alone would mitigate my
sufferings.''
But didn't they try to relieve your
miseries POI
Eyes, they vomited and physiced
me, blisl cred and bled me, plastefed
ard oiled me, sweat, steamed ai'd
everything but froze me, but without
avail"
"But how did you finally recover ?"
IL hsh n friend living in Michigan
who had been afflicted in similar way
and he'd been cured. He wrote me re-
gardipg his recovery and advised me u,
try the remedy which cured him.
procured bottle and commenced its
use, taking o. table spoonful after each
meal and at bed time. 1 had used It
about a ives k when noticed decrease
OF the soren ess of the joints and a gen.
eral feeling of relief. persevered in