Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-28
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Its Good and Had Members-The Remark
able Experiences of y Close Observer
of Its Workings During q
Long Residence at
Warrington.

Correspondence Rochester Democracy
No city upon the American continent has
u larger floating population than Washing
tom. 1t is estimated that during the ses-
sions of Congress twenty-five thousand
people, whose homes are in various parts
OF This and ether 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
Jsorlty gather here, as the crows Cock to
the %carrion, for the sole purpose of getting
q morsel at the public crib. The latter
class, as a general thing, originate the
bills, all of which are either directed at
the public treasury, or toward that reve-
nue. which the matchmaking of corpora.
lions or private enterprises may bring.
While walking down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. the other day l 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 want in this particu.
lar direction known, i'll answer to an in
terrogative, Mr.. Ashley said:
"Hes, during my residence here I have
become we'll acquainted with the workings
of the Third House, as it is termed, and
could tell yoa of numerous jobs, which,
like the Heather Chinee,' are peculiar"
"You do not regard the lobby, as a body,
vicious, do youW
"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 peo-
pie. The bad influence of the lobby can be
seen in the numerous blood-bills that are
introduced at every session."
"But how can these be discoveredw
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 refer?"
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
the dbdttoir bills, as they are called.
These, of course, are fought by the butch
ers and market-men. The first attempt 80
force a bill of this description was in 1877,
when q prominent Washington politician
offered a fabulous sum for the franchise"
think of, Mr.. A%shleyw
Eyes, there's the job to reclaim the Po-
tomac fats, 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 IF
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"
"Well, while I have not at all times en-
toyed good health, an certain that the
difficulty which laid me up so long was
not malarial. 1t was something that had
ing pain that at times attacked different
parts of my body. One day my right arm
and leg would torture me with pain, there
weuld be great redness, heat and swelling
of the parts; and perhaps the next day the
left arm and leg would be similarly af-
fected. Then again it would locate in
some particular part of my body and pro-
duce a tenderness which would we'll nigh
drive me frantic. There would be weeks
at q time that l would be afflicted with an
intermitting kind of pain that would come
| on every afternoon and leave mo COM
paratively free from suffering during the
balance Of the twenty-four hours. Then l
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 1 attempted to
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my body, or1 would faint from hot flashes.
l suffered from a spasmodic contraction Of
the muscles and a soreness of the back and
bowels, and eve my eyeballs became sore
and distressed me greatly whenever l
wiped my face. I became i'll tempered,
peevish, f~retful, irritable and desperately
Respondent"
"Of course you consulted the doctors re-
garding your difticultyw
"Consulted them? we'll l should say I
did. Some told me l had neuralgia: others
that l had intlammatory rheumatism, for
afflicted all my life, and that time alone
would mitigate my sufferings."
"But didn't they try to relieve your mis-
cries ?"' 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 ~recover?"
81 had o 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. l procured a
bottle and commenced it's use, taking a
tablespoonful after each meal and at bed
time. had used it about q week when l
noticed a decrease of the soreness Of the
joints and a general feeling of relief. I
persevered in it's use and finally got so I
could move around without limping, when
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Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on
my feet"
nentY'
"Certainly; 1 haven't been SO we'll in
years as l am now, and although I have
been subjected to frequent and severe
changes OF weather this winter, / ave not
felt the first intimation of the return of
my rheumatic trouble"
"Do you object to the publication of this
interview, Mr.. Ashley"
"Eot at all, sir. l look upon it as a
duty / owe my fellow-creatures to alleviate
their suferings so far as I am able. and
any communication regarding my symp-
toms and cure that may b. sent to me at
COG Maine emu will receive prompt and
careful attention."
Judging from your recital, MIR. Ashley,
there must be wonderful curative proper
ties about this medicine"
''lndeed there is, sir, for no man suffered
more nor longer than did I before this
remedy gave me relief"
To go back to the original subject, Mr..
Ashley, I suppose you see the same famil-
lar faces about the lobby session after ses-
sion:"
"No, not SO much as you might think.
New faces are constantly seen and old
ones disappear. The strain upon lobby
lists is necessarily very great, and whom
90, odd fa fhse %I,o Jor,o ro1 ~ n afforf 0f