The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-04
'THE THIRD HOUSE.
Its Good and Bad Members-The Re-
. markable Experience Of a
Close Observer OF its Work.
ings During Long Resi-
dence at Wash
js ingtOD. oo .r

that ing the sessions OF Congress
twehr. 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 &C.
quaintance Of public men; others
have various claims which they wish
to present, while the great majority
gather here,aS the crows flock to the
carrion, for the sole purpose of get
ting a morsel at the public crib. The
latter class, as general thing, orig
mate 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 Matchmaking OF corpora
tons or private enterprises may
bring.
While walking down Pennsyl-
vanis avenue the other day met
Mr.. VIM. NJ. Ashley, formerly Of
your city, whose long residence here
has made him unusually well ac~
quainted with the operations of the
lobby.
Having made my wants In this
particular direction known, in an
swer to an interrogatiVe, Mr.. Ash>
ley said:
Eyes, during ny 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
a body, vicious, do your"
"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
overriden the will of the
people. 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 dis
covered ."
"Easily enough, to the psrs2n who
has made the thing study. 1 can
tell them at glance"
"Tell me, to what bills do you re>
rer?"
swell, take the amin al gas bills
for instance. They ars introduced
or the purpose of bleeding the
Washington Gas Light Company.
They usually result in an investiga-
ing committee, which never
amounts to anything more than .
lraft upon the public treasury for |
he expenses of the investigation.
Another squeeze is the GbGttoir bills
IS they are called. These of course,
ire fought by the butchers and
market men. The first attempt to
'orce a bill of this description was In
1877, when prominent Washington
politician offered fabulous sum fer
;he franchise"
"Anything else in this line that
you think o., MIR. Ashley?'
eyes, there's the j - 90 rec ain, |
,he Potomac fats, which hal It be- !
come law, would have iesultef IN
IN enormous steal. The work i |
low being done by the Government |
Itself, and will; rid the place Of thas
atmosphere OF which We
near so much outside the city"
"During your residence here have
7ou experienced the bad results OF
living in this climate2"
SWELL, while l have not at all
imes enjoyed good health, I am GER
sin that the difficulty which laid |
ne UP. so long was not malarial. 1t
vas something that had troubled |
ne for years. A shooting, singing
,ain that had at times attscke1 |
lifferent parts of my body. One
lay my right arm and leg would !
orture me with pain, there would
,e great redness, heat aud swelling
# the parts; and perhaps the next
lay the left arm and leg would be
imiIarly affected. The again It
would locate in some particular part
II my body and produce a tender
less which would we'll nigh drive
ne frantic. There would be weeks
se a tilUC tAae L WOulu DS aluICISU
With an intermitting kind Of pain
hat would come on every afternoon
md leave me comparatively free
rom suffering during the balance
II the twenty-fOur hours. Then
you'd have terrible paroxysms of
,ains coming on at any time during
he day or night, when 1 would be
obliged to lie upon my back for
hours and keep as motionlees as
possible. Every time [ attempted
o move q chilly sensation would
,ass over my 5oty, CT | would faint
rom hot flashes. I suffered from a
pasmodic contraction Of the muscles
nd soreness OF the back and bow
liz, and even my eysb lis become
ore an distressed me greatly when
'ver 1 wiped mys face. l became
ll-temp cred, peevish, fretful, IT.
liable and desperately despond-
nt."
mOf course you consulted the doc
ors regarding your difficulty -
"Consulted them? we'll l should
ay I did, S sme told me [ had
Ieuralgia: others that had infaun-
oatory rheumatism, for which there
yas no cure, that would be afflicted
II INV life. and that time alone
you'd mitigate my suferings."