The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-07-23
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WAsnuNeroN. July 10, 1856.
Since ii is understood that Congress
must be prolonged into the dog days, the
Senate proposes to make the remainder Of
the session as lively and as hot as possible.
Something must be lone these torrid days
to elevate proceedings into harmony with
the thermometer. Preparations are being
made for a heated political debate in con
n~ection with the vetoed pension bills. All
Presidential veto messages from the orsan-
ization of Congress to the present day are
to be printed and sent Ia the senate in Il
few days,
Several Republican senators expect to
make violent assaults upon the President,
and one New England senator in particu-
lar is making elaborate preparations for his
speech. If he carries ont his intention.
that particular Senator will be attacked
from the Democratic side and a great sen
sation is promised, II is said a case will
be presented charging him with e~xacting
from a widow 5000 for procuring her pen
sion since he came to Congress. That is a
terribly grave charge. Senators and Rep
rcscntatives are forbidden by statute to re-
ceive a fee or gratuity for any service be-
fore HE departments. The penalty for
violat ion is not more than two years i'm
prisonmcnt in the penitentiary or not more
than $4,000 fine, or both fine and impris-
onment They also render themselves sub
iect 10 expulsion from Congress.
On these warm sultry mornings there are
three congressman who can he found in
their seats at 10 o'clock. That is conSid-
cred Il very early hoHr rs the House does
not convene until - VI. These early birds
are Warner, of Missouri; Lyman. of Iowa,
and Ellsberry, of Ohio. Regularly at that
hour Mr.. Warner may be seen at his desk
with a pile of books before him. He seems
to be the hardest student in Congress. But
Mr.. Lyman has more pressing business to
attend 10. His district has more pension
ers and claimants probably than any other
in the United States. Each mail brings
him heaps of documents which he must
put together and formulate into bills. In
NV IL htNI W. mn WIN 'hit iAitii
the good will of his constituents, therefore,
he has to be at his desk while his colleagues
are at breakfast. Mr.. Ellsbury completes
the trio who reach the House before the
pages, and he makes tse of the time by
answering letters.
The tendency towards rutlianism i'll Con
gress has been quite marked of late.
Scarcely IL day passes that some member
does not call another a hard name or utter
some coarse threat. 1t was generally con
coded a few days since, after the disgrace
full encounter had occurred between Rep
rcsentatives Cobb, of Indiana, and Laird.
of Nebraska. that it is time for the House
to assert its dignity. The collision took
place just outside the Hall of the House,
and was the result of acrimonious words
used in a sidc discussion OF Il question then
under debate. Both men had gone outside
for the purpose of fighting it out. In
sulting language was exchanged and Mr..
Laird, who is a young man, struck Mr..
Cobb, who is about twenty years his
senior, a severe blow. \ ring on Mr..
Laird's finger cut Mr.. Cobb's face making
it bleed, and but for the interference of
friends, Il rough and tumble fight would
have cnsitcd. AND then, later, the digni-
fled Senate Chamber was the scene where
two presidential candidates exchanged
opinions of each other and of the sections
they represent which were anything but
ntnY1iDppntur ffnttapaj | nn9n U-lnfnI
to increase the appropriations for several
Illinois Improvements, and Senator Ed
mundS opposed it as unfair t. other see
tions. Logan, with some warmth, rctort-
ed that EdmundS had got for Vermont
more than her share, and was now fighting
everything that Illinois asked for. Sareas-
tically he added that Burlington, Vt was
Il much larger and more important place
than Chicago. Mr.. EdmUnds replied that
as the Illinois Senator never todd an un-
truth, Burlington must be larger and more
important than Chicago. He accused
Gen. Logan of carrying chips ON each
shoulder and asserted that they have social
order and execution of law in Burlington.
which do not exist i'll Chicago. This sllr
upon the lake city aroused Mr.. Logan's
ire. SAID he, The people of Chicago are
Just Us good as the senator from Vermont:
just as la~w-abiding and certainly they are
not So pcStifcrous at home rs he is in this
body" "Pestifcrous was felt to be a fear
full Word To- Ilse in connection with the dig
nitied, reserved. astute, elderly senator
from Vermont, st. Jerome Edmunds as
he is called, because his profile is said To
resemble strikinsIy the pictures of st.
Jerome. But the episode broke the monot-
ony of business proceedings, and the Sen
ate indnlgcd in a laugh at Logan's charac-
tcriZation.
ESTON.
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