Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1886-04-14
A SAD EXPERIENCE.
Troubles of IA BrOOkiynite Who Wanted
Bill Passed by the New York
Legislators.

An Albany correspondent of the New
York Morning Journal writes: The eX-
perience of a gentleman from Brooklyn
who came to Albany to secure the pas.
sage of bill in which he had personal
interest may be of service to others in
terested in litigation. A gentleman of
the twenty-siXth ward in the city of
churches came here four weeks ago with
pocketful of money and bill which, if
made law, would have enabled him to
collect Il claim of 1860 against the city
of Brooklyn.
Said he: Il came UP here four weeks
ago with $1,000 in my clothes. came
here with a bill directing the treasurer
of Brooklyn to pay me $500 damages
done my property by the board of city
works. My friends told me the bill
could be showed through in a weeks
time" and here he seemed to be on the
point of bursting into tears.
well, what happened?"
lit cost ME 500 to get we'll enough
acquainted with the asSemblyman from
my first district to get him to take an
interest in my bill. l didn't pay him
anything, but my friends told me to
treat him well, and l did. | bought
| champagne for him and his remarkably
large circle of friends until it seemed to
me that their teeth must have been
submerged in wine. On Friday of
that week he introduced the bill, and it
was referred to the committee on lonely
places.
you felt all right then?" said the
Journal man.
Not by burned sight" exclaimed
the sad man, vehemently. The as
semblyman, says he to me, Now we've
got the bill in the hands of committee
the next to do is to get it out. Come up
next Monday My board bill for that
week, including what spent on wine
and 25 cent cigars for the assemblyman
and his friends, amounted to $3.50.
Did you come up on the following
Monday?"
I'm ashamed to say | did When l
got here my assemblyman said it would
be necessary for me to get acquainted
with the clerk of the committee, as he
was the man to push the bill along"
60 You got acquainted?"
Don't | look as if l dido" remarked
clerk was wine-drinker too. He told
me one night confdentially that he had
promised his aged mother he would
| never drink liquor in Albany-that is
why he drank wine. He seemed to
have a good many friends who made
similar pledges. My expenses for the
second week were $500. You see, was
gettin' kinder desperate, and l whooped
things up.
"On the Monday of the third week l
came here" he continued; my assem-
blyman said the bill was in tirst-rate
shape; all | needed to do to secure its
passage was to get we'll acquainted with
| the chairman of the committee and the
| other members"
"Of course you followed his advice?'
Il did. 1t took me just two weeks to
know the committeeman the same as if
they were my brothers. All this time I
kept settin' up the wine, buyin' 25-cent
cigars" (the cigars seemed to linger in
his memory ''and takin' the committee
out sleigh-ridin'. woke up yesterday
morning with head as big as bushel
basket and found was dead broke"
''But what became of your bill?"
''The chairman reported it on Friday
mornin'. 1t was showed ahead in some
way unknown to me, and my assembly.
man moved that it be ordered to third
readin'." Here he broke down COM
pletely.
cit passed, of course?"
''No. Some chap from New York
moved to strike out the enactin' clause,
Ioa Io Of
special legislation, and the bill was
killed, every member of the committee
on lonely places votin' agin it."