The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-07-22

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1t has long been notorious TIA: the
Congressional Record i DO, true record
Of the thing spoken in Congress. be, i; has
been assumed ,ha; is repprs Of the votes
could be accepted a. Official ami correct,
| Official it may he, bu; the Washington
, Post charges tina, in the vote IN the ap
preparation for the BarshoI.ii statue.
taken last week, four New York mem.
bers are recorded as present and voting
| for the bill when they were ali 81 them
absent from the House a, tie time the
vote was taken. As the H"u.4 journal
| shows the same vote a. th. E,.,rrd the
conclusion is irresistible that s4,n- one of
the clerks deliberately falsitie~l the record
in he interest, and doubtless at
the request of the four absent New
| York members The bill vas one
in which New York city was particularly
interested, and would naturally expect
its own representatives To BE- present and
support it when it came before the
| House This the four New York MEM
bers felt, and not finding it cow enieut to
be present when the bill came ~ the,
got the clerks 10 record them in the az
frmative anyhow This is serioas nat
ter, as it shows that the passage 81 bills
is less dependent on the actual vose Of
the House than on the disposition d The
clerks. The House of Representatives,
owes it to itself to make a thorough IL
vestigation of the matter, and if it is foBnd
that the record has been falsifed, Is
charged, all parties to the fraud, whether
members or clerks, should receive the fun
punishment of which the case admits
Charleston -Ne,cs and Courier
The Iowa Democratic State Conven-
ton at Des Moines adopted a platform
which endorses President Cleveland and
his administration favors honest pension
bills, but opposes special laws; calls on
Congress to revise the tariff laws so as to
meet the needs of revenue only; declares
in favor of the payment of the public debt
and in favor of the legislative adjustment
of the labor question; denounces the new
Congressional District law; demands the
investigation and conviction of all mall
feasance in public Offices and favors the
repeal of the prohibitory law and the en-
actment OF local option law, extending
to counties and cities, the license adopted
to be not less than $500.
1t is said that the slums of Berlin
are worse, if possible, than either those of
Paris or London. In the German capital
smsll number of houses are occupied BY
one or two families, but the great majori-
ty contain more. Twenty-Five hundred
contain from Is to 20 lodgings, 10000
from 90 to 80 lodgings and 10000 over
30 lodgings each. Seventy-five thousand
OF these lodgings are composed Of one
room only and inhabited by no fewer
than PC, 900 persons, which is an aver
age of nearly four persons per room; u.s.
900 other lodgings are composed of two
rooms and occupied by 100000 inhabit-
ants, while the remaining 80, 700 lodgings
are formed of three rooms, inhabited by
100000 people. In the poorer quarter
the houses are so packed together as to
be almost deprived of light
The Fort Meade public Library has
recently been placed under great obligs-
tions TO Mrs. Smith OF Boston, who on
hearing through friend of our efforts at
building up a library. has shown her sym
pathy with the cause and her good will
to far off southern town, by making us
donation of % interesting and valuable
books. This lady has no personal inter-
est in our section, and is an entire strang-
er to our people. Hence We should ap-
preciate the more the benevolent donor
1t is to be hoped that her generosity may
serve as an example for some of our own
worthy citizens to emulate, for one of the
very greatest social needs of our town Is
a first class library.-Fort Meade Pioneer
In show window at Washington Is
golden chameleon from Yucatan. 1t
long cream-colored beetle. wearing
dainty gold harness and tethered to q PIN
with six-inch gold chainsof the lightest
pattern. He wanders aimlessly to the
end of his tether and round and round
his beaten stake. A popularity of the
Great ure is that it will live some months
without eating. The ladies of Yucatan
and Central America very generally wear
this curious pet, in harness of gold'
tethered with gold chain to their cor
sage.
Mr.. Beecher has done good in max