Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12

queer and Amusing Epistles which
Are Daily Sent To wasbingtoD

ucH LII eminent puDllC pOSltlOnS receive
more or less attention from inspired
letter-writers. Speaker Carlisle Is no
exception to this rule. To-day he re-
ceived three funny letters. One was
from Philadelphia man. He demand
ed that the speaker should Immediately
pass bill aboliShing divorces; making
the granting of divorces by judges
capital offense, and abolishing all schools
IN the country excepting those promot-
ing the Roman Catholic faith.
Another was from gent in Boston,
who requested the speaker to send him
Immediately all the silver i'm the treas
ury and not less than $19O,000, 600, 900
IN gold and paper besides. He wrote
that he wanted to go west and buy three
or four states, and as he figured it out
he would need that amount of money.
The gentleman threatens to come on to
Washington in case the money is not
sent soon, and take an appeal to con-
gress in which case the speaker would
find out whats what" in very short
order. An enthusiastic laboring mans
friend in Chicago writes Mr.. Carlisle
that ne wishes bill passed forthwith
raising the wages of laboring men to $5
day and miners wages to $25 day.
The speaker receives many such let
ters as these. Frequently letters are ad-
dressed Jointly to the president and the
speaker. There is no conceivable topic
that these queer people do not discuss
and give their views upon. For some
weeks back their main hobby has been
the finances, and what should be done
with the surplus coin in the treasury.
1t may be observed. however, that there
are number of gentlemen in promi-
nent positions, whom it would be i'm
polite to classify as money-eranks, who
are also quite solicitous about this coin
surplus in the governments strong
boxes, and the vigorous expressions
growing out of this soiicitude have
doubtless aroused more enthusiastic"
thinkers in the same line into their
present state of letter-writing activity.
Probably no subject was ever agitated
IN congress which has developed more
ietter-writing lunatics than the money
question. One man wants to know why
nothing is ever said nowadays about the
greenbacks when the money question is
up. he has been greenback man all
along, he says, but all of a sudden the
bottom has dropped out of his politics.
He wants to know who has knocked the
stuffing out of the greenback issue, and
also whether all this silence does not
mean a conspiracy to rob the people
somehow by the gold-bugs and bond
robbers. He winds up by calling for an
unlimited issue of greenbacks, and
wants the job of distributing or circulat-
ing them in his section. This man lives
in Michigan.
A letter, postmarked washington"
proposes to sell high official some
valuable real estate for So, 900, 600 cash
A minute description is given of the
property. 1t contains SO many square
rods and feet, there are so many trees
on it, specifying varieties, and the build
ings are composed of 80 many million
bricks. Other funny details are also
given which are not quite legible or
tangible. From the description given,
the property must be the government
asylum for the insane on the heights
opposite Washington The writer says
he nseds the money badly, and suggests
that if the official should buy the prop
erty and afterward become dissatisfied
the remedy would be very simple one.
He, the writer, had the power of put
ting a "spell' upon things, and he
would simply prime" the property by
touching it under the proper conditions,
and it would Immediately change its
form and become an ornament for the
shirt-bosom, or ring more precious
than diamond, and retain the full
value of the money paid for the prop
erty. 1t is needless to say that this
very plausible proposition is still under
consideration; or at all events has not
yet been replied to.
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