Omaha daily bee., 1886-12-12

a number OF charitable movements lnaugu-
rated by his grandfather possesses the fam
lily inheritance in q country place, and keeps
as sacred as his religion the many little ido-
syncracies imauguarated century ago by his
forefathers, some of them not emulated by
people generally at this age of the world.
Mr.. Swope points out the record OF his grand
father as 1t appears in the volume pos
sessed By General RoSecrans, with extraor-
dnary pride. The representative OF the
Gettysburg district is fity-nine years old,
and doubtless his ancestry will ere many
years be pointing to the traditions set up by
him.
POOLS IN HORSE RACES.
About two years ago very vigorous fight
was begun by some of the well disposed peo-
pie OF Washington against the inordinate
practice here OF selling pools on horse races,
base ball games, slugging matches, etc. A
bill was introduced in congress making 1t q
penal oifense and obligatory upon police Of
ttcers to execute the law 1t was the deter
minatioa OF these good. people TO completely
eradicate this dissipation which has been
leading government officers TO default, PR
yate citizens to go into bankruptcy and
ruined characters to suicide. The pool
rooms of the nations capital have been for
many years the most attractive places in the
city during certain seasons, covering mostly
from the lst of May to the latter part OF Oc-
tober and affecting regattas, races and all the
soon after the bill appeared in congress at
the slow and tmid manner in which many
of those who were presumed to be its friends
took hold of 1T. 1T rests quietly in committee
rooms and is not likely to be eXhumed
UIn connection with the failure of the pool
selling prohibition bill q young man who has
lost good deal of the hard earnings of his
father in these eXcesses tells our correspon-
dent that lie knows the secret of the bilFs fail
ure II sounds improbable but give it for what
II is worth, not youching Tor its truthtulness.
lie says the pool sellers raised q fund soon
after the bill was introduced, in,duplicate in
Dnh nt N nn N
Each OF the pool sellers subscribed $40
month to keep up the warfare for the sup
preston of the measure, The money and the
funds were placed in the hands Of COM
mittee clerk or messenger This individual
is intimate with number of gentlemen who
control many measures in congress and who
are called upon to pass upon them on the
two floors The poker rooms of the city
there are probably fifty of them-each con-
tributed sum for the lack pot" to be
placed in congress are foremost in keeping
up the regular assessment to keep down leg
islation, 1t is the principal business OF this
clerk or messenger, who has charge OF the
corruption fund to induce senators and mem
bers to visit certain club rooms or card places
where they are engaged in games of chance,
treated sufficiently and cOuTted to bring
about the suppression of the bill.
MoRRILL AND THE TARIFF.
Vt is said that Senator Morrill, had in view
the cost to certain manufacturing interests o
the country, and mining development for the
maintenance of the present tariff system,
when he introduced in the senate the other
day his resolution against tariff agitation Mt
the present session of congress. About
twenty or thirty Interests, affected directly
by the tariff, keep steadily employed in
Washington attorneys or their represent
atives for the purpose OF maintaining their
interests in the status of the present legisla-
ton. That is, they are to prevent, If pOSsi-
ble a reduction of the tariff, or change
which would be injurious to the interests
they represent. 1t is safe to say that each of
these twenty or thirty men is paid an aver
age OF 81, coo a year. 1t is known that eight
or ten of them get as much as $4,000 year.
Add to this the expense OF sending here
every year or two a legation OF an o1fcer OF
the corporation or private individual repre-
senting his own interests, and 1t can be seen
that tho cost is very material to the people in
tereSted in maintaining the present tariff
laws. Therefore any agitation which neces-
sitateS the increase of activity on the part of
those people creates additional expense and
makes the burden very heavy.
SUNSET cox.
the new member from New York or rather
the old member returned, and the late minis
| ter to Turkey is the most entertaining man
| in the mouse, at present. Fellow members
| flock about him like flies around a sugar
| cask and beglhimstO tell oriental stories. Mr..
| Cox is always a fluent narrator and finds a
| good deal of amusement now in relating
| what he characterlzes as fairy tales. He
| told friend the other day, but he may have
| been testing, that he was stutfing more states
| men now than he had ever stuffed; that if he
| could only create as firm an impression uDOn
| the body of the house as he could on little
groups in telling them about the sultan and
| the harem, he could have things his own way
| in the house and defeat or secure the passage
| of any measure genius could invent.
l.. IS. HEATH.