The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-22
WAXEM ON REFORM.
TO BE MADE CHAIRMAN OF THE
NEW HOUSE COMMITTEE.
u Hasn't Been Appointed Yet, hut He
Has Hopes That It Will he Soon. and
Great Expectations as to the Work It
Will Accomplish.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-DERE Ed.
! DiTEE-When l rote you last, Of
don't disremember, was in the dumps
purity bad, and talked in a nifty dis.
| gruntled way, because had failed 10 cit
appinted checrman OF any Of the house
committys, and wasent the only national
legislator that felt the same disagreeable
pane. No, street Thar was others that
looked good deal blacker than me, and
went around Inoarnin like Rachel for her
| children and refusin to be comferted, till
| begun to think that they were patriots
fer revenew only, and / wasent mulch
better, and then all of q suddin, the lite
begun to shine on me and begun to feel
pcerter, and kind knowed in my bones,
that whatever mite happen to the others,
TO me, at leest, vercher was goin to be re-
| warded. and it was, and in way that
does me proud. am picked out
Of the whole house fer cheerman
OF comnitty made especially fer the
| ocassun in the sake OF harmony
and to fiji long felt want, namely, to
wit: The cOmitty on the reform of con-
gressional morals. The house amt made
mp its mind yit finally to hav stitch q
comitty, but it feels the imperativ nee
ccssity Of il, and thar Is EVERY reason II
beleev that the comitty on niles Will do
everything in its power TO help along the
good worl, thus Exaggerated fer the NEW
yer, while our resolutions air fresh and
our resolves to turn over n NEW leef, and
keep it turned, air in IA furishin condi-
ton
am to be chccrman, because Wayback
has got 10 be rcconizcd, and patriotism
in a state Of mater, and untrameled 10y tho
lugshurics and temtation Of high pres
sure civilization, is what is wanted when
reform Of this c9rackter IS TO be carried to
a successful ndin.
Rome fen because mater was outcrowed,
ana the pristeen s;rcnth Of her lest siti-
Zens was undcrmincdcd and crippled by
high Twin and settiu up o. mites over
poker and waeeale and the lOwin lolc and
similar stiles If cGrryius Oh, that no ma
ton Of Uecnie can stand very long with
oar rczlcctin thor business and plungin
the commonwealth into the vortex OF moral,
GuaucI soshal and political bankrupsy,
and nrt rayin ten cents on the dollar
/ Eay got all my plans laid, and with
lfI.f| NtaNt anu q tss l-Ati tfAn WI iAlf
comty % civ me Their able and un'irin
support, and bacl, me up in every move
mout tCarGs reform, thar amt Il srcck Of
dolt ia my mind that in Six months from
our fUst mc,tin ;hc cashulc observer Wis
uin the house cailerys wont LuO whether
hc has go; into % temperance mcctin or
Sunday school convention. Members has
got to 60 70 church evyery Sunday; no
Ticker is 10 be allowed except over doc
tors stifket; no bcttin OF any kind is TO
be prcmtcd; poker is 10 bo restricted TO
one sent ante; DO smilin at ladies in the
gallery except relations Of members will
be stood; sweet smellin notes has GOT to
be red by the comitty; full explanations,
name and address, is got TO be put on all
flowers left On members desks; all com
itty rooms has got to be thurroly ven
tilatcd and erred, and corkscrcws and
other evidences Of wastin the peoples
time has got TO I've accounted fer, and so on
clean through all the qualifications and
and disipations insidentie /
70 n statesman and patriots residents in |
the national capital durin the time he has |
10 be thar tendin TO the duties which he |
has been selected by the voice OF the pee !
pie to take keer Of, TO nercher and to de-
velOpe into the Gratest good fer the graf
est number, which is the foundation stone |
II all the high and noble principles on |
which the proud superstructure Of our
great and glorious Republican institutions |
stands, as Il menacin monument forever
10 the wore ont and efete nationalitieS
hat has had the dry rot for the last 200
years.
That, Mr.. Eddior, is the platform
which stand on; that is the issue Of the
hour, and He fife it out on that line eff
congress don't git ajUrned tell the Novem-
Der elections.
We hay got money, we hay got branes,
ne hay got buty, we hay got strenth, we
iay got patriotism and we hav got NOR
Us, but not enough in perpotion, and
morals is what we hav got TO hav 10 keep
up with tie pcrccssion Of progress, to
,rcase the iethers Of the American eaceI. |
nd 20 put q shine on the star spangelcd
.anncr.
Scnce this NEW comitty has been sug-
cstcl hay got letters from many emil
cnt eitt2ens tcllin me 10 20 ahcd with
nc good work, and Of | can't reform the
'aiiriOtS now on hand, they viii be only
90 glad 20 make sGcrlfsis OF Themselves
nd iUrnish the proper material 10 work
n by comm 10 congress instid Of the ones !
FREDDY here. Some Of these letters all
most brings tecrs Of JOY to my eyes, un-
sed to vcap, and ! feel to rejoice, that |
he moral sentiment is strong in the land, {
nd that thar is still an inexOstible sup
ly Of patriots rcddy and willin to make |
my sacrls fer this country and to sui
er in her behalf OH a paultry $4,000 Il ,
er and sitch perquizets as falls to the lot {
T statesman that leads uprite lives and {
ocpS thCr eyes skinned. {
Mandy has also rotc me a letter Of con- 7
which she winds up with the {
uestion, "Air you shore they hay got the {
lie man fer cheerman;" but Mandy I
lin a woman Of coarse don't kno nothin {
bout politics, and | can only pity her ig- {
erents and be charitable 10 the material '
quisatiynesS Of the sex.
But enough of morals. Let me now 9
Ike up n business pint Us patriots, in t
spazzum Of economy, wasted c
nc whole day last week discussin whether c
no the taxpayers could afford to let our /