St. Paul daily globe., 1890-12-23
FEARFUL FECUNDITY.
The United States Senate Sue
cessfully Worked by a
Sharper.
A Poor Man With a Broken
Leg the Author Of the
Gigantic Hoax.
Even Vice President Morton
Does Not Escape I'm
Scathed.
Senator Manderson at Last
TumbleS to the Extpaor-
dinapy Racket.

endeav0r, have at last burglariZed their
way into something that is akin to nOto-
riety, and, if their efforts are not soon
interrupted, will move with unexam-
pied rapidity toward untold wealth.
During the past week an acute observer
in the senate galleries might have seen
numerous self-congratulatory smiles
chase each other over the countenances
of some of the more distinguished
statesmen who occupy places on the
floor, but until to-day the reason for
these muscular chucKleS was not ap-
parent. Grave and reverend senators
to some of whom the delights of early
fatherhood were but memories-sent out
and
Purchased Silver Hugs
and silver spoons and had names en-
grayed upon thereon. Others folded
up samples of the newest and most crisp
five or ten-dollar bills. All of them
wrote nice little letters to accompany
the bullion. or promise to pay. and, sin
gularly enough, all of them addressed
their gifts to the same person, at the
same address. To-day there is more of
Partisan speeches of the fierIest descrip-
ton will be involuntarialy Interrupted
by smiles. while bitter accusation and
sarcastic retert will be sandwiched be-
tween robust strata of neyer-wearying
laughter. TO the people in the CALLER
les these exhibitions of hilarity will be
enigmas, but not for any length of
time. The secret is out. Tue United
States senate has been made the scene
of a confidence mans operations. and
he would nave been "working'' the
greatest deliberative body in the world
yet, had he not, in an unlucky moment,
decided to make victim of Senator
Henderson, Of Nebraska. This morn
ing when Senator Manderson went
through his mail, he found therein the
following letter:
Baltimore, Dee 20, 90.-Hon. Charles p.
Manderson-Dear Sir: Enclosed you vii
find the baptismal certificate OF my little sen,
Charles Manderson Duvall. whom named
in honor of you. How came to name him
after you was that | wanted TO name him
after some prominent Republican and choose
you because you are from my native state.
have seen you on several occasions and al
ways have been an admirer of you. Little
Charles is getting afong first-rate, and hope
that he may live and be as upright ana hon
est as the man after whom he is named. He
is our first-born. and as soon as we have his
picture taken, will send you one. Also, in
closed you will find five tickets for an enter
tainment which is given for my benefit
would not nave troubled you with them only
last week had my leg broken while at work
and my friends are giving this for my benefit
Ali the income had was what was derived
from my daily labor,and l hope you will take
them to aid me If you do not wish them
you can return them. My wife and little
Charles are well, and / hope this will find
you the same. Please answer by return mail
and let me know if you received the certifi-
cate all right. Hoping this will find you well
and wishing you q merry Christmas and
Happy New Year, | remain, Yours respect
fully. WILLIAM DUyAII.
S25 E. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.
Answer by return mail, as l viii be anx-
iously awaiting reply.
The tickets which were enclosed had
on their pink surface the printed an
nOuncement:
Grand entertainment for the benefit of
William Duyall, to be held at Byrne's hall
Wednesday, Dec. 81, 1890. Tickets, 81.
Now had Senator Manderson been the
only senator thus applied to, all might
have been well, and by this time the
broken-legged, but happy, father would
have had five of Senator ManderSon's
412 grains, nine-tenths fine silver dol
lars In his inside pocket. But it so hap
Dened that few days ago the Nebraska
statesman had seen similar certificate,
in which the name of this fiIst-born
child was declared to be Justin Morrill,
Duyall, and he likewise knew that the
venerable senator from Vermont had
torn S. off his salary and sent it to the
suffering father at S25 East Baltimore
street Convinced that if Mrs. DuvaII
could be the mother of two first-born
children she might have given birth to
a few more at the same time, Senator
Henderson began to investigate the
caused the laughter which in the SEN
ate to day was frequent and painful
and free" According to the certificates
which have been uncovered there are
now in existence
A Distinguished Family.
Joseph Dolph Duvall. William Evarts
Duvall, Anthony Higgins Duyall, John
Griffin Carlisle Duvall, AIgerLon Paddock
Dnvall. Watson Squire Duvall. Edward
Wilbur Sanders Duvall Richard Pettigrew
Duyail. Thomas Power Duvail, Leland Stan
ford Duvall, Phietus Sawyer Duvall. Francis
Stockbridge Duvall, Henry Blair Duvali,
William Washbnrn Duvall, George Vest
Duvall, Frank Hiscock Duyall, to say nothing
of Charles Mandrson Duvan; all tirsl-born
children of this wonderfully virile William
Duvall and his extraordinary wife, Mary L.
DuvalI.
incidentally, these children have ali
been brought into the world within the
past three weeks. There are those
around the senate who say that there
are several other newly born Duyalls,
among them John Sherman DuvaII,
Matthew Stanley Quay Duvall and Ar
thur German Duvail, but the gentlemen
thus honored insist that they have not
been called on for either silver mugs or
money; they are. however, regarded
with suspicion. The vice president did
not escape. There is Levi Morton
Duvall, and he or his father owns nice
silver cup, appropriately inscribed. The
certificate which was sent to Senator
ManderSOn is similar in every respect
save the name of the alleged child to
those which the other senators have re-
garded with so much satisfaction. The
document is little more than twelve
inches long and about ten inches wide.
1t is printed in the highest style of ec-
clesiastical art on calendared paper.
AlIegorieai Imagery
and Scriptural phrases abound. Shep-
herds with lambs, Shorn and unshorn.
seemed to haunt the designer. A hen,
striving with an over-large brood of
chickens, represents Mrs. Duvall and
her first-born. A pelican, conveying
food to nest of his offspring, is eyi-
IDENTIFY Mr.. Duvall, and if his legs are
as thin as the pelican's are, it is not
much wonder that one of them has been
broken. A serpent, climbing fruit
tree and evidently bent on getting some
thing for his trouble, might easily be
mistaken for Mr.. DuvaIl as at present
engaged. Surrounded by scrollwork, a
square-rigged boat sails on sunlit
sea toward rocky promontory on
which stands church, and beneath
this photographic gem is the information
that 'sCharleS Manderson Duvail, child
Of William Duvall and his wife, Mary