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rsoslged - ths neu osrs II The House.
Prominent repSsssn tatlyes average daily [
froul twenty-five = one haEdred Letters
A chairman u = promiaen. committee 1
GET more sAan one OF Tho minority
of tie SOn nnit5ss on revolutionary
olainlS General Harry Bingham
chairman Of the pOst-of1ee co1nLnittse.
averages hfEy day General ben Bat
tsrW0rLh, chairman OF the COMMITTEES on
patents. receiVes larger Rambsn MA~
5or Mckinley chairman of shs commit
toe On ways and aeans. - overNholmed
with letters LrOn the people A new
mem oef seoeiVes elzht ~ ten letters a
dag a. Ehe 5sginnlnz u hts career Ia
Congress- The nEmber grad aAlly In
creases II ia remains Ia the House
half dozen tasns IL wili nearly double
With each succeeding term With the
letters come scores Os pabiic documents
and qaansities q newspapers. At times
the desk of a sasmbsr resent lbles NE
@eEohange" table o. rural editor. The
exchanges are thrown in heap Rnder
hls desk ~ fass - they are opened and
psrused The pages gather them IN
and shey are sold toe old paper. Let
ters sent 20 Representatives, In Congress
come from uea representing nearly
every srade and profession IN lie
some are written IA a beautiful hand,
while others are fearful scrawls- A
lev agc pointed and pithy. bat many
arc verbose and unmeaaing
Quaint and funny letters arc scattered
through a Congressman's nail The
representative Il besot By many corro-
zpontents seeking financial aid More
than this. the managers Of fairs and
festivals for benevolent religious and
Other purposes send him scores OF tick
srs and request him 20 remit tho money
tor them He gets them not only from
his own district bat also from the Dis
trict OF Columbia. Washington lsvies
n personal tax upon all COngrcssmen-
Il charges them more for board and
rooms than others are charged IL
takes one day IN twelve In the House
FOR legislation IN iss interest. IL has
lately, - use a sententious slang ex-
preszion. got onto tho ticket racket
and IS working Il tor al It - worth"
Aloag with tho letters come scores OF
circulars gaudily printed and other
wise. TailorS jewellers, real-estate
men. cassrerA printers conductors,
cleryymen, racing associations, distll-
Isrs, sype-writers, claim agents and
others seek patronage. Political and
religious tracts and wonan's suffrage
and prohibition circulars load down his
nails There are protests from farm
srs. Knights Of Labor, pOst-ofico clerks,
printers. pilots and hundreds of others
against legislation threatening their
interests The tariff sgitasion brings
him communication from a thousand
trades and industries imploring atten-
tiOn. They range from the great iron
manufacturer down 70 the makers OF
toosapicks and o0rlcs
A wise Congressman never allows bis
mail 20 accumulate. He sits il every
day and answcrs his letters promptly.
In this way he pleases bis correspond
cnts and saves puch time and annoy
anoe for himsolL Some OF the nissives
received ar0 very amusing. Not long
ago = Representative from a Gulf State
opened lettor while sitting az his
desk. 10 smiled AID passed It to
brother mambcr. IL came from con
sdtuenk Tho writer was evidently a
poor man on the lookout for 4 fortune
Aftera long preface about his healsh
and the health % his family be canno 70
busi ness. He said that his wife had a
big gold brcast-Din with q wooden back.
Tpon shs back were carved the initials,
u. "" tie claimed that tho carving
Wa done by George Washington him
self. az NJ Vernon, soon after tho close
OF the revelation He had tried TO sell
the pin in The county whore he lived,
bat bad never becn offered more than
two dollars Foe It.
Zone man. said he. "tried 40 swap =
hog for the pin, but got shut Of him
mighty quick. I done rcckoned that
you. bein' CouE-essrna an kRowed some
usilYonare up In the House, who comes
froJ Moo York or Boston, who EOad
D. -ighs glad 20 ray fore or five hEndrid
dollers for the pin
he added that n his Congressman
eouId fnd such a man he would b will
ing to pay hin fve dollars for his
trouble. Hs wanted 70 hear fron him
rizht away The quicker be gos 10 work
the better.
This letter vas shown IN the cloak
room during dull debate It brought
cut another letter received By a Florida
Rs,presen .ative The writer said sh st
he understood thera vas a reward Of Eve
hundreS dollars offered for duplicate Of
the cane carried By General Jackson
vale he lived in the White House. lie
sided nat he had lately heard that
MS cane vas on exhibition IN the Na-
ti.nal Museum in Wsshingtoa. Hs be-
sought bis Congressman - hire pho
tcrrauhcr and - down - she museu n
ard sake a bix rhotoT~sph of the cane
Then he could serI hi-r the rhotoT-s 81.
s-F he -heurhs he could make a perfect
duplicate vIeh his lacS-xnlfe. Ills con
fEerre ir hls whitclng povcrs was 50
-reat tbaa he promised e. pay AZ she
-xrenses ~ the Con- nTress-'an and 20
rva bin ffteen asllsrs besides i he
ureni1 forward ere rhae'V-ana ard Ind
cha nan who ofsred che fire hundred
dollars ~ the durl4caee
The rriter vas snxicue thst 10 her-
--sa~e ea--a should 70 rn wc~s aS Eran "a
rs--av sn srr1e ir-n lard near konie. "a.
The evhiritiou ~ sh}s ,etter evoked
smother -ecei vssi ~ a North fazy-l ns
Ear,-rzsr~-a Iva a few weeks a-1 he