Evening journal., 1892-08-12

Bolos Louu Laughs IN "a Day nut SEN
ators Are Too Digniaed to DO More
Than Smile.
Especial Correspondencel
WASHINGTON. Aug. .-Congressmen |
do laugh. "(Laughterr and "IGreat
laughterw are frequent entries in the |
pages of The Congressional Record. In |
the house there are fifty laughs-that is.
official laughs, which goin The Record
to one in the senate. The grave and rev.
erend senators find it beneath their dig
nifty to laugh except on great provoca-
ton, and great provocations to laughter
are rare in their body. Senators smile
a good deal, but the official reporter
would never dare bracket lsmilesl in his
report. In the house there are many
laughs in a day-broad, bold, loud
laughs. The official reporters, having
the newspaper instinct. and desiring to
enliven the dry and monotonous record.
put them all in.
This has been a laughing congress.
Never before have those bracketed
words appeared so often. 1t is a CON
gress Of funny men-some desiring to be
funny, some funny against their will.
II is n congress that contains many PEE
culiar members, who "blew in" with
the cyclone of 1890 Many of them.
who have purposely or Intentionally
amused us, will not come here again;
mores the pityi For without its 'laugh-
ter and great laughter" congress
would be positively dreary. Oft it is
anyway.
Our last good laugh in the house was
on Thursday, when Mr.. Butler, Of Iowa.
very bright man and ready talkei,
made peculiar slip. Being asked if he
had not testified in certain way before
an investigating committee he replied
YES, but being under oath had TO tell
the truth" The inference that Mr.. But
Ter did not tell the truth except when
under oath was so obvious that it was
not necessary for any one to point it out
The house roared and the galleries
shouted, and the familiar words Great
laughter" appeared in The Record next
morning.
Our first good laugh was when Mr.
Boutelle poked fun at Economist Hol-
man, comparing him to Mrs. Squeers,
who gathered the boys about her at
DOtheboys hall and administered to
them with long spoon their doses of
birthstone and treacle (retrenchment and
reform) for the purpose of breaking
down their appetites and saving provi-
sions.
Between these first and last laughs we
have had hundreds more.
Young Mr.. Bryan, of Nebraska, raised
many a laugh while talking tariff.
"Afy friend from Maine (Mr. Dingley,
seriously says the tariff on wool has
made more pounds of wool grow on the
sleeps back" To an opponent who N
terrupted him Bryan said, "You are
welcome to all the time You want if you
will only talk in that way" Mr.. Bryan
told one of the best stories of the SEES
sion. A white boy proposed to a col
ored boy that they go cahoots on coor
hunting. Tho cOlored boy was to fur
nish the dog and climb the tree, Will,
the white boy was TO do the "hollering.
The colored boy accepted, and in thii
way they caught three coons. WheI
they came to divide the white boy tool
them all. What do l gety' asked th'
black boy. "You get the cahoots"
Bryan likened the manufacturers WHIT
pretended not to want moro tariff to TIL
maiden lady who said to herself: "Thi
is the third time my beau has called
and no may make some demonstration
If he does l have made up my mind 4
bear it with fortitude." Mr.. Bryal
satirized the river and harbor bill b,
proposing an improvement for the Platt
river, in his state 1T has no commerce
now" he said, 'but that fact alone
sufficient evidence that it needs improy
ing. If the present flow of water wer
confined in q stone wall thirty feet wild
and twenty feet deep there would be sui
fcient water TO carry ON extensive con
merce, and il necessary we could sin
artesian wells to get more water at tn
west end of the river"
A colloquy in the house:
Mr.. Moses-The masses throughout the coul
try nay the enormous postal receipts returne
by the cities. Who denies thatl
Mr.. Biugham-I do.
Mr.. Moses-No sane man could deny
ILaughterl
M. Bingham deny 1t.
John Allen, of Mississippi, has bee
uulIl NAAAo ENtAo0AAs IA AAolAooAA
an election case he raised one good laug
by telling Of colored voter of his tow
who on every election day took up h
stand near the polls and waited for wha
ever might turn up. One time he waite
and waited in vain, and finally, becor
ing impatient, exclaimed; "Gentleme
/ is about to votel Does any gentlems
wish to speak to mey'
Mr. Payne, of New York, talking tart
was asked about wages in 1910. 1--WE
have not studied the question of wag
back to the time of the flood" NJ
Harter asked Mr.. Payne if he might
terrupt him. Certainly" said M
Payne; lit rests me.
Mr.. Deliver, of Iowa, told Of a barb
Of his acquaintance who knew ever
thing and had cheerful way of lettii
20 of it. On another occasion Dolliv
was closely pressed by Mr.. Bynum
explanation of certain figures which I