The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-06-16
ALLIANCE Department.
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MARIETTA JOTRNAL IS THE
Official Organ o, the Farmers Alliance
of Cobb County.
EDITED BY ALLIANCE Committee.
How Oar Laws and Lawmakers Are
Seasoned Up at Washington.

palatial gin mills in the National
Capitol Building at Washington,
termed by courtesy the Senate and
House restaurants" but few,
probably, unless they have taken
trip to the Capital, and, incidentally
stumbling upon one of these bar
rooms, have discovered q crowd Of
the nations lawmakers with flushed
faces ano paunches pressed 70 the
bar counter drinking like sailors,
realize the exact nature of these
Congressional restaurants. Those,
however, who have seen the sigh.
will cease to wonder why so little
practical legislation gets on the
national statute books.
All kinds of intoxicants are sold
at the Senate and House ''restau-
rants" and the Statesman" the
citizen and the stranger can get a
drink here whenever he feels like it.
Of the two gin mills, the one on the
House side is the more profitable
because it is the most extensively
patronized. The House barroom is
located in the first, or basement,
floor Immediately under the hall of
the House of Representatives, and
occupies tour medium. sized rooms
Immediately across the corridors
from the restaurant" are committee
rooms, the House document room,
the House post-office, stationery
room, and other rooms, and only
one flight OF stairs leads up to the
hall of the House of Representatives
and the several other rooms used by
committees and House officials.
THE SENATE RESTAURANT.
Both these restaurants are fitted
up in elegant style, and why should
they not be, since the Government
the people-pay for all? The
bar counters, it is true, display no
array of cut glasses and bottles, but
the splendid refrigerators imme>
diately in the rear of the bars are
kept filled with all kinds Of liquors,
wines and beers, and sufficiently in>
dictate the nature of the business
transacted. In the Senate "restau-
rant" they are little more careful
than in the House, and insist on the
drinkers being seated at one of the
tables before the fluid is served.
There is always lively trade at the
House bar from II O'Clock in the
morning until the House adjourns,
and there are scores OF Congressman
who press their stcEachs to the bar
counter and take copious draughts
Of liquor. And they do not appear
to care who sees them. Others go
into the dining rooms and quaff their
beer or sip their toddy. Sometimes
they are alone, and at other times
they have for their companions te.
males of elastic virtue, who prosper
while Congress is in session, and
who generally succeed in securing
for themselves or friends lucra tive
Government positions. 1t is no in
frequent sight to see in these "res-
taurants" members Of Congress ''full
to the br;m."
MIR. James Murray, oe New York,
who has charge Of the House "res.
taurant," has increased the receipt;
largely since he assumed charge al
the beginning Of the present session.
He said to 'Voice" correspondent
that he simply learned the brand Of
whiskey Or beer patron liked, and
then got it for him. The amount Of
beer. sold by him will average about
90 cases day during a session, and
not less than four gallons of whiskey,
to say nothing of the many brands
OF wines and ether light drinks. The
Senate bar dlspenses about one third
this amount, but large quantities 90
direct to the committee rooms that
do not pass through the hands of
Proprietor T. L. Page.
1t may be just the thing for con-
sumers to pay one and half, two or
three prices on the necessities of life,
go that their public servants whom
they have hired and chosen by their
ballots may receive $14 a day and
half as much more in perquisites,
work or play, on duty or on drunk.