The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-08-16

The girls are geJUnS IeauJ W V"h0
their places as voters.
After cigarettes comes the ballot.
Legislature and Bedbugs.
Philadelphia Press.
The session of the Illinois Legislature
Just ended, in which the democrats fol
the first time IN a good many years had
full control, was signalized by the APP
pearance of a new tenant in the state
house at Springfield. This was nothing
less than the celebrated bedbug. This
member of the genus cimicid@, and
known to scientists as the cimeX lee
tularius and described as three-siXteenths
of an inch long and OF roundish, de-
pressed body, was never known to have
the Illinois state house as its home before
the past winter. Its advens is explained
by the Chicago Inter-Ocean on the ground
that the ianitors, clerks, and even some
of the state officers, have used the com
mittee rooms as sleeping apartments.
The pest became so unbearable while
the gisiature was in session that Sc
ries of resolutions on the subject were
offered 10 the senate They were not
entered upon the pages of the Senate's
Journal of its proceedings, but verba-
tim copy of them was taken at the time
and is as TO lows;
Whereas, 1t has been alleged that the
bedbug has taken possession of the com
mittee rooms and the state house,
and
Whereas
''The June-bug has the wing Of gauze,
The lightning bug the flame,
The bedbug has no wing at all,
But he gets there just the same"
And whereas
''The June-bug leaves the last of June,
The lightning bug in May,
The bedbug takes his bonnet off,
An I says: I've come to stay.
Whereas, His presence has caused
much discomfort and disturbed the
SAUNDERS of the committee clerks and
members of committees; therefore, be
it
Resolved
That the presiding officer of the SEN
ate is hereby authorized and directed to
appoint discreet and able bodied per-
son at the salary of nineteen cents a day
to the office of 'bedbug inspector whose
duty it shall be to exterminate the said
bug.
The bugs did not care for the resolu-
ton and they are there still. And their
presence suggests how they might be
made useful There has always been
popular complaint of the length to
which the sessions Of legislatures are
drawn out. This dissatisfaction was
never more freely expressed than this
year. As the Mobile Register said:
"Any one who has access to The lead
ing newspapers from every part of the
Union cannot fail to be impressed by the
practical unanimity with which they
condemn the character md work of the
legislatures of their respective states.
No matter what may be the political
complexion of the legislatures, whether
democratic, republican or populist,
the general judgement as expressed in
the newspapers seems to unite in YER
diet of glazing incompetancy or whole
sale corruption But the question of
how to shorten the sessions and compel
the statesmen to 60 home before they
have done too much mischief has been
satisfactorily solved, ana legislative
sessions have come to be looked upon as
one Of the necessary results of original
sin.
But now comes in the bedbug. 1t is
not known whether Mr. Noah had a pair
aboard the ark, although it has been
generally supposed that Mrs. Noah had
several pair in the old fashioned joint
bedsteads in use before the flood. If
now the descenents of this Mount Ara
rat variety can be used to shorten legis-
lative sessions they Will solve the queries
of why they were created and why they
we're preserved when a good many aD-
parently more useful animals were
drowned.
Remember. when in need of paints,