Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-10-28

Capital Gossip.
Washington. Oct. 19.-President
Cleveland received in his mail a letter
from an Ohio democrat II was short
aud to the point.
Dear sir it read, will you please
send me Il list of your sinecuref offices,
ana oblige,
When Ne president catches his
breath he will not answer the letter
but will paste it In his scrapbook as
an example Of Ohio simplicity. honesty
and righteousness.
Buck Kilgore, the Texas kicker. tells
the following story ON himself: 81
just got back to town, and, as my
family was not with me, | thought l
would 20 to a clearinghouse till they
came. l went to one, and a nice old
lady met me at the door. l told her
that ] wanted a room. She took me
to one, and after l told her that it
suited me she asked me where / was
from.
" Texas ! replied.
"She went at once TO the ~gas-burner.
took hold Of the stop-cock and. suiting
the action TO the word, said: Now,
before you 20 to bed, you take hold
Of this SO and turn it So
81" was somewhat amused: but /
told lAfs fl4.F yv-..,l.T ,..r...LF-.
" You mustn't forget, she went on.
apparently fearful that l had not
learned my lesson. You take hold so
and turn it So
4" Madam / said, I assure you YOU
need not worry; l fully understand how
to work the gas
" Yes she replied, I know, but /
have had so much trouble with people
from Texas blowing out the gas | -
e Madam interrupted in order to
prove that l had not always lived in
the wilderness, 4 have lived for the
last eight months in Chicago
''She Strengthened herself up. moved
a step back, looked at me severely
when l mentioned Chicago ana in a
cold, HilSl tone said.
" Sir. l would have YOU understand
that | am a respectable woman trying
to earn an honest living ana that l
viii have no drinking, carousing OF
gambling going on in my house "
After the laugh Kilgorc said to the
Chicago man present:
Pretty hard on Chicago, ch!'
"Oh, | don't know the Chicago man
replied. Il would rather be taken for
Il knaye than a fool"
Whereupou the Texan began to fill
buster.
was trying to prove that Senator Cock
rcll, who was talking To Il lot of empty
seats, was not an idiotic nuisance.
Why, that man has got brains" he
said, lots of 'em. Why, let me tell
you, he has got SO much brains he gets
other senators 20 Introduce bills for
him ana they are passed before any
n else knows they belong to him.
mats the very highest Indication Of
e. .atesmanShip.'
That's true" another man said.
There's only one man in the house
who does it, and that's Holman"
He has to do it," said the Missouri
an.
That's true" the other continued.
And that's why he does it. l remem-
Der last session Holman had been OBJ
jecting to the passage of ut least one
bill for almost every member during
the suspension days. He knew that
he couldn't hope to get a bin of his
own through, but it happened that TO-
ward the last Of the session there was
a bill he very much wanted to have
passed. 50 he got a friend to introduce
it for him, and afterward he said to
him:
4" Now, tomorrow viii be suspension
day and you call up the bill, ask that
the rules be suspended and pass it,
THE congressman did so, but just as
the rules were suspended Holman
bObbed up and in his customary way
squeaked out TO his friend:
" Eli, let me see, what is the bin
forT
Holman had not told his friend he
was going to do his old act. and the
latter was almost mad enough to give
him away; but instead he explained
the bill, ~whereupon Holman said:
oh, well, l guess that bin is all
right won't object and sat down.
This so a~stonished the other members
that everybody concluded at once that
if Holman approved of the bill 1t must
be all right, and the bill passed
unanimously.
The famous old red house where
P1,ire died doesn't look as il did a
year ago. Then 1t was spic aIa span.
Its paint was fresh, its window paneS
were clear, the ~doorknobs bright as
FURNISHED gold. the blinds trim and
neat, the lawn closely moved and the
steps clean. Now II looks Ms If no n
had lived in it for years and only a
little while ago it held the great light
Of the republican party. The paint on
+bn bricks ana doors and fence has