People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-03
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BEFORE AND AFTER.

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BEFORE AND AFTER.
The same Congress which refused
to pass this Gar coupler Bill Tuesday
did pass it last summer. Democrats
who now oppose it then voted for it.
Why the difference ?
Last summer the elections hadn't
come on.
Now they have passed.
There's lots of difference between
"before" and "after," with the "dear
old Democratic Party
/" WHERE AM AT" COBB.
Late in the night of the Car
coupler contest Cobb Of Alabama
thought it was good time to scatter
the silence which had clouded him
all this session. He wanted to ask a
question, but for some cause (Which
| leave to be guessed at) his inquiry
got too strong for him and wolloped
him around till the House was tired
OF the performance.
don't think I ever saw "Par-
liamentary Inquiry get the upper
hand of statesman SO completely as
it did of Cobb. Mr.. Cobb's question
starts at the middle Of page 2115 Of
the Record and drags its victim all
through the balance Of that sheet,
then collars him again at the top of
theme pulls him ingloriously down
the whole of that sheet, and throws
him fiat on his back at the top of
page 2117.
Really a parliamentary Inquiry
OF this sort ought to be put under
Bond and security to keep the peace.
There is no telling when it will catch
hold of a statesman and toss him
helplessly around in the currents of
discussion.
PURIFYING Tf-E rG4EooR0.
LOIS OF tnings winch take Place on
the floor do not appear in the Record
Members cut them out. The GUS
tom allows this.
Therefore the account of Mr..
Cobb's parliamentary Inquiry"
while sufficiently curious to arouse
suspicion as to his condition, does
not contain that part of his spat with
Gen. Tracy of New York, in which
he said, "You shut up or I'll give
you smack on the jaw"
Yet he did use those Identical
words. When Tracy rose and was
about to bring the insult to the at
tention of the Chair, Cobb hastily
apologized.
I laughed at Tracy after it was
over, and reminded him that he was
one of Cobb's witnesses last summer
to prove that he wasn't drunk.
Tracey was considerably stirred
up, and remarked that Cobb must be
either drunk or crazy.
PENSIONERS MUST WAIT WHILE THE
SOCIETY SMELLS DANCE.
The "Jeffersonian simplicity" with
which Mr.. Cleveland is to be mau-
gurated is well illustrated by the fact
that one Department Of the Public
Service must practically suspend
work for nearly ten days in order
that the dudes and dudines may take
charge of the Pension Building and
convert it into a Ball Room elabor-
ately decorated. Congressman de-
string information of cases pending
in the Department must wait till the
dancers get through. Many poor
widow whose bread depends upon
her Pension allowance must wait as
best she may. Preparations for the
Ball have about suspended business
in the Pension Building.
CORPORATIONS IN THE SADDLE.
1t is curious to note the complex
ion of Cleveland's Cabinet. He,
himself, is member of a New York
firm of Corporation Lawyers.
Vice President Stevenson is a
Corporation Lawyer.
Bissell is Corporation Lawyer.
Richard Olney is a Corporation
Lawyer, specially friendly to the Bell
Telephone Monopoly.
Dan Lamont is a Railroad Presi-
dent.
w. G. Whitney, who managed
Cleveland's nomination, is a million
aire Railroader and son-in-law to
Payne of the Standard Oil Company,
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