People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A WEEKLY PICTURE OF EVENTS
AT THE CAPITOL.
The Fair BOOdlers Lobbying Against
Sunday A MOhammedan Mis-
siOnary Comes to Convert Us.
WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1898.

1uSAJ sassy AhOy SOo VIZ
Parties to rob the Tax Payers OF
$2,500,00O on express condition that
the money-snstching concern, COM
posed of a general mixture of gamb-
ling shops, saloons, eating houses,
and every other modern invention
for fleeing the visitor, should close
on Sunday.
The money of which this dona-
ton was coined, was stamped with
special designs so as to render it
specially valuable. In other words,
the Government MINIS were put at
the disposal of the Boodlers so that
they make the utmost of their dona-
ton.
They managed it well. The ST.
100000 is coined into souvenir coins,
differing in pattern from any ever
issued.
The first half dollar coin SO issued
aoos sold By these BoodJerS for ten
thousand dollars.
1t did not cost them a cent. The
material and the workmanship were
furnished by the people. But the
Ten Thousand Dollars were peck
eted by the Boodlers all the same.
Large patches of the remainder
of the coins were sold at fancy
prices to curiosity hunters. Not one
of these half dollar souvenirs has
been sold for less than one dollar.
It is safe to say that the donation
of $2,5OO,OOO has thus been swollen
to $7,5OO,OOO. The Boodlers furnish
nothing but the brazen cheek which
can send Lobby here to demand
Special Favors to the privileged few.
The people furnish the money
They always do.
Now at this session comes the
Lobby again, swarming through the
corridors and about the gilded mir
rors in Mr.. Crisp's Bar-Room, de-
handing that the condition upon
which the gift was made and ae-
copied shall be annulled.
Return the money pending the de-
bate?
Oh, no. They've got the money
and propose to keep it.
And to cap the climax, one of
these insolent Boodlers said last
week that we might as we'll do what
they asked, for they were going to
open the Fair on Sunday, anyhow!
Of course they will, if they want
to. What do the people amount to
when the Boodlers set their heads !?
NEW YORK IMPUDENCE.
Says the Speaker "The gentle
man from New York (Mr. Dunphy)
asks unanimous consent for the pres
ent consideration of a Bill which the
Clerk will report"
Clerk reads. Nobody listens.
Hubbub all over the hall. Able
Statesmen cracking jokes, swapping
news, etc. Pages laughing, or quar-
relling, or tusseling near the Speak
er's desk. Dense cloud of cigar
smoke hanging like haze over the
scene.
Says the Speaker (after the Clerk
had ratified off the Bill as fast as he
possibly could: as there objec-
ton ?" Then almost invariably he
adds, "The Chair hears none." And
in five seconds the Bill would have
become Law.
"Mr. Speaker, object"
Says the Speaker in tone which
might be interpreted this way
'The gentleman from Georgia (Mr.
Watson, confound him y Objects
Gracious wern't the Tammany
fellows mad? Didn't they snort?
What was this little matter which
was thus thrown on the side-track ?
It was a cool proposition to give
the city of New York quarter of a
million dollars per annum to increase
her Post Office facilities where they
already have from EIGHT TO SIX
TEEN FREE DELIVERIES OF MAIL
EVERY DAY.
This Democratic House was will
ling to give it without word of
objection.
And yet every Democrat in Con-
gress knows there are hundreds of
rural districts where our Taxpayers
can't get mail once a week.
Why not divide things around?
Why not give the towns and villages