The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-29

BESIEGTNG JUDGE HOLMAN.
dor, but that on the south and back OF
the speakers stand is cut of and used as
a house lobby, while on the other three
sides the great public has free course, and
it is here the buz flend gets in his work
and too often makes himself an bject of
dread to the member. On the outer side
of the cast and west corridors are the most
important committee rooms, and many a
good natured statesman who hates to say
no and suffers in hearing of another's suf-
fering goes from house door to committee
room and back as if he were shot out Of
a catapult If he heslt ates, he is lost.
Chronics and Erreguiars.
The Unfortunate are of two classes-the
chronics, whom every old habitUe Of the
capitol knows by night, and the irregulars
Medically speaking, the latter may be
acain divided into the acute cases, which
will soon recover or prove fatal, and the
lingering, highly liable to become chronic.
All this has nothing to do with real lob
byistS OF men Of business who are here for
practical purposes, or with the thousands
who merely visit the city and call on their
representative as q compliment. The for
ner do their work in committee rooms and
hotels, and never, if they understand their
business, lounge about the corridors. The
latter gaze and linger, toll laboIiously up
the stairs instead of using the elevators,
nsk questions in timid, hesitating way,
and though often amusing ara never trou-
blesome. 1 am often asked such cues
tions as these: Mister, is there any charge
for riding up in that thing" Mister, is
that the congress roomf" No one who has
been here a month ever confuses one of
these with the real buz fiend.
Most harmless of the class is the lately
discharged clerk, who is not only known
at sight, but one can often recognize him
as he comes down the avenue. There is
about him that Understandable air combined
nf anxiety, feverish eagernes5 and blind
hope that his member can do something,
for every minor government employee has
his member or congressional patron. The
statesmen confess that tho present situa-
ton is a real relief to them, for they can
say at once, Nothing can DO done-the
departments are discharging men every
day, and the applicant goes away sorrow-
full, for he is never man OF great posses
sions. In every conversation of that sort
that / overhear the man always has
others depending on him." No matter
Is supporting somebody. II the stricken
one be a lady-well, ladies very rarely get
discharged now, and seldom or never call
On their members at the capitol. Tt is
considered very bad form. 1t became a
scandal 90 years ago and was by degrees
frowned down, and now the lady clerk
gets some discreet matron or gentleman
OF influence TO talk for her, or as last
coils ba
his home.
Few Samples.
They write letters occasionally. letters
both ludicrous and pathetic. An Indiana
congressman recently showed me one in
which the lady stated that her sister had
come to live with her and had baby, and
IL she, the writer, could secure her former
place they could hire some one to take
care of the baby, and the sister could then
find something 10 do. Tho member was in
a sarcastic mood defeated by some thou
sands last November) and returned answer
that If they would send the baby up to
him he would take care Of it, as he was
now working solely for his constituents.
So he Gays at any rate. 1t is the chronics,
however, who rasp the congressional
nerves, and at the hend of the list is the
i-iAh WIN a Jug hu nus EODC
here. 1t is now "bug.") OF these the so
called humanitarians are the hardest 10
deal with. One can dismiss with contempt
these fellows who want canals dug all
over creation, and all the unemployed set
TO digging geld on government account,
or freight and passengers carried for moth
Ing, or appropriations made for flying ma
chimes, thistle determination and psychic
rs~n ia.-- 10. L.,
really good people who want all the Indian
children put into industrial schools, all
the colored children educated by the gem
eral government and all the oppressed and
distressed of other lands Dust now the Ar
meniansl relieved by our moral influ-
ence, y" to say nothing of that really re-
spectacle and not entirely illogical class of
Soad people who want TO put God in the
constitution, establish Christianity by
law and make every body yirtuous and
happy by act of congress? Jerry Simpson
says 1t Is constant wonder 70 him that
eastern people have the face to criticise
the west, and that it is a case where the
beam should be plucked out before the
mote is mentioned. for all his folks want
l. plenty of sood money. and that Is avery
practical matrer, while these eastern
eranks want TO get highly moral results
out of immoral lawmakers, which Is in.
sanity.
Men Who Arc sought
The cold, hard truth is that paternal,s,u
is still strong in our political thinking
and the events Of the last so Years have
caused millions 10 look on government as
. sort Of secondhand providence Mr.
Morse of Massachusetts and Mr.. Picker
Of South Dakota are the special victims OF
all who have highly moral schemes on tie
90. They are both radical prohibiiionists
21d heing nationally known as such the