The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-29
SENATORS GET MAD.
THE OLD GENTLEMEN HAVE A
LIVELY CONTROVERSY,

Discarded.
Washington Cor. Atlanta Constitution
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-Have you
ever witnessed band of ten year old
young ones play ''house" with doll and
mud-pie details9 To days session Of
the Senate was a bright case in perfect
parallel. No man ever watched these
old fellows at their pranks for month
without feeling that the body ought to
be abolished.
The Senate is a national chimney
that won't draw; leak in a national
gaspipe; dead mouse back of the ma
tional plaster; water in the national
cellar; bugs in the national beds; any
thing, everything that is nationally
noisome, unwholesome, irritating and
dangerous.
Just now the Senate debates tariff.
Out on the Western sheep ranges dur
ing certain seasons of the year, the
bucks are focked together AS they
gaze about ever and anon, some old
buck will elevate his head and ponder
some idea profoundly. Having con-
cluded his thoughts, he will approach
some rival near by and tap him gently
with his fore hoOf. The tapped buck
will suspend lunch or dinner, which
ever it is, lower his sullen head and be-
gin bucking away. The challenge has
been accepted. The wool wrapped foes
will back off to separation of perhaps
eightyfeet. After a preliminary bound
or stiff legged leap into the air, to test
their thews, they launch themselves
head-foremost at each other The
smash of their contending steps can
be heard on the fat, silent plains for
miles.
Such is a session of the Senate of the
United States And to day would have
confirmed the SMILES Buck Aldrich
was perhaps the first to start the row.
In fifteen minutes Vest, Voorhees,,
Harris, Mills, Wolcott, Teller, Turpie,
Quay, Gray, Manderson and two or
three others had lowered their heads
and were rushing at each other. At the
close of the exercises they separated to
crop the succulent, long grasses which
the sugar ring, the coal ring, the anti
income tax ring or whatever particular
robber had sown about them,
Up in the marble room to day two
Senators and an outsider gossiped loud
ly as follows:
First Senator Smith Senator Smith
of New Jersey made over $50, 600 last
week on sugar stocks.
Second Senator-I understand Brice
got off on sugar with enough money to
burn a wet dog. was talking with his
brokers up F street. They told me.
First Senator-Yes, Brice got in, and
SO did Smith. For that matter, there's
been plenty of money made in Washing
ton on sugar during the last ten days.
Outsider (who has been listening
eagerly One of those T street brokers
met me the other day. He was full,
He told me he had ], 600 shares of sugar
at 644 and that he would get 81 Is for
it within month. He said the sugar
trust had the Senate by the tail and a
down-hill pull They could get any
schedule that Havemeyer wanted that
Cleveland was being kept quiet by
Whitney, and that Carlisle was friend
ly to Havemeyer.
Here the Senator, who felt little
hurt by the assertion of how Have
meyer had their body of sacred white
elephants, looked cold and dignifed
and turned the conversation.
The above was true bill, and what
was said of Smith and Brice is true,
and twenty others of the Senate and a
few cabinet officers can be named with
them.
Did you notice today's quotations
on sugar trust stocks7 1t is no ones
purpose to weary the people in thus in
viting their attention to the daily reg
lister of stock board plunderers. But
just now, with the coils Of the sugar
serpent all about the Senate, with its
Shiny foetid control of tariff legislation
sugar quotations are good things to
fix an eye upon. They register the
venality of the present Senate like
barometer. With vague wave of his
hand Harris, in retort to Aldrich, said:
''No one can be expected to reply to
newspaper absurdities."
Vest looked up from gnaWing his ear
of sugar corn long enough to day to let
fly his usual snarl at the newspapers.
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