The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-29
STORIES IN THE HOUSE.
How the Monotony of Tedious
Discussions ls Relieved.

W ashlngton, March 10 The
special session of congress was es-
pecially prolific Of good stories
They seasoned the discussions dur.
ing the long silver fight and on the
repeal of the federal election law.
These stories were printed far and
wide, and excited much attention
and comment. The best of the
story tellers W ere w j. Talbert Of
South Carolina, John Allen of Mis-
sissippi, Champ Clark of Missouri,
Charles Nj. Cooper of Florida,
Asher q Caruth of Kentucky, the
Rev. William Everett of Msssa-
chusetts, and Joseph G. Sibley of
Pennsylvania. All the stories were
apt and to the point.
But since then the storytelling
mine seems to be petering out. For
some reason very few new stories
have been retai!ed in the house
since the opening Of the regular
session in December last. Indeed,
the first was told in January, and
came from the lips of the Hon.
Marriott Brosius Ii was a favorite
story with the late lanented Henry
w Grady. Mr.. Brosius said that
it illustrated what the condition of
the entire country would be if We
had a free trade regime
Mr. Grady laid that he onca at
tended the funeral Of poor man in
Pickens county, Ga. They cut
through solid marble to make his
crave, and yet the little tombstone
they put above him was from Yer
mont. They buried him in the heart
of a pine forest, and yet the pine
coffin was imported from GIN
cinnati. They buried him within
touch of an iron mine, and yet the
nails in his coffin and the iron in the
shovel that dug his grave were i'm
ported from Pittsbur gh They
buried him in the beat sheep
grazing country on earth, but the
wool ia the coflin band and the
coffin bands.themselves were brought
from the North.
The South did not furnish thing
on earth for that funeral but the
corpse and the hole III the ground.
There they put him away, and the
clods ratified down on his coilin.
They buried him in New York
coat and Boston pair of shoes,
and a pair of hreeches from Chica-
90, and shirt from Cincinnati,
leaving him nothing to carry into
the next world with him to remind
him of the country in which he
lived, and for which he had fought
for four years, but the chill OF
blood in his veins and the mario "
IN his bones,
1t was very funeral story; yet
the house was convulsed with
laughter as Mr.. Brosius concluded
STORY NUMBER
DR.. Thomas Damn English, the
author Of "Ban Bolt" told an
amusing little anecdote on the same
day that Btosius made his speech.
He was speaking about the tariff on
coal. He said that some years aga
the Republicans wanted to put a
dnty on anthracite They said that
an enormous deposit of the coal had
been discovered in Canada, and that
il duty was not placed upon i,
our mines in Pennsyivania would
be driven from the field. Some
body occurred specimen of tbs
Canadian anthracite ana sent 1t to
savant at Yale, VINO was asked tc
give his opinion upon it. He made
an examination OF it, and wrote
back:
my opinion, after a careful ex
animation of this coal, is that the
man who sits upon it on the day Of
iud gment will be the last TO be
burned" A
The house exploded and it wa'
some moments before the chairman
of the committee Of the whole coulc
bring it to order.
STORY NUNBER 3
On the same day the Honorable
Jonathan p. Dolliver, better known