Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-01-15
S2, 900 FOR ONE DRINK
WHAT IT WOULD COST CONGRESS-
 MAN sOUTHwIcK DURING 1896.

 The Boyish Looking Representative From
 the Empire State Will Get S1, 900 Should
 He Be Able to Withstand Temptation
 For Three Hundred and sixty-six days.
 If Congressman Southwiek of New York state takes drink of whisky be- fore the end of his first year in coag1ess, it will cost him $2, GOO and some odd cents-that is, unless the drink is a treat, when the odd cents will be knock ed off, but the $2, 1000 will be the price just the same. Champagne or brandy, sherry or gin, cocktail or absinth or whatever the drink, it will come just as high.
 If Congressman Southwick should forget himself and yield to the tempta- tions of punch this year, it would be the most expensive single drink on rec ord among congressman.
 On tho contrary, if MT. Southwiek doesn t take that drink until he has been in congress 366 days, he will earn $l ,000 thereby
 Congressman Southwick is one of the congressional babes. If he isn t various ly taken for page, messenger boy or some older members young son it will be q marvel. He is nice young man, and his recent experience with congress has made him yearn for whiskers like Peffer's and head as bald as Speaker Reeds.
 Southwick insists he is 33 years old. It is all he can do now to persuade the chairman of his committee that he is old enough to vote. He is thoroughly sick of being called beardless youth and insists that his residence in Albany and his acquaintance with "The Tub" and its inmates ought to count as moro ripening experiences than those of mem- bers from country districts where Al bany and ''The Tub' were never heard of.
 The congressman is not tall, is solid ly built, has blond hair and eyebrows, is blase and now tries to be very digni. fled to offset his boyishness.
 He campaigned through his district of course. and campaigning isn't temper anee job Before he went to Washing ton a we'll known millionaire who knows the ecapital's temptations suggest ed that it was easy to ruin congress sional career by strict attention to the deeanter and none to the house. The millionaire wanted to be sure of his boyish friend B sobriety.
 This is how he fixed it. If South wick touches intoxicants before the expiration Of his first year in congress, he forfeits $2,000. If he doesn't, the millionaire hands over $1 900 to SouthWick South wick told this himself
 If the congressman has an enemy, when he reads this the enemy will set his brains to work to see that Southwick gets q $2,000 glass of whisky. Some men would be proud to have the reputa- tion Of having paid that much for drink. It would quite surpass the draft of pearls Shakespeare tells about.
 There are endless temptations in Washington for new members of con gress. This will explain Southwick's re- fusal to accept the glasses of fascinating punch alret ly offered him by pretty girls when he appears at receptions
 A temperance society hourishes among congressman and senators, but South wick. who has a good, firm mouth and square jaw, has no expectation of join ing it to help earn that other $1 900.
 Congressman Southwick is an old All bany newspaper man and still in the business. He is unmarried and ranks with Sulzer and Rowland Blennerhasset Mahany as eligibles in New York's del- egation n-New York World.