The evening times., 1897-02-10
BILL DOOLITTLE IN TOWN

the tarl1r. so konkluded to run down to
Washlntun to straten matters out little.
lev bin in the Moo Hamsheer LEGISLATOR and
no thing or to about law maxim, also
about politiks; as llev not run up aginst
BIZ Chandler fer ten yeers for nothin, er
assosheated with DR.. Galliner or Cy Seller
way during there official karees without
absorbln more or less of thare astootness.
As | wuz sayin, kome here fer the
| pupose of wrestlin and takin fall out
of some of the CRATE qwestuns Of the day,
l got here Wensday night, and went to
the biggest tavern In town, WHARF only men
OF money and inflooence stop, and WHARF
| eyrything is So per day and upwards,
mostly upwards. / mite say thare are
more upwards in Washington taverns than
eny place heV ever hin in, But suppose
OF not TO kompain, as hev the oner OF
sittin next table to a senator, and am
| within halen distence Of several members
of the hows.
Thursday morning, after takin little
water with Kentucky trimmins, l set out
fer the capitfe. 1 made my way to
| the senit chamber and soon looked
down on the grateness OF this kuntry from
reserved seat in the gallery. After givin
the matter doc konsiderashun | kane TO
the konkiushun, after loOkin in a hand mir
| ror which he'd in my pocket, that my
! prospeks for the senit wuZ putty fare.
| found vary few men in that body who look
| ed more statesmin-ike than myself, and /
did not wunder thay he'd not been able to
wrastle with the qwest ms orthe our. What
l did wunder about wuZ the fack that thay
he'd dun as well as thay he'd.
l wuz under the impresshun thet l wuz
10 here somethin about Cuby, silver or
tariff, but 1 WIZ disappointed, but happily
so. a man, whose name / found to be Nor
I'll, and who comes down here every win
ter from Vermount, To avoid the cold
weather, rose in his seat, and in tones
thet l Good not understand, spoke to a man
who sat up in the presidunt' cheer When
shouted '1owder,'' a man came down
and spoke harsh words TO me and sed If l
didn't keep my dam mouth shet he would
fire me out. l told him thet as an Ameri-
kun citizen l wuz entitled to no
what wuz goin on, and wuz opposed 70
things bein dun on the quiet like this in
the SENT. He looked disguised and went
off,
When ] Termed afterwards thet lie wuZ
jest Il plane doorkeeper ! feltshagrinedthet
an inferiur purson. Thare is wun thing
l don't like about Washintun; you can't
tell which are Senaturs and which are
dourkcepers. / believe in havin our law
makers tagged. Thay shood have some
sine by which you would no them
l hev made several bad mistakes | fol
lowed a man fer three bluks on Penn
syivany avenoo the first mite / wuz here
4
acter and thot it wuz my dooty to point
him out 10 the town authorities. When
met d konstable in uniform and sed he he'd
better put tnat man in the kooler, he looked
kindly tired and said: why, that man
belongs to the SENT" went rite to my
hotel and went to bed and was soon lost in
meditashuD.
But To reSoom. The man Morril said |
somethln about liker bein sold in the |
capitle. This kaused me TO prick up my |
GERS. The subjeck OF Iker is one deer to |
my hart As near as ] Good understand | |
found that Mr.. Morrill, was tryin to get |
permishun to institoot some VermOunt |
reforms in Washington. After enioyin all /
TIE privileges for many years, now that he |
is on the fag end of hunin existunce, he |
proposed to rob the riSin geneTashun OF the |
luxures OF life. This wuz kruel, and 1 |
Good hardly restrale myself from pro-
tcstin from WHARF I sat. | wuz wurried |
all throo histalk kept wunderin whether
enybOdy wood kome to the rescue of poor
persekuted rum.
When he sat down l trembled saw
man rise in his seat. When somebody
stated that he wuz from Kentucky twas
CRATE releef to me. Thare wuz no doubt
how Kentucky wuz on the qwestun Words
were not nessessary. But he spoke as a
troO Kentucky stateSnun shood He put
in an objeckshun, and a CRATE 81 OF releef
went up from the gallery / planely saw
thet the gallery wuz all rite
Then a gentlemun from Ohio whose
name | believe wuZ Sherman. rose He |
sed he thot IL wuz a good thing to hev
rum handy at the capitle in case Of snake
bites, but If the people utside in the
kentry who he'd all the saloons they need ed
for thare own konvenence, didn't want
the seniters to have drap, ali rite he |
Good stand it, and he thot the peepul's
wishes OF to 60 I wuz led TO beleev |
from his remarks thet he knew Of other
places WHARF he Good get a drink il he
wanted it. AS he has bin in publick life
a long time probably this is troo
Then Dave Hill of New York came to
the reskew and made speech that shood
make him immortal. Altho he sed he didn't
take anything at all, he wuz the friend of
tile drinkin man. How loved him fer thoes
wurds. 1t seems almost krime thet this
man must leev the SENT next march
Then Bill Chandler from my own state,
old Moo Hamsheer, got up and sed few
wurds. Bill got thro a prohibishun law up
thare, but it wuZ good wun. He new a |
thing or too, and lie fixed it so that the
publicE should not be deprived of the
nessaries of life. He wanted to do it here.
He wanted it so thet If he wanted drink /
he could go to Dr.. Gallinger and git a
and get all he wanted. This
wuz a step in right dreckshun.
Bill did not propose to be left out in the |
,old. He wanted the Doctors otograff
made good But Gallinger told Bill thet if
ne wanted to drink eny more he wood hey
20 send him over to drug store, as it mite
avs suspishun to have SO many prefcrip-
,huns sent to the sent saloon.
Then senator from Delaware told Of !
he annoyance thet this would caws Dr. |
iallinger, and thet if this resolushun passed
ne wood be busy all the time prescriben for
,enitors, and git no time to look after the
needs of the kentry. l think the senitor
ook the rong vew of the matter 1t
wood make the doctor the gratest marter |
10 mankind in the kuntry and he wood be
he idul of the SENT.
Mr.. Hill rose agin, he wanted to commit |
,he resolution. This wuz right 1t OF to |
1ev he'd a life sentence. The SENT took a |
vote and to my sorrow the vote to commit