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parts-the foreigner the better" ON the
principle that he will perhaps do less
in Europe than in America.
arosyenor's Trick.
Let nobody jump to the conclusion
that I want Grosyenor to remain abroad
permanently. Quite the contrary. I
don't want him to return too soon. If
Neptune will ordain it 50 that ne can
reach America the day after the cleo
ton, when Democrats will be celebrat-
ing their great victory from Martha's
Vineyard to the Golden Gate, it will be
well. Two Republicans from Oregon
are already elected. If there r to be
but three in the next house, many peo-
some Democrats-would like
to see Grosvenor saved as the third.
While not exactly q thing of beauty he
is q Joy forever. Hemakes it lively and
prevents members having the ennui.
Nor does he confne his efforts TO STIR
ring up the animals to Democrats. He
is impartial in this regard and has no
hesitancy whatever in faying any Re-
publican who is not a thick and thin
McHannaite. But that tale about his
needing recreation is all m~oonshine.
You might as we'll talk Of sending a
key of powder across the ocean in order
to infuse into it some explosive proper
ties. His proper recreation lies in fight
ing the Bushnellites and Forakerites.
I wish that every taxpayer in Amer
lea could read and heed what follows,
for it will contain food for thought
When I had finished the foregoing
remarks concerning Grosvenor's trip to
Europe, I was about giving as a reason
for his going that he wanted an oppor-
tunity to unload the campaign speech
which he had prepared to deliver in the
house ON the 9Th Of July and which he
failed to deliver because he could not
obtain unanimous consent.
To make it perfectly plain / will
state the exact situation: Congress was
to adjourn July s. Grosvenor having
slandered the Democrats in his Ohio
speech on the 21st of June and having
been arraigned for said SANDER not
only by members of congress, but by
the Washington Post, he deliberately
prepared another pack Of SANDERS to un-
load on the house, so they could be
franked free W the country as a cam
paign document, but being afraid to ut
ter these ISLANDERS where anybody had a
chance to answer them he delayed the
performance until the 9Th Of July afore-
said, the day fixed for adjournment,
thinking that he would get to speak
and that no one would have a chance to
answer. But objection" was made,
and he didn't get to unload his careful
ly prepared and malicious ~falsehoods.
People Have to Pay.
But, as I was writing the first part Of
this letter in August, I discovered that
in a belated issue of The Congressional
Record, dated Monday, July 49,"
there appears Grosyenor's pack of lies,
%purporting to have been delivered in the
house Thursday, June 9, 1885," be-
ing the same pack Of lies which he
wanted to utter in the house July 8 at
q time when nobody could have a chance
to answer him.
Let the taxpayer remember this fact
The reason why Grosvenor was so desir-
GUS to unload his ISLANDERS into The
Congressional Record instead of deliv-
ering them on the stump is that when
he once gets them into The Record they
can be "franked," postage free, all over
the land as ''public documents, where
as if he had spewed them out on some
stump the only way he could have cir
culated them would be to pay the post
age. As this batch of lies, never spoken
in congress, though printed in The Rec
ord, will be 'tfranked" by the million
as campaign documents, the people will
be swindled out Of thousands Of dollars
of postage in the transaction.
In fighting the land bill I said:
ST have a suggestion that will save
a great deal of money to the United
States in the carrying of the mails. We
frank out of this capital every year on
an average SO, 500, 900 pounds of stuff to
be carried by the mails. I am in favor
Of stopping nearly all of that"
Mr.. Loud-I am with you.
Mr.. Clark of Missouri serve notice
on the house and country now that as
soon as I get through writing three or
four speeches that I am obliged to write
to fill engagements I intend to prepare
a bill and introduce it here to abolish
The Congressional Record. 1t is a nui-
sance and always was. Hundreds of
speeches that are neve delivered here
at all-not a syllable of them-are
franked out all over the country, and
men are given a reputation for being
orators who are as dumb as oysters. I
am opposed to such An expensive and
roaring farce"
was too busy to prepare the bill at
the last session, but I will introduce it
and press it at the next session, and !
hereby invoke in this effort at economy
all men everywhere of every state or
persuasion, religious or political, who
love truth, hate lies, despise shams and
believe that the public expenses should
be reduced to a legitimate basis. Espe-
cially do I invite the powerful aid and
assistance of my well beloved friend,
Amos J. Cummings, who not long since
hauled me gently over the Goals for
proposing to abolish The Congressional
Record.
Grosvenor's caper is q fragrant abuse
of the ''leave to print nuisance.
Mixing h Dates.
Let us examine his performance and
see in what a ridiculous attitude he
places himself in order to manufacture
party capital when reduced to sore
straits by being caught in a lie. Mark
the dates.
The Record represents him as making
q speech in the house on ''the 9th day
Of june in answer to criticisms made
upon him in "Ju1y" for a speech he
made "June a." and as quoting on
''the 9th of June" an editorial printed
in the Washington Times on ''the 22d
Of June" Surely nothing could be more
preposterous. If every taxpayer in the
land could thoroughly comprehend eros
venor's performance, there would be a
unanimous demand that such mislead-
ing and expensive nuisance as The Con-