The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-07-30

70 this method of expressing their
feelings Probably no member of
she present Congress is subject TO surh
n'S OF uncomfortable rage as were
several statesmen of that earIior
'inie. When Balio Peyton was n
'leinoer from Tennessee and Eli Whit.
hey' the cotton gin inventor was a
harmless witness before his com
mlt1ee, Peyton burst out "You shall
NOT SPEAK, sir You shall not saw a
,,, wUiu III inns room. If you do, by.
l II take Your life on the spoti,
shortly afterwards, noticing that the
witness was looking at him, he shout.
gu mes looking at me He's looking
at me lie shant do it. I'll kill him
III Kill him in minute l-cnrsinr
Ohe witness and drawing his revolver
Oh him' | introduced this topic in
the presence of ex.Speaker Galusha
grow last year. 'Ahr' sighed the
venerable man, This Congress lacks
the seif-poise and the self. respectino
dignity of the Congresses from "55
to 6o'' The old gentleman's kindly
memory misleads him sadly. Was il
not in those two Congresses that
Washburn scalped Barksdale; that
wilson and Butler had scirmage
that Burlington and Brooks arranged
TO kllI each other with rifles that
fotter and Pryor selected a locked up
room for their duels with bowie |
KrlVes nay, was it not in that very
time Grow himself knocked Keith
down under the reporters table
whence he was extracted by the Scar
gent-at-arms with some difficulty?
There is no doubt what ever that
Mr. Grow himself would admit that
there has been the greatest revolution
IN regard to gambling and drinking
among congressman. Fifty years
ago, and even less than that, there
were gambling saloons on ever block
from the Capitol to the White House,
and Oh the five blocks between the
National Hotel and the Capitol were
something like dozen faro banks.
Ned Pendleton Jake Dixon's.
'rinde's, McCullough's, Caughey's
Halls, and Burns and Monroe's.
There is some betting of course, for
here is no incident so insigignihcant
hat men cannot gamble on it. Somo
senators and good many representa-.
ives play poker in each others par
ors, but the old Berserkers madness
i their predecessors is gone.
1t is tradition that Henry Clay .
btained one Of the finest corner lots
Washington at the roulette table, ,
gving stske6 l7ps il drove of Anda-
nsian Jackasses then on their way to ,
Aentucky. When Sclipse broke the
ecord and made his mighty run here !,
1852, half million dollars chang !;
hands, and one Congressman won a
10 slaves from another. The winner, q
Is said was Pennsylvania. SO / E
oppose he scaled it down and took n
le cash. Pendleton's was a gorgeous :.
'mple erected to the haphazard n
usic A few very eminent states x
EN- ventured to call him Ned but W
Q was really Edward Pendleton, II
squire, cadet of stately Virginia .,
ouse and brother of foreign n mis- a
r. Mrs. Pendleton was daughter h
Mills, the architect and artist, and r;
very cultured lady. Her husbands II,
centric profession did not even il
enace her high position in society, W
ID she escorted Cabinet ladies to her W
y at the Opera while her husband h,
as entertaining their husband at dc
9 theatre of chance, After Ed. n,
'ndleton came chaos and black night on
r gamblers. The green table put at
mourning and retired for ever of
1m Washington. W;