Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1882 — Mr. Harris’ Back Pay. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Harris’ Back Pay.

A Washington correspondent .sfcys that a very, good story of back pay is told by ex-Representative Harns. -df‘ Virginia. “I voted against the bill,” said he, “ but I took the money. When I was up for re-election they threw it up at me on the stump. I told them that I had tried to beat the bill, but had taken‘the money, yet I thought that they would forgive me when they heard what I had done with it. ‘ I took that money down into Virginia,’ said I, ‘ and gave it to a poor woman with seven chil-

dren, and I told her to use it for herself and the children, and the thing is not a bit worse because that woman is my wife.’ I don’t think that I lost a.vote by that back-pay business.”