Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — Benatorial Humbugs. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Benatorial Humbugs.

Chicago Herald: By far the most interesting disclosure yet made in the preposterous controversy precipitated by Senator Edmunds is that which fell from Mr. Beck on Wednesday. Although speaking of matters which occurred within the sacred precincts and behind the screens of the executive session, and being greeted at every word with the “oh mys!” and “sh-h-hs” and “Lists” of the Senatorial grannies, Mr. Beck succeeded in making public the statement that the Senate is already in possession of all the facts in the case of Duskin, whose removal it insists that the President shall explain, and that Mr. Edmunds’ only motive in pursuing the controversy further is to uphold an assumption of Senatorial power which is unwarranted by law and would be dangerous as a precedent. From what was said by Mr. Beck it appears that before Duskin re-

■ ceived his final appointment from ! Mr. Arthur he had been appointed ‘to office twice in 1881, and in both cases rejected by the Senate as an unfit man. On the third nomination, however, the Senate confirmed him, though this did not change his character in the least. Mr. Cleveland removed him for good and sufficient reasons, no doubt, and Mr. Edmunds, knowing of the bad reputation of the man, made his case a test with the idea that the President would willingly show why he had been removed and thus establish a precedent for similar Impudent demands by the Senate in other instances. Mr. Beck now proposes to have the secret proceedings of the Senate relative to Duskin when he was first nominated several years ago made public, and if the Republican majority refuse to make this order, they will do much to confirm the popular conviction that they are an aggregation of dreary old humbugs, who would be ridiculous if they were not dangerous. The country is to 1 a congratulated over the fact tin 1 me Senator has had the manhood to come out from the retreat of the executive session and inform C j, public of an important matter u ' ' h has been there L—.. Beck not only' “outraged” Senatorial honor by speaking above a whisper of the secrets of this star chamber, but he showed very conclusively how old busybodies, puffed up with wealth and swollen wi! -i arrogance,may puoi: ly maintain a bogus issue for buncombe while privately caring nothing for the merits of the case. The proceedings of the secret sessions of the Senate are daily hawked on the street corners by the Senators themselves, but Mr. Beck’s violation of the “rules and honor” of the chamber, over which Mr. Edmunds is so much worried, occurred in open session, and, instead of being dishonorable, was most praiseworthy. He has exposed the clumsily counterfeited apprehensiohs of the Vermont Senator very thoroughly, and has shown that the fight, so far as the Senate is concerned, has been made to keep in office a man whom the Senate itself knows to be unworthy.

tainment.

1 The Dickens! will be a grand Social Enter-

An Accommodating Judge.— There is in Idaho territory a judge who is well known as 'Alec Smith.’ A woman brought suit in his court for divorce, and had the discernment to select a particular friend of her own, who stood well with the judge, as her attorney. One morning the judge called up the case, and, addressing himself to the complainant, said: ‘Mr. H., I don’t think people ought to be compelled o live together where they don’t want to, and I decree a divorcein this case.’ Mr. H. bowed blandly. Thereupon the judge, turning to another attorney,’whom he took to be th counsel for the defendant: ‘Mr. M., I suppose you have no objection to the decree?’ Mr. M. nodded assent. But tne attorney for the defendant was another Mr. M. not then in court. Presently he came in, and finding that his client had been divorced without a hearing began to remonstrate. Alec listened a moment, then interrupted, saying: ‘Mr. M., it is too late. The court has pronounced the decree of divorce, and the p rties are no longer man and w r ife. But if you want to argue the case right bad, the court can marry them over again and give you a crack at it.’

Go to the Dickens! and get an excellent Supper. The Dickens! Oranges, Bananas Cakes, etc., to be had there.

Joseph Torso, the man who composed the “Arkansaw Traveller,” is still living at the age of eightyfive years in Cincinnati.

Go to the Dickens! and see the cat jump on to the moon. Go to the Dicken •! and sse the varieus characters repre-

sented there.