Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — The Multilateral Lawyers of the Senate. [ARTICLE]

The Multilateral Lawyers of the Senate.

It is recalled that the brilliant Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin, once admitted that his being on the Judiciary Committe ■ in the Senate was equivalent to doubling liis income from his practice. He afteiward said: “I know I am a very successful lawyer and much sought after. But when I le t the Senate and was dropped from the Judiciary Committee, I was no louger employed by any of the railioad corporations which have large interests at s'ake at Washington.” That tells the whole story and furnishes an inkling of the motives of the Republican corporation lawyers in the Senate who are laboring so diligently to kill the Beck bill forbidding lawyers in Congress to serve corporations affect ’d by national legislation. Carpen’er Mas o frank man when he utter, d the naked truth. The conduct of Edmunds, Fvarts et al, n working against this righteous measure is the worst display we have recently witnessed of the subordination of public to private interests.— Utica Observer.