People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — LAZY CONGRESSMEN. [ARTICLE]

LAZY CONGRESSMEN.

NOT ONLY LAZY BUT BEASTLY INCOMPETENT. Member* Themselvea Admit This Fact — What Senator Smith of New Jereey and Congressman Jenkins of Wisconsin Have to Say of Their Colleagues. Senator Smith of New Jersey made the statement that the best thing congress can do is to adjourn and go home, and our own Wisconsin Jenkins now seconds the motion. “I am willing to go on record,” he told D. B. Starkey, the Washington correspondent of the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, “as declaring that we would be doing the country a service by adjourning. What is the use of remaining in session? It is impossible to do any financial legislation; we can’t amend the tariff laws—we can’t do anything. The members will not work; they don’t know how to work. A committee meeting is called for 10 o’clock and nobody gets around until 11 o’clock. There is an old member who prides himself on getting to the capltol every morning at 10 o’clock as though that was a great feat. I came down here to work and I am ready to work-, but I can’t do anything because nobody else will. lam in favor of passing all the appropriation bills immediately and adjourning.” That’s the stuff. Go home and attend to your private business, ye ignorant and vicious politicians. It would be the best thing all around for a lot of lazy louts that openly admit their Inability to do anything while the people of the whole country are suffering the agonies of despair and crying for relief from the horrible pressure of hard times.