Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — The Bill Parsed. [ARTICLE]

The Bill Parsed.

N. Y. Tribune.An ex-member of the Virginia State Senate told me the other day of an incident in his legislative career which I do not remember ever having seen in print before. A. L. Pridemore, not many years ago a member of the House of Representatives from the 9th Virginia district, was before he came to Washington a member of the Virginia Senate. One day be introduced a bill for the relief of the sureties of H. G. Wax, who was a collector of taxes in Scott county. He made a brief explanation of the bill, and when he sat down Edgar Allen, familiarly known as “Yankee Allen,” who represented the Farmvilie district, rose and said: “I wish to ax If Mr. Wax Has been too lax * In collecting the tax? * ' *lf such are the facts I am willing to relax And remit the tax Which the law enacts We should exact Of his sureties.” . It is needless to add, my informant says, that the bill passed by a unanimous vote.