Log-Rolling Ingratitude.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 206, 21 October 1873, Page 7

Log-Rolling Ingratitude.

The woes of a log-roller are thus described in the Fall Mall Gazette: —-“ The members of both Houses of the American Legislature have, according to a New York journal, been working as hard as beavers. A multitude of bills have been read a third time, or consigned to oblivion for another year. During this mad rush of bills through the Assembly, a member of the House named Pierson rose, and commended his bill to the attention of his colleagues in a speech, the pathos of which has rarely been equalled. ‘ I have been in the habit,’ he observed, in a tone of deep feeling, ‘ from my youth Up to meet with difficulties and obstacles in the way of life. I have laboured in the heat of the day like the children of Israel; I have been often asked to make bricks without straw ; and when I have been in a strange land have been asked to sing, and have had to answer to the question, how can I sing in a strange land i I have sat here all the winter long, and have voted for jobs put up by members willingly to accomodate them ; and when they have asked for unanimous consent to put their little bills through 1 have sat in silence, I though I have been worn and weary with such doings. . . . And now, after doing all I can do, the House will not consent to put my little,bills through.’ Having dwelt for some time on the case of the little bill, the speaker was interrupted by a heartless legislator who asked whether it was his hotel bill. Mr Pierson’s feelings being stiil further tried by this incident, he concluded as foblows : —‘ lam weary and worn. Yon can see the furrows on my face ; you must observe the tears that are rolling down my cheeks. .... lam prepared to go down in sorrow—to retire with my little bill in nty pantaloons’ pockets,’ And there it still re* i mains,”