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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 250, 17 October 1873, Page 4

The woes of a lo^roller are thus described in the Pall Mall Gazette-.— " Th§, members of both House's of the America nf Legislature have, according to a New York journal, been working as hard af beavers: A multitude of bills have beenV read a third time, or consigned to oblivion for another year. During this mad rush of bills through the Assembly, a rcember I of the House named Pieraon rose, and/ commended his bill to the attention of his; colleagues in a speech the pathos of \AicU has rarely been equalled. 'Ihave^eeh in the habit,' he observed, in a tone at" deep feeling, < from my youth up, to mek with difficulties and obstacles in the way of life. I have labored in the heat of tjhe day like the children of Israel j I hdve beßn often asked to make bricks withfcuft straw; and when I have been in a stratge land I have been asked to sing, and hive had to answer to the question, How cab I sing in a strange land ? I have sat Here all winter long, and have voted for jobs put up by members willingly to acebmmodate them ; and when they have as&ed for unanimous consent to put their little bills through, I have sat in silence, tbcjugh I have been worn and weary with Juch doinga; • ♦ • and now, after dling sll I can do, the House will not content to put my little bill through.' Halin^ dwelt for some time on the case of (the little bill, the speaker wa<? interrupted! by a heartless legislator, who asked whether it was his hotel bill. Mr Piereon' 8 fdelwgs being still further tried by this infeident, ha concluded as follows: ' I aVi weary and worn. You can see the fuM rows on my face. You must observe the! tears that are rolling down my cboeks. *\ * * I am prepared to go down in\ Borrow— to retire with my little bill j n my ' pantaloons pocket.' And there it still remains."