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Show IMy 'lles-aph.l CO.VGKESSIO.V AL (OtKI t.MfcS. In the House, on Wcdne.-diy, Fainvworth opposing an item for iur niture in the Treasury department, made an attack upon the architect of the Treasury, in wuich he mentioned an incident of two expensive mirrors being taken to adorn the house of a distinguished member of Congress in Wa-huigton, and that one of them, costing ten thou-and dollars, had been broken. Butler, of Massachusetts, replied to Farnsworth's insinuations, denying their truth, and comparing Farn-won h to a mml-throwing machine, lie said Farn-.worth accused all the world, but convicted ouly one, that was him-elf; an 1 all these charges, said Butler, are made by a man whose majority has dwindled v n-l'o'd, from fourteen thou-and to fourteen hundred, and that in running against a Methodist preacher. Fartisworth mid that he had not stated what hou-e of a member from Massachusetts hud b.-cn graced with the minors belonging to the J p-iisury, but as it seemed ihe coat fitted the member, he would now say that it had been proved before the committee of the liou.se, and was susceptible of proof again that, a members house was graced with mirrors belonging lo the IJ. S. government, and some of these mirrors had been n-t in transmission trans-mission to and from the Treasury. lie had in bis band a d iciiuieut winch would prove, to any unprejudiced jury, that the member from Ma-ssachusci Ls was intcre.-ted in the stone rpiarry from which the granite was taken for the Bo ton pot-olbce. Famswoi th then proceeded at Home lenifl h to detail de-tail the circumstances upon whkh he based the ch in;s. |
