| Show delightful air einstein the ernly democratic form of our government in which one man is as good as another was illustrated in a little incident at the capitol the other day A subcommittee of the house appropriations committee having charge of certain branches of the district expenditures tures had before them recently that distinguished citizen of the district of columbia the official dog catcher known as einstein with the purpose of slicing down his salary from the princely sum of 1200 a year to it did not slice however and one cf tho members of the committee explains their change of heart by saying that before the examination was concluded mr einstein so cli armed the members of the committee with his stories of excursions made with senators in search of black bass in the streams about washington that the question of reducing his salary was absolutely abandoned we want him to come again said one of the committeemen and as for his salary we would hot cut him down a dollar washington cor albany journal |
