Show NV washington AsHINGTON cry city C ry ms magazine contains an article about washington city cit the bithe capital is 13 a nest of wickedness v vices of great cities are there unnaturally rife and preternaturally mal gnant ragin raking in v ortices vortices of intense excitement such as must necessarily boil up where the vast and conflicting interests of so mighty and afta active an empire as ours ar e gline f fon for or an adjustment streets almost of brot brothels hels fels adorn our seat of got goi it ra not I 1 matter of surprise aur bur prise or animadversion for a con gressman gress man to be found hauglin ha haunting them names cf members are known who have ha e assisted with wilh money anti anil influence in in promotion promo pro motin ting tins such establishments bribery is is rampant many men in Con congress ress are for sale we W have ourselves heard legislators state the amount of gold they have feen peen in the tha hands ot members and which such members have avowed to be their wages for such and such a v ote vote we amow that another anzer leading member of incorruptible honesty has been offered er what hat would in the eventov event of the success tic esl of a measure which he be was aked a to help haye have netted him fifty thousand dollars by a mere inere pur chae aase aud atad sale legislative dis discussion is maintained at the point of the knife add the of the pistol drunken orators uphold their chube with oaths indecency maundering laundering maun dering or inebriate laughter drunken representatives obstruct the business of the country at a rate of expense of about two hundred dollars air bour hour and the whole honor of conw cong congress r ess what there is of it every minute |