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Show HOW r-QME "LEAKS" CROW Information Concerning OfBcIal Busl-ness Busl-ness Oats to the Newspaper Reporters. Somo years ugo Oen. Grosvonor was a member of tho commlttco on rivers nnd harbors of tho houso, and this story Is told of how ho accommodated a nowspnper friend.' In thoso days thcro was a stronger prcssttro than at present nmong the correspondents tc got tho ndvancd Items In tho river nnd harbor bill, so that ovory man whe had n friend on tho commlttco was expected ex-pected to "lay down" on him nnd get the different Items. Tho year of which this Btory Is told tho commlttco ns usunl tied Itself up nnd agreed that It would not mnko nny features public until tho bill wns reported to the houso. Hut as usunl somo members "leaked." A man from tho far west procured tho Pacific coast Items and one or two other largo Items enough to mnko It appear thnt tho bill was getting out. These Items wcro timed over to n man who knew Oen. Grosvonor Grosvo-nor well nnd the hattlo began. The general did not want to "glvo up," but tho newspaper ninii was persistent, pointing out how nearly every other man of tho committee hail "taken enro of his friends, and that It was not right for tho general to allow his friends to get left. Tho outcome was that tho young man got his Items In tho bill nnd enough to help out nil his friends who wcro in tho plot. Tho next morning thcro was a stormy meeting In tho commlttco on rivers nnd harbors. Gen. Grosvonor oponcd tho ball with n denunciation ol thoso who mado such n protenso of secrecy and yet gnvo out ovorythlng pertaining to tholr sections. Ho snld that tho main features of tho bill, ns well as whole scctlonti, imd been mado public, and ho know they woro nccu-rnto nccu-rnto bccatiso tho newspaper men had shown him the figures. Tho commlttco commlt-tco had seldom rocolvcd such n lec-turo lec-turo ns Gen. Grosvonor gnvo them, nnd a few who hnd boon guilty of "tipping off" n fow Items to frlonds regretted that they woro not ns faithful nnd virtuous vir-tuous ns tho Ohio representative Thoy resolved to follow In his footstops In tho future, and many of them did so, Whenever thcro is trouble ovor n "leak" In tho commlttco every member now tries to get his Indignant protest In first. Gen. Grosovnnr will bo missed by tho newspaper men ns well as by his colleagues, for ho was it good 'news" num. |