The last was to be preferred to money.

Mr.Harley had many irons of legislation in the congressional fires; a statesman's note of hand should operate to pave the way when his influence and his vote were to be asked for.

Should Mr.Harley lose at poker, his losses would be charged against that railroad and those coal companies whose interests about Congress it was Mr.Harley's mission to conserve.

There was no doubt of the propriety of such charges; they belonged in any account which was intended to register the cost of legislation.

If you but stop and think, you must see the truth of the above.