You will read of the lobbyists and find that not all of them are men.

The first-term Congressman doesn't make speeches in Washington, because no one cares what he thinksexcept the lobbyists, whose business it is to provide new members with a complete set of thoughts.

He could bother, too, the intriguing members of the "third house," as the lobbyists are called.

Senator Z. then hustled to the lobbyist of the railroad that wanted the bill killed and guaranteed him that for $10,000 he could get Senator X. to change his vote, to vote against the bill.

"Colonel," he returned calmly, dropping into a voice that sounded of pity for the gray hairs of the lobbyist, "about fifty men a day come to me with propositions like that.

" The lobbyist hurried away, his bibulous soul swelling with satisfaction.

"] CHAPTER XXII LOBBYISTSAND ONE IN PARTICULAR Washington has known many lobbyists in its time, and it keeps on knowing them.

When commercial tricksters, believing in the lobbyists' favorite maxim, "The People Forget," feel that they have outlived the latest reform movement and see "the good old days" returning, the professional politicians introduce a few reform measures themselves, most stringent measures.

All this also helps the lobbyist to secure and retain employment.

Not all the Washington lobbyists are outside of Congress.

Lobbyists must be honest with each other.

Not all lobbyists are men.

A woman with a measure of social standing would naturally prove the most successful as a lobbyist in Washington because of the opportunities her position would afford her to meet people of prominence.

What a newspaper story she would make"Society Favorite a Paid Spy"; "Woman Lobbyist Flees Capital.

The highest class lobbyists, those who "swing" the "biggest deals," concern themselves only with men who can "handle" or who control lawmakers.

He was a friend of Peabody's," laughed the lobbyist to the Mississippian.

"Why, Senator Stevens," went on the lobbyist, "only to-day a Down East member held me up to tell me that he was strong for that proposition to give the A.K. and L. railroad grants of government timber land in Oregon.

Now, they had had the lobbyists of the whisky ring in that Legislature for years and years, not only around it at respectful distances, but inside the bar, and nobody ever made a motion to clear the halls of the whisky mob there.

Because they did not know that, they stood to lose what they had sunk in the electric-light plant, and after their departure to New York, which departure was accelerated as far as the wharf by seven generals and twelve privates, they proceeded to lose more money on lobbyists and lawyers who claimed to understand international law; even the law of Hayti.

he frowned, recalling the incidents of the crisis at the suggestion let fall by the two outgoing lobbyists.

It might have been expected, from the general's excessive preoccupation with lobbyists and politicians, that the business of the bureau should languish, and so it did.

In the latter half of the 21st century new leadership arose from these areas, and the American spirit, which for a hundred years had gradually been eclipsed by special-interest groups, lobbyists, fringe organizations, and major corrupt economic interests, was largely purified.

It pleases Mrs. Taine to be, in the world of art, a lobbyist.

If great law firms, governors, judges, congressmen and senators, lobbyists and manipulators, are not judged in the light of the secret as well as the surface influence of the Gowdy Case, they will not be rightly judged.

They say the Washington gamblers, the Congressmen, Senators, and Cabinet members with their heelers and lobbyists have made a killing.