"Well, it's all the same; it's just the same thing. It shows that a man
can't be corrupt in this country without sweating for it, I can tell you
that."
"Hang hustler xxx it, Colonel, you just said we never punish anybody for villainous
practices."
&hustler xxx quot;But good God we try them, don't we! Is hustler xxx it nothing to show a disposition
to sift things and bring people to a strict account? I tell you it has
its effect."
"Oh, bother the effect!--What is it they do do? How do they proceed?
You know perfectly well--and it is all bosh, too. Come, hustler xxx now, how do they
proceed?"
"Why they proceed right and regular--and it ain't bosh, Washington, it
hustler xxx ain't bosh. They appoint a committee to investigate, and that committee
hears evidence three weeks, and hustler xxx all the witnesses on one side swear that
the accused took money or stock or something hustler xxx for his vote. Then the
accused stands up and testifies that hustler xxx he may have done it, but he was
receiving and handling a good deal of money at the time and he doesn't
hustler xxx remember this particular circumstance--at hustler xxx least with sufficient
distinctness to enable him
to grasp it hustler xxx tangibly. So of course the thing
is not proven--and that is what they say in hustler xxx the verdict. They don't
acquit, they don't condemn. They just say, 'hustler xxx Charge not proven.' It
leaves the accused is a kind hustler xxx of a shaky condition before the country,
hustler xxx it purifies
Congress, it satisfies everybody, and it doesn't seriously
hurt hustler xxx anybody.