How Members of Congress Are Bribed

If a persistent intermeddler without proper warrant in Government affairs, an unscrupulous dealer in threats and promises amongst public men, a constant menace to sworn servants of the people in their offices of trust, a tempter of the corrupt and a terror to the timid who are delegated to power a remorseless enemy to wholesome legislation, a constant friend to conspirators against the common welfare for private gain— if such a compound of dangerous and insolent qualities merged in one personality, active, vigilant, unblushing, be a Lobbyist— then Collis P. Huntington is a Lobbyist at the doors of Congress, in its corridors and in its councils, at Washington.