Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2

Project Gutenberg's Mr. Crewe's Career, Book II., by Winston ChurchillThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Mr. Crewe's Career, Book II.Author: Winston ChurchillRelease Date: October 16, 2004 [EBook #3682]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. CREWE'S CAREER, BOOK II. ***Produced by Pat Castevans and David WidgerMR. CREWE'S CAREERBy Winston ChurchillBOOK 2.CHAPTER XITHE HOPPERIt is certainly not the function of a romance to relate, with the exactness of a House journal, the proceedings of aLegislature. Somebody has likened the state-house to pioneer Kentucky, a dark and bloody ground over which thebattles of selfish interests ebbed and flowed,—no place for an innocent and unselfish bystander like Mr. Crewe, whodesired only to make of his State an Utopia; whose measures were for the public good —not his own. But if any politicianwere fatuous enough to believe that Humphrey Crewe was a man to introduce bills and calmly await their fate; a manwho, like Senator Sanderson, only came down to the capital when he was notified by telegram, that politician was entirelymistaken.No sooner had his bills been assigned to the careful and just consideration of the committees in charge of theHonourable Brush Bascom, Mr. Botcher, ...