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HELL!—"Hell on the Wabash," some years ago, was an exclamation frequently indulged in. That saying has become obsolete, and a new one has taken its place—"Hell at
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Congress." Another paper says it adopts the style mainly for the reason "that Congress does little else than labor to create a Hell in the South." Under this view of the case the heading seems not inappropriate.
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