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Show MADE A NAME QUICKLY. New Congressman Becomes Popular in Washington. When Capt. Gardner arrived in Washington to take his seat in the House he was welcomed by Secretary Moody with the facetious greeting: "You are entering a congress badly (handicapped. You have to live down a father-in-law, a predecessor, and a hori rpiintatioTi." Gardner has been here a fortnight and he has already overcome his handicap. His first chance came at the Gridiron dinner a few days after his arrival, when he gave a talk which was a gem of postprandial post-prandial oratory. He held his own in unaccustomed -surroundings and tossed ack telling retorts at malicious interruptions, inter-ruptions, until Speaker -to-Be Cannon turned to Speaker Henderson with the remark, "That boy is all right. He can talte care of himself anywhere." At the Tantalus dinner Gardner gave a line that will live in history when he referred to Littlefield as the man "whose name was never sullied by being attached to a majority report." re-port." So that, thanks to his readiness, readi-ness, Gardner is already better known in the house than many a man who has been here for..y.ears.Boston Jour- |