Show I t 1 f II i THE SEW YORK Times finds in looking over the list that the next 4 r t f l I Congress will have even more than i f its full share of odd and amusing i characters For the first time in the I f memory of this generation there is I J I some prospect that Sam Cox will I t I have to fight to maintain his proud II i i i II position as principal jester to theE 1 i the-E House Since the banishment oft of-t tthe bounding Beebe of New i t i York who duringthe electoral commission i ll I com-mission excitement would insist I I r 11 upon taking his afternoon walks i i j upon the tops of the congressional i i i desks the retirement to the United I 1 1 I i States law courts of that ancient 1 y i I and eminent humorist Martin I I la J i I Townsend and last but by no means f L I least since the change of heart a It E I whioh has come upon that once I funny legislator but now terribly jf severe person Field DD Washington i r Wash-ington society particularly that j q I I portion of it which frequents the f t 1 House galleries fora living has J I had to rely for amusement almost t + exclusively upon Mr Cox Butnow 1 f as has been intimated he is to ot Ij have rivals Chief among them will be Major Thomas Ochiltree of I J Texas and the Hon James Budd d i of California The Major whose i i I reputation for humor like a great I I I many other reputations has been iJ I made by the newspapers very much i to his surprise seems determined d I come what may to live up to the i HI If role which isl expected of him I li I 1 now UUUU11 UlUlCUUiysne lll alt IlitYtJ in doing so only his intimates who I 11 x see in him a quiet inoffensive and 1 i altogether pious sort of person of no I I particular brilliancy can ever know 1 i i j i Still he has commenced bravely by I declaring that he intends soon in i r I honor of his Teutonic supporters to r give a german ia Washington i It has been suggested that a little i I hatchet be one of the favors but it I i t has not been settled that Mr Buddof II California is to be invited Yet he i 1 deserves to be Mr Budd it maybe t J may-be well to state is an able democrat j 1 who has for the first time been 1 j tj f elected to Congress As to his canvass I can-vass he has declared as follows r I j 1 y Jim Budd want the people to i 1 understand that I did not try to i i eaten votes with money jiy stock i i in trade was a buckboard a clean i collar and an extra necktie I gave t my diamond pin to a friend to get 1 j SiiA which was easier to keep than 1 f the pin and more useful in the canvass q can-vass for a man had to live even if i he was running for Congress I I never took a drink during the canvass can-vass and now that I have won my 1 J i friends will not be ashamed that f they voted for Jim Budd By all 1 means let Mr Budd with his Mean 1 solar and extra necktie be invited I to Major Ochiltrees german |