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Show The Successor of Uaoiel Webster. New York Sun. Henry Cabot Lodge walked over from the house of representatives to the senate chamber Monday morning, accompanied by an old gentleman who wore a heavy gray overcoat, a hig h hat of the style of forty years ago, and carried car-ried a large eaue. The old gentleman said smilingly to the doorkeeper: "Oh. ve" I have tlie privilege of the floor I "was a senator once, but probably fore vo.tr lime. I mil also an ev sjK-aker of the house." Then he good-naturedly good-naturedly said that he wa Robert (,. Winthrop and that he was senator from July. 1W0. to rebruary. 1 . hav-intt hav-intt tilled the unexpired term of iMniel I Webster. |