Show fi odd s J KODAK > VIEWS OF CON6RESS 1 I h k J cr 1l1 I 2i > Copyright 1200 by Amoa J Cumminga JI Ic Correspondence Tribune It J i j W Washington April 260nc ot the I features ot the Capllor is I f the river of ite4zi I discussion It has its shallows Its Id t 11 I depths Its eddies and Its rapids At I times It broadens nto Inland seas and g ths d anon sweeps through canyons as deep Sari and yawning as those of the Colorado QW t Its fountains are the reside and the I It t t 1 schoolhouse It flows through the valley II llg > of popular opinion In placidity it la 1 I r 1 almost unruffled until it reaches the Cxt boulders of purtlsail conflict They Jut M break Us currents Into eddying whirls e 171 creating counter currents and whirl 11d pools unlll Its waters surge into the nd rapids leading to the sea of Congres I Here there Is quite Iri sional legislation ere d a settlement It Is a broad and at S It tslmar times an exceedingly stormy sea j IB the center of political commerce and Itcl Is piled by all sorts of craft Here la iii I a battl2fehlp carrying thirteenInch guns there an armored cruiser of Immense 1 fl1 1 Im-mense tonnage and surprising speed I tt t Near by you see a protected cruiser while gunboats and torpedo outfits I i r arc headed toward every point of the I U l rompass Aside from these d6rles 1 f catboats dinghies canoes launches r legomution sails pl rcr r sharpies and I sails and catamarans with lateen i rd rogues nails of all sizes and conditions ply I Its t1 waters Dl ifelers occur dally Soma I r 1I + vessels break down by overheated ire bearings and a toorapid working of 1i tlelr engines others catch fire and ext ex-t 4 plode Cases of spontaneous combustion combus-tion are not unknown Some of the ships carry flour and other articles fo4a r contraband of war and arc haled bit to Durban others are freighted with combustibles i tsJy com-bustibles unfortunately not forbidden and ships with unsheathed bottoms arc oif sometimes impaled on sunken rocks I And there are paid to be piratical craft i8 upon this Congressional seareal old S lime buccaneers such as hovered over t iji the Spanish main and rendezvoused J in the Isle of Pines in the seventeenth I 3 century All these and far more are entertaining i JS entertain-ing features of the river < of discussion It flows through a charming country flui s The scenery Is beautiful and at times C r sublime It alternates from pastoral nlmpllclty to lowering heights of grandeur grand-eur In the valleys the sun rltes itself Oji it-self In shadows over the sparkling Water ig Wa-ter In the gorges the shrill crIes of 1I1JJ the eagfc and the everlasting roar of the cataract are heard The waters I f flow as If they did not know tin road ol1 f The banks art eternally crumbling and 1Tt i there is many a sawyer in tho channel chan-nel upFrom the Congressional sea the river t r flows by a hundred channels IntJ the jl great Presidential gulf through jellies of greed and rapacity constructed by T l i ho wealthy and powerful at the expense d ia ex-pense of the people There is always j a great froshet on the year of a Presidential a rt Presi-dential election The bottoms are food I J j ed for miles on either id illl Ins i ICI fence chiclancoops plgsl 5 rand I ff G much other less valuable material wire I I swept away The blue hills of popular gip favor however remain on the horizon rib a safe refuge for those who flee from the fury of the floodj j 1 + The banks of the stream arc a haven of enjoyment for the amateur photographer photog-rapher He revels in Its beauty and IIv1 labs kodak Isbusy at all hours day or I night He IH not beyond Indulging flasrillghl + pictures The photographs a4 g i arco varied tlratj they liremoie thun intertalnlng IIccOIsa pat illustration illustra-tion taken by a kodak during the discussion 1 dis-cussion on the financial bill The Hon J H Slcohens ofVernon Tex had the = floor He represents a district larger w than England He was discussing the economic features of the measure The meanest man I ever heard of said he borrowed his neighbors horse for ploughing At nightfall ho would I feed the horse but would sneak back I I to the stable after dark steal the corn from him and tole It out to his hogs 1I 1 I The supporters of this bill are stealing the corn from the people and feeding It r to the fat hogs the bondholders and l the bankers Another line snapshottaken from the tij bank of the river was one of Henry S Boutell of Chicago Il was on the Gage iv resolution Mr Uoutull looks like feels tc like and apparently thinks like Secretary Secre In his campaign two years ago that G Illustrates the feelings of some constituents con-stituents toward their Congressman After campaign speech one night he + says he mot an old and feeble constituent t con-stituent outside of the hall He stopped and congratulated him on his ability to be out and was staggered to hear him reply Yes Congressman I made up my ttn mind T would hear your speech tonight If I It killed me E There Is also a fine kodak picture of 1p Samuel W T Lanham of Wetherfprd Tex Lnnham Is an old member wlth lr a Sllns Wright face Ho was bitterly Kf opposrd to the swearing in of 13rgham IF Roberts Suppose said he that ° t there had been an election in our nl f leg d antipodal possessions the Philippine I Phil-ippine Islands to select a Delegate to fongrcss and that coming with a cer n1F llflcalc of election Issued by the proconsul pro-consul or whoever might be the proper party to sign a commission there nt should appear ss The Sultan of Jolo y S Fresh from his seraglio Hulling from the nrchlpolngo Claiming an Imporlum In Imperio rf Accompanied by his chief data Armed with his bolo t and demand that he be sworn In as a Territorial Delegate should we not cx dud him If the facts which have been ii t alleged against him had been ascertained 1y ascer-tained to be true Upon the theory of the minority perhaps the proper procedure pro-cedure would be to say to him Will + your royal highness kindly come down to the liar of the House and have the r oath administered and then kick him out Under our theory we would say 11 to him nt the threshold Thou keeper of 3t an Oriental harem avaunt and quit our sight South Carolina statesmen are usually flue food for kodaks Here Is one taken of Senator Ben Tlllman He Is not i usually considered oa wither ornate or classic but It would be hard to parallel paral-lel his allusion to the speech of Senator ii1i Sena-tor Bcverldge on the Philippine question fet m ques-tion I beg you to remember Till Ij h man said that the Senator from Indiana ado s In-diana did not trust that marvelous 1 J memory of his because we all know nt least those who have mode speeches t rts and we sometimes tnlk ourselves t i that those flowing periods nnd those tif beautiful sentences and that rhetorical 1 I loveliness nnd finish and glltler did not trl come from any well in which he can 1 1 dip a bucket and draw It out at will 0 J No tlner subject for a snap shot exists cC1H ex-ists than Joseph C Slbley of Pannsyl Ileb i anla Politically lie wears a coat of iea many colors but he Is always an Interesting L1 In-teresting figure coat or no coat His 1 t tl speeches are refulgent with variegating lbd10 colors and at times have a shimmering I ifi shimmer-ing brightness which makes It dlillcult ctt ry to understand them In some remarks tlu + on territorial expansion Hr Cochran of Missouri who claims to knov something onoj some-thing about the buslnegft naked Bib = I + d In l y if he thought tile Philippine Islands r + I d ver P Hu ceptlbh m to American Immigration yttii lion to or tionT d tT al > T want to tell yoUii story Slbley rrl1 l > replied I It seoluR hi < nu that w on JI1 Ita 74I rl invn nr < III 1 n M e1d It hi lixil lEJ tJrloth iunl v ti tr tan ihfv built tho MkRhrn w in r lIJr it 1 H t rI 8 had some tint iiiu p i > ill n h 4 they wanted to build the road Never I having seen a railroad he was opposed to It Under the right of eminent domain do-main they built the road After it was built he and bats wife concluded that limos would go to the lop of lilt hill and see the train go across They reached the top Just as a long freight train came around the curve and swept down tin valley They watched it until It went out of sight Then his wife turned to him and said Veil Josiah Jo-siah It didnt do no harm Thats all right Maria he depllod She went endwise this time but the next time she may come sidewise and there wont be a crap left In the whole wiregrass region Yon people shunted Slblev way ing hfs hand toward the minority are afraid that the next time It Is going to come sidewise but It Isnt Its going to come endwise Just ns It has always done By way of putting a nub on the speech Sihlcy said Primitive man lived In caverns clothed himself in I skins and ale his meat raw squatting on his haunches and there has never occurred a change for the higher and I better forma of life without arousing the hostility of Rome old mossback conservative hunker who will prate of those fairer and better days of old when their grandfathers swung bv thein tails from the limbs of the trees In the forests primeval t I While Mr Slbley was making his speech Prof W I Jasper Talbort of Parkvllle S C turned 1 his lodak upon the great Pennsylvania He developed devel-oped the picture without going Into the darkroom and exhibited It to the House in a pension discussion a day or two afterward Talberl was Insisting upon a strict scrutiny of each pension bill with a view of squeezing out those not really entitled to pensions Mr Sibley was annoying Itlnmby objections and points of order It was then that Talbert began to exhibit the productions produc-tions of his kodak Mr Sibley said that it cost 7500 an hour to run the House of Representatives He added that een his friend from South Caro lina would admit that In the last few years he had used up so much of the time of the House in I opposing legislation legisla-tion that the cost of tin time would have paid every pension bill that had been before the House this session Talbcrt I replied My friend yonder goes out of one place and into another so often that I cannot follow him A moment afterward when he had called for the reading of a report and Mr Slbley had objected Talbert Mild l 1 hope that this House has not arrived ar-rived at that understanding or at that point where they want to stifle free speech where they want to gag anybody any-body especially my distinguished smoothfaced chameleon from Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania coquetting with silver and gold with time facile case of an agile acro bril brilWhen When this picture was shown the whole House burst Into uncontrollable laughter About this time William Neville who is the successor of Judge fircone of Nebraska Ne-braska asked Mr Talbprt why he did not make the point of no quorum when other than pension business was being considered I If the gentleman will sit down and hf easy and let his hair grow 1 will tell him why I do It Prof Talbert responded re-sponded He then said that he did It to keep pensions from bummers deserters de-serters and coffeecoolei and that he was opposed to these Infernal Increases to men and women who had already a competency while old soldiers were left out without original pensions Not long afterward Joseph W Ford ney of Saginaw Mich caught a flush light plctuie or the South Carollnan It was Intensely l characteristic Ford ney Indignant at the delay in the pension pen-sion bills told Talbert that he would not believe him under oath The professor pro-fessor replied that a Bible quotation was A whip for the horse a bridle for the ass and a rod for the fools back He thought that his friend from Michigan might be put In either category and added that If the gen tl men meant to Impute untruthfulness untruthful-ness to me I hurl It back down his rotten throat Mr Fordney returned that he was a firm believer In the Bible It says manmust be born again When it Is time for tho gentleman from South Carolina to be born again I hope to God he will be stillborn There Is no danger of the gentleman from Michigan being born again answered Talbert because the devil has got him has got a bill of sale of him now 0 D 0 Along In the third month of the session ses-sion some kodak lend caught Joseph G Cannon Uncle Joe was a little frisky and as usual somebody was kicked over He was piloting ah urgent deficiency bill through the devious de-vious channels of legislation when charges were made against Secretary Gage for his dealings with certain New York banks Uncle Joe got after Champ Clark He recollected something some-thing that occurred on the Wabash when he was a boy It was before the days of railroads There was a three days dlrcuiylon between great religious reli-gious rIghts on the doctrine of election An Old haulshell Presbyterian took occasion to say that the Lord had or dered everything from the beginning and I that there wore Infants In hell not a span long There was a good old Methodist sister sitting near by but she did not go into any argument about it She could not have disproved It any more then he could prove it but she answered him by Jumping up clapping clap-ping her hands and shouting Oh how I thank my God that Is a lie Champ Clark made a display of intellectual in-tellectual curios before this It was when the majority had expressed snare jubilation over pie Congressional election elec-tion two years ago Champ said that the rejoicing over that result was the most amazing phenomena that he had observed while tabernacling In the flesh It reminded him of a story he once heard A young physician wassailed was-sailed In a case of grout delicacy When he returned to the office his veteran partner asked him how he got along First rate replied the youthful disciple dis-ciple of Esculaplns The mother and baby are both dead but I saved the old man With their combs cut both wings broken and their tailfeathers plucked Champ added the majority Is crowing because they saved the old man So much for the scenes along the river of discussion These ri pro ue tions from the kodak appear trivial but they Indicate the strength of the current when Iho shallows murmur and UK deeps are dumb A new freshet Is at hand The tllnm Is ris ing steadily and will overflow Us banks about the middle of July it will then be thnu for those living on the river bottoms to make a break for the hills Everything Indicates a storm of un usual length and severity with plenty of thunder and lightning and showers of hailstones as large as hens eggs AMOS J CLMMINGS |