Show JiI I 2 LJ OUTLOOK CONGRESS Session Soon to Open Promises to Be InterestingHon Amos Cummings ForecastS Representative Babcock Bab-cock Likely to Be a Picturesque Figure in the House Because of His Demand for Tariff Reductions Speaker Henderson and the Reed Rules I Correspondence Tribune Washington D C Nov 2CPictu Cue arc the features of the Flftyse Washington itself is 1 In cnth Congress variably attractive but with a new legislative body nnd President a new a newly furnished Capitol it is doubly picturesque figure in the to The most siege of Santiago is today the most picturesque figure in Washington AU arc turned on him The youngest eyes in tho lone list of Presidents succeeding Washington he is by 011 George ing odds the most interesting In the Whit House at church on foot or on horse at luncheon his Is 1 back and especially the central personality of the Nation A thousand newspapers daily record his movements and millions of tongues hourly canvass his actions offlcla But the Congress ns It is termed also promises to be unusual coming session Is I The jcturesqUe with unwonted attractions freighted President Is sleged the new While for omce the new Coil with applicants Is surrounded with those seeking gress favorS It is a Congress cgIs1atlVe responsiblHtles The heavy carrying war opened a new SpanlshAlnerlcan Natlon tJPon history of the era In the rests th shoulders of Congress the of shaping our colonial policy burden the aspirations of the It ia to rivet the millions freed by Dovoys guns to It destinies of the American republic is absorb the Danish West Indies to tleAmerican flag to the restore the nnd commercial to supremacy of the ocean It uncounted millions for Is to out pour Improvements and to ana harbor river create freshwater seas for urlgatln the lands of the Far West It Is to authorize unprecedented increase oC Ihorize an the longclose the navy and to turn spigot to appropriations for public buildings With efforts to reduce taxation taxa-tion curb trusts stamp out anarchy asld and stop all Chinese immigration Irom those to admit New Mexico An ona and Oklahoma and to a thousand bthor less important matters both houses will be overwhelmed with busIness busi-ness The session may trench upon the autumn months r 9 These considerations make David B Henderson the most picturesque figur In the new House As he limps up the steps leading l to the Speakers desk throws back the iron gray hair from his forehead and raises his right hand preparatory pre-paratory to taking the oath his figur may well be termed historic The pic ture will be still further enhanced when his old comrade In arms Gen Harry BIngham administers the oath Gen Henderson however will become ai the more picturesque if he retains the copperfastened autocratic power bequeathed be-queathed him by Thomas B Reed It will be remembered that the nails wer pllnched by David himself twenty mln utes after Mr Reed took the chair at the beginning of the Fiftyfifth Congress Con-gress They were clinched despite the earnest protest of a descendant Matthew Mat-thew Lyon who is still a member c the House In neither the Flftyflft nor the Fl tys > lxth Congress did the House formulate rules for Itself The strenuous rules oC the Fiftyfourtl were adopted These were al revision of the old Reed rules of the FiftyfirsI The revision was made by the grea Thomas himself It was sanctioned In caucus and afterward adopted in the House by a strict party vote This revision re-vision placed the House absolutely under un-der the control of the Speaker It enabled en-abled Speaker Reed to throttle the Senate Sen-ate In the extra session called for the consideration of the Dlngley blHI3y a simple refusal to appoint the bulk o the committees in the House all the bills sent over by the Senate dioppci Into the lap of the Speaker There the remained until the last day of the ses Mon when the committees were appointed ap-pointed and the necessary reference made Reeds autocracy however develops a rcstivcness In his own party that va at times dangerous William P Hep burn and Joseph H Walker were tw kfn the implacablcs with Albert J Hop kins close third Hepbtirncomplalne that the rules of the last House had been adopted under an implied pledg that the new rules would be reported within thirty days This was true The constructive promise was made by David B Henderson whp offered the resolution for their adoption The Com mittec on Rules including Mr Hendct f on remained silent I I and the rule themselves have remained unchange irom that day to the present Mr Her aersoii when n ttelnt caucus fol pcaker profited < by Mr Reeds ov br rsht Joe Walker had ben bowled oul g of the byero 6 House e by John B Thayer hut on1s urn still remained By Hendel 50n s ndvlce the cauCus recommen mmen cd the adopUcl1 ° c tne strenuous nuo s rUle an < I th1t r eU ed all discussion l ° n Mr Hepbur was made chaSnnau ° C the Committee on Interstate j and Foreign Commercc and hM had nothing more to say about the lion rules Indeed l his fICiOU80PI081 Sicmcd t hmnner In leveled more at the whi h C J erc forced the House 01 th n Ies imlJar Ithe themselvcs action 1110 ably b in tnker derson the caucus renomlmlLlng Gen 1len If ° the revised needll1lcse rules the FI1tyfo rN o uri Congress will remalr the rules thenJjtrC58 ot the gress ie J IftySQChitli Con Babco There lt Isa of f bllit that Joseph T CIy pictu e r may beconie iflf Pleturesqu e Ele i 8 a sturdyt figure In the Houoe shouldela rUdds at sman with bro rUdd c ceks fat hand b dark eye ad a C ln Whisker 11 He fencd eight iJe r ha y sl as 15 pi the Distrlctt2 clmlrmnt c mm I l t ec For fo YEars he has Oil b In Republlcal1 o cen r charge or th thlUSTcsslonal committee Glde from tl1i S he h 9 alwars bec 11 withS favorIte with l a er 1 Is ctedited wlt leb 1g Indcld < le man orced whl Henderson s lomlllatlontw Years bcos go B bcok C Iiai dare himselC Openly de rampant vlslonlst Undo tatIff re 3enUment bte IY he voices th of bIG pal tyln the North West It seems to aI1nllesota Iowa bgnrCdomlnant l bu n lit OWa shows State no P strength in I the East Th lCPubllcan ronYClltlon fc ored It 1 < atlon t 1n uGe enderson therc Is no In l htenlt Intends l OUhideIthr Wll llr D kinJ O lilt I F floor Ino 3 optnh Tb rnnfJ II ttQr setllct1 may he iettied or tJ In or it cauci ha be thcau1u ana ray turnedovel to tIlC Yay He r 1 hands c tIt 15S practlcrill e bau th < < upolntmcnt L 1e ther f mlttfe AnVsP Vntmcntot the con Us Iate i e 01 CICtd Tn mnembcrs wer II l e epubllcans IVehI Dcmocla an 10Uld Tho DCU10Ctai I1hc ne of Ub1ic COUMe n ai 11 nvurlabl vote for rovl3101 gQthrf nct tc It Is hardl I and a 8 the majority dire mlttC 111 trolbable that the can c-an pr bnhl e l3nged Nor Is the the Icpuhii iY that IIIOIC than four 0 rclslolt TIn mcmbers would fav nor of 1ese arc James A Tn Can flIllleota Samuel TV of lI ll L ohc 0f 1n1 sach use t ta Chester Babcock hlmselS1S and our trier dcnce that elt or I therc any 0 Long Would atn c Taw I1C y McCan Dalzell Pins II by Babcock Payr and Slol are GrOcnor rtu8uc Slld o be unalterab 9PP5tcd tQ it rhtui > a cQck 13 P J e unless he Illes Into the faces of his less I colleagues If however he did this and was joined by either Tawney Mc Call or Long the game would be in the hands of tho opposition The question ques-tion would be opened up to the House and scenes exciting and picturesque beyond description ensue a S 4 One figure in the House is forever I picturesque It is that of Joseph G Cannon of Danville He Is a type of the oldtlmo statesman now fast disappearing dis-appearing Born In North Carolina and fructifying on the prairies of Illinois he has served thirteen terms In Congress with only one break He appears to have become a permanent fixture In the House Warworn and battlescarred he preserves his youthful youth-ful vigor and deals blows right royally 1 Never Is ho at rest In the pasfsilm men he superintended the improvement improve-ment t In the House wing of the Capitol and he Is probably already at work on the appropriation bills of the coming session While carefully superintending superintend-Ing I tills work he keeps his weather eye r on the appropriations Intrusted to other committees Never does he hesitate hesi-tate to attack them In tho last session I ses-sion he riddled the naval bill It was owing to his efforts that tho first time In a quarter of a century no provision was made for an Increase In the navy Its new chairman lacked the stamina and vigor so characteristic of Charles I A Boutelle and the bill reached the r President shorn of many features of 1 i vital Interest to the service In making mak-ing an attack Cannon is almost Invincible Invinc-ible but he frequently falls In repelling re-pelling one Gifted with a sonorous voice and emphasizing his points with gestures grotesquely graceful he seasons his arguments with telling metaphors and drives them home with vim extraordinary The recommendation I recommenda-tion of the new President to provide for an unprecedented Increase in the number of shlp ot war will hardly strike him favorably Nor will ho bo I especially enraptured by the proposal Increase the enlisted force by the addition of 5000 men If the proposal is forced by the Naval committee It will bring on a btruggle decidedly more entertaining than Instructive But any attempt top ss a ship subsidy sub-sidy bill will present features far more striking and picturesque It was the bulldog tenacity of Cannon in the FIt tlrst Congress that drove a similar simi-lar bill Into outer darkness It had already al-ready passed the House when Cannon entered a motion to reconsider and carried it at midnight amid great excitement ex-citement by the narrow majority of two votes This illS undoubtedly the greatest victory ever achieved in the House by the Illinois statesman There Is today no positive assurance that he has in any way changed his attitude 0 4 Peculiarly picturesque also arc the indications in the United States Senate I I The youthful element has been strong ly reenforced and may become rampant ramp-ant It will undoubtedly venerate I baldheads and graybeards but It will hardly be shackled by hoary precedents 1 prece-dents When Edward W Carmack of Memphis ventures to break a lange I with Albert Jeremiah Beverldge of Indianapolis In-dianapolis the chamber will surelV bo filled with glittering leonids The sage of Mississippi I may well open his eyes in wonder Nor will Joseph W Bailey of Texas go way bock and sit down He is a year younger than Beverldge and far more picturesque In the House ho cpped with the ablest vet erana and In the Senate he will easily hold his own Nor is Fred Dubols anywhere any-where near the sere and yellow leaf I He returns rejuvenated from his long vacation and lo awake and eager for the fray Aside from this Joe Blackburn I I Black-burn has reappeared armed capaplc finer than ever with eloquence as pure j and fascinating as the rippling streams of Kentucky by moonlight At any moment also that brilliant oratorical star Jonathan P Dolllver may breakthrough break-through the mists of discussion and shed a light not seen since the days of Edward D Baker Chandler Wolcott and Thurston have disappeared but Frye Foraker and Daniel remain and I away off on the Maryland horizon appeals tho ornate figure of Arthur P Gorman pears quietly striding toward the I main entrance of the Capitol Surely I with such a figure In view the Senato I is sure to increase in picturesqueness of and become a neverfalling spring attractiveness to casual visitors AMOS J CUMMINGS Copyright 1901 by Amos J Cumrolngs |