| Show JIi 1 0 t L i t TwentyFive Congressmen Who Are Entering fl 91 J JE fl J a 1 Talk Now of Forming a Club Something j tering Upon Their Sixth OLD IN TNE SERVICE I Some-thing Like 1 TermTen Years Together in louse ti J I I I I I L J L I V I L the TantalusWho Would Be Eligible 1 r r I y 1 LA t I TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENCE t I There late twentyfive men who began t t 1 gall thell service In the House In the I I I Fiftythlird Congress and who have I sewed continuously ever since and arc t I now entering upon their sixth term t I i t 1 < < For tcn yen re they have been associated asso-ciated with each other and the fact 1 I I that so many beghuijng1 nt that time N I i rliould be vceleeted for live successive j times has smarted come talk about the I formation of a club something like I I u I 1 the Tanlaliii club which should give a dinner once or tlc during the winter I I j The dlIlculty with the Tantalus club is I i that it conllnuoJ to grow on account I of new mombersj i The Fiftythird I i Congress club cannot grow and Is t I j hound to decrease in numbers Those t i who are eligible to the Fiftythird t l A Con IC3 club arc Adams of C I Pennsylvania Babcock of Wisconsin I IP Uartholdt of Missouri Cooper of WIs I f f cousin Cooper oC Texas Cousins of I I Iowa Curtis of Kansas Dinsmore oC II I It t I ArkiiKshs Dovener of West Virginia I I la Gardner of New Jersey Glllet of New I i jU York GiJlet of Itissachusetts Lltttle I 1 ti i of Arkansas Zxitidenslaer of New L c Jersey I McCall of Massachusetts Mc lr bleary OL Minnesota Maddox of d Georgia Mahon oC Ponnsylvania o Parker of New Jersey Swanson or t Virginia Tate or Georgia Tawney of fNinuesota Van Voorhis of Ohio I Wanger of Pennsylvania Williams of I Mississippi II ti These men who were all cubs back f in that Congress which met first In f i the summer of 1Sto repeal the silver y x jiurcnase net nave quite a roncincFs for I one another Xaturally as new 1110111 1 bets they were thrown in each others society Jn that Congress they had little to do save to sit back and watch t 1 the wheel go around So engrossed t I with themselves and the business of f I the House were the older members that h they who little attention to these new j men g who sort of Hocked by themselves tl But they are no longer the men who t i were merely onlookers One of them Vllllams Is the minority leader another i1 l an-other Tawney is the Republican 1 tl i whip and UK Speakers right hand I I man One Babcock has been chair I HilL of the Republican Congressional campaign committee In five successive arid successful i campaigns One Cooper of Wisconsin Is I chairman of the Insular committee Dinsmore is the I ranking minority member of Foreign l k i Affairs Nearly every one of them has taken a prominent place in the House SOMEWHAT REMINISCENT Tile talk of Cuban reciprocity and the difficulty which those favoring concessions conces-sions to the Island republic have experienced experi-enced in getting legislation enacted often calls tip reminiscences of the strugple I It 1 was In the Speakers room that the famous light In the Fifty enth Congress was discussed Representative Repre-sentative Tawney of Mlnesoia was being be-ing complimented for the manner in which he had managed the fight on the floor f and the splendid organization of i the minority or the Republicans was referred to They voted with the Democrats to overrule the decision of I James S Sherman who as chairman of the committee of the whole had declared de-clared the Morris a deferential amendment amend-ment out of order and then voted solidly sol-idly with the Republicans in sustaining exactly similar rulings upon hides and other articles I never yaw anything like it but once said Asher C Hind the parliamentary expert except asa as-a boy when 1 sat In the gallery and sam Sam Randall defeat the Morrison bill He marshaled his minority of protection pro-tection Democrats and overturned the majority party by uniting with the Re publicans Old man Eaton a Connecticut Connecti-cut Democrat was supporting him and had been taunted as a traitor and some one railed out that eBnedlct Arnold Ar-nold was New England born As a New England boy 1 was much Interested in what the reply would be It Is trite said Eaton that Benedict Arnold was born In New England and that he was a traitor to his country but no New England Democrat has ever been a traitor though other Democrats have been And he waved his arm about and his bony fingers pointed to many who had once worn the Confederate gray It was the chance for the Republicans Re-publicans and they made the mosi of it In the cheers they = gave Eaton I remember I re-member that sitting next to me was an old gentleman who wus much interested inter-ested and excited His head wagged from side to side he thrashed about with his legs and when it was evident how the vote was going he could not contain his glee Carlisle Is gone Carlisle Car-lisle Is gone he exclaimed In ecstacy and Joined In the general applause that greeted the result It heat anytllln of the kind that I had ever scent OTHER STORMY SCENES Mr Hinds however has witnessed scenes more stormy and more dramatic for he was standing beside Speaker Reed when the latter I counted a quorum quo-rum in the House and when the House was In greater turmoil t and excitement than could be produced by any tariff contest It was then that the cntlro Democratic side rose in a prolonged shout of protest agaiiift the action oC the Speaker and It even looked as If an attempt might bo mude to pull the Speaker front his chair Lnmovable unruIJled and absolute the big man from Maine sat and announced name after name of Democrats not voting I and present and added them to the number who had voted and made the quorum Nearly every prominent man II whose name was called uttered a sharp protest and denied the right oC the I i Speaker to use his name When thh decision was made Urctklnrldprc of I I Kentucky appealed from the decision of till chair and Payson of Illinois I j promptly moved to lay the appeal on the table Then pandemonium broke loose again as Breckinrldgc claimed I that Payson could not take him off the floor to make such a motion and that he had the right for an hour to discuss the appeal Reed was not Inclined to show any quarter but to force a vote on Pnysona motion which was not debatable de-batable and the protests were renewed with vigor It was the voice of William Wil-liam h McKinley that was heard above the din making an appeal for fair I play for at least some discussion of such an important matter He finally l induced Payson to withdraw his motion mo-tion and there was quite a debate That was not the only time when Mr Hinds saw stormy scenes and dramatic scenes for It was in that Congress that every Democrat save one who remained I re-mained to make parliamentary motions mo-tions left the hall In order to aold being be-ing counted Altogether it will be a j long time nerore tncrcii1 such another exciting session as the first Fifty first STORY OX DUN RAVEN SurgeonGeneral OReilly tells a story of Lord Dunraven the man who is not so popular in the United States as Sir Thouas Lipton During UK FrancoPrussian war Gen Sheridan met Dunraven who was the war co1 respondent re-spondent of a London paper and formed quite an attachment for him He Invited the Earl l to rome over to the United States promising him some good hunting When Dunraven arrived ar-rived Sheridan sent him to Fort Laramie Lara-mie Wyo with a letter lo Surgeon OReilly who was stationed there nl the time With the Earl were Lord Parker afterward Earl of Maclcsjleld and George KlngslOi They were a merry party and had great success with the big game Unit was more plentiful plen-tiful In Wyoming nt that time than HIs H-Is now Kingsley remarked Gen OReilly was In many respects the most remarkable man I ever met He was a man who scorned to know a great deal about molt things and all about many things No matter uponwhat incident in-cident the conversation would turn he would take it up and trace the history of the subject the beginning It was no with art poetry music literature and dlfTercnt phases of literature Ho did not do it In an ostentatious manner but seemingly as If he was carrying I I along a portion of the conversation I remember one day he picked up in my quarters a volume of verse by John IIIuny I Hay not then t the renowned diplomat he has Vince become but whose writings writ-Ings I always liked In It was a translation trans-lation from Heine which Kingsley read and commented upon I dont think the translation IK exactly correct he said and he sat down and wrote one of his own and pointed thedifferences cs ho understood tho < German verse This was only one of many things that showed l his versatility I When the party left they expressed their thanks lo me and said they had had a good time J didnt know how I would get along sl ith you remarked I Dunraven The OReillys and Quinns have never been able to agree Quinn was Dunravcns family name I did not know that I replied 1 have not kept I up with family feuds In Ireland Well it Is a fact answered Dunraven The OReillys and Quinns have been lighting for a thousand years EXPRESSED TIER MIND Lord Parker and his wife continued I Gen OReilly were with some others on a hunting expedition in the Vest and stopped quite a time at old Fort McPherson 1 on the Platte Wlth them was a Mrs Grey a typical English ladys maid very precise and formal even more so than the aristocracy she t was serving The party got their meals at the sutlers store the food being prepared pre-pared and served by the sutlers wife 1 twas not of the t best and oftentimes was swimming in grease Parker complained com-plained one morning and criticised the food quite severely I When Mrs Grey went lo breakfast the sutlers wife was quite wrathy and spoke her mind As for the other people they were all right I but that Mr Parker was no good and much more to the name effort Mrs Grey was quite horrified and whet n she found her breath she asked Dont you know he Is the son of a peer J dont i care retorted the woman whether hi Is the son of a pear or the son of an apple ap-ple Im as good as he is SENATOR CLARK BUSY It is a wonder how Senator Clark ot Montana finds time to l attend to his groat business Interests and to give as much time an he does to his duties in the Senate HP Is on hand at the beginning begin-ning of the session attends all the committee com-mittee meetings and looks after the multitude of large and small matters pertaining to his State During the iast Congress Senator Clark devoted much time to a bill opening 1000000 acres of the Crow Indian reservation to settlement settle-ment This required a payment of 51 250000 to the Indians and the House would not pass the bill Senator Clark spent days In getting the bill through the committee and finally It passed the Senate Then he went among the member mem-ber soC the House trying to get favorable favor-able action In that body This is just one Instance of the session showing the time the Senator gives to legislative matters lie is I a member l of ten committees com-mittees no other Senator having as many They are Foreign Relations Indian In-dian Affairs District of Columbia Pacific Pa-cific Islands 1 and Porto Rico Library Mines and Mining Relations with Canada Can-ada to Investigate the Condition of the Potomac Water Front at Washington and Standards Weights and Measures The first seven arc quite Important and hold frequent meetings and often report bills The first three are very important import-ant and busy committees Senator Clark surprises his colleagues by attending at-tending the different meetings and showing an interest in and knowledge of the business that comes before them When the Senate adjourns over for the last two days each week Senator Clark goes to New York to attend to the large financial interests ho has In that city Ills evenings both In Washington and New York are occupied with social matters and there are few evenings that he can call his own during the winter win-ter l But with all the cares of his business busi-ness and duties as a legislator he moves serenely l along and seems never to be in much of a hurry Ills affairs must be conducted by a perfect system MORGAN IXDgPJ lDE Tel T-el party has experience with men who will not follow the plans of the leaders and conform to what has been I decreed as party policy Senator f Organ Or-gan on the Democratic side is one of these On several occasions he has shown that agreements made by the Democratic steering committee with the Republicans have no binding effect upon up-on him The Democratic managers la bored earnestly = with the Alabama Senator Sen-ator last spring In tho special session of the Senate to get r him to end th discussion dis-cussion on the Colombian canal treaty but lie paid no heed to heat and finally final-ly made his own terms Several years ago the Republicans wcf closing up the business l of a long session Owing to fome doubt about certain bills reaching the President the resolution for adjournment ad-journment was held up until Lhnlnst day of the session and when an attempt was made to pass It Senator Morgan gave notice that he did not propose to adjourn until the NIcaraguan canal bill was passed It is not late In the year ho aid There Is no haste to leave Washington I am willing to remain here and work all summer and certainly men who are much younger ought to be willing to do the same He went on to talk about the necessity for the canal and it looked as If he were going to block the adjournment ad-journment resolution There was no quorum In either house and if a vote had been forced some days would have elapsed l before a quorum for adjournment adjourn-ment purposes could be obtained Fi nally Senator Morgan sat down and the ndournmont resolution wan passed u was an anxious Mine I for those who wen trying to secure a final adjournment On other occasions Senator Morgan harm shown his Independence of party donu nationOUTSIDE OUTSIDE PARTY WAGOX But he Is not the hnly Senator who docs not follow party leadership in the last four years there have been iov oral Republican Senator who were not on the inside of the party wagon Senator Sen-ator Wellington of MarylanJ r I thouh known to the end of iiis term as a ire 1 publican was fat from acting with that party on many occasions Senator Mason 1 Ma-son felt free to criticise his party and the Administration or account of the Philippine policy and yet he always at 1 tended the Republican caucuses Sena lot Hoar was another who fotnui much to criticise reparllnc the Philippine and never sided with his party on the colonial I policy of th t Government Senator Sen-ator Mason also crllM jd tho 3ennt rules but he nwtr npimed a formal agreement made by the party managers mana-gers ARTHIUJ DUNN i |
