Show J mow t + rictttu t + tt + t tft4tt + tt + + ttta tt + fttPi O fifi fi1 + Yt + + + t M M M 0 M t M t M t M 4 + + M M M itt + + + + tt M 4 M M + + + + + 44 M M tf > M + + + t + t + + + A + + 444 + + f44 f I + + M + + t + t M t M + + + t e + t + t + r r444t + + + + t + + 4 + 4 + rt tH + f ft + I MfAsuR 9 LI PROBABLY SLATED FO i i THE EXECUTIVE SESSION OF SENATE TO REf ETl ET yl RI l M 6 I J IQ f Q fp Of CONGRESS I 1 D C fC V f 1 f THF RFGIWNIWfi OF u THF t LJA + J H O ml + + + f + + + TTTTT 1 YYTTT CORRESPONDENCE TRIBUNE 1 Washington Jan Beginning next Monday there are Just fifty legislative days before the FiCtysevcnth Congress expires by limitation That is In the minds of the Congressional leadeVs v7Hb have been returning from the holiday vacation both those who want to pass legislation and those who want to kill 1 everything save the appropriation bills Scveiol l nicauros Mrin Ic I In selected for the legislative graveyard Prominent Promi-nent among them of course Is the Statehood bill the ship subsidy bill the L pure food bill which recently passed the lloube the Immigration bill the eight hour bill and some others of not so much Importance It is a goodly array of Important measures which Is thus marked for slaughter The friends of all these bills 1 > will not let them reach the last gasp stage without an effort to rescue them Most of them are In the legislative pocket where they will be easily strangled If there Is any attempt made to force them to a final vote The probabilities > are that the Senate steering committee will place some ol them on its order of business but that will not amount to much with the Statehood bill occupying the main track and the Cuban treaty on the siding sid-ing This latter has a place of advantage advan-tage It will not displace the Statehood bill which has the right of way as unfinished un-finished business but by turning the executive session switch the Senate can consider the treaty as another body and leave the three Territories waiting for coal on the main line The Senate Is the best example of two In one that Is extant With open doors the galleries occupied the reporters present the pages scurrying about It is a legislative body Presto as we say In the food ad everybody Ifl hustled out the doors closed and the Senate Is a part of the executive branch of the Government But either < way whether working with the House as a legislative legisla-tive or with the President as an executive execu-tive It has great power and one of the greatest prerogatives Is to put a stop to hills that agoodljf l number dp not want to have becoihe l laws Fiftydays itMs enough for the appropriations but not for much of anything else SPEAKERS RIGHTHAND MAN The Speakers rlghthaml man I is called clerk at the Speakers desk and is one of the most usE ft11 men In the House Representatives It is his business to know things all things In fact everything connected with legislation legis-lation He must know parliamentary law 1 precedents of the House and must have them ready at a seconds notice so that they may be cited by the Speaker or by the chairman of the committee of the whole House henever 1 a point of order is raised or a iVarliamentary I point is to be decided He must know all the members of the House and loom i what State they come In order to tell the Speaker or chairman how to recognize recog-nize them when addicts the presiding presid-ing olllccr He must know all the secretaries sec-retaries of the President and clerIcs of the Senate vo as to tell the presiding officer when thereis u rnes5tlgc from i + + ry rY r < TTI I the President or the Senate to be received I re-ceived by the House lie keeps the time on men who ate addressing the House and the hammer falls when he says I I that a man has consumed his allotted i i tune Of all these tasks the greatest Is Ito I-to be well Informed upon parliamentary i law There is no Index to parllamen tal iullngs and many points are found by the man who will delve and dig and study the subject all the time Such a man Is the present clerk at the Speakers Speak-ers dcslelIl Asher C Hinds of Portland Port-land 1fe He came to that place in the Flttyllrsi Congress being selected by Thomas B Reed lie was there two years and when the Democrats took I control of the House he returned to his newspaper In Portland Mr Reed brought him back In the Fiftyfourth Congress and he has been there ever since He will probably remain ai long as he desires as he has gained a knowledge knowl-edge of the duties of the position attained at-tained by l very few men The selection of Mr Hinds by Reed naturally means that he In I a good man for the place as Mr Reed had the reputation of select Ins none but the best us his assistants PARLIAMENTARY LAW A STUDY e irliamcntary law Is a study and even the best parliamentarians that ever existed were not always sure they were right Once a new member came to Tom Reed In the days when tUe Republicans Re-publicans returned to power Mi Reed said he whift do you think Is the best thing for a new man to do What line should he take A knowledge of the rules of the House Is very useful said Mr Reed Oh I understand that said the new member Ever since I have been elected I have been studying the rules of the House and I understand them perfectly t You arc fortunate remarked Reed 1 have been studying these rules for twenty years and do not understand them yet Tills is so ol Mr Hind He Is not absolutely sure on all points but he Is sure 60 far as he has gone He Is constantly con-stantly delvlng into the subject and occasionally oc-casionally comes up with a new find All decisions are indexed under the subject sub-ject debated as for Instance the countIng count-Ing of a1 quorum comes under the contested con-tested election case of Smith against Jackson from West Virginia Mr Hinds gets on the track of one case follows It back through the musty records rec-ords until he gets to the foundation I i Then he makes up the digest of the parliamentary par-liamentary law and precedents which govern the House It Is an interesting I fact that rulings based upon his advice are always I right The UousP recognized his value In adding a handsome sum to his salary in the legislative appropriation I appropria-tion billMAY MAY TURN OFF LIGHTS Just before the adjournment < for the holidays a large delegation from three embryo States came to Washington for the purpose of urging the claims of their Territories to be admitted Men of prominence from Oklahoma New 1le leo and Arizona were anong the men who settled clown on Washington for a serious campaign It was the intention in-tention of these gentlemen to interview I tjie Senators I one by one and present reasons M by the omnibus bill should be + TT + + + 9 + f + + + + + + passed They came just as the holiday recess was about to begin and failed to see many Senators Some of them remained re-mained to take up the light as soon as Congress roassemules others went home with a promise to return when they should be needed or took occasion to visit old scenes and friends back in the States Delegates Flynn Rodey and Smith have had these men lion their hands as Grover Cleveland once remarked re-marked of Congress They have caucused cau-cused and conferred and formulated plans of campaign when the work begins I be-gins Theso gentlemen all realize that they have something on hand besides a picnic Their hope is in Quay and the resourcefulness of this often successful politician It has been suggested that owing to the coal shortage It will be Impossible to keep lights burning and the Senate heated In case night sessions are forced by the friends of Statehood It would certainly be a mean trick remarked Senator shins for Beverldge to turnoff turn-off the lights on Quay as a part of his plan to defeat the omnibus bill Bev eridge says he will not have to resort to any such expediency to defeat the omnibus bill WONDERFUL CONTRIBUTION Under the leave to print privilege John F Lacey of Iowa recently made a wonderful contribution to the Congressional Con-gressional Record Mr Lacey was discussing dis-cussing the Louisiana purchase and he discussed more subjects ih the four pages which occupied than any other man usually would in a bound volume of sayings ot Congressmen as it Is sometimes called In the beginning he tells about a Journey though the West with a collcgcgraduatecowboy for a driver To a question by this Individual Indi-vidual as to whether knew the West I Mr Lacey responded that he knew It from Alpha to Qmegq whereupon the driver said hid knowledge extended from Alfalfa to Omaha It Then Mr Lacer lslfussts the Father of Waters and the original Louisiana purchase but before going very far he turns back a few cycles to the glacial period when the soil of the purchase was being formed He next skips lightly to Columbus Colum-bus and the parrots which directed his course to the West Indies Instead of to Georgia or lIt > Carolinas In the next paragraph Mr Lacey remarks about the Romans and their chicken coops but sails back quickly to the Avtecsand Mexico But only fpr a few lines for here we uie again with Columbus then with the Puritans the Quakers the Huguenots Hu-guenots CathgllcB anil others all of whom matte religious freedom possible Then we come to the Mississippi and the purchase Mr Lacey mentions Pope Alexander VI and his division of the New World between Portugal and Spain the most Christian King of France Bonaparte the First Consul Jefferson Monroe and others who figure fig-ure prominently In the real estate deal between the United States and France Napoleon and his great battles are mentioned Including Austcrlllz the supplies for which were bought with the money received from the sale of Louisiana Browsing further we get a hint of Longfellow and Evangelinc Winnipeg and Biloxi Hudson bay and the Gulf of Mexico Uruguay and Aus i 9 T T + + + + + t + a + tralla Adam and the Garden of Eden Niagara Falls coal and limestone the soil of the purchase and that of France Time Alps also come in for mention Then comes a chapter on Pioneer Dl BIn B-In Iowa the Lewis and Clarke expedition l expedi-tion and In this connection Mr Lacey I says = the word Iowa was spelled A yauway In those days which I I seems to warrant accenting the way in pronouncing the name of the State Mr Lacey next dips Into the worlds progress and from this chapter we pickup pick-up something about the Cacnara the Turks and the capture of Constantinople Constantino-ple natural gas and the priestess of Delphi Kokomo Gimdaloupe Edison I the Olympic games Ultima Thula Jerusalem Je-rusalem the Niger Chicago Buenos Ayres Khartoum Albert Nyanza and Cairo He then computes In cents per acre the cost of all our acquisitions saying that Louisiana was the cheapest of the lot Mr Laceys speech Is undoubtedly un-doubtedly for the benefit of the coming exposition at St Louis and as such is I a most Interesting document After declaring I de-claring that the West is no longer I tlhre5t Louis he closes with the I following From tIlt Euphrates the Tigris and the Nile to the Tiber from the Tiber to the Seine and the Thames from the Seine and the Thames to the Hudson the Potomac and the Mississippi the star of empire has taken Its way ever to the West and now it la shining brightly upon the States which have been formed out of the Territory of Louisiana STATEHOOD BILL The microscope has been turned on the omnibus Statehood bill by Its opponents op-ponents and an African of no small dimensions di-mensions has been discovered in that purl relating to Arizona It appears that the bill divides the territory into districts for the purpose of electing delegates del-egates to the constitutional convention and as the bill stands according to the recent votes the Democrats would have twentyone delegates and the Republicans Republi-cans seven Should the Republicans carry the Territory by 10000 the Democrats Demo-crats would control the convention remarked re-marked onG Senator Of course that convention could make the legislative apportionment and that would mean two Democratic Senators beyond all question I dont mow why Mark Smith put that apportionment there in that shape or remarked Senator Quay when it was brought io his attention That is easy was the retort He put It In to make Mark Smith Senator though > he wawBureof It on a fair ap jiortipnment if I this bill ever pusses Delegate Smith certainly expects t to be a Senator when Arizona becomes a State He says It Is close but his party he declares has the tipper hard now I dont knpw how long It will last tie said for thojje onuluhg fellows keep coming In there from the North to get cured of consumption and if that sort of Immigration keeps up they will make Arizona Republican Lungers is the general term used In Arizona to designate desig-nate the consumptives who can live nowhere no-where else save in that climate ALLISON IS SMOOTH Senator Allison has a reputation of never committing himself very deeply MMMM TttttTtTtttyt + + + + + + upon any given question and he IB not likely to be hurried Into a decision Onetime 1 One-time not long ago he dictated a letter to a man who evidently desired to pin the Senator down or at leAst he wanted the Senator to say something which could be used After Senator Allison Al-lison had finished dictating the letter he really felt quite proud of It Turning to the stenographer he asked y What do you think of that letter It To tell you the truth Senator was the reply I dont think he will make much out of It IO f didnt intend he should was the comment of the Iowa Senator and one of those smiles of satisfaction enveloped enve-loped his countenance the kind that appears when he has carefully concealed con-cealed an opinion or evaded a direct question by an Interviewer VENEZUELA TROUBLES I Suppose said an army officer of high rank that Venezuela should refuse re-fuse to accept any terms whatever from I the allied powers that have been threatening threat-ening her We have Just had an example exam-ple of the difficulty a great country like England has In fighting a foe of smaller small-er numbers Venezuela IB as Inaccessible Inaccessi-ble as was the Transvaal where England Eng-land sent more than 300000 troops I Intact In-tact Venezuela has a great advantage because her borders are so located that all the soldiers of fortune the daring disappointed of South America would come to her assistance The South Americans can all ride and shoot and they know their country European troops could not penetrate the mountain roads and return They would be cutoff cut-off and destroyed Even If they marched in sufficlen to overcome anything to which they were opposed their supplies sup-plies could not be forwarded and they would be compelled to return A war with Venezuela under the conditions which favor that country Is one from which the powers of Europe might well shrink It would be very costly and Just now the English Government does not desire to engage In a war which will Increase the burdens of taxation The English people will not stand It especially espe-cially as there would be no possibility of Increasing the territory of Great Britain Brit-ain Any party that would undertake such a war might find itself voted out of power It Is possible that the men who are managing affairs In Venezuela understand this condition and that Is why they are so defiant I DWIGHT HAS NERVE One of the new members of the present pres-ent House Is John W Dwlght of New York the successor of Mr Ray who went on the Federal bench Dwlght In a big handsone fellow with a com inandlng figurer and in his first three weeks In C i i gress settled down there as If ho always belonged This was pure nerve and is part of a supply he acquired when lie was a resident of North Dakota Rein the owner of a big farm up there < and was prominent in politics In the old territorial clays when men went Into the game for the fun that there was In It Dwight attended at-tended the first convention when North Dakota was admitted as a State The pins had already been set up the slate arranged and all the delegates had to do was to ratify the will of those who fixed things The night before the con h 111 + + + t + + t + + + + vontion met DwIgHt conceived the Idea i that he would like to name the Governor Govern-or and he set to work He found n popular young editor from Devils Lake who wasa candidate for Congress and had votes to trade If a combination was made The deal was fixed up and much to the surprise of the men who had been running the machine Honest Hon-est John Miller was named for Governor Gov-ernor and Henry C Hanubrough for tOO + + + + + + Congress Both wereelected yeark were Two yearn after HanHbrough was defeated for the House but came to the Senate Dwight 1 did not remain in North Dakota Tf he had he might have been a Senator instead of u Representative He still has a fondness for the ter I North State and declares now that three months in the summer climate there arc betters than all the medicine that n nvm could take It a year ARTHUR W DUNN |