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Show Ij BY ARTHUR W. DTJNN. i "WASHINGTON, March 5. John F. f IShafrotb., who left the House of Rcpre-I Rcpre-I sentativcs In such a dramatic manner, M and voluntarily gave up his seat when -JJ convinced that the returns and the law were against him, was a reformer. He ii presented many bills and resolutions for t changes . In the present conditions of things in the Government. Somo of J these meaures nover received1 conslder- ation, and while others sometimes called I forth hearings before committees, no action was ever taken, and the Colorado Representative, no whit discouraged, reintroduced them in every Congress. (' Coming from a State where women had been granted the right to vote, ho naturally was for woman suffrage, and he always Introduced in every Congress a Joint resolution proposing on amendment amend-ment to the Constitution declaring that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United) States on account ac-count of sex." This resolution has always al-ways been referred to the Committee on Judiciary, and every year when the "Korean Suffrage association meets in "Washington there Is a hearing at which the !adle9 advocate the amendment and urge Congress to pass it. Another Joint resolution introduced by Shafroth made its appearance the first ijmo at the present session of Congress, which authorized the Joint commission on International exchange to agree upon up-on uniform laws tending to preserve the ' sold product of the world for. coinage and monetary purposes. It was- Sha-r" Sha-r" roth's Idea that as the United States-hadi States-hadi adopted the gold standard, and as China and Mexico would soon place their monetary systems on a gold standard, there would be an increased demand for gold, and it would be well to prevent, as far ns possible, the use of gold in the arto and for ornaments. In one of the "whereases" of the resolution Shafroth said It was reported that "the gold contained in the medals, vessels and ornaments preserved in the palaces of the crowned heads of Europfc and in the Vatican is of more value than the j whole European gold circulating mcdi-' mcdi-' um," In this same connection Shafroth Introduced a bill making it a mlsde-ij mlsde-ij meanor to melt, mutilate, clip or dc-I dc-I troy any coin of the United States. "While William Randolph Hearst la J creating consternation in different Dem-' Dem-' ocratic camps and causing discussion as to hia Presidential possibilities, some of ' the old-timers in Washington recall that the young man's father, when a Sonator from California, was one of the most lovable men In that body. George Hearst, the Senator, was essentially a Western man, and when the four new fitatca on the northern border were admitted ad-mitted and the country beyond the Mississippi Mis-sissippi received many recruits, eight nevASenators among the number, there Was organized the Western Congres-' Congres-' ionaa association. It had for its object ob-ject vfte promotion of Western inler-ests. inler-ests. and If all the time had not been devoted to talking silver and) Irrigation, it might have accomplished results. At one of the early meetings Senator Hearst outlined In a few words his idea of the objects of the association. "What we want to do," he paid, "Is not to formulate for-mulate a lot of policies or antagonize other sections. We want to. meet here and get acquainted and help each other. H fJii 1 Then when I want to get something I JfJ through I'll go over among you Repub- K m', licans, tell you what I want, and you'll U V'- . all stand in. When you want something, MvIm yu como over and say, 'George, get in 1 Jajhind this,' and I'll go and rustle up H J lPemocratlc votes." Bc Had the Hearst plan been followed I the Western Congressional association I might have lived through a session of Congress, but Senator Stewart talked1 Hf, vi silver, Senator Reagan of Texas talked irrigation. Representative- Pickler of j South Dakota talked woman suffrage, JH j while others talked long on favorite jV ' topics, and It finally got to that no one fHj I attended except Tom Carter's clerk, fMIl! and he went because Carter was sccrc- nH)mu tary of the association, and he sent his clerk to keep the minutes. , ''li Dennis Flynn of Oklahoma was about ' jj as strong a Statehood boomer as ever ,'fl struck Congrcs3, but he never was so vi intense as Bernard Rodey of New Ku1 Mexico. If there Is any time, day or JII3', night, when Rodey is not hustling for yl' Statehood no one has ever discovered it. He spent some lime before the House mj' Committee on Territories, and he put Everything under the sun in that ad- H Jdress that would tend to convinco mem- K Jj ' bcrs of Congress that his Territory' f ought to be a State. He devoted con- W JJ slderable space to refuting the report of fl y the Senate committee that gave New Ms jj Mexico a black eye. He defended the flj' n natives, lenown as Mexicans, as an hon- 0 ' s est people. flj "They arc ns law abiding as the peo- K fij pie of some of our cities, I presume?" jJ suggested Chairman Hamilton m m t "Such a comparlttm would bo unfair Bf m to the people of New Mexico," said Ro- M dey, earnestly. "The boodlers live in B the States. Tt is said down with us that If tSU the natives know no devilment , save what was taught them by the so-called I (9 Americans who have come down there." j il Gov. Powers of the committee dc- J fij clared that because the people spoke 1 (jrA Spanish it should not tell agulnst them. " fm He represented a Mnine district in ? which there were 30,000 people who jm spoke nothing but French. ,W "Yes," said Rodey, "and Congressman i9 Broussard makes speech after speech In French to somo of hia constituents In fM Louisiana. In some sections of Penn- i jif cylvur.ia Dutch 1b most appreciated, and 'i k .11 ln l'10 Northwest there are sections flMfm wliere a candidate who could not 3peak raffl Norwegian would have to 'yump his " -"ij00' " '1',,en Rodey l0,t f Ms experi- .sMU ' "&nce on the south shore of Long Island, VT-jflJ and the number of foreigners of all 'rflj kinds he saw there, and, warming up to M his subject, said: i ! "There is no comparison between that L. wrt of a citlzon an(1 the good and patrl- flk '1 otic Christian people of the great Ter-rltory Ter-rltory of New Mexico. Where did the President go for his Rough Riders? He went to Oklahoma. N. MM and Arizona, Only the heat, the nyjst virile people B lake Horace Greeie-'s advice and go J&fik West; the mos.sbacka stay where they irata Aong the guests at a luncheon was HttLyi tho Av.lfe of a prominent Southern Rep- Hfcjl r"S"eutative. Finally, politics v.-ere ln- SpJ troduced, always a dangerous topic smSo among ladles, and one remarked that ; she "really hoped that Mr, Cleveland KjlB would be nominated' by the Democrats; '' mM he rvas such a great man." Mfljl "Grover Cleveland, indeed," said the MfJH oC th0 Conffret'Bmari' "v?by ho split the Democratic party, and would do so again." The champion of the Sage of Princeton Prince-ton was not put down easily, and there was a spirited1 colloquy, which showed that both ladies had been studying the political situation. Finally the Southern lady declared: "Well, I don't know what people in the North may think of Kim, but no one in the South wants him." , "Don't you be too sure of that," said another Southern lady, who was not the wife of a Congressman. "The politicians politi-cians of the South are against Clove-land, Clove-land, I know, but the people who do not live by politics like him, and would be very glad to see him again President." O a Enter Kittredare, the South Dakota rr.an, in 1S92, at the Republican national convention at Minneapolis. A. 13. Kit-trtdge, Kit-trtdge, a young lawyer, was chosen a member of the national committee. He was a part of the Fettigrew faction of the Republican party at that time, and continued1 such until the fight to elect delegates to the convention In 1S0C. IClt-tredge IClt-tredge was a gold man and favored the i nomination of McKinloy. Pettlgrew opposed op-posed both. Kiltredge won the fight, the delegation was elected and instructed instruct-ed for McKinley and gold, but Pettlgrew Pettl-grew was allowed to go as a delegate. t Klttredge was again chosen national committeeman for a second time, and . an acquaintance with Mark Hanna, which had bec-n previously made, rl-. pened into warm friendship. In 1001 Klttredge came to the Senate, and the relations between the Ohio Senator and himself became- very close. Then came the time when Hanna derided de-rided to fight the Nicaragua canal and support the Panama canal. In looking over the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, Ca-nals, Senator Hanna found that all the. Democrats and three Republican Senators Sen-ators favored Nicaragua. He wanted some men who would stand with him in tho light that was to be made, and the suggestion that some of the Senate leaders should1 become members of the committee met with no great favor. It Is said, but no one con say how true the statement is, that Senator ' Spooner, now mentioned in connection with the chairmanship of the committee to succeed suc-ceed Hanna, was suggested at the time, but he preferred other duties. Hanna selected Klttredge as one of tho men who would stay with him through thick and thin, and he was not disappointed. disap-pointed. He never had a more loyal supporter ln any field. Klttredge did not talk much, but he did a lot of work, attending all meetings an! watching every move. Klttredge drafted the minority mi-nority report in favor of Panama when the Hepburn bill was reported from the committee. He made an argument in favor of the Panama route, and has always al-ways been on hand in defense of that route. Now it is his turn. Hanna is no more. There has been a dispute over the va-cr.nt va-cr.nt chairmanship. Klttredge did' not expect to be promoted to that vacancy, but if, all those who are ahead of him on the committee had declined he would have accepted, but until the committee was exhausted he would not consent to going outside for a chairman. But Klttredge Klt-tredge does not need to be chairman to make himself a place in Panama canal legislation. Besides what he has al-reudy al-reudy done, the bill for the government of the canal zone was drafted and introduced in-troduced by hlrn, and will no doubt be reported' by him and be ln his charge when considered ln the Senate. Thus, tho young South Dakota man takes n front rank In affairs of great importance import-ance to the Nation. This is his time to appear on the stage, and he will hold the attention of the- audience during the next Panama performance. |