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Show fm&.tt t the adjournment of IfiSd sion of the Flfty-5B',,ie Flfty-5B',,ie Irccs bv Senator ,Vl- i'fcfth ect mat the first busl-lwn busl-lwn Congress reconvenes SOrJl deration of the om-PU om-PU n Crum to be collector at Iirft ZL S. C indicated 1' ? to Ihtlr utmost canael-uirr canael-uirr save notice that he Ju tao cnmmlttce to pro-m pro-m -nt and Vice-President p3" Senator Hey-lr Hey-lr ,H ?mi a notice that he in-I'-4n m the pure food Dili. W 10 ?i i!5t timi by the forelock P ,Sihvnvs " the Philippines I1 SSed business, and that W lU1KS 10 be displaced bc-Kfi bc-Kfi Hoar or Senator pVd SslblyECtinWith their Pf .r AllNon and his , fellow-fe?lhe fellow-fe?lhe "tearing committee are fte nnd Ihcre Is no reason to be-5! be-5! ' !e an, not. it will mean YtiEt SSi take the right of way, WSlS session, procedure would wBhV legislative work, providing fftffbclleved in it- Cut there I TV thine to consider, a question I "'l? privilege. Chairman Bur-JfoffiUon Bur-JfoffiUon Privileges and -JrWht to be ready to report of that committee in the toMlor Reed Smoot. and that ! -JTb- disposed of without de-ZefAti de-ZefAti H there should be a dl-, dl-, Should the committee find ' &lroony'in Utah. In addition uMthss already arrumulated, to S'tSai Enator Smoot Is not entl-ulfM. entl-ulfM. thro will certainly be ln-J ln-J pwcttdlngs when the Senate r On the other hand. If a mail ma-il ,'cfthe committee should llnd that lb no cas against Smoot, there " upotiblv bp a minority report, as I'ssilorf'have been convinced, np-j np-j jfby lha testimony already' ta-fati ta-fati pood case has been made out, aterfty report In favor of Smoot just necessarily mean that any niVAildbatnkcn. as the Senator's s&Jnnt he challenged to such an in irould be the case with a re-,Si re-,Si him. 7 ;T 0 1 JjiSrfniS to be a determination on J rio(lhe Republicans to force the 1 '?rc? J.ntiaJ nomination upon one ina who do not want It. Falr-ifi Falr-ifi Indiana or 'annon of Illinois ikcrs around w hom the nomina-tetri, nomina-tetri, .Hid the general opinion is pfwllif.1 other will be selected. A ; i.nlirerab'Ta ot the House of Re.p-iuir Re.p-iuir u ti'e discussing the 'matter nttetime of the adjournment of pan and ronie one remarked that kvf-fthe fict that Vice-Presidents rjwbeamo President, It might rni thJIe for men to consider the rlilliv of accepting the place, foe bVn ciphering on the chances IMV-Presldent becoming Presl-I'ldd Presl-I'ldd pharap Hark of Missouri, Jfclrd that they aro one in twenty-m;!iroan twenty-m;!iroan wants to be laid on the jUWith those chances, and he is fit if tiace, he ought to have it." bj-Cllrk applies mathematics to Krtty problem It would be in-i in-i to know what his conclusions KWon the fate of men who accept Tte-Presldoniy and never are itfiflenvards. Neither Fairbanks wxa want the place, and It was citrange that for a number of !ithe Republicans have been ?R for Vice-President who do "it Ibe place. It Is not surprising rtrband3and Cannon do not want Ice-President As the senior 'rem Indiana Fairbanks has a ct Importance and Influence. Jmtsldcnt he would bo nothing Wrahtad waiting for something Wa which even he or any other t place could not but regret to JJEKD. Hnw absurd It would be r Cannon to go to the Senate "tjldenl, leaving a place of ab- tr,n place wliero he Is appre-vte appre-vte ho Is liked, and where his. V"X s as great as that of any n in a soneratlon. In 1900 the gws talked of Fairbanks, and of Hoosevelt. none or wilbc' p,!lc e ooaevel t said ourd rather be dovernor of itoni m lh,e New Tork machine St h m for Governor, and was g of the State. Quay v. as for PlSn i ylranla because it was kli lian"a to ave Kooseveli llfciS' a1scrioui thing that the 5X.y 'S consered a shelf, ?"Minen who accept the po-SZ1 po-SZ1 rrti future politl-, politl-, Ul),et"9 a President dies, UaiSCOllntry e0C8 Pegging ' 1 "uall"tlons to fill Slflhe sency In case' preI7 "omcthingr else. - hw(?,,r?;s whScI" were ad- citbvP 1 dcP"'lment. were fa t3 . Ponsrc.. notably the es- (SlIii ? ar dePartment by "Sh uh ?i tht' Adjutant-Gen-hfttu n i c recorda and pen-CurSll,e pen-CurSll,e vision for i C cnu, f0UP Ullitary camp fclnio In.1,tlnen,t oC Chlcka- nyH . ers,'. ln whlch the I!1 'fe retaryrKoo'trwent ll.ProiMepart,nent that the ay. E7';01' ,ln1 by oflU Mi'iif the Ziibecamo evdont KM Of onS 00 f lhe sltejl mJr 8gD??iUon wa engen- B,0r S and ihc Ehould bavo lm ttrhsin 1 thP we would simply oV cf8 a greftt deal Ere ftolnir i i sround "-hat S61.114" vX!ni& ,)e mucb more ?ftCfn would h1" up and J"aln-R&Jl J"aln-R&Jl th e in 80mcthlnp enor-Wf enor-Wf ta,nP Bite proposition Will not he allowed (o rest. S(a(-s tnat want the sites will again lrin?r tlie sul-iect sul-iect forward und Uo maltOr will be pressed at qvory Cbncrress until aomc sites ai'c prtividotl. "When Sonator Dubolu hnnouhttpd at the beginning- of the irivosUfcniffon of Senatqr Heed Snioot'a right to a .sftnt in j the Senate that for tho first time In Jlflv years the; Mormon church was on trial by the United States Senate, ho r.poke I prophetically, for the, Investigation,' as faV -.in it has proceeded, and Live nanJ of the Senators who will go to XltA'h to take more testimtmy, indieate!-.a ;l')lnin purpose on the plirt of the committee to gather up every" iwssibld , rat- ami- cir-1 e-umfclahctf regarding tin- i-dlalinriH of the diurfch to politfca afid lo tb.'ptac-llcc tb.'ptac-llcc of polygamy. In reviewing Ihe'ti s-tlmony s-tlmony thus far taken it I3 noticeable that but vary little has been said about Senator Smoot. No apparJnti attempt has bqen made to establish his connection connec-tion with polygamy, sav6 tlial hV belongs be-longs to a church whose chiftf men practice prac-tice polyjramy and to U. chufch which dominates thd politics of Utah. But even this connection Is Incidental. Sometimes Some-times it would appear that Smoot is not on trial at all, for day after clay his name was not mentioned, and sometimes some-times only Incidentally. Evidence was accumulated to show that polygamy exists, ex-ists, and also to show that In the jiasl the church has exercised absolute-, sway ln politics, and that no member of the church could be elected to any high office of-fice without the sanction and aid of the church. It is yet too early to upcculule upon the effect of tho evidence taken thus far upon the Senators. Some of them have read it. others huvo not. Some have not road the newspaper accounts ac-counts in full, and probably no man would express an opinion until the matter mat-ter comes before the Senate for action. One Senatoiv-however, has been unre-mUtiiifr unre-mUtiiifr ln Ills' efforts not only to bring out the testimony, but to have Senators apprised of vhal is golntj 011. rhibols lm heen devoting1 hla whole time .'aid attention to the matter. Just before the adjournment, he said: "It has been my light for twenty-four years and will continue to be as long as I Jive and tho conditions ln the "West remain as they are. It is a fight for existence ex-istence with us. The Mormonf church must be. driven out of politics or our people out of the Stutes they dominate."' Andther Western Senator, who also lives ln a State ln which the Mormons are a strong political factor, said; "I nine ueii iyiiiiiiii tin' ciii trii i. n itn close attention, and I make the prediction predic-tion thai as developments continue there will be a stampede to avoid the contamination contam-ination of this Mormon church domination. domina-tion. Everybody that can will be get-Un get-Un on the windward side that the affair will not blow their way." 4 . Members of Congress both Senators and Representatives oftlmes feel that they are unjustly treated by the pro3s of lhe country, and some of them have a rather bitter feeling against newspapers news-papers on account of what is published. It Is only a very few who will confide their feelings on this subject to newspaper news-paper men, "because thoy do not want to appear thin-skinned. At the same time a close and Intimate acquaintance with them will reveal the fact that the little things derogatory to Congress as a whole and to Individuals, rankles deeply, especially If there happens to be no foundation for the criticism. Probacy Prob-acy many thoughtless paragraphs cause more heartburnings than the authors au-thors ever realize, because the Congressman Con-gressman has to face them in his home, where opposition papers make the most of all that finds its way into print, and can be made available for political or personal purposes. It often happens that Congressmen complain more bitterly bit-terly of headlines than anything else. This was especially true ln regard to the so-called Bristow report. Headlines Head-lines in the home papers did more to arouse the members of the House than anything that appeared ln the report Itself. The paragraphs which followed were also annoying. Probably nothing has occurred in recent years to cause us much 111-feellng ln Congress against newspaper publications as the manner In which the papers treated their connection con-nection with the postal .affair. After all. it' whs because their names, were loasbclated with Beavers and Machen that caused all the trouble. The fact that Congressmen had sought either necessary postal improvements or fa-vorij fa-vorij at the hands of these men was enough to i,'ive a sensational turn to the Bristow report and caused the headlines head-lines and comments which have been so distressing to many members .of the House. The Senators were wise, as It proved, for they said nothing and at tention was .riveted upan the House. vhcvc the b'torrn 'raged so ltercely One day during the last nesslon of , Congress, Hon. Levi P. Morton appeared ap-peared on (he floor of the Senate nnd was warmly received by the Senators. The tribute that was paid to him. was non-partisan, for men on both Bides of the chamber, who had served In the Senate while he was Vice-President appreciated, him at his full value, Morton Mor-ton was elected Vice-President with Harrison, and It Is a remarkable fact that many people at thnt time spoke bllghtlngly of him, and comparisons were made an to his standing with mdn in the Senate whone reputations hud been made in the great parliamentary. baUlefl .of the nation. .It Ik Htrange thai such .should have been the .vase, because. Morton had hedn a member of the House and Minister to France, and in both positions had acquitted himself with credit. Reference was made to Morton as a Llllputlan among the glanla, yet before the first term of Congress Con-gress had passed he had earned the ro-spoct ro-spoct of the Senators and a place In the nation. He was afterward Governor Gov-ernor of New York, and was cw York's candidate for President In 1SD6. Morton's reception ln the Senate on his last visit was a tribute to the prominence prom-inence he had gained nnd the friendships friend-ships he had made ddrlng the four vearK he presided over that body. "If I was going to open a school of politics," remarked a,member who has watched tho proceedings of the House quite closely. "I would Insist that my pupils should cultivate a voice. Do you know that a powerful vloce Is one of the essentials of greatness? It does not take so very much to back it up, but a voice that can bo heard everywhere every-where when properly used, can win the plaudits of the crowd. I do not mean that It Is alone essential, for a voice must have something behind it, but It Is a good thing to start with, and It should H6 the first requisite In a sfihool of politics' Of eoui'se, the gentleman docs not know of any t aes where men believed that the strong; voice and the ability to Use It were sure attributes of a statesman. states-man. A voice Is n urcat factor for a . while, but the trouble Is that a discriminating dis-criminating public. Wants something morexthan words uttered with oratorical oratori-cal effect, and the "man with tho voice" finds that something more la needed. ARTHUR W. DUNN. |
