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Show II ! j ITribano Special Gorrospondonco. I "Biff TASHINGTON, April 9. Congress C WW Ls CCI'taln,y stacking up a lot of Y f business for the short session of Congress. With the usual nocespary business, such as appropriation appropria-tion bills, the time o a short session Is generally very buey, but in addition sj there will be the SniooL case to settle, t )oesibly tho Burton case, and the iin-a iin-a peachment of Judge Swaync. These ,t(j J alone could occupy most oC the time oC tt " a. session in tho Senate. Besides this Hj oj thorc was an intimation long ago. so Hj b long ago, in fact that perhaps Congress Hj ft has forgotten it, that there might be 4 some legislation on the tariff. There 5 waa no promise of anything like larlffi H b revision for the short session, but long H'$ ago, before the present Congress as-H as-H 5 eemblcd, Senator Allison remarked if H f 5t was found necessary tho tariff would H be revised in. the short session of the j Fifty-eighth Congress. Chairman -V Payne of the liouse Committee on K "Ways and Means says that the Rcpub- R llcans will not revise the tariff before K a Presidential election. Though that B- does not mean that a rovision will be HF attempted, even in the short session, it may be attempted if it is really found H desirable. "The Senate of the United States has H a way of sitting down on a man who Hl undertakes to push himself forward H j too much," I? a remark of ono of the well-known men in the Senate, and it is 1 ! a fact which many Senators realize H I sooner or later who undertake to "run ' things" against what Is the will of a H majority, or the eminently respectable H majority who control the business of Hl i the Senate. Sometimes the case of a Hj "pushing" Senator is taken up in the H 1 "steering committee" and at other H I times it is carefully considered by a H smnll gathering of men who can trust H each other and who know the methods H I to put a new Senator "under the H pump," so to speak. The result is soon H i felt. The struggling Senator does not H know just what is happening to him for Bl awhile, but be finds tltat everything Is Hl I not all right- Gradually he begins to H llnd if mora satisfactory to pursue a H i course along the lines of least reslst- H mice. As Senator Quay would say, he Hl learns to "go 'long" and thereafter he H receives consideration. H Senator Dillingham was at tho er- H ecutlvo offices discussing Alaska af- H fairs with the President. As Is the H case with everything, the President bo- H came very greatly Interested, and as H 3Ir. Dillingham had spent some months H in Alaska, Mr. Roosevelt was getting H some Information first hand. "Finally a H point was reached where some doubt H arose as to the geography of the big H territory, and both gentlemen sought H the globe standing in the room, which H furnishes the geography of the world for such occasions, and began to trace I H out the places wanted. Following the 1 Yukon river to its mouth, they found H I that this mighty stream emptied into H j the Arctic ocean on the north side of j Bering Strait. H "Your globe is too ancient for me, 8 H Mr, President," said the Vermont Sen- E H ator. "I have been there and know jj 1 better than that." 8 H There will be a requisition for a new H ' globe for the "White House, as the one g H which has served so long must have j been used before Secretary Seward jj 1 bought Alaska from the Russians. I j A story is told about a Kentucky S 1 , member of the House during the first B H Cleveland Administration, who had a I B habit of saying what ho thought. Ho H was a former Union soldier, but ever a I H strong Democrat. He went up to the "White House just after a veto had been 9 j sent in of a pension bill, one of the H many vetoes that caused a grea.t deal H of talk. The President, somewhat an?:I- H ous to know how the veto was received, 1 liad asked the various Democratic call- crs what they thought of the message, and the room was full of men who had l spoken words of commendation. In the 1 presence of the crowd the Kentucky j man was asked for his opinion. "It was mighty fine writing," he rc- 1 plied, "but, Mr. President, I never heard that because a man lit in tho war 1 lie was necessarily a liar." Hj There was consternation for a mo- 1 ment, and tho President asked quickly, in order to change the subject: "What 1 was that matter you wanted to know about?" H "Why, collector of internal revenue." 1 "That will be all right," responded the President. "I will send his name j to the Senate at once." "Well, now, Mr. President," said the member, "suppose you put it down. You know you have a way of forgetting 1 these matter." I 1 Again tho President was embarrassed H, "iQ to get rid of the Kentucklan he di- 1 xected the appointment of his man as B iHi collector tlicu and there. Senator McCumber of North Dakota iH is one of the men who has not yet been iH ! "indorsed," as the term Is known in the iHj Senate. He has not yet been elected a iH second time, which is- the test by which iH Senators are measured by their fallows iH This Is an unwritten law, but, like iH many others vhich have neither been iH , declared nor put on paper, is much iH stronger than many which are between I iHI ralfskhi covora. But McCumber, ac- I iH cording to all reports, Is to bo indorsed. 1 iH He has no opposition, so far as heard I iH , from, and not even the most sanguine 1 iH ; Democrat turns big attention to North 1 iHI Dakota, Although in- his first teim, Mc- I iH Cumber has advanced rapidlj-. He is H iH now chairman of ono of tho important 1 iH committees of tho Senate Pensions I iH ; and is a member of several others I iHI which are useful to his pectlon of the I iH country. As soon aa he has been "In- I iH dorsed," or returned for a second term iH , he will have raoro Importance in the I iH Senate. Ho will no longer be among the 1 h "new" Senators and can assert jiis H iH rights with a little more positlvenesa. 1 iH when he has been re-elected he may iHj lake his place among the seniors, and I iHI , ivlll be recognized as mich. During his E iH Junior service ho ha) learned that even I iB j with a majority behind him he cannot I iH i)ass legislation which a strong minority 1 composed of the Senate leaders do 1 iH not want. In the last Congress ho I iH , struggled hard with the pure food bill, 1 iB i which he paused over to Senator Hey- I V burn whon the commltteos were rcorga- 1 iH - njzqd. McCumber was somewhat in- E iH ulgnant that he could not get a bill I passed which so many Senators fa- I Tored, but as he nears hie second term 1 iH and has become more familiar with tho gj ways of the Sonate he will find the easy method of accomplishing results. A young man in the House was struggling strug-gling with a speech. His lime ran out, and he got a short ox tension. Agafn it c-xpired, and he begged for a few minutes min-utes moro, and continued to read. VV1 d0Il,t 1,0 sWn 'ne of It?" asked Keprcsentatlve Hitt of a friend, We wouldn't know tho diiTeronce." It remlndfi me of days when I was i o cnt,ini'ed the Illinois Ropre-ooTr Ropre-ooTr the mill t0 Ul posU " 'Hobcrt. Robert,' the old postmaster would say, 'you can't have the mail until un-til you read us iho President's message." mes-sage." "Then he would put mo on a box, and talcing the paper, I would heRln: . '"I am j)Ieased and graliliod to inform in-form Congress that our relations with China, Slam. Madagascar, Guatemala.' etc,, etc., 'have continued on the most friendly terms.' "As I went down a column of that kind of stuff I noticed that most of the crowd had fallen asleep, while the old postmaster, with his hands locked across his 9tomach, was the only listener, and he didn't know much about it. "Watching my chance, t would skip, and again I would skip, and finally como to the line: " 'Which Is rpsnectfully submitted for your consideration. James K. Polk,' or 'Millard Fillmore,' or whoever It was that signed the mesrage. "Then would the postmaster smile, and say? " 'Gentlemen, a wonderful state paper. pa-per. The greatest message since George Washington's time.' "Great Is tlie loyally or the postmaster,-" remarked Mr. Hltt. "In nil ages and all times he Is true to tho administration that appoints him." Coupling New Mexico and Arizona together to-gether in one Stale under the mime Arizona is far from satisfactory to the major! ly of Arizona people, although they get the name. Probably no one la moro disappointed than Mark Smith, who was for many years a Delegate I from the sun-kissed territory, and who would, no doubt, represent Arizona In the Senate If the Territory could come i I in as a separato Satte. And this con- 1 summation seemed so near realization in the last Congress. The three-State 1 hill passed tho House without a roll call, and there was a majority in the Senate for tho bill, when It was talked to death in the short session. Smith came here to protest against Uif. new bill, but ho found the tide ngnlnst him. Two States out of tho four Territories' or nothing was the dictum, that had been iesuod, and as there is a possibility possi-bility of both being Democratic, the dominant party in Congress Is not par- . tlcular about the admission, even In the now form they are to take. Senator Scott, who Is a West Virginian Vir-ginian now, but an Ohio man by birth, tells a story about an experience an Ohio man had many ycurg ago when he went over to West Virginia on a little pleasure excursion. It was Old Virginia Vir-ginia at the time, however, as thlu happened hap-pened before the Civil war. The Ohio man had a "red buck" dollar, a part of the curreucjof his State, and was considered con-sidered good. He stopped at a place of refreshment and got a drink. The whisky was drawn out of a keg and served In a tin cup. When the liquid I had been, swallowed he laid down h,l9 1 "rod back" mid tho bartender dived under the bar and brought out six coon 1 skins, five fox skins, and ten munkrat skins and pawed them over for change. The Ohio man did not want to show his Ignorance of Virginia currency, he took up the belts and walked aua. But he wanted to establish values if Possible, and went into another saloon Sa d down a fox skin. Without say-hnrr say-hnrr a word the man behind the bar gave him a muJkrat and five rabbit skins. As the load whs increasing in size., he concluded that he would won have more than he could carry, so he went back to the first place and laid down. the whole lot, saying; "Here, give me another drink. Tako all these: I'vo hud all tho experience I want." , . .v. i Then he sought his canoe and started. for the Ohio side of the river. ARTHUR W. DUNN. |