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Show IMUST LEAVE THE Changes in the Senate Mean Changes for Many of the Employes. MAINE AND RHODE " ISLAND ARE HIT HARD Many Citizens of Those jStates Will Have to Let Go of Public Teat. tBY RALPH M. WHITESIDE. By Lea-sod Wire to The Triuune. WASHINGTON, July 23. The retirement, retire-ment, voluntary or otherwise, of so many leaders of the senate after the next, session ses-sion of congress Is a source of woe to many an employe of the greatest legislative legis-lative body In tho world who had come to believe ho had a vested rlsht at Uncle Un-cle Sinn's footling trough. For be It known It Is the man who Is In who has the pull. In no place In the country docs the man who Is out lose the power of placing friends so quickly as in Washington. Wash-ington. Tho announced intention on the part of Senators Aldrlch and Hale par-tlcularlv par-tlcularlv to retire from the senate at the clo'ie of their present terms has caused consternation among tho scores of government gov-ernment emploves whom these statesmen have provided with positions in Washing-on. Washing-on. They are not under the protection of civil service, and some of them arc counting their days oven now. Committee Com-mittee clerks, doorkeepers, elevator conductors, con-ductors, guards and a multitude of others ore wondering what is to become of them when their "bosses" leave. During tho very long periods of senate service Sen-iiators Sen-iiators Aldrlch and Hale have brought more constituents lo Washington, and placed them on government pay rolls than any other two senators In the body. Seldom Sel-dom has a request from cither of them to employ a constituent been denied by those In authority about Washington, and that Is the reason the government buildings build-ings In Washington are well lllled with citizens of Maine and Rhode Island. Thero is little hope for any of these, for the new rulers all have their friends to look after, and no senator ever had nearly enough patronage to go around. I I Picturesque Figures Retire. After March 4 there will be but few picturesque figures In the senate. The old guard will have retired, all save Senators Sen-ators Frye. Cullom and Depew. When Senators Daniel of Virginia and Mc-Enery Mc-Enery died, when Senators Tillman and Culberson were forced off, the stage of uctlon by 111 health, the Democratic side of the chamber was robbed of Its most distinguished coterie of old-timers. Only one was left. Only Senator Hernando Do Soto Money of Mississippi remained, and - lie is due to return to private life on -larch 1 next. When that dale arrives and the Sixty-first congress Is no more, two of the most forceful loaders of the Republican side of the senate will be lost to that body. Senators Aldrlch and Hale will retire. I3oth arc veterans. Both have been powerful, but now both arc preparing to lay down the cares of public pub-lic life forever. Into Hands of Younger Men. All this means that the senate will pass Into hands of younger leadership. Both sides of the chamber are casting about for new leaders. Neither majority nor minority today knows upon whom the mantles will fall. There are strong men on both sides of the senate, but thero Is no one pre-eminently strong man. The division on the Republican side will make It harder to choose a leader. The men msmr like Cummins and Dolllver and Borah, all Rflx capable of handling a legislative sltua-Uf sltua-Uf Hon, however acute, are in the Insurgent Bflnt class, and could not now command tho Kip united support of the Republicans. The EKi men like Galllger, Warren and Penrose EHlf rould not successfully lead the lnsur-BH lnsur-BH gents. A compromise will be hard to QHll reach, although Senator Ellclns is being My discussed considerably in connection with BBbm Ihe leadership in the senate. ' leader for Democrats. . fiB$F As for the Democrats, it will not be BHsI co difficult to agree upon a nominal HBVw- leader Senators Bailey, Bacon, Ruynox. Clay. Overman and Hughes are already MB Iff ' in training for floor leadership, while gMtff a little later. John Sharp Williams, for-MUC for-MUC mcr minority leader in the house, will be in the senate harness. Yet the Democrats Demo-crats will miss the counsel of the older heads. South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Ala-bama, Arkansas and Virginia, once powerful pow-erful in Democratic councils, can no longer claim that prestige. Maryland, North Carolina. Georgia and Texas will be counted upon to maintain the south' strength In the senate. In any event, senate legislation will bo handled by much younger heads in the next congress than in the one Just closed. II is no longer a body of patriarchs. Here la a Nice Job. In these hot summer days who would not be a cabinet officer with a llnely appointed ap-pointed government ship which can be used as a private yacht? For instance, being secretary of the navy is a mighty nice job In the summer. When congress con-gress adjourns and tho president goos to Beverly for his vacation, the attorney general guts himself out of Washington In mnch tho same fashion as tho ordinary ordi-nary member of congress. Like the most humble department clerk, ho must soarch around for a place In tho mountains or at the shore. Not so with the secretary of the navy. Long before tho hot weather gets around tho converted yacht Dolphin has been renovated and slicked up for tho exclusive use of the secretary. The yacht Is not converted so much that It cannot be used for cruising. Just as the private vessel of a millionaire. Tho secretary can escape the heat of the city and tho tiresome social functions of the fashionable fashion-able summer colony by taking his family on a cruise. Secretary Treasury Also in Swim. The same good fortune Is enjoyed by the secretary of tho treasury, who has the revenue cutters under his jurisdiction. jurisdic-tion. The office of secretary of commerce and labor Is tho Inst In the list of cabinet cabi-net offices In the matter of precedence, but In the summer a number of lighthouse light-house tenders are availablo on hot nights for tho use of the secretary. Tho secretary secre-tary of war has a few vessels at his disposal, dis-posal, but such officials ns the attorney general, secretary of the interior and postmaster general are compelled to struggle along Just llko ordinary mortals. West Would Have Protected Oanal. "Whenever the subject of conservation is brought up, we people of the west seem to come In for the principal share of criticism." complained II. II. Street of Denver, to some friends. "Wo may have been wasteful at times, although some of us are inclined to think wo have done pretty well under the conditions that exist In the west. But I don't think that Colorado would let a waterway, hundreds of miles long, go Into disuse simply through neglect. And only a few duys ago I saw just such an Instance. I was traveling through Indiana. At two or three of the larger towns along the Wabash I noticed a depression, probably forty or fifty feet across, running parallel paral-lel with tho river. The third tlrne I saw this I asked for information. I was told that it was tho bed of the old Wabash and Erie canal, and that it had not been lllled with water for forty years. In some places the crumbling of the tow-path tow-path has almost filled the old canal channel. chan-nel. The Wabash river above Torre Haute is not navigable for anv but tho smallest of boats, and It is filled with rapids. This canal In the olden days carried the commerce of a largo part of the state, but it was given up when the railroads began to multiply. Now, our statesmen are talking of the advantage of having canals to compote with railroads rail-roads and urging their construction. I venture to soy that If Colorado had such a canul as that one In Indiana, wo never would have let It go to ruin through a lack of conservation." Living Map of City. "It Isn't often that a person has an opportunity of seeing a living map of a city." said IT. O. Phelps of Portland. Or., at the New Wlllard. "I don't suppose It could bo done In any place but Washington. Wash-ington. I made a trip to the top of the Washington monument the other day. The atmosphere was exceptionally clear, and I looked down on a city in miniature. I had a tourist's map with me, and I could pick out all the principal avenues and streets. I got a comprehensive idea of the size nnd plan of Washington, such as I could not have obtained in any other way. Of course, thero are monuments tand lofty buildings In other cities, but one usually sees little besides clouds of smoke. From tho top of the statue of Liberty In New York harbor it Is practically prac-tically Impossible to see the city In detail, de-tail, on account of the smoke. In Indianapolis In-dianapolis the soldiers and sailors' monument monu-ment gives one a good view of the residence section. Much of tho city, especially the manufacturing district, however, is hidden. Tho width of the Washington streets and avenues, tho absence ab-sence of smoke, and the groat, height of tho monument combine to give tho visitor visi-tor who goes to the top of the shaft a view of an ontlro city, which, I'm sure. Is unonualed." |