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f Vi I I 11 J Washington Feb 30n ot the stock IG1 Jokes ot Washington is I the difference li4ll H i VI 1 I In the olllcial position ot Il member ot I t1r J I J the house of reprPsentatives I hem and 113 p t I at Ill 3 home It pr not much i a Joke II ji 11 i r J I to the congressman when he Is I nw to jj I f y 34 pUblic life It carries with It a dllI1u t I 1 I 1 I lonment which Is unythIng I but com Iftf I I fortable Our oone5sman In so ac k 1 I u9to tried to deference IC not adulation U j In his district that It Is I hurt for him ri1 I to 11 ralorstand the Insignificance of the 0 1 t Place he Is to occupy In Washington I h li j 10 bo one at 2051l futile and Impotent it 335does not prove no inu It of an hon I I or an It seemed In anticific thin I Under r I III J the 1 need rules which now govern the house this I may be a very empty honor I 1 I III 1 I A few day ago as I sot In file Press I gallery lookIng down at the debate on Ili III It 11 the floor Mr Borrtt or Machllqett 1 made an earnest protest against file at If r tao 1 tempt of the older members of congress 11 Jj to shut out the younger members tram f i I H their privileges It utime the old plaint i a great delll older than Mr Barrell ne rn I j i 1 I I I heard It tn years ago II hn lie wo Il v I ri I I corrpondent and oat In the lifeR gal Ii lerYand nu doubt lie oml11 at It then I f I J t I 08 I do now OC course the younger 11 I 1 f i members are denied their privileges by I 1 j the older just as the younger boy at i 4 f 4 an rilglall g1 are compelled I to l = f I I fag for the older ones Theoretically 1 IH1 r ti J the younger boy are entitled to equal Privileges wIthin the hoolu They I I C pay as much for their tuition lot actu I I tq 4 I I ally the Younger boys are made to feel their youth and their InClorlty II 10 I I the way or the world und very much the I way ot congress l iesarno condition of 11 ffalra holds good In the senate I where the Young blood Injected I nl into 11 that dignified body a few 3earR 00 has I I had hardly a peievinlible cffect In modi i fllIg Its conservatism I The older inerlhorm or the house hay I the choice ot pIa on the Imports I committees thy are nconl I It promptly and facts tlll1e is I allotted to I t thrm In debate Theyat permitted 0 freedom ot utterance wh s denied to I heir young colleagur It Is I nil I rung I Jnow and the IlP plaus I I ot tbo t neW mnbera who listened I listen-ed to Mr l1arretts oomplllint Was well 11 deeered But complaint and applause ate not going to chung the condition I I ot affairs The tuorltlmB ot file I house are going to continue to ret with 1 the older members and the younger I ones are still going to find themselves I I unlmlortant quantities except when heir vote are needed to make a majorIty major-Ity You might expect them to adopt trades union Ida and combine to AIth hold their voteR until thy obtained recognition rec-ognition lot whotr they might gain momentarily on the floor ot the house by a strike they would loan molO In their districts for their failure In I regularity Nothing IR going to change the condl I Ions 1 fear and the young membertht Is I the Inexperienced membrmut continue to be a very 11 I small factor In the control ot public afflllrB Thrl Is only one wy In whIch lie can hopeeto hOI to escape partial oblivIon and that IB by the grace ot that smooth faced man mho stands neur the door 01 the I hall his hands behind his back holding a conference with the putative leader of the Democratic minority By the grace ot Thomas n Heed the new member mem-ber may emerge rom obscurity at anytime any-time and become a national character The speaker of the house of represents lives has It In his power to make and unmake reputations He H the dictator not alone ct legislation but of the fate of members on both RideR l ot the house lie gets this power through his right to name the members ot committees and the right to recognize or to refuse to recognize men lho address him tram the floor of the house If he likes lie con constitute Il committee RO that It will favor or oppose on Important measure which It In I known will corn before It Pllcklng Il committee in I far from uncommon AR to the recognition of members that Is wholly In the dls cretlon of the speaker Thc new member 01 the house uoto mlllar with Its customs Is very likely In the exuberance ot ignorance to rise and address the chair for the purpose ot obtaining cldration for some bill In which he Is I Interested He Is pained as well as surprise to find that the speaker invariably recognizes Born one else Perhaps he speaks to another mcmber about Itan older member Perhaps he goes direct to the speaker Why wdillnt you recognize me this afternoon 1 he says to the speaker with some feeling Recognize you I any the speaker In great surprise I did not agree to rc ocnlz you luRt I have on agreement with you saO the new member Il little angered at this Infringement of his Independence In-dependence as a legislator Certainly say the speaker If You lill come to me tomorrow morning I will tell sou whether I will recognize You or not The new member goes away Indignant Indig-nant But ht realizes file position after a time There Is I no way to compel the speaker to recognize him as he learns by study of the rules A member without with-out recognition Is a fifth wheel on the legislate cart So he pocket his In donation and goes to the speaker the next day before the house assembles Ive com to make that arrange ment he says Arrangement Yes To b I e recognized you know I would like to be recognized this mornIng morn-Ing when the house metR Oh yes says the speaker Well what do you want to call up The new member looks something profane Perhaps he says It He Is thinking at least In the familiar Hr nacular or the averab congressman Itis none or your dd business IoRI bly he restrains his feelings and says Must I tell you what I want to call upr upOh Oh yes says the speaker It you dont tell me I will not recognize you Then the new member goes away nil by himself to think the matter over and again his helplessness appeals to him So ho goes back to the speaker room Just before the house Is I called to order holding a copy of u bill In his hand I want to call up that bill bay b-ay I I I I I I 0 I I f I I 11 I I t 10 91AITL 4 N i J r I IF I N 0110 14R 1 1 V I N I X3 I 44 14I I I 1 I 0 I lille 11 I 1 1 I 71 III I 11 i I I RWli 4 f dF I I I I t I I I I V11 Ag i S nrv I w iq I il Ill I I I < Is V I P I I I 11 I fX M r V1 11 I 11 I P fliI I 0 gg gp Y1191 I 7 e F1 R I I 4 1 1 I 1 1 1Z IY1 I 1 I 1 I i I I I ofla I i I I I 1 I OF I 11 I N X I I 1 1 I 1 A 1 05 14A I I 1 1 V4 4 oyall 6PO7 I 7 o A I of 7q 6 I 711 0411ys I N = X I I I I I I 11 I A I 11 I I 1 1 11 1 1 I fIY I 1 I IU 1 I I Q t k I k X VIV Z q k I L 7 r I t C1tltR V In 1 tAtlY e fI I 4 I Ii r IIi L I I Ip I t H1ND701V ZD The speaker examines the bill carefully I careful-ly Presently he says I think that this Is a bad bill I think that It should not be passed I will not recognize you to call It up Then the nw member Wants to know It he has any right IlR an American citizen and a representative or the sovereIgn sov-ereIgn people And he finds that In this Imrtlculllr matter he has not And he exhorts his fellow members to rebellion against the whole vicious system hlch gives to one man the right t9 control the action ot 355 other And the other members laugh Ilt him or reason with him And In time he becomes accustomed tomed to the hopeless situation and grow silent But ho IR not reconciled td the condition ot affairs until he has become one ot the old members or pon slbly Is I speaker ot the house himself It Is Il wonderful state or IllTalrR In the house which makes It possible for the Itpublllln who IR speaker to control con-trol the action of the Democratic minorIty minor-Ity In so Important Il matte as the selection se-lection at a leader No one doubts that It wa by the Interference ot thespeak er and through the power he exercises In the distribution of committee places and other favors that young Bailey was chosen as the candidate or the minority for the speakershlp and thus mad the spokesman ot the Democrat on the Moor of the house No one thinks for a minute that young Halley would have been the choice of his party It there had been a Democratic majority The honor vof the speakcrshlp would not have ben for him But who knows what effect that Indorsement by the minority may have when tho Democrats regain control of the house Thomas B Heed was the choice of the Republican minority when Carlisle was elected speaker of the house When the Ilepub llcnns elected u majority two sears later there wire three candidates for the speakership and need won I well remember one member ot the house saying to me that he was dlpgusted with the claims ot needs friends wh were placing the baby act and claimIng claim-Ing for the Mllln man not that lie uas the attest man for the place but that he thought he would be disgraced If he was put aside now otter Ills nomlnstlofl for the complimentary vote In the previous pre-vious congress At that time the Republicans Re-publicans did not know what kind of 0 splllee the man from Maine would be I He had had no experience In tho chair After they came to know him they reelected re-elected him and there was no question of his right to the seat It Is I Possible thru the round faced Bailey will be able to make a successful appeal at some future day on the ground ot his prevent leadership of the minority Young Mr Bailey Is the Narcissus of the house Complacency and self ad mlrathm ooze front his pore and create cre-ate on atmosphere about him 08 he alkR across the floor There IR con scions Hide In his attltud as he stands talking with the speaker He Is I not quite so attentive to the kallerlrs as old Senator Hansom used to be but he Is 1 never unconscious of the fact that Il f I thousand people are looking at him a I ne rises In Ills place on the Moor ex pond film chest under Its broadly displaced dis-placed white shirt boom and addresses the chair His leadership of the minority minor-ity has not the strength of Reed one time position on the floor but the speakers leaning toard hlmI wonder If It Is I born of admiration or an appro clatlon of his pliancy to Republican wlhmaks him a strong man In the house and he Is I always one of Its picturesque pic-turesque figures Honors are more evenly divIded on the floor of the house than they are lathe la-the senate chamber There the picturesque pic-turesque figures swarm on the Republican Repub-lican side and are sadly wanting on the Democratic Here there ate as many odd and interesting characters on one side of the house as on the other There for example is Amos Cummings who exemplifies the old professional adage Once Il journalist alwaYR Il jOllrnal 1 1st Cummings Is a graduate of the New York Tribune ot Greeley time and the Sun under Dana and In spite at Il dozen years In congress he remains a newsiaper writer and furnishes a weekly letter to a syndicate He doesn take as fresh a view at matters Current at the capital as he might perhaps because be-cause It Is I not possible for a congressman congress-man to take on unbiased position mentally men-tally on any matter and because courtesy cour-tesy restrains Il ember ot congress from criticising his colleagues A newspaper news-paper correspondent must be In appeal tlon to be thoroughly Interesting I recall re-call tho huge sigh of relief which that erudite GrmllnAmrlcan Seckndorl of The Tribune heaved when the Har risen administration went out ot office and tho Thank Godl that he uttered because he was once more free to crltl else as he pleased IIIRnt Interesting to be saying continually pleasant or complimentary thing about public men either as a representative of an adminIstration admin-Istration organ or as the colleague ot 355 members of the house But Ir Com mints letters are spineless he Is I partisan parti-san enough when he takes the floor In debate and his recent defense of Tammany Tam-many purity was a master work when you consider the difficult subject with AN hlch he had to deal Perhaps his insPiration In-sPiration would have overcome even grater difficulties for Tammany has given him all the lucrative offices he has held and will probably take care of him to the end Men listen to a speech like that nf Cummings from curiosity That Is one of the few motives which will make men listen to Il speech on the floor of the house Recently I talked with Robert Rob-ert R Hltt one of the cleverest men who ever como to congress about the effect of oratory In public assembly and he said I to men Wo are always on the lookout for anything that savors of oratory or-atory As soon as n man begins a spread eagle speech on the floor ot the house we close our ears to him But when a man like Dlngley gets the floor you will notice we crowd around him and listen attentively to all he has to ay Plngly 10 full ot matter When be speaks be says something worth hearing and ha put his facts before I you plainly and In the fewest possible words A man like that lvIll always get a hea ring In the house vthen Il man who cultivates the graces ot style will pak to empty Beat Dingley Ill us trates that peculiarity ot the house better than anyother man In the public eye at this moment No one In the gallery hear him speak for the filt time without disappointment his voice 10 so rasping so Inulllclnt 00 unmuBlcll1 If you are unCllmlllor with the laYR 01 legislators you will wonder won-der when you bear him why the members mem-bers crowd about his Illlc It Is because be-cause he his something to SY and his manner ot saying It Is nothing to thm theTwo Two things chiefly hold the attntlon at the houehumor and facts The former Is the more attractive because In almost every ao mn have made up their minds about questions under discussion or are moved by party reasons rea-sons to vote one way or the other and argument has no weight with them Hut humorfun of any kindwill hold their attention closely to the end of a speech That Is why Private John Allen Al-len whom you will always recognize from the gallery by his moth eaten hair Is sureat all times of a generous gener-ous hearing His drawl Is I Irresistibly quaint and his memory holds Il wonderful won-derful number ot personal experiences and anecdotes The speeches of Oros enor of Ohio have the saving grace of humor without which they would attract at-tract little attention He Is an old cam lalgner and one ot wide experience I met him years ago at Ottumwa la where no was to make a soldier speech In the Coal palice Preldent Harrison Harri-son was there on the some day A curious cu-rious citizen named Balllngall was to make the presentation of the speakers to the audience by reason of the fact that he had contributed largely to the funds of the exposition After he had Introduced the president and Secretary Tracy some one nudged him and said I Youe forgotten General Orosvenor Oh yes said BalllnJUl visibly embarrassed em-barrassed turning to Be throng and this Is I Grosvenor with which Informal and faulty Introduction General Gros venor had to bo content Grovenor has a brother who was put jnut of the treasury department by the rtt g ut Ck0adminfistratlon last administration for good and sufn clent cause not of a political nature and that brother was put back again by the present administration before It was many days old Other favors the Gros venor family has received at the hands I of President McKlnlcy so no one takes the general attack on the administra tion civil service policy very seriously I Still it Is I possible that It will bring results re-sults and perhaps those results will not be wholly unpleasing to the president While he could not consistently make material modifications In the civil service serv-ice law he could accept the action of the Republicans of the house and senate sen-ate with a very good grace and thank them for getting him out of an awkward awk-ward position Listening to Grosvenors speech against the civil service law sits Shot too ot Ohio Il clean looking man weighing I should say some 225 pounds He cant see his knees a he sits at his desk stroking a silvery beard and listening lis-tening with a calmness that guarantees a placid disposition He Is I one ot tho youngsters ot tho house for this Is his first term though he was C6 at his last birthday He never held public office before last March In fact He escaped es-caped the oblivion that awaits the new member by appointing a negro cadet to Annapolis and sticking to It The negro ne-gro won In a competitive examination and Mr fihattuc said he would not go back on the result Ile has the respect ot his colleagues however Indignant the naval cadets may feel against him There is I another nw member who has attracted some attention Landls at Indiana a newspaper man and one of a family of Journalists He made a civil service speech which was so direct and so businesslike that the whole house gave him respectful attention and I generous applause And there on the other side ot the house Is I James HamIlton Ham-Ilton Lewis ot Washington famous for his sunset whiskers and ox blood gloves He is I rather consj Icuous In dress but he has plenty of gray matter under his thick thatch of hair and he had the courage when he went west to take a Job at loading and unloading ships when legal piactlce was lacking He Is a great chum now of Jerry Simpson whom Mrs Lease Is I about to despoil of his honors Bland of Missouri furnishes an Interesting Inter-esting contrast to Lou is Bland wlo wears an old 111 fitting black I cutaway coat reddish bout trousers all too brief a turn down collar and a little I black Bilk bow the same style of suit It not the Mm garments that he wore when he first came to congress At home Mr Blind wears no coat at all but works In the field or sits on the veranda veran-da of his dnellltfg and reads the local paper after the farm work Is done far from the telegraph wire and the hum of the worlds news Now he sits tilted back In his cane sealed chair and picks at his face with his forefinger contem platlvely He Is I a good listener In debate late but he seldom speaks When he does It is with a nasal twang which makes you wish ho wouldnt Bland might have been the Democratic an Wale for the presidency If Stone ot Missouri had not had the same ambition ambi-tion and who knows hut I that he would have been elected The personality of a candlllto count for a good deal In a canvas sometlm and the Republicans Republic-ans are fond ot claiming that Bryan lost votes wherever he made speeches Bland doesn think this and he has told me since the election that ho thinks Bryan made tho best fight that could have been made island Is not without ambition but there Is nothing mean about him He will not backbite a rival and he Is I for his party before he Is for Bland a state of mind that perhaps 31r Kurtz and Mr McWon or Ohio culd study to their own Improvement There Is the Intemperate Boutelle of Maine who shakes the bloody shirt In the face of the Democratic party even to this late day and whose political courage IB little tempered with dlRcre tlon There Is I Judge Morris of Mlnne note who tried to get Into the house from Virginia many years ago but had to go west to gain political recognition There Is I John Wesley Gaines of Ohio smooth faced and distinguished looking whose father mod him study medicine but who earned nn education In the law because he preferred that profession to the other There Is the veteran McMll tin ot Tennessee the man who was robbed i rob-bed of the leadership by Bailey He is tall and thin and bald with long wisps of hair drawn over the bare spot on top ot his head Ho dll not scorn his father ther advice when ho had to choose a career but accepted It and blesses the day that he did He wanted to take a bookkeepers place at a comfortable salary where he would probably have rcmalnad all his life and his father persuaded per-suaded him to become a schoolteacher and to study law In his leisure time McMlllln used to work In the fields with his fathers farm hands and he lall there the foundation of a rugged constitution con-stitution which makes him Indefatigable Indefatiga-ble In work He Is a student of Shakespeare Shakes-peare and a man or wide genrlll readIng read-Ing There Is I Fleming of Georgia who was speaker of the house In the legislature of his state There are many speakers speak-ers In the house but only one speaker speak-er of the house Itself That one Is Galusha A Grow ot Pennsylvania the man with the white hair and the thick white beard who sits on the aisle 1 his hands clasped behind his head listening to the speeches from both sides of the house Impartially He Is not much of a speaker himself Ills face Is like parchment but he Is In vigorous health for Il man ot U Years Not far away Is I William Connell who never held office until he was 70 years of age He Is the biggest man In Scranton Scran-ton Pa though he began life as 0 mule driver In a min not far from that place and he may be governor of his state after aft-er the next Election There Is James Rankin Young one of the owners of the Philadelphia Star who for years has sent two letters a week to that InterestIng Interest-Ing paper over the Initials IS H Ev cry one who reads the Star knows who IS M Is and the letters have an additional tlonal Interest now because thy are written by a member of the house I can point out Lemuel QuIgg to outdo ou-tdo man whom Dana called Quits of Quogue the Quaggy man but who survived that ridicule and lived to gain the political support of The Sun and young George McClellan who was thought last summer to bo the candidate candi-date ot Tammany for mayor at Grater New York and Rowland Blennerbas sett Mahany of Buffalo who mad his I first Canyn I rer cong lIh I In life poeket J l6 E Buck HII tt 1 M Illinois Whoo it hltlon 1ttitt o to t tha head 01 the cong kado ak t lit II < ummhtee has Just bten etmiln A ihed throu3h the machination t It the I Croker heau 1 ct IlInrkhstR Uy fjflil1 Ner faith Ilnd I Wllllnln Pulr sl looks like Claytho kind 14 wn make Into owTIoto and or CCy 1 SlIlo t y way or New IInml Prle tho only I her or the SalOllOI1 Anny Ill rtln cnq 1anPA and Harn Illiaban or P11nn1IvhIa tho beot drcrcd mon on the flor it halt hundred aM mOro WhObe known to talne hams are I Sarno oC hem are big 1 mon O In t To tho Toa b use end Mm or not I would hot say who are but you COn c = Ih leaders or the house on tho Inaos 01 your hand OLpnGE anVNTHAM GAIN |
