| Show THE HOLIDAY RECESS NOW ON How tho Time Is Utilized by Mem Members Members bers of o Congress LOOKING AFTER FENCES I 1 Merry happy Ilal New I Dakota a Senators The C Carlos lIere I Special COrll Correspondence e Washington Dee Dec holiday recess does not mean much ot of a play pla spell to many members ot of Congress both senators and representatives In Inmany Inmany many cases It Is Good hard earnest work For Instance It Is 19 sate safe to say that nearly all of at the representatives are candidates for cor and andre reelection re In the coming campaign There are thirty senators whoso whose sue will bl be elected by legislatures chosen In the tho campaign ot of mo 1900 These senators with perhaps one or two ex exceptions are candidates for tor re Thus Ihus It Is necessary for tor senators and representatives alike to look closely after their fences The Tho holiday re recess recess cess IS utilized for tor this purpose Most ot of the members go home and those that remain here devote their time to such correspondence as will do the most g good oo while clerks are busy sending out documents to the people le nil all over oer the country The holidays afford about the last existing opportunity for tor members mem members bers ot of Congress 8 to visit their before the conventions are held and they us usually make the best ot of It Merry Christmas I and Happy New Year are the greetings everywhere extended during this h holiday time but with many of the senators and representatives representatives when extended to theIr con constituents mean I hope you OU nN arc with me for tor n a return to Congress WE WERE HE MODELS bOIt OH CARTOONS One ot of the famous cartoonists ot of the dB day was In Washington during the opening week ot of Congress casting about for Cor new material and new Ideas lie visited both the Senate and the House and then heaved a sigh The changes es that have occurred since the thelast thelast last Congress are deplorable Indeed front Crom my standpoint he said Mid Ot Of course COUTEe there were many great men who are no longer seen on the floors ot of Con Congress gross gress and some whose absence will be ImmediatelY noticed and regretted retted by bythe bythe the general public But along with those men went some ot of the best th that t were ever clr made the victims ot of n a earl pencil There was Senator Mitchell ot of Wisconsin for Cor one lie Ill nJ al ways wore his whiskers cut off straight nt at time the bottom resembling Il a broom and that added to his strikingly peculiar peculiar liar countenance made him an easy mark for tor us Then there was Lewis In the ot of the flowing whiskers the neat noaL frock Crock coat and the poses ot of the orator ot of d daya s gone by byas byas as he be expressed It There are no 00 such men In this Congress Senate we can tall fall back pf Ot C roue ur de e Ih he on S 8 the lonG straight black r e tell fell fit at the tho hair ctt open ol Ct ek and 11 1114 ot of smile But In the h m house al most nil all gon except they ther au at i Is true that some ot of those thoe Sulz who r I gone cone became more famous the cartoons than because ot of because b nets acts but they furnished ova tures turea and will vIII be reme amUsing pic good they did as models model tor for the for lor fors ad s pencil ot of the modern cat SOUTH DAKOTA S SENAToRS What Is YOUr pOlitics Senator Pettigrew ot of South now I upon return tu to Well Well ho he reviled replied I Pop POll or a Bryan am t and I t riGhtly know JUst which don dog lie He Is down In the which h stands for tor sliver directory nM s S B M the tho or of th lh Shyer ho l He 1 which the other other servitor senator kola Is IB down In South D the an Independent CI the he aCI There la II borer political and personal between the South ez 1 Dakota tors the shifting ot of the tens rooms they pad tb right ench oh other r In the part ot of the C Each has hili ol o some cham at the hands ot of to stan stand j his y col COI leagues WHAT W PREFERRED Years ago aco before admission when In Dakota as two too the tho plains and rna made valleys or of the big tor tory fairly sizzle UIl there re was no terry tem doubt ot of lie was leader ot of the or n a Iho ot of them at on any rate The b thing to light for tor In the geat the tho election was 19 or of two delegates to b national conventions nn and the of oC n a delegate In s OM o n a good place In the other control ot of federal And perhaps on an 1 ae goy CO So 80 these ne were Pre te teal l ly h the tho great greal events ot of political life end and every advantage which was afforded d was taken by the tho oP a row at the head ot of the In South Dakota made modo an with another In ht North Dakota It Ft turned tUfted out that this latter faction euld not deliver the goods and the tho faction Was rout routes hor horse root foot and dragoons Going hone home In the train hd had a final settlement with his late allies and aM this wag tray the clo close ot of his brief state slate meat ment mentI I want you fellows to understand that In the future when I makes make A cots com with North orth DAkota It wit be with Witt the crowd that you OU call the rascals for tor the they always do what whal they promise and they turn over oer all that thU they a agree to deliver deller |
