Show Iii HT CONGRESS WilL BE NOTABLE particularly so With Reference to Absence of Distinguished Members MR GROSVENOR TO RETIRE Old of or Ohio to lo lie Suc Succeeded by II Houghs lulI Others Oilier Aru siU IU to III Special Correspondence Washington V 0 1 C March Sixtieth Ih Congress which will be on Nov O 6 G 1111 which will corns l Into Int WIng Mug on fl March 4 i 1907 1007 gives tse Ic promise of being notable In u many ways Par Particularly notable will 1111 WI It be lie In the nb lib of a number nf of distinguished lle He It ns who vho h for or reasons of ot choice or by the Iho will lii of nominating conven conventions Hons retire to the thU shades of cC l private life lICe lit First and foremost of ot those II illS 0 whose who o absence ence will Mil occasion much comment 1 I IA Old Arithmetic Henry Ol nenor of ut Ohio Tho Thu pitcher In III case caU went onca too often to the well HIl HIland ti and II a man than iho ho hus hU on Oti ha his lIi trail fur for j earn carll Douglas of will II suc teed cell the led veteran from 0 U ir lr Douglas l ls Is i but 50 BO an a against n w J Ue lie Is n it lawyer an nn ora om orator for tor of ot considerable ability and anil nd a tUg pug Hobert oer Wit Hilt of at Illinois who he has ag serVel In Ia the tower lower since the Congress has voluntarily decided to relinquish the cares care of public life lite ii and his hl place In n the Sixtieth Con will be by some ome other Republican to be tj select selected ed eJ by b the electors of at the Thirteenth lilt Illi Illinois nol nois During Durin his almost 25 Kara of uC service In the peoples people s forum Mr Ir JUtt has bas been one olle of the tho strong nun nn of ot tin ti body During Juring the tue years earll he nan has been chairman of foreign affairs ot ottile th tile the great reforms In the consular ser serICO serico ICO have been brought about lie He was cas casIn In charge of the tho bill that declared wan wat against l Spain and his public have shown vast ast research clos cione nasty lis Ia and wisp wise statesmanship Hobert Roes gres out of at Congress one of the best beat beloved of ot mm men having thc tho t of the entire membership 01 ot otIlle the Ille lower house hotie III health anti ami a n de te desire sire Ire lre to enjoy enJI his remaining years either cither In Jn some diplomatic capacity abroad or orIn orIn orin In the quietude e ot of his old home In the sucker state are oro the tho forces which thich terminate a Il splendid legis legislative laUIe career A PICTURESQUE One of the picturesque figures figured gurell of tho the Congress Joseph Crocket of Pennsylvania will be miss miAs missing missing ing when the he t roll of the Sixtieth Con Coin gresi reu If is called as has been Sibleys politics politic 1 It Is not more topic l pC than has hns been b en his career as a II arun run man of affairs U 11 i of right oni anI of or the Captains of cC Industry and there here 1 Is no man roan In the tine o who ho en jy J r a larger popularity Sibley was wasa va vaU a U 1 free tree and quasi Democrat until 1900 when ho he thought that he ho ouid like to represent the Twenty district of In Con rm as a 11 Without tint batting totting of an nn eye cc Joe Sibley switched from tram Democracy to Republicanism and j was elected taking a II sent seat In the Fifty 1 seventh Congress Ins n a member of or tine the dominant party part that at ul li h SIbley served In tho the house us as II f Democrat having been n a 1 member of or tho the mid mud Con COli greases Joe Sibley In is n a 1 farmer and stock raiser but his chief cIder business tit In present 1111 1 has been for tor some past li Is a 11 manufacturer of ot lubricating oils under the aegis a of oC tho tine Standard Oil Oh company He lie knows a n hundred things bettor belter than most anybody Ho lie Is i n statesman who loves his hili ease sports Sportsman sportsman man who Mir fall and a friend In both hoth clear and cloudy weather Sibley would rather lather take an nn automobile tout toUl throughout than he one olle of If Un de cle Joe boys boya bo and he too quits with the tho close of ot o tho the present Con Corn Kress ANOTHER ONE ONi It has haa been my intention for tor some time to retire from Congress at the end of at my m present term said Representative today but 1 I wa was not anxious to have the announcement made at It this time and I am ann not yet ye ready reidy read to tell my m constituents the rea tea reasons reasons sons Eons which actuate me A great groat majority of tho the members ot both houses Itous are lawyers The to the rule are generally generall business businessmen men and alit there are 1110 a few farmers farmer In tile tho lower house and a sprinkling ot 01 miners In III the tine senate Occasionally n a business mail mall makes such a for Cor himself that the tho wonder Is that thai moro inure constituencies do not ant Ignore tine tho legal fraternity In casting about for tor or congressional candidates Certainly the tn th Twenty fth district of ot New York made mado no mistake when Lucius Nathan was chosen td to represent th hi counties of ot Fulton Hamilton gomory Saratoga unit und Warren At the tine end of his term Mr will whit have served 10 ii YI In III Congrow I and during the tho greater portion nf of that period lie he ti tiLts has been ben a II member of ot the Important committee on In handling appropriation blue bills 11 s on ott the thi thO floor 1001 of the tho th MI l hart hU ha shown very ery clearly tho tine characteristics which have havo made mado him ono one 01 of at the tho most men in the conn coun try I Hi I conducts his private lne nt lit ran and aind Is as n closely In touch With Mth wih tho the markets of If I when he Inc buya huya his raw rw material ug as lB ho he Is J with wih tho tine affairs before the committee trl 01 ot members which ho hu Is 11 i one Ole ii of t the tho mot most tO t valued It I Is li because ho lie devotes 1 Ii 5 hours out omit of ot every Z 24 to private and aId public busi business ness fleas that he hn h him 11 little sympathy with wih tho the howl for tor shorter hours seven a 11 day a is I the Iho i tile for the clerks In II tInt thi executive department in the hear henr Inis before berON time the committee preliminary to time the th construction of ot the tho various bills for lor the support of tho the government Mr lr I has hu borne home the brunt of ot tin th work woric of oC examining the tho ho witnesses It M Ii I duo due to him more moro than titan any othet ther I mini miami that tine the Annual have bean beon pruned ond tint hundreds ot ci of ot dollars will be ed dur ur tine the next year ear In other Monk lie ho has inns endeavored to Instill Into the federal departments some of the tue meth WH which aro are necessary to the tile success fill ful conduct of ot a I private busmen busine enter J On 01 the floor 1001 of 1 t tho the house he lie ha hl demonstrated his hit ability a mt a I debater anti ond no member whatever his hi training DH OK an In examiner or an nn advocate has ha ever bill hown l better In handling hantling a 3 Mr t Is i ono onni of cf the roost most molt popular members of o thc tho th Ne Nel et York delegation lie Ie la Is cordially I by b all al of his colleagues and tho the Ike an announcement I of ot his iii determination to re tire tiro has caused sincere and deep deap deAl regret from ono one end amid of ot the State stale to the other othe There hele will bo be others ethers to 10 GO hut hit the most prominent slated for or tire are lre tint tho four toUr big ull ones Sib ley Icy and 1111 ON Tim WATER WAGON For POl years dinner nt itt ft the tho th apt api tot tol Inns has been bien lJ en the proper caper on the tho part of or those noun tho ho know the Hie relative tl value of or good timings things to eat anti good 1011 to drink Of Ot late how however however ever over tho tine good goot things to drink have eliminated cilia inn ted nn a nil nothing og brt hll hr I s I III waters anti and possibly l os an occasional hot lint tin til of ot pop POl or ginger beer can Cal now be ue had mad In the tIne confines con nes of the tine semite mid house restaurants nut But tho the good livers lers who vho hmo enjoy enjo the strange rore rr and nl oh things linings to say nothing of the tine good cooking of ot the tine inual things fire much mich In evidence Just who of the tho Minnesota ta la delegation introduced the annual Moose dinner Is not recalled re lle When r was here the man mall lt who said lal he was 11 not lint lie he because cause causo nobody would ever over BO go o around with wih a faca like lila his If h 11 marl had hal h hl tie Rave gave IO tho ho annual Moose dinner for or th tilt Minnesota delegation A Moose Moneo 1000 dinner seems Reel to beof heo ite years yearl niso elated with tho the Minnesota contingent In Congress Do Io lb that ns it I may In Connies man a n Herlo man m n from trem Crookston entertained his colleagues of or the Minnesota together with wih tho the two H from North Dakota lakota a congressional here mere and there nind several men serving papers In the tho northwest nt itt the annual Manse dinner this hits week eek and ono nile of at the most moat delight ht ful UI feasts was WIS tho result of oC Mr Mv t Sterner lel r rEonA sorts sons cooking The Th courses be 15 fore anti and lifter tho the roast nf ot were subordinated to the delicious morsel mOtol which cooked to n a turn tun by h auth the of the house res re One of the most lot celebrated epicures ever eer In the tine house of o or the tho senate nonato lonato was nA tho the late tote Charles Jib Gib Ob Jibson son soil of Maryland Coming Conning from tho the eastern shore famous for tor or Its back haek duck hick arid hack back he ho took especial delight In entertain log Ing III his hiM friends with these delicacies no io o palatable to th the tho epicure and the gear gour gourmet met Innet For Jor years Mr M mlle maths It I Itan an nn annual custom to 20 or I more ionic of or his hlA associates and friends at a n mi n ant it coin vo 4 hack ck dinner ti I In i ii the tine mouse homo of ot representative restaurant Senator Dolph was vas WI In the sen ate flOI Oregon Olegon he and hh his hl In the house took pains to Import from tho the waters wal rR of tine tho Columbia river sane we of o tho the finest that lint could he tie procured pro two cured anti and when the flab fish arrived tho the Capitol cooks were nero WEre kept busy bins In iii II pre n ii I fish h dinner to which Invitations loins tonN were wore always eagerly sought ought HAD OF 01 FOOD I Tom Tont of or Iowa I often express expressed ed Id the opinion that It If the men Inon of ot the southern louther army lied had only been properly educated us to the value ahue of mushrooms as 08 an nn article artcle of diet let they could have hl e held out against the tine northern norther forces twice n ns as long hong Ion as they did dill Mr Ir graft grf has hal personal knowledge knole e of o more than edible varieties of the thu fungus and It was wits a n frequent custom of his hl to spend the mornings In II the tickle Holds antI the woods wood anti and to back bark grout great has hns of ot nil all ni sorts of odd looking cham champignons which expeditions were lah followed ell by mushroom luncheon At first r t Mr Ir had hM difficulty In hl his hiM colleagues to 10 rl rIk risk k a it test tut of his hil dishes hut hint after n he had dlf tilt leu I In supplying the demands demand sn so o eager eel were those thOS e who had hod once tested tho the dishes dl for or a n t second I Invitation I The Tine late Inte Hatch ol 01 o Missouri was sas a ft farmer Cornier who ho believed I If It the lie American people really rell kites what real mutton la is they would woul obin don non beef heet for or sheep Jn J I tn n th the t pint Ial said Mr Ir Hatch latch tile brood li Is i important and Ind In lit my thy judgment tine the rutlt in outrank amy nn of ot thorn them fur or tint the perfection of or mutton muton the tho bo lie u tt weiher nOd lie hI should be lit five lo years IUt old fur for a 1 does not Ilot rench reach maturity until ninth his hI Jul year nar Hut But time the most mOt Important consul Is IR the lie lie time between the tine sham shambles hal bles bie and amid the Mutton should bo Io hung hun for at lt least Jaunt leu Ht three week In lit II a jl just t above tine tho freez roeS Ing iK point titter after It has hUl been slaughter nl rd rt Anti And tn lii delHI 1 ra tt that he inc know knew just what he Inc wa wu talking about Mr 1 iv Hatch I Just befort Letor the holl h I one 10 ye year er r penned up two I wo of hu mu hl Jl flu rt rat Ither H II his hal Imd 1111 lt during tine the first week Yok In iii and antu a tu month later ho mu gate Kue JI u it I or of f to t in the I al at n which tIters there were H mutton broth curried mutton I I lon roust roast of ot mutton luton roast le Ie leg of boiled hog lep of ot mut mutton lut tutu ton tOi with carr 1 Salle and nut In ton tou tOi in every avry 1101 and Cn every overy one who nhi waN fortunate enough to participate In one tune of ur those what Stun Hum 1111 Weller meant ymca hen ho he described th tIt tl leg of mutton muton of ot In fact there theme Was Ial not n in I man main at any Iny of o those who ho eress r slice because h he hI hi had hiatt failed to 10 elt another POSSUM l I HSUM AND ANt John Johl Allen If of he Ml I I occasional ly I hU his friend with wih a n din dinner ner uner of ot lO sUI mind and sweet to wih with n it 1 plentiful supply of o if orp OW bread brond Every year some omo member from Virginia s secures cuis from the tho homo home planta plantation tion a 1 tow few hams ham out cut from froni buck IJ k hia which havu 1110 been fed fetI not fattened I far tor no ito one ona one ever saw Kaw II one on of ot tho fat nt on tinS the mast l n the wool of oC the tho Old OM Dominion 1 hams h n a 1110 of or chestnut he ennui anil 11 It acorn which KO give them ft a piquant dell deli racy rn of flavor never found In any other member oC or the Ihl porcine tribe Roast spareribs from frol southern plantations aro nure constantly served ned to 10 their guests by b members member who have havo or farms In time the southern states hut but the most tular and persistent l nt fl no noot of ot good oo things edible Is II I Harry Horn who wIno represented the tho Norfolk district In Inthe the lie lions house hOIM for several cor About the tho of ot January each achi elch year pr the express wagon WIRon drives to the tine Capitol nod III cU dlo po Its I CO tO gallons of or the Ihl finest plumpest plump t oysters from the lit celebrated beds of Lynn haven hay bl which vere cr shucked the th hit night before smith shipped on nun the boat hOlt to the men of ot the press iress gallery Mr Ir hl nt mined 11 NI this treat trea t for tOr tOrO 20 O years there Is II one nine day cay In every winter when every ery report reporter I er or Ir correspondent and telegraph tor In the tine Capitol has hns n a surfeit of Vie Vir Virginia VII Vieginia ginia bivalves e |