Show senators knox and crane real chum chummy states senators often bo be M UNITED i come good friends but so somehow they aro ro not prone to becoming real chummy with one ano another exceptions occur from time to time to prove the rule one of these exceptions t applies to senator philander 0 knox qs of pennsylvania and senator W mu murray r ray crane brane of massachusetts if the afternoon oa wanes without their their meeting on Is akely to start on out t to see sea where the other Is and to learn what aliat has had happened often the knox automobile and the crane aluad automobile i mobile exchange honks in the morning not infrequently the senators ride to the capitol in the samo same car when the luncheon hour cornea comes senator crano crane may descend to tho the committee on rules perhaps herald geraid his advent by turning out the lights in the vestibule and then lead his I 1 crony oft off to the senate restaurant restaurant the fondness that senators crane and knox evince for eating together Is reminiscent of the fondness that former senator Seli ator edmunds edmunds of vermont and the late senator allen alien G thurman of ohio used use d to have for drinking together that was in the earlier days when at the capitol capati was waa not frowned upon AH A 11 the oldsters in political wash ington are fond of recalling that story how the two senators k kept ept a black bottle in the room of the committee on judiciary they were certain to adjourn there twice or thrice every afternoon that the senate held a long ses slon sion it was at first a marvel why the two men seemed to have the same thought at the same moment and be ga gan n to make tracks simultaneously from different parts of the senate chamber ono one being a democrat and the other a republican Republic all toward that committee room it turned out that they had prearranged signals the old romans signal was wai to pull out that famous red bandanna handkerchief and to blow blon his nose with ith clarion loudness |