| Show WILLIAM J BRYAN IN THE SENATE Not thor the Nebraskan of Oratorical Fame but a New Ne Member From Florida HEIS HElS THE T E YOUNGEST MEMBER R Rid id LOl of ot Delivery C on Oil the tho and Out List LUt LI t Special l Correspondence Washington Jon Inn 3 William Janice James Bryan appointed senator by b the gay gov governor of or Florida t to succeed the tho late Senator Mallory Mali or Is III olio or et the tho young youngest OU lg est eat men inca In the tho t o history of ot this govern government ment mont to hold bold such Rueh a position lie Ho was only 31 St years ears of or ago age last Oath Octo October her ber It goes without saying s that Mr tr Bryan will be e commonly alluded 1 to as u tho the kid Idd senator tor The Tho next youngest man In the upper branch of or Congress IR lit Senator S Core doro of Oklahoma ma Ho lie is only 37 It seems to be bo admitted that for tor some f me tune time William WilliamT T r Bryan of ot Nebraska had tho the no ita notion notion tion of moving to Oklahoma to become n a senator from that big his now non state many of tho the Oklahoma Democrats hav having lag ing In urged him him to settle there In order ordel to lo force statehood Mr 1 11 Bryan found that his Interests financially would not justify jUsUf lila his removal from Nebraska it lt itis Iti is i said Kald How funny It would have been bean it If two to William J T Bryans should have turned up til the tho same year In the tho United States senate A POWER POW R OF OP FO DAYS There Is III an nn who makes mako Washington his home borne who used to bo ho boa ben hoa a n great power at conventions but bul who is III no longer longet In the swim Ho Hole Is VII Wil William limn liam ham Pitt Pill Kellogg of at Not only oni did ho lie io rulo rule absolutely for years tho the delegates from the Pelican state but he could swing awIng many man others In tho thu south to candidates he ho favored DELIVERY Y ROUTES nO rES The rurAl free delivery routes ore nto increasing so ao rapidly that Congress will have havo to appropriate n this tills session between and anti more mora for fOl the tile service than titan for the tho lust fiscal year It looks as ns If It the time total expend expenditures expendItures expenditures for or the service within 10 years will amount to not loss less than This Title is an amazing growth when ono one remembers that it was less than 15 IG years jears ago ngo that the first money was voted otell to make maIm tho the tho the test being In lu Maryland on n a short route The Tho first appropriation was only on and an It was nearly IS months before It was used up POPULARITY OF RURAL ROUTES It Is peculiar that one emma of or the moun mountain mountain tain tam districts distrIct In tho the southern states slates At utes has hajj loss less titan than halt half a dozen routes That Is IB tho the Eleventh district of Kentucky rep represented represented resented in Congress by Mr Edwards In the tho mountain district of Tennessee which Congressman Brownlow cornea comes from there thero arc are over aver rural routes and now ones ore are constantly being asked for fot The is also popular in the mountains of North Carolina and Wrest Virginia In the tho far for west vest thore there are ure few rural tree free delivery routes The old star routes are arc continued out that way on account of o the sparsely settled seWell counties WOULD AID SHIPPING INTEREST nEST As an offset to the snip shIp subsidy bills bill that have hao been bean introduced Introduce tills this session John Jolin Sharp Williams has hus Introduced a n ahill abIll hill bIll In the house to enable le certain ships bought al abroad rood to carry carl tho the American Hag and to bo he admitted to tc American registry The Democratic leader Insists that his proposition would benefit ma materially materially tho the shipping interests of ot tho the United States StateR He lie has persistently op opposed opPosed posed the tho subsidy measures measureR that have been boen fathered by Senator Frye ot of Maine AN ABSENTMINDED SENATOR Force Forc of ot habit causes Senator Pen Penrose Penrose rose rb e of ot Pennsylvania to tn do 10 anti and say sa some queer things Next to the senate committee zoom loom of or which he is III chairman there thele is a private room which the tho senator sena to shuts himself up In when he lie wants to attend to his Col Andrews his lila secretary has hams to stand guard to ward ertl oft off the dozens of ot people who try to see Penrose In lii the tho course of tho the day The rite other day An Au Andrews Andrews drews opened tho the door and looked out Then Titan lie turned to go to his own desk dealt Who Vho was there Andrews In Inquired inquired tho the senator Nobody senator replied Andrews Just tell him to wait walt said the th sell sen senator ator I cant possibly see BOO him now THE TIlE HAND OF FATE F IE Senator Torn Tom Plait Platt of or Now New York ac nc cording to what tho the politicians say will vIII not have hOe much If It any nn hand In it 11 picking out the time Empire 1 state tatO delegation delegation tion than next year to ti the tho Chicago conven Ho lIo will wm not bo be ono one of or tile tho hIlt big bi four Cour from Now York either How odd that will not to have Mr Platt at nt the convention things and find ordering the tho whole delegation to voto Just as an ho lie says In 1900 nt lit Philadel Philadelphia phil phia Theodore Roosevelt then govern governor or of f C Now ow York was ns one of at the dele dab delegates gates at large lo e Piatt wanted to get rid of ot him Roosevelt vowed that could not bo l done donI otla and that he would not be he side trucked tracked on the governorship to be lC made ma e the running math mat on the presidential ticket with Mr tr But Dut he did lid take the tho nomination and 1 if it ho ito had hud not accepted would not hove have been where ho he Is today HE WAS S TIlE THIS DELEGATION During tho the Philadelphia convention c of at 1900 1 Oil some come one asked a Now York man how votes there were in itt his ills delegation Just one was WIS the reply You Ira arc joking No I T am ant nut not Thomas C Platt is tIme the whole delegation His Ills word is law |
