| Show congressional AMENITIES no congressional figure ot of recent years yeara attracted more attention or received more general esteem in congress itself and popularity from the ibe people outside than ihan the late leopold morse member from during several terms A rank and a democrat a clothing clothine merchant and a german jew he succeeded in being elected and elected reelected re time and again from a staunch republican district in boston despite all efforts to defeat and even gerrymander him out of e since his death which occurred only a few days ago the papers have been filled with incidents from his career mho shoeing ving his bis shrewdness shrewd nesa originality and gene ral levelheaded level headedness headed erss in practical statesmanship mana bip in only one instance that has come to public notice was the wily bavarian bested and that was when major mckinley McK ialey during the tariff debate in ID the rouse house deliberately laid a trap for him the great champion of protection had secretly obtained from morses own store a 10 suit of clothes marked all wool and packed them away in his desk he then enticed mr morse into a discus slon sion and led him to say may that under the tariff an all wool suit could not be made and sold for anything like 10 thereupon major mckinley fished out the garments and told where they came from much merriment ensued and for the remainder of the session the merchant could be as readily infuriated furia ted at the words woolen clothes as a turkey gobbler at a bit of red rag |
