| Show alk ROUND 0 THE H E CAPITAL T information and d gossip alp ah picked up p here ifer and there rh r I 1 in washington vv I 1 a dt filipinos are the new pets of congress C ASHINGTON all records of in W washington terest in congressional I 1 id members are being broken by the at the brown kids from the philippines are receiving in congress they are the distinct attractions not only of the galleries but odthe of the mem ber and senators themselves capt richmond pearson hobson of fame and nicholas long worth are has beens that no longer receive the notice of up to date capitol guides avery one in washington ap pears as proud of these two resident commiss liners dealto legarda and pablo ocampo de leon uon the philippine islands have sent to washington young america Is of hes redtop sor W bourke cockran of his latest forensic effort they ire the real congressional oddity for they can speak in either the senate or house of course the senate has been kind enough to grant these filipinos the same courtesies as the house but the commissioners feel snore more at home in the informality of the lower body than among the dignified members of the enate with its two new members congress has been economical each will re belve the regular salary of 0 7 but the 20 cents a mile travel gift Is not tor for them twp thouane thou ani dollars apiece for each ro ind trip Is their travel allowance neither the house nor the senate was particularly prepared for them although the authority lor for the belse 1 tion of the commissioners wai giva in the philippines organic act beveral several years ago it remained for or the first as hembly last fall to make their choice possible then the commissioners slipped across the pacific and pre dented themselves at the capital congress had not been thinking much about their coining or their go ing until they wanted to know what rights resident commissioners had in congress when they left home one felt that the united states would let them stay in washington only under bur surveillance veil lance while the other went so far as to belleve believe that they would have the right to vote in the house run down the corridor and vote agn the same measure in the senate the powers that be finally decided that they should be given seats at both ends ot of the capitol and the leges of the floor but not of voting president lured into the muldoon test HE regular army is revenged last T THE fall its officers had tu take a 15 mile ride in the roosevelt horseman ship test gen J franklin bell chief of the general staff the other day beguiled the president to william muldoon s 15 mile test on toot foot both the president and gen bell were guests after their bike hike at a dinner given by postmaster general meyer gen bell dell was as fit as could be the president still was fit tor for dinner but dut he admitted he had lost all his appetite for muldoon tests the pre president ident exhibited great curl dosity as to the muldoon system of fit ting tat fat statesmen tor for the IN washington dinner season since secretary root and gen bell have successively taken the course at white plains secretary root to be sure Is not fat he was uttering fram too much monroe doctrine and a nervous aaita tion over the open door in china when he surrendered himself to the hands of the professor but gen bell dell Is tat fat or was until te le returned from white plains the pre silent ent did not pay much heed to mr air ro t s account of his strenuous days at M ilsoon a because mr root Is not athletic he even avoids golf but when thi tbt crack horsemen of the united states cavalry returned to confirm mr root roots s story president poosevelt suggested skeptically that he would like to try this stiff athletic proposition of muldoon s accordingly gen bell commanded the expedition which set sel out across the country the horsemanship test set for army officers is five miles at a m walk alk five miles at a trot and five earpe m miles 11 r at a gallop the muldoon test ly on foot is eight miles ai at a walk and seven on a trot i the going was heavy tor for the er NN was as bad gen bell went over the course easily president roosevelt went over the course but not easily the q as to what president dent roosevelt is to do after march 4 1909 has been partly answered as a result of this trial under the direction of gen bell before he hunts tigers in india or lions in the african jungle or occupies a house in london the president will undoubtedly go to muldoon s until he can walk eight miles and then run seven on top of that he has no intention of giving up on a simple little thing like this but until he baa has muldoon himself to teach him how the president will avoid fol lowing the treatment with gen bell of 01 course it would have been ordination or worse tor for gen bell dell to have stiffened the muldoon trot tor far the benefit of his super superior for ciff officer icer con no one his dired to suggest that he did but the hoy boy subalterns at the army and navy avy club are all in a broad grin fat officers who bounced about in the saddle for the 15 required miles last fall are wearing a grin that is broader still dr wiley Is testing bleached flour ICE white bread Is not so nice maybe as bread that Is not white and then maybe again it Is anyway this is a question which uncle sam has set about answering bread baking therefore is the or der of the day an oven has been set up in t corner of the chemical lab oratory and when dr wiley Is not busy feeding soft drinks to his poison squad he as attending to the making and baking of bread it Is all to determine the effect of bleached flour Is bie bleached ached flour just as good as flour which Is not 7 9 that Is what the pure food department wants to find ori and the only way to find out Is to try so bread la Is baked with the bleached flour the bread Is then tha th a put under the microscope weighed dissected touched with litmus paper subjected to acids cut with a knife colfe torn with the fingers hashed with celluloid pressed made into putty burned in a retort dissolved in a test tube ere mated tossed in a blanket and fed 4 the poison squad at least most of these things are don to it then figures are put hut down town in a tabular form on sheets ot of paper piper members of the poison squad are dlag nosed and in the end there la Is a re port made which dr villey will ex plain to the house committee on ag ri culture when asking for a renewal of the the report has not been finished yet butchen but athen it Is dr wiley promises to warn the public as to what colored bread to eat presidents son plays part of clown J 0 0 U r 1 and mrs roosevelt and P PRESIDENT miss ethel roosevelt attended the circus given the other night by the boys of Y M C A in their gyana slum to raise funds tor for completing their running track quentin roosevelt made his first appearance as a clown in a turn that was carried on the program as prof Quenta ene and his educated elephant bolivar the elephant was worked by two other boys and had on its saddlecloth the emblem O 0 0 O P quentin drove the elephant around the ring keeping up a running comment on the qualities of the animal then another clown came along and found fault with the elephant because it was too thin what do you feed him on ona he asked quentin dates young roosevelt replied what kind of dates candi dates said the president presidents s son this brought great applause in which AT mr r roosevelt joined heartily the presidential party came in just before the elephant act and were given a rousing reception the boys band played the star spangled banner and the audience arose and yelled itself hoarse later on the program quentin took part in a turn in which larger clowns beat hinr hime with bladders and slapsticks and almost made a football of him one of the hits of the show was the refusal of a big polar bear to answer answer W to the repeated call of teddy and v his thepdore theodore dignified 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