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Show I Vs I piN BFORE Charles Y. PairbanUs was ' r) elected vice-president of the United R--iVS? States ho held a seat as senator, rep- rjrvj 'Y; Vrj resenting the state of Indiana. When I - :l 'l he became vice-president, Mr. Fair-3:iJ2f Fair-3:iJ2f banks' utterances necessarily were limited to such expressions as 'ealeu-fjyATi:. 'ealeu-fjyATi:. dr," repeated sixty times a day, and lmj-i "Does the senator from South Caro-W Caro-W & 'A'-' lina yield to the senator from Wis-hlXWi Wis-hlXWi A.: ' consin? V Wlien he was senator Mr. Fair- fiW'V' banks spoke more than semi-occasion-& ally and had the same trials in at tempting to get the floor that beset all the other senators. From one of Senator Fairbanks' experiences experi-ences it was thought that when he became vice-president, vice-president, and as a necessary consequence the pre- Senator Fairbanks found another occasion to make fl Jlifi!',. J i isthmian address. Until the hour came for its J jf V j, 'VS I livery he had an eye e'ngle for Senator Morgan. Utf-- , l --':'"T I le Alabaman, however, for once in his life when I JT" - sJJ if 5 pet subject was up for discussion was content to r, .Jq ..fe'MeJ. i'; fl still and say nothing. In the press galleries it --J "A j-l$&.'t- Vj is whispered that Mr. Morgan wasn't feeling very ai.C'. "( 'f'A In the particular case of the Panama matter Sena- OJA&LE-') W. FA?BAJYMS ZZZ i i I. 1 c-r ' i ' - i his - Tl i , t o hi! t 4 ' t ' " , 1 sit Senator Fairbanks found another occasion to make his isthmian address. Un til the hour came for its delivery he had an eye engle for Senator Morgan. The Alabaman, however, for once In his life when his pet subject was up for discussion was content to sit still and say nothing. In the press galleries it was whispered that Mr. Morgan wasn't feeling very well that day. In the particular case of the Panama matter Sena- Eiding officer of the senate he might from sheer sympathy try to deliver some of those whose deliberations he guards fiom the fate which once befell him. j One of the speeches of length which Mr. Fairbanks Fair-banks made as a senator was on the question of Panama. The speech was delivered not long after the recognition of the independence of the republic of Panama by the United States and at a time when party feeling ran high. It was a long speech and the senator gained much of the fruit of glory, though he had to wait a long time for it to ripen, and this was the way of it: Senator Cullom had charge of the Panama matter on' the floor of the senate. The"1:ndiana senator went to Mr. Cullom and expressed his wish to speak at a certain hour. Senator Cullom Cul-lom said "All right," and apparently the thing was fixed. The senate's business session was over and the hands of the clock showed a quarter to one. Senator Fairbanks buttoned his coat and started to rise from his seat. Mr. Fairbanks is a long man and the process of his rising is likewise long. He was up finally, however, only to find the aged Morgan was claiming President Pro Tern Frye's attention. A look of something like despair came Into the Indiana senator's face, for when Morgan of Alabama got started on a speech neither gods nor men knew when he would come to the end. Senator Morgan, however, drove away the look of despair from Senator Fairbanks' face by saying: say-ing: "I wish to make a few remarks only." Mr. Fairbanks sank backin his seat and Mr. Morgan with only two pages of notes on his desk began to talk. He kept at it for twenty minutes, came to what the senator thought was his climax and then apparently started to resume his seat. The Indiana senator had straightened up again and half opened his mouth to begin, but the southern senator had straightened up again and had on his desk two new pages of notes, which he had drawn from a shelf underneath. The Indianan sat down once more and the Mabaman went on with his renewed determination. determina-tion. He spoke until half past one, came to -another seeming climax and then made a movement which made every one think he was going to sit down, and this movement was a signal for the Hoosier senator to rise again, nut Mr. Morgan had two fresh pages of notes and at it he . started anew. Mr. Fairbankssighed and sat. The other senators who had been held to their seats by the belief that Mr. Fairbanks was to speak looked at the aged but tireless Alabaman and one after another left for 'the senate restaurant restau-rant for the luncheon hour was full come. Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Morgan and Frye were left alone on the floor of the senate, but the galleries had a goodly throng, waiting to hear from the middle west on the matter of Panama. Senator Morgan talked in twenty-minute relays with two pages of notes for each twenty minutes min-utes and talked until the fifth hour. Then Senator Sena-tor Fairbanks, who until that time had held the fort, saw the people departing and the minute of Hdjournment nigh.- He walked over to Senator Morgan, held out his hand, and with the grace tor which he is famous he congratulated his louthern colleague on the strength of his speech, if not on its length and then walked out and had mocheon and dinner at one sittiag. I Among the measures which the New Hampshire man has advocated in congress for the bettering of things on earth are measures intended to se-. cure proper care for the insane, to prevent the-docking the-docking of horses' tails, to prevent cruelty to all animals, to provide for delinquent and dependent children, to train women nurses for the navy and to condemn unsanitary buildings. Mr. Gal-linger Gal-linger is a strong man with a soft heart. Itwas said more than once that Senator Mathew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania had a few drops of the Indians in his veins. If so, his blood told in one instance at any rate, for when Mr. Quaj7 was ill almost unto death he reused himself from his body weariness and made a speech in behalf of the Delaware Indians which with its eloquence held the senate and the galleries gal-leries chained for a too brief quarter of an hour. No one knew that "Keystone Quay" could be so eloquent. In less than two months after the delivery of the speech he was dead, but before he died knowledge came to him that his eloquence had brought accomplishment, and that the Dele-ware Dele-ware Indians in whom he was interested had received from congress a sum of money which had been due them for years, but which they had made vain attempts to secure up to the time that a sick man's plea succeeded in righting a wrong. There is some fun in the senate on occasion. Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota once said "Damn" openly. It slipped out before he was aware of it, and no sooner had it put in an appearance ap-pearance than the Minnesota senator put and passed a resolution of censure of himself by bimself. This little matter of a mild swear word from the lips of Mr. Nelson received a good deal of comment at the time that the word plumped out of his mouth, but almost simultaneously with its utterance there was t colloquy between Sena-1 Sena-1 tors Daniel of Virginia and (Tallinger of New Hampshire, which was a trifle more shocking, senatorially speaking, tnan several damns. Senator Gallinger, the moral mainstay of the senate, was trying to get his colleagues to a?e to change the name of "adison street In Washington Wash-ington to Church street. A part of Madison street was known as Sarrsnn street. Senator Daniel did not like the Idea of dropping the Virginia president's name even for the pious name of "Church," so he objected. He ESK'd his New Hampshire brother about the matter and learned that there was six other Madison streets in Washington, and finding from this thai Virginia pride might be appeased In the nor.ienr lature matter. Daniel asked why the whole street couldn't be called Samson. "I don't know that I ought to tell the reason publicly," said Gallinger, "but Samson, for whom the street was named, was a fine man and a part of Samson street now lias on It many low' resorts." "I take it," said Senator Daniel quickly, "that my colleague has this information at first hand." The Virginia senator only meant the thing as a gentle jest, but Jacob Gallinger, who is a very rock in the steadfastness of his morality, was rather upset. The senate changed the name or the street so quickly that the proceedings fairly outran the hands of the stenographers, the inci iect was closed and Gallinger's blush fled. tor Cullom, being the chairman on the committee on foreign relations, had charge of the legislation legisla-tion on the floor of the senate. The trials of Senator Cullom on that occasion were the trials of the pilot on every measure of magnitude that is launched for a passage through either house or senate. Nearly every senator and representative wishes to make a speech on the big things that are1 before congress. Of course all of them cannot speak, but the trials of the man in charge begin when the members ask that their speaking may be postponed for a day or two. The intending speakers have their frailty of vanity. They want to speak when the galleries are not crowded, and if the galleries are not crowded they ask that they may speak on another day. When the Panama matter was up Senator Cullom Cul-lom finally became angry and tired with the senators sena-tors who asked that yet another day be set for the making of their speeches. The Illinois senator did not wish Senator Morgan to have all-the time to himself, and Morgan could be counted on to take every minute that was dropped to him to talk about the glories of the Nicaraguan route for a canal, about the imbecility of using the Panama route and about the Republican sin of the recognition of the republic on the isthmus. The Panama matter is only an instance in point. Many a speech on the railroad rate bill was put off because the attendance was not what it should have been from the viewpoint of the man who was to speak. Congressmen have., their human weaknesses. The last great duty which Senator Piatt of Connecticut performed for his country was his work as presiding officer of the senate court during dur-ing the trial of Judge Charles Swayne. Unquestionably Unques-tionably the strain of that trial shortened Senator Piatt's life. He presided with dignity and with the rarest- impartiality. The hours of the court's session were long, and yet the aged Connecticut senator refused to leave his seat even for the ' getting of necessary food until the session of each day was ended. Prior to the opening of the trial Senator Piatt stood in the vice-president's place and told his colleagues that it was their duty not to lose a word of the testimony lest they bring In an un just verdict. The result of this was that with one or two exceptions the senators sat in t'.ieir seats and heard Important and unimportant testimony, testi-mony, listening to every argument, of counsel, and lest anything should escape them they made insistent demand that every witness should speak so that all men in the chamber might hear. It is probable that before one-quarter of the trial proceedings of the case against Charles Swayne was ended every senator had made up his mind as to the guilt or the innocence of the accused, but the beMe." ot guilt or innocence formed early did not prevent the attendance of any member of that high court during the entire time of the trial. Judge Swayne was acquitted. His acquittal was not made a party matter, as many feared it was to be. On some of the counts against him he was acquitted unanimously. On others where there was a minority which believed him guilty both Democrats and Republicans formed a part of that minority. Senator Jacob H. Gallinger is known in congress con-gress as the chief of the hunenitarians md as the father of many reforms. |
