Show DAYS DAIS S AT W AS SEEN BY FAMOUS AUTHOR 0 4 4 4 4 H 4 4 40 0 O 1 I 4 If f BY Y ALFRED HENRY LEWISh LEWIS 4 h Washington ton Jan Inn 27 Yester 27 Yester- Yester f 4 ff I 4 f- f day Mr l Raincy spoke e invidiously f ff f of Senator Lodges Lodge's connection with tho the purchase of ot a couple of or ships for lor work on the canal 4 f Mr lIr Weeks s this tills afternoon came caine cameto ff f- f f to the rescue of Mf Mi It Lod Lodge e f It was quite superfluous the f ff f Weeks Weeks' s' s defense The world will f 4 think many things thinS's of ot Mr 1 Lodge f but will never think him dis- dis t 4 tf 4 f honest Also In senses political t- t and pcr ls Q J m rd h h re tJ lj le e att 1 JIo L h. h 1 r t t- t t tH U UIt It appears k th that t Mr h the U thelam thelam lam digging st statesman t lUn horn from Far Rockaway is not to occupy that niche In n history into which b by virtue of or his recent attack upon 11 on President rit Roo- Roo velt he fondly imagined he had bucked The Tho special committee appointed 10 xo Q that purpose has report reported d In in favor so o far tar as that niche is concerned of r f kicking Mr Willett out TUf Mr lt Willett's Willetts pointless Jumble of bad bul English called c. by courtesy a speech ls jech Is to tobe tobe be be- expunged from the Ho House se record Which shows the House what ever us ma may say or think Is not aWS ether wanting In certain and sparks sparl s of ot self respect r Those hose b behl behind d th the committee scenes confess that the WIllett speech was held to toe be e as objectionable for It Us Its rust phrase-rust and fustian rhetoric against the White House Louis Lewis ns a n Prophet Some days ago ngo In reply to a citizen concerned over the question I I said that the fever raging among congressmen congress men to raise the salaries of or President I vice Ice president and speaker r to variously variously vari van and OOOO a year to say nothing of or gratuitous automobiles had its solo enthusiastic source In lii nothing better beUer than a congressional eagerness to raise the stipends or of the con congressmen themselves Our floor statesmen wanted to elevate ele ele- dc- dc vate vale their own wages and tried the experiment of or raising those others first to see what a salary paying tax eating public would think and say and lo io about it Evidently what the tile public thought and und said and did roas our salary holsters since in cloakroom cloak cloak- room corridor and lobby lo tho the word goes leaping from JIp to lo Un lIn that every House and Senate man should himself have at least a year ear and some of ot the more patriotically earnest put It as ns high even as The They say saya a congressman cannot live on less C r I dl with them There here are m men n h here re as ns good or better bette- than the boat best who over with his the tile halls of ot Senate or House who are living on 2500 a year car Still I realized my limitations it was within th the rim of or tho possible that I was wrong Whereby I drew to my side In counsel a congressman who had passed years In the congressional congressional harness and a ked him what he thought himself His reply was full and I am im m inclined to to ghe Jt as M a Jt it was gIven Iven to mc me Fair Fall play piny is a Jewel and nd It should be no more than more than justIce to tet et forth b by what winding stair of or argument nrc our climbed to those elevated salary alary view St Senatorial rial Vi Vie Going to substance to-substance rather to words my advocate of high salaries for con con- S Let us eon consider the case of ot the Senate The salary stor story of ot one ono is but the salary story of ot the oth other r Because no man can afford afford atford af at- ford to be a Senator upon tho the pittance received I favor favol putting up the tho salary figures to an annual lh There re be bo folks who despise money and have souls above its sordid consIders consIders- tion Such indeed Is the Senate case nine times In every ten To 10 be sure SUI that tenth Senator individual is in Congress for lor the same samo purpose th the buffalo hunter was In the Panhandle and considers office as ns tho the others did alid the buffalo bufalo only from a hide and hide and tallow point of view Recurring to the tile latter bor tort Q of publicist what I Ii call c b th cy nl not eom- eom In r I i ny- ny l p why the tho country country tI t tb it that the they are arc amply provided with p pounds shillings and pennies t that at In their tl m money ney Incense the tle public Interest be not sacrificed anti and thoy themselves led hopelessly and nd criminally astray No the Ole statesman temperament Is not commercial track Rack the best of Senators and you vou find that from his cradle days ev everybody r body made merry of ot him There Is the California case caso of Senator Perkins Mr t Perkins was Wo born in Maine where everybody becomes be he- comes a sailor Bailor or a politician as H h. be best t method of escaping from rom the tile state tate Mr Ir Perkins became b c me a sailor and eventually found himself ashore In California There he hc abode no one une could have driven him aboard ship again with a gun sun Clever Mr lr Murphy Mr Ir Perkins took up his residence In Thompsons Thompson's flat fiat There he made the acquaintance of ot that Mr Murphy who achieved sequent sul fame and as ns an actor In a horse shoeing drama called Tile The Kerry Kerr Gow At the the- Thompson flat time Ume when Mr Perkins Perkins Per Per- kins met him Mr r. r Murphy was 1 it cook cool and tossed on high the blithe at the Belle Union hotel There came a day hard har upon the heels of the advent of or Mr r Perkins when the patriots of Thompson erected a flagpole Being dimmed d of ot drink at the tha time they set up the pole without first reefing reelIng in the Perceiving which tho the patriots of Thompsons Thompson's sought to repair the oversight oversight over over- sight by offering Mr Ur Murphy 50 if he would turn from his flapjacks for 11 forthe forthe the nonce and amI In the tha name of ot hul yards yards' climb the he staff Mr Mi r Murphy a shrewd soul and well aware of or the law low of or agency In nil all its Ins and outs accepted Th Then n ta taking taKing taK- taK ing Mr r. Perkins aside he gave ave three dollars to shin aloft In Iii his stead Mr Murphy made forty dollars dol dol- mrs lars off orf Mr Perkins who had and has the tn eman temperament To be i sure sur Mr Perkins has since made mu- mu Mons for himself but the On fla proposition was maintained throughout and for or every million ne tie made for himself ho he made tour four for fOT I others |