Show 1 ROUNDUP OF r J r i I Much Grumbling When W Speaker Speake Orders Arrests to Make Quorum I NONE ONE LIKE BUCK KIL KILGORE GORE r Sad Sad- Event nt When hen nt Arni nt 4 44 4 Gathered In Members nt a n Baseball Game f Considerable Irritation was exhibited Q b by some sorno of the representatives cs who through Minority Leader Williams filibuster in tho the statehood matter were j arrested by the a assistant sergeants al arms and presented at the bar of the house houMe The resentful ones complained querulously q of or their arrest to the speaker Uncle Unee Joes Joe's eyes however did not become bedewed with sympathy 1 th thy over o their lamentations He Is old enough to vc that a aJ J legislator ought to tJ be willing to do 1 J. J I some somo work worl to for I his pay arid and prerogatives es He lIe didn't advise l' l the complaining ones to tell their troubles roubles to the captain of the Capitol watch but he brought his gavel avel down clown downright downright right In the middle of tho the sad ad stories of several These fellows haven't ha been here I 1 long JonI enough to remember Buck Duek gorc gore wa was Mr Ir Cannons Cannon's private comment com corn ment on the complaints of some ome of oC tho those e brought before beCore the bar of or the house Buck Duck not only didn't want to toMay stay May off orr the floor but he kicked ed his way way in Jn He referred to the ocea occasion lon ten or ora ora orn a n dozen years ago when Buck Duck KIJ Kilgore ore the Texas s representative o kicked to flinders the main door leading to the house floor noor At that time Speaker Reed Recd had In to operation his simple but great preat scheme of oC Just locking em In ht t. t to maintain a quorum Whenever a sufficient number of oC representatives cs to constitute a quorum filtered In In Czar Tom with a nod di directed dl- dl the doorkeepers to close c and lock the doors and the entreaties and pr prayers of members who wanted to get getoff getoff off the floor for tor any 11 purpose e whatsoever ever were alike unavailing una Mr reed need needed them there for voting yoUng purposes and t there ere the they Hta stayed cd T The rhe e main door of or the floor was thus loc locked cd an and antl 1 bolted one afternoon when the brawny Kilgore who'd been delayed delay delay- ed Jn fin arriving at the house swung along Buck Duck pushed at the door and found I It unyielding Hey what's coinIng coming off here KilI Kil- Kil I gore gorc demanded of or the doorkeeper on luty cant can't I In House get j G ITO Joum T Speakers pea cr s pot Jot a u quorum replied tho the doorkeeper Well femme lemme emme In and Ill I'll add acId to it ft Bald ald Buck Duck to the doorkeeper Cant open any an doors sir speak sir speak speakers speaker's ors or's orders said the tho r. r That so 7 said Mid Kilgore and he promptly kicked the swinging Ing leather covered wooden doors to kindling wood entering the house like a roaring roarIng roar- roar Ing ramping camping lion Hon Most speakers would have sought the punishment of or a a. representative e for Cor pulling off orr a n. trick like that That however was the last thing the big big- minded Reed Recd thought of oC The audacity of QC act appealed to Reeds Reed's ImA imagination and it was wan all right for forthe forthe forthe the Texan The Tho mo most t picturesque t the recent arrests was that in which one of the house pages brought Cy C to tf the bar of or the house When hen a call caB for Cor a quorum was made the chief page pasc delegated ono one of the tiniest of oC his youngsters to go o forth and ind bring Mr Cy lb is the most remarkable pl ph piece ce cc of oC verticAl vertical vertical verti verti- cal workmanship in the house of rep rep- knows mows how how- rc Nobody Just high C Cy Is but his elon s cant can't be much Inferior to that of oC the late Chang the Chinese giant The mite mile of ot a pa page e. e a bd something r over o three feet reet in stature prowled around t committee rooms quite a abit abit bit before he came upon the lau languid uld Cy Cr who ho with an un amiable breeze blowing blowIng blow- blow Ing Ins upon him from Crom the open windows looking on the terrace was cocked hack back In a chair with his l legs wrapped around each other two of or or three times and tho the feet resting on a table reading reading read cad cadIn In ing a newspaper paper Mr Ir the three-foot three page t solemnly squeaked youre oure under ar arrest arrest ar- ar rest rest and I am to conduct you OU to the bar of oC the tho house Tho The monolithic unraveled led It his legs grinned stretched his arms and rose rOlle to h his s vast ast height Lead tho the t a way ay mister said al he to tho the boy and the page e led him to the main door of the house Entering the door the boy hoy with a Milo Sense senna of or tho the dramatic grabbed hold of the thc up and down giants giant's hand to emphasize the f fact ct that he had captured captured captured cap cap- his man Thus Titus the three-foot three kid dd led tho the towering toweling Cy down the tho main aisle amid tho the laughter of the tho house Arrived at tho the clerks clerk's desk lesk the high Cy suddenly r reached ached down and the bo boy in his tits arms lifted him up and 01 deposited him squarely on the speakers speaker's speakers speaker's speak speak- ers er's dask dark saying to the tho amused Cannon Can Can- non norr I I 1 give gho you m my captor and the arrest was complete 1 The Tho mot most t irritating incident of the i arresting business wa was when some ome twenty two members of tho the lower loner C house hou o were wem Incontinently yanked away awny v t from the Washington ton baseball grounds right at the critical point in the game gam 1 I It was ryas a very df day and nd 1 the tho game g-ame was waR a fine ono one The f all of oC them most resolute fans were scandalously h Interested ted In tho the contest and never several 1 of or tji them m were wor j rooting rl right ht out loud They The hadn't I attended th tho game In a bo body but Vf were r scattered all nil over oVel the grandstand and andI andi i I In the boxes f i r Mr and l Jr Mrs Nicholas Longworth I ti were up above in the Presidents President's bil bare bae- e- e I P- P ball box they box they attended most of or the i. i u I g games mes while the Washington ton club eluh wa r r playing at home Mrs Longworth wan Wate keeping score and Jt It t in genuine genuIno enu- enu J Ino ine baseball reporters reporter's st style style style-a le a a couple of oC her baseball score cards were sold j s for a R. tidy y figure at a recent Masonic festival hero horo The Washington club had tho the StLouis RL St- L LLouis Louis outfit as opponents The he score I was wan 3 to 0 In favor of or tho the Nationals at the end of or tho the sixth Inning When Whon the seventh inning b b began an the St. St Lr Loui Loula b bunch nc Immediately filled the sacks rocks and Stone the JIU slugger was next n man In for the St. St Louis Luls team It W wo was a fine fino looking 2 situation and with all the rest tho representative leaned forward ea eagerly erh to see sec how the thing thins was goIng goIng go go- Ing to work out Then there thero was a D. sudden chugging of ot automobiles pullIng pull- pull pullInG Ing lag up In the space apace back of or the stand and the assistant at sergeants suddenly appeared Jn In n the stand am an and d picked out their men with unerring accuracy Well Weli let us see sec ee this Inning out pleaded the representatives representative Nope Hope OllO that couldn't b bo be done wild Bald the assistant sergeants at ser lants at Ca Call was Imperative Tho The arrested mom mom- hers must get into the throbbing atm aji and be conveyed to th the house Instantly The Irritated phrase dog doh log gone sone th the thc luck luck broke bloke out all nil over o the tho stand stani where the representatives were buit but bu it didn't help a bit hit The They were corralled cor cor- railed and that's all there was to It They got up and filed out The gram grandstand grand stand tand crowd el hail had got on to the situation situa- situa anti and Back Bach school lot for tion lion to you was the pleasantly derisive I e shout that tha greeted the representatives representatives' ears a athey as the they gloomily made their theil way a to the tin waiting automobiles One of the representatives arrested In hl his hotel room came perilously clo close e to committing a break hrcak when hi h he was summoned This representative er very much un un- dres rd dres d was ns stretched out on the In hl his room lal taking a n nap when the tho assistant sergeant-at-arms sergeant rapped on his door dool When lien Informed that he was under arrest and required Instantly at the bar of th the house the disturbed dl representative flent tI c fumed and stormed around but he knew that the summons was not jot to be denied and find he started to dress while the a assistant at sergeant arms anns waited for him in ht the hall haJJ out out- side There is every o rea reason on to suppose that the tile representative was greatly preoccupied with his wrath while he h was teas dressing In his cool darkened ened room for Cor when he finally yanked open the door dear and announced to the assistant assist assist- Rs assistant ant at arms that he was ready hl his captors captor's face faco expressed Sed the most acute a astonishment Come Com Comon on said the representative c starting starling to stride down the tho hotel halland hulland halland hall hull and not noticing noticing- his captors captor's expression expression sion slon of or countenance Got a n wagon waiting Come back Come Corne back sir sll gasped gasped gasped gasp gasp- ed the assistant sergeant at hats hat's that said Id the representative tive ive turning around Er Er dont don't dont you OU think sir 1311 that you'd roud make a better appearance on the floor of or the house If er you cr you had em om on 7 The representative e took a look at himself In the streaming lI light ht of the hall and then he made two bounds of It to regain his room In his haste and in the dimness of oC his room tho the representative had hacI neglected neglected neglected neg neg- to don so important an item Hem of uC his apparel as ns his trousers Old time lime of the capitol capital tell an incident of what lint befell an arrested member of oC the thc house houte who was ivas one of oC that body's most famous Camous characters man ninny many years A ago O. O This famous Camous character was D Bel Belford ford ICord of Colorado the thc Redheaded Rooster af or the Belford Delford a big hearted heart heart- ed though decidedly Illiterate man was ivas perhaps the most openly and persistently persistently per per- convivial Individual who tho whoever whoever ever occupied a scat seat in the house o of or representatives es Almost unbelievable stories of his prowess around tho the board are arc still current among amons th the fogies down clown home hlo and when the Redheaded Redheaded Redheaded Red Red- headed Rooster of or the RockieR felt relt In ht Ina Ina hta a convivial con moo mood he regarded the capitol as Just as good a place to In Indulge indulge In- In e his mood as any other One day while the horses were racing rac racing rac- rac ing InS at tho time old and boar Jong- gone Ivy City race track near a Washington there was big hiS business In the tho house tho the opposition demanding the presence of ofa ofa a i quorum Belford was known to be out jut at nt the JV Ivy CIt City track for tor he lie had been jeen full of a good thing thing- upon his arrival at the house that forenoon Speaker er Carlise sent an assistant ser at arms out to the Ivy City track rack In a carriage to nail Belford The scout found Belford swaying happily In ht a n box In Jn the stand Stan It WJ was just before the thc fifth race and was vas hilariously confident that his good food thing was going z-oln to como come home alone He had UiO 60 50 on the cinch at al 50 0 to 1 1 and was prepared to make the he root of his life liCe when the tho horses struck the stretch The scout told Belford that hed he'd have nave to get Into the carr carriage fa so rl right ht awa away iway Belford Delfor however was stub stub- born Dorn He was going to see that good thing of or his win house or no house The assistant arms sergeant cant nt finally cajoled the tho Redheaded headed Rooster out of jf his box In the stand telling him that he could watch the finish of oC the therace therace therace race from flom the lawn below bolow and then hustle Into tho the waiting carriage Belford BelFord Belford Bel- Bel Ford agreed to that and as ns the hor hol horses r were already lining up tho the scout was willing to permit mil the Colorado mem member bee ber to walt wait and see the finish of or the race Belford's horse hors shot hol out of or the bunch at the eighth pole and came cam home on eu the bit to tho the music of oC a series of clarion crow Ings 1 from Belford Belford Belford Bel- Bel ford that thal no roosters orl working In unison could ever e have o equalled Bedford was willing to jump into the tho carriage then for he know Inow the bookmaker with whom he hc had made tho the winning bet anti and ho told the tho scout that hed he'd get the coin In town that thal evening Belford elford let out a huge triumphant ow yec-ow and wow wow-ec every every minute or so during tho the carriages carriage's rapid progress progress pro pro- gress gress Int into the elt city and w when en he reached the capitol he wa was naming flaming with victory and things After reporting re- re porting at the bat bar ar of the house home he leaped Into the house restaurant and yelled Wine Baskets ets of oC III ill Evel Everybody line up Those days clays were wele different from front these Everybody lined up representatives represent represent- representatives Jo es and all Belford I kept them theta lined up for hours celebrating ing the triumph of ot his good thing Allor All of or the wine was cleaned out and more moro had to be hurriedly sent ont for tor Belford's Bel- Bel Belford's fords ford's expenditures for the wino Hemon Item Hem on the strength of his win twin had hod Just footed up a ti mutter of oC when an of or tho the house who had been out at the races racca remaining till the finish finish fin fin- ish of the card strolled In and Informed in informed In In- formed the Redheaded Rooster of or tho that his good thing had been th the disqualified for Interfering Interfering- on backs backstretch and antI had been heen placed last Most of those who were present on ot that occasion are now old men lien men bu but the they say ly that for tor utter prolonged force clutch invert invert- Inventiveness Inventiveness and sheer shrivelling originality originality origin origin- allty tho they never expect to hear tho the ob observations of or Delford of aa as mu made e upon that occasion duplicated Washington Correspondence of or New NewYork NewYork cw York Sun I |