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Show 1 ; A Congressional Irritant. "In the congressional pharmacopeia." writes Francis E. Leupp, ''some men may be likened to tonics, some to stimulants, some to healing lotions, some to powerful opiates. Congressman Robert Baker, Democratic member from Brooklyn, is a mustard plaster, which makes the patient uncomfortable uncom-fortable and starts the circulation, though it occa sionally slips and blisters the wrong spot." It is this same Baker who has made, himself better known in the past congressional session than any other of the new members. He has the largest (celf -written) .biographical sketch in the Congressional Congres-sional Dictionary; no other member of equally short service has to his credit s6 many speeches in the Record. In six months he has done scores of startling and unexpected things. .The Republicans Republic-ans say "he is a fresh young man." The Democrats Demo-crats call his unresting activity "excess of zeal." He is noted for his fierce interruptions of Republican Repub-lican members. One moment he is in his cat listening listen-ing as placidly as any of his colleagues to some speaker on the other side of the aisle; the next he is on his feet, his eyes snapping, his Monde hair bristling, his long minatory forefinger upraised and shaking with righteous wrath. He is a single-taxer, ! and to attack this or any other tenet of his personal faith arouses Baker as would an attack on his personal honor. Here is a young man who may yet be heard from. |
