| Show congressmen learning that president is in earnest means all he said in message sen nelson gling with a steamship bill A bureau that has out grown itself good stories by sen scott washington may 23 special there Is no discount upon the open frankness of the president on all occasions one may hear complaints or abruptness and bis decisive manner autino butino one ever found any fault with his candor especially about legislation does be talk with a frank earnest idesa which surprises some who are not well acquainted with him they arc also surprised that he meant every thing he said regarding legislation in ibis annual message the wants congress before it adjourns to pass bills tor cuban reciprocity an isthmian canal foe irrigation of arid lands for a delegate from alaska tor pensioning the indian war veterans nd some others of leas importance ue tells those who call on him that he favors these measures occasionally some one goes to the white house who opposes one or more ot these measures to see it the president has changed his mind and finds that he has not he makes no concealment of hla earnest desire to see all these measures acted upon before adjournment difficulty with his bill senator nelson of minnesota has been working for months on a bill to compel companies to change their methods in relation to london dock charges he got the bill reported bui there it remains and i likely to remain for some time ae the opposition to it is very strong possibly he could get the bill through if ho could get time enough to have it discussed but with so many other matters pressing for time he finds it difficult to get the bill before the senate but nelson Is nn indefatigable worker and he never lets go of anything as long as there Is any possible show of success must enlarge an office it the country is to realize anny immediate good of the many public buildings that have been and arc to be authorized zed the supervising architects of lice in the treasury department will have to be greatly enlarged for a n utne crot years it baa been entirely inadequate to meet the demands or it haa outgrown the original plans upon which it was created As a matter of fact the architects office has become a great bureau of the government it needs a separate cace with enlarged facilities more architects and a force adequate to keep up with tho growth of the country and to provide tho plans and construction of the many new buildings senator scott reminiscent on may 7 senator scott of west virginia eat with a group of friends and grew reminiscent he said it was forty ago today that I 1 first entered what Is now the city of denver at that time its principal inhabitants were prairie dogs and coyotes I 1 remember that the day we truck the place an old man was hang beij together with his eon and eon in law for having stolen 42 the total cash that I 1 possessed at that time was with a suit of clothes that was very nearly worn out and a hat without a crown three or four of us pooled our issues lumping all the money wo had and went on to what Is now central city with au ox team I 1 recall this incident merely to show that when I 1 get into a pinch now I 1 can travel with little baggage in those days of the wild west it a man changed his clothes or took a bath oftener than once in three months lie was called a tenderfoot of course they have improved since then but ex wardrobes were not the feature of any mans kit A close call senator scott related an incident of those times which showed how nearly be never being senator from west virginia we had been having biome trouble with the indians bald lie but we believed that we had them pretty well subdued nud thought they understood it would be dangerous to attack the white men it was necessary however to prevent the cattle from running off or straying that boac man should stay with them over night there was one old ox that WM a alne wheeler and when it was my tarn to stay with the herd I 1 always kept pretty close to liliu when he got through feeding nt night he would he down aln his back to the wind and I 1 knew that none of the herd would go away and that I 1 could eo to sleep po I 1 would cuddle up makings pillow of his shoulder and allep there until morning when he waa ready to get up again one night about 3 a party of swept down ton us stampeded the cattle and took me prisoner I 1 had 0 revolver but did not have time to use it and could not have ufa ed it anyway against redskins red skins they took me off into the woods and tied me with my back to a tree my arms pulled around the tree and my feet drawn bock as far na they would go it was a mighty uncomfortable position and I 1 remained in it about twelve hours oe fore I 1 was found by our people who were trailing up the indians wall remarked one senator who waa Usten lne wo came pretty near having somebody Bome body else in the senate from west virginia that what remarked senator scotti 1 tell you it was a pretty bertous time for old scotty 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