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Show McCoy's Humor Enlivens " Debates of the House f f THERE SEEMS TOj - iS. Z 1 6E A GREAT MANY- REPRESENTATIVE M'COY of New Jersey, one of the most- serious-, faced men in congress, has the most surprising way of enlivening the debates de-bates of the house with humorous suggestions. No one is safe in speech or a motion when McCoy is on the floor looking solemn. Recently, during a discussion of a project to erect one-hundred-thousand-dollar memorials in Washington, D. C, to Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Alexan-der Hamilton, Representative Cooper of Wisconsin wanted to know what had become of a fund raised by the 6ale of Thomas Jefferson's works, and which had been advertised as a fund with which to erect a statue to the great founder of thie Democracy. The house- feir into a general clatter of talk over these books and it developed develop-ed that-nearly a,ir the Democrats had bought them, while from such good old Republicans as Uncle Joe came suggestions that "the gentlemen on the other side are easy marks."' Whereupon Representative McCoy, as serious as he was the day he undertook under-took to probe the expenditures in the postoffice' department, . arose and addressed ad-dressed Champ Clark: "Mr. Speaker," he- said, "as there seem to; be so many -suckers in the house, I move that the bill be referred to the committee on merchant marine and fisheries." And, Speaker Clark, without a smile, put the question, and the house voted "Aye" with a roar. This Is only one instance of a great many exhibitions of the New Jersey representative's dry humor. He is always al-ways so extremely serious that his humor has every appearance of being unconscious. This of course adds to its effectiveness. |
