Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-05

for rederal control OF elections. Iheard
another Massachusetts, statesman say Of
Lodge a few days ago: "Thcrc goes the
luckiest man in America. He could fall
in the creek and not get wet, or 60
through fire and not be burned. He in
herited o good family name; a name that
has always given him certain prestige.
lie was heir to large fortune, estimated
ut two millions Of dollars His income
Is said to be $90, 900 year, and steadily
increasing. He keeps up three domestic
establishments; one In Washington, one
In Boston and one inthe country. lie Is
happily married.
'lie inherited, besides good name and
large fortune, an iron constitution and
nm athletic frame. He has that for which
Bill Scott said the other day he'd give q
million dollars--a good stomach. He has
inherited, moreover, good head, ge-
MUS for literature and politics, and the
faculty Of making friends Is he not .
lucky dogT
We have had several "obituary days"
IN congress recently. The obituary day
Is well established congressional insti-
tuition. Friends Of the several deceased
members confer together and fix upon
day for delivery OF the orations. A reso-
luton is introduced setting apart an
afternoon, or part Of an afternoon,
for this purpose. Usually n Satur-
day IL taken, for that il the day on
which members like to visit the depart
ments on errands for their constituents.
Obituary days never interfere with de-
partment work. On the day when the
funeral addresses for the late William
d. Kelley were delivered went into the
house gallery and counted the number
of members in their seats. There were
seventeen of them.
Surprised at the large attendance, I
made some inquiries and found that the
sixteen gentlemen who were listening
with as much patience as possible TO the
seventeenth were all orators Of the day.
Thus the attendance was accounted 70.
tho orators were listening to each
other. An hour later only eight men
were in the hall, the remaining nine hav-
ing spoken their pieces and disappeared.
did not wait another hour TO see IL the
unfortunate last speaker was left abso-
lutely alone with the pages, the empty
seats and the nearly empty galleries.
Senator Jones, Of Nevada, Is one of the
brightest men In congress. Every day
OF his life. probably, he tells more good
stories, says more good things than any
other man in the Capitol. But he never
makes speech. ''lf had son who
was possessed Of an ambition to become
an orator." says Senator Jones, 'Id be
tempted to disown him. These long
winded orators OF the senate make me
very weary. After they have uttered
dozen sentences one usually discovers
that they don't know what they are talk
ing about, and tho longer they talk the
more certain are you OF their ignorance.
"The man who understands things
doesn't make speeches. 1t is the man
who doesn't understand n question that
feels called upon to talk about IL two or
three hours. The man who has reached
down and explored the inside of ques-
tion always finds that it has many sides
and phases, that few things are abso-
lutely certain, and that men may look Mt
tho matter differently and yet all be
right. This sort Of man doesn't want
to make a speech. He knows too much.
never make speeches"
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, never
makes speeches, either. Whether or not
his reasons are the same as those OF his
ingenious colleague, am not informed;
but heard Stewart make speech one
day last week which set the senate into
most undignified snicker. A call OF
the senate had been ordered, aud as the
roll was called off by the clerk Mr.. Stew
art sat doing in his chair. When his
name was sung out he started up and
exclaimed, "Pass"
WALTER WELLMAN