Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-03

second change his manner nor his word
from that even and polite tenor which
is his nature. What is more, never
knew him TO make mistake. He is
indeed one Of the notable men OF our
times"
There is no more popular man in the
House OF Representatives than Mr.. Nc
Millin, OF Tennessee, who was thought
by many at one moment TO be almost
sure Of receiving the speakership nomi-
nation as dark horse. The day on
which Speaker Crisp announced his COM
mittees Mr.. McMillln was taking lunch
con with new member who had not
been given very high place on the
committees, and who was In conse-
Quence much discouraged. Before you
conclude that you have been cruelty
treated" said Mr.. McMillin, ''let me tell
you my experience. When / first came
to Congress my committee place was
worse than yours. 1t gave me no op-
portunity whatever. / sat up nights
trying to evolve some scheme by which
| could distinguish myself in the role
which'the speaker had assigned me, but
/ couldn't do IT. 1 was reelected, and
when came back TO the house l natu-
rally expected to be promoted. But
wasn't. II anything, my second CON-
mittee assignment was more discourag-
ing than smy first one. Finally Phil
Thompson, of Kentucky he and
| were in the same boat as to
committees-held a council of war.
Phil sain l, L am dying of dry
rot. l must do something or perish
Not for fifty years has any man repre-
sented my district more than two terms,
and unless l can stir something up III
not get back here. What can we do:
Nothing but raise hades, Mac, replied
Thompson. Very we!i,' said 1, let:
go in and raise hades. That will be
preferable to sitting around doing moth
ing.' So we made it up between us that
whenever we saw chance 10 Jump on
some fellows little public building or
other local bill or anything else thai
looked as If 1t might be extravagant oil
foolish, we would sail in regardless OF
curses and kicks and have some fun
We enjoyed ourselves in this way for a
time, and finally we found q great op
portunity. A log rolling scheme was
devised by which 10 members who
wanted public buildings in their dis
tricts agreed to stand together and helE
pass each others bills. 1t was strong
combination, and seemed invincible
Carlisle told Thompson and me that we
couldn't beat ii. Holman told us IL wa:
too big for US TO tackle. Everybody
said the same thing. But Thompson
and / didn't care how big thing was
we were out for fight and this was toe
good chance to be lost. told Phil &c
prepare himself on ancient history-witE
set of 1870 census reports-while
took up modern history as found in the
census OF 1880. The first day the com
bination got to work, Thompson quoted
ancient history on them 10 show
that the towns for which it was pro-
posed to make appropriation were mere
villages In 1870, when l followed with
modern history to show that they were
only small country towns in 1850. The
first day they passed three bills on US. The
next day they pushed two through. The
third day they called halt, for they
found that as fast as bills were passed
they lost the support Of the men behind
those measures. All the fellows with
bills in their pockets became alarmed,
and the combination was bursted. just
five bills out of the 10 passed, and Phil
Thompson and |, out Of simple de-
termination to stir something up to
keep ourselves from going to dry rot,
saved the government great many
millions Of dollars. Since then l have
not cared what committee l was placed
on, or whether was on any committee
at all. There is some satisfaction IN
being free lance"
The new member Of Congress from the
VESTS one of the characters OF the Cap
ital. He wears striped trousers. old
fashioned black striped neckties, q
SLOUGH hat and big boots. He is earnest
and studious and a good deal OF man.