Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17

has d Q vol e d the
greater part of
| lifetime 10 Congress, to turn to some
| other occupation than law-making. Mr..
| Holman, to be sure. Is unique. He has
| the record now of the longest service in
| the House ever attained But there are
| other men, who, when their age is con-
sdered, can be credited with as much de-
votion to congressional work as Mr.. Ho-
| man. They. too, have become members
| by profession. One of these who loses his
| job through the recent election is Mr..
| Springer of Illinois. Another is Mr.. By
| mum OF Indiana. One has given twenty,
| the other ten years of continuous service
| to the House of Representatives. Both are
| lawyers, and both left good business at
home when they came here.
Mr. W. H. Morrison of Illinois said re-
Gently of campaigning in Illinois that the
work for a reelection occupied all the
time between the sessions of Congress
Campaigning in Indiana is quite as alb
sorbing business. Therefore Mr.. Springer
for twenty years and Mr.. Bynum for ten
years have been neglecting their law prac-
tice until they have virtually none left.
Mr.. Bynum has announced already that
he will not attempt to take up practice in
Indianapolis again. He Is going to settle
down here as an attorney before the de-
partments. He Will join large colony
of eX-CongreSsmen here. There are so
many that people seldom Identify them as
ex-members or Congress. 1t is not a con-
spicuous honor here to have been a men,
Der of the House. In any other COM
munity ii is considered distinction.
Most of the men who come to Congress
are lawyers. A law practice is built up by
years of effort and steady application. 1t
is natural, therefore, that men whose terms
in Congress have expired, who know ;hat
they must return 10 their old homes to
struggle for perhaps FIVE or six years be-
fore they can place themselves where they
were before they came to Congress or re-
main here in the practice of their profess
sion before the departments, SHOULD pre-
fer the easier life. For a time they
command business from their own states.
Then they pick up. a general business.
Sometimes they conf1ne themselves to law
and claims Sometimes they take up mat
tiers before Congress aud become lobbyists.
There many of these ex-congresston-
al lobbyists in this city that il has been
necessary to curtail the privileges of the
floor of the House, e
Privileges, of. the Floor.
Formerly all ex-members were entitled to
the floor. In the Forty ninth Congress old
"Richelieu' Robinson of New York made
himself so conspicuous in his advocacy of
legislation that the privilege was taken
away. Now 1t is limited to ex-mcmbers
who are not interested in any claim or bill
pending before Congress- and Speaker
Crisp has had TO apply the prohibition Of
that rule more than once during his three
years as presiding officer of the Hoase.
Several eX-members have been warned off
| the floor because the Speaker was Informed
that they We're interested in pending legis-
lation. Mr. Reed, who will be the Speaker
of the next Congress, Is perhaps even more
intolerant OF the eX-member lobbyist than
is Mr.. Crisp. He said not long ago, Il see
no good reason why eX-members should
come on the floor any more than any other
oil nf ha n "a
should be reserved for legislation, not for
visiting or the private discussion of mat
tiers before Congress. If ex-members are
not allowed to debate or to vote, hey
should not he allowed to come on the nOor
| and add to the confusion, which is already
too great
Are Residents Here.
In tho list Of attorneys here who have
been in the House or Senate are many
wel-known names. Mr.. Bynum will find
| himself associated with eX-Representative
| and ex-Commissioner of Patents Ben But
| terworth. formerly of Ohio, then Of Chi
| cago. but now practicing law in Wash
| ington. Jere Wilson, who became famous
In the breckenridge case recently and his
partner, Judge Shellabarger, were men,
! bers of the House from Ohio and Indiana,
respectively. John Goode of Virginia was
a member of the House from 1910 to 1881.
! He was solicitor general in the first Cleve-
| land administration. He now makes his
home in Washington and practices law
| here. Another distinguished Nirginian who
can almost call Washington his home is
| ex-senator Malone of Virginia. He owns
| a great deal of property here.
Senator Hunton of Virginia, who goes out
| of Office next March, will undoubtedly re-
! turn to the practice of law here He Is an
| illustration of the public man who Goes
not lose his hold on his state by settling
in Washington. Mr.. Hunton was a mem
Der of the Forty-third. Forty-fourth. For
! ty-ffth and Forty-sixth Congresses. Then
| he settled in this city and took up the
practice of law in partnership with JEFF
| ferson Chandler of Missouri A dozen
years after his retirement from Congress
| he was appointed to the Senate by the
| governor of Virginia, and afterward elect
ed by the legislature to fill the uneXpired
term of Senator Barbour. The late Sena-
tor Perkins of Kansas was another ex-
ample of the dead statesman called to life
He retired from the House and began prac-
tiCe here as a claims attorney. To the
surprise of every one he was appointed
Senator from Kansas at the time of the
death of Mr.. Plumb. He failed to get the
election to the vacancy and Mr.. Martin
succeeded him. H. d. Money of Missis-
sippi, who has just been reelected to the
suscitation. Mr.. Money was a member of
the House in the Forty-ffth Congress and
he held his seat for ten years. Then he
began the practice of law in this city and
no one suspected him of further political
ambition. Eight years after his retire
ment he bobbed up democ ra tic candi-
date for the House in Mississippi and was
elected to the Fifty-third Congress.
John b. Clark of Missouri thought that
he could go back to his state and obtain
another election to Congress after he had
been superseded as clerk of the House.
He had been a member of the House from
1873 to 1888 and his father was a member
before him. But the people Of Missouri
sent some one else to Congress and Mr..
Clark returned to Washington to take the
position of chief Of division in the super
visng architects fhice. He holds that
Office today.
They Prefer This City.
Congressman Archie" Bliss of New York
has settled in Washington a real estate
speculator. L. e. Payson of Illinois, who
was defeated for the Fifty-second Con-
gress by Herman Snow, opened a law Office
in Washington Immediately. George S.
Boutwell,, Grants Secretary of the Treas
ury. a candidate for Congress three
times, but unsuccessfully. He sat in the
Senate for a time, though. He lives here
now and practices law, but he Is now more
OF whist player than a practicing lawyer.
Ex-Representative Hemphill of South Caro-
lima married Washington woman and
because she preferred the capital to his
southern home he came here and engaged
in the practice of law. Ex-RepresentatIve
IL,