The Washington times., 1894-12-13

The Republican Senator'S were all smiles
Yesterday over the votes On cloture ana tax
ing up OF the sugar bill. They consider the
defeat Of Sena- or Vests motion 10 take up
The cloture rule rs settling for this s, sssion
the possibility OF an effort TO adopt it. 1t
had not teen considered probable that the
friends Of tie proposition could force vote
upon its passage. ut The Republicans are
delighted 10 see Low small n vote it got.
Representative Mcmillan is pretty quick at
retort, and manages TO say some very grace
full things in the midst of a very sharp dis
cussion when opportunity offers. He was IN
the midst OF n very Spirited discussion with
Mr.. Cochran and DIR. Bartlett, of New York,
over the income tax yesterday. some pretty
rasping things having already passed On both
sides. when Mr.. Mcmillan had occasion TO
yield The floor to one of them.
81 yield TO the gentleman from New York.
ne said, bowing in the direction of Mr.. Bart
lett, who stood near him waiting to get in
another shot.
(Which gentleman from New York" said
the presld .ng officer. who noted that both
Cochran and Baril 1T were striving TO gel in.
Does the gentleman from Tennessee yield 10
the New York gentleman nearest to him or
farthest from him?'
They are both equally near to me. in one
sense, said Mr.. Mcmillan. LAYING his hand to
his heart and bowling low 10 both, but re-
ferred TO the one who happens to be nearest
at this moment IN physical sense
Thereupon Mr.. Bartlett got the floor and
proceefed to denounce Mr.. McMillin's pet
measure. the income tax, TO the best OF his
ability.
1t seems rather curious that the stock OF
undistributed eulog es upon the lives of de-
parted members of the House and Senate
should show larger number undistributed
reiating TO some of the most popular and
prominent members than those less widely
known. The annual statement OF the door
keeper of the House. showing the number of
documents still in the foldiDg-room, contains
a list of about Il hundred names of deceased
members, and opposite each name the num-
ber of copies Of the eulogies delivered in the
House and Senate upon their lives. While
in some of these cases there remain in stock
no more than n half dozen copies. the supply
in cases of some of the most popular members
seems the largest, by far. There are Of eulogies
upon the late Senator Beck. no less than 3, ,l35
copies remaining unused: Representative S.
S. Cox. who was so popular everywhere.
| 3,153; Representative Gay, who was one of
the wealthiest members of the House and
well known in his own State especially. 4,6S0;
Senator Stanford, 5.37I; Senator Hearst.
1921: Richard NJ. Townsend. of Illinois,
] 1854: while in the cases Of such modest and
almost forgotten men as Morton, Parsons
Lay. Allen and Updegraff, the number re-
naming uncalled for is less than dozen.
Members Of House and Senate. especially
the patriotic ones, are delighted with a new
cancelling stamp which the post-office of the
! city has adopted. Il has made its appearance
! in few il any other post offices, and seems es-
pecally suitable for use at the Capital city of
] the nation. The stamp in question IS made
! in the form of a flag of the United States,
/ bearing the thirteen stars and the proper
number of stripes. This is so arranged that
the folds OF the waving flag gracefully flap,
/ so 10 speak, across the face of the postage
! stamp. doing the cancelling business with
| ''neatness and dispatch, +" but with grace and
symmetry which puts to blush the dauhy-
! looking print of the old cancelling devices SO
! long in use.
II the roll call clerk of the House lives
4 through the session without a black eye or
some broken bone, it will be either because
/ he is too big man for any inattentive Con-
gresham TO tackle. or e.se because the mat
/ tentive members are good-natured. The
savage and absolutely dictatorial manner in
/ which he roars out the name OF the member,
/ on The roll call. who fails to answer to his
name although sitting in his seat, is some
/ thing astonishing to those who are accus-
toned to look with something of awe upon
/ craftsmanship as exemplifled in Congress. 1t
reminds YOU of the tone in which your
mother made the third and last CALI for you
/ 10 get up in the morning. before taking re-
/ course to the family birch. 1t usually goes
something like this:
Mr. Smith"
"Mr Smith,
''Mr. Smithm!Ii!''
Then the glass in the skylight jingles the
members LOOK around 10 see il il is an earth
quake or dynamite explosion, and the in
attentive member Looks up from his news
paper and meekly answers:
''P resent"