Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-15
A SENATE COURTESY.
Listening to and AppIauding Dry
Speeches Through Friendship.
cameron's and Calls opposiiions to the Press
Two Athletes.


the house is scheduled to make q speech
on the floor, he takes good care to have
present in the galleries the ladies Of his
family and perhaps number Of his per
sonal friends. There il q common belief
that "a speaker can do better when he
knows he has the approval and interest Of
his friends. There are supposed to be in
SEPARATION and encouragement In the fact
that All orator may glance up to the gal
lery and receive look Of Endorsement,
even though most Of the chairs on the
floor itself be vacant and few elderly
statesmen be noddiDg and doing as they
sit. Ex- Speaker Reed, however, IS not one
Of these orators. 1t Is one Of his little Pc
culiarities that when hc is to make Il speech
he docs not like to IIavo Mrs. Reed in the
gallery. Last SUMMER he actually forbade
Mrs. Reed to go to tho house when he was
to make his great speech on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Reed does not offer any explanation
Of this ncculiarity Of his, but simply says
he docs not like to speaI; while his wife is
In the gallery, and that is all there is OF 1t.
Listening by Courtesy.
On tho noorof the senate practice that
IL rathcr amusing has become more and
more common 1t Is that tho personal
friends Of u senator are in duty bound to
sit in their chairs and listen to him while
h. makes u set speech. This is one Of the
courtcsics of the senate that have in time
become traditional and are now generally
recognized. 1t is u very convenient thing
for many senators, for without this rule
they would not be able to have much of
an audience on the floor
An amusing practice at tho house end
of the capitol finds fruits in The Congress
sional Record, that famous chroniclcr OF
the doing4 and sayingsof congress. When
o member makes speech and finishes
with stirring peroration, perhaps few
hand Chaps arc heard from the members
who sit by him, and who want to show
that they can be courteous on OCCASION
Sometimes these manifestations of ap
proval appear in The Record as zap
plause." Sometimes they are not lndicat-
ed IN the notes Of the official stenographer,
not bong considered sufficiently pro-
nounccd To merit attention, but when the
report of such speeches is written out and
submitted to the author of the remarks, rs
they always arc on request, they invaria-
bly, appear in The Record with these words
bractctctl after tho last word: prolonged
applause" 1t is considered quite remark
ablo that there is mover any prolonged
applause" except when the manuscript is
turned over to tho orator himself for re
vision.
Opposed to tie Press.
There are two grave and reverend sena
tors who do not get along very well with
tho newspapers. They are Don Cameron
of Pennsylvania and Wilkinson Call of
Florida. Mr.. Cameron has for many years
declined to have any relations with news
paper correspondents. Ho does not bclic?o
in the usefulness Of the newspaper profes
sion and looks upon members Of that craft
as busyb and trouble makers. In
Washington no new spapcrman over thinks
Of approaching Mr.. Cameron for inlorma
ton or an expression of opinion. With
Mr.. Call it is somewhat different. He is
not opposed to tho newspapers on princi-
pie or by wholesale, bat claims tho papers,
and especially tho Washington correspond
cnts have not dealt fairly with him.
From being offended at a. few men he has
become prcUliccd against the whole class
of journalists. Tho writer's on the other
hand have u little self respect ana pride
on their own account, and now AIR. Call
is lot as severely alone, so fGras calls upon
him are concerned, ~ is Senator Cameron,
though il is noticeable that some unkind
things occasionally appear about tho sen
ntor from Florida. Oncof The oldest sen
aturs here said to INC tho other day: Don
Cameron is The only man in all my career
at Washington | haYo known who was
strong enough to eight the newspapers y
great many senators have tried it, and in
varably they have bgcn retired to private
life, but Don seems to be able to maintain
himself despite tho papers"
Two Athletes,
Theodore Roosevelt Is one of the latest
accossions 10 the ranks of statesmen hi
cyclists in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt
has also invested in Il pair of Norwegian
snowshoos, OF skis, and is patiently wait
ing for some cold weather and hard snow
for an opportunity 70 try them. AS soon
as he has mastered tho ski Mr.. Roosevelt
says ho will have tried almost all known
forms of Reconsideration skates, roller
skates, Canadian snowShocs, Norwegian
snowshocs, stills, hrogans ana barefoot.
In learning ia ride the wheel the civil
service commissioner has had some anus
ing experiences, and he says it makes him
smile when he goes out on the street and
hears the boys who pass him on their BIZ
cycles whistle to enc another and call out,
Say, dye git on to the dudc?'
The young lads may call Mr.. Roosevelt
q dude, but that is just what he is not.
He is an all round sport, good shot, IA
hardy mountainccr and plainsman and an
athlete who is able to take caro- of himself
under all circumstances and with all COM
ers AS u cross country rider he has no
superior in Washington. He and his chun,
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, start out
at daylight almost every morning for a
mad race across tho fields and the subur-
ban country around Washington. They
take fences, bitches and everything that
lies in tho way and perform good many
feats Of Workmanship that the presidents
of the life insurance companies which car
~ their policies would not like to see.
a Isit of Joke.
In tho secretary of states office a few
days ago visitor was sitting by the desk
of Mr.. Gresham's private secretary, Kene-
saw Mountain Lands, when Assistant
Secretary of State Adec entered the room,
and approaching Mr.. Lands desk began
TO talk to him about some department
business. "That is all right" said Ian
dis. "but 1 wish you would get right out
of here You are Il nuisance" Mr.. Adee
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