The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-01-23

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into barber.sbop some day and have close
shave there might come forth some truly wise
ideas.
PETERS hair would seem to have enlisted for
the war and as yet there has been no deserton.
1t is not gray at all, but good sanguine
brown, and adds considerably to the Senator'S
looks. PETER would look tri1e queer if he
were as bald as Hill. AS COL Ike Hill re-
marked: "The great Populist's head is built
| like quail trap" There is decidedly an apex
TO it. All this popularity of outline is very
much softened by the Senator's luxuriant hair.
The boards the thing, however. 1t is possible
| that PETER is seen oftener and by more people
than any other Senator for it is quite his habit
to work at his desk in the Senate before and
| after sessions, and while the room is full OF
| visitors.
| Who is hep" whispered a visitor one day,
pointing to PETER who was writing at his
desk
" He is the first white child born in cap
tivity," whispered page, who was passing at
the time. The visitor gazed at PETER and was
no doubt much impressed and edited.
\
The honor of supplying dainties to satisfy
the appetites of Representatives in Congress is
one for which 10 chefs have for sometime past
been struggling. 1t is quite good job, that of
keeping the House restaurant, and Tom Murrey
has had it a long while. But he was distanced
in the race last week BY Morgan d. Lewis, of
] Al tod for
Murrey, and one Republican. Murrey claims
that be had enough promises from the Repub-
licans to elect him had they been fulfilled.
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Here's another on the Monroe Doctrine. 1t
was Western Congressman who received
letter this time. 1t was request from one OF
his constituents for information about the
aforesaid doctrine. He wrote: All the fools
in my town talking about the Monroe
Doctrine, and nobody knows what it is. If the
Government is giving any of it away, please
send me some" The constituent was duly sup
piled with literature"
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It Is rumored that Mr. Dockery, OF Missouri,
vino alleges to follow in Homan's footsteps as a
great economist, is hard at work thinking up
another great reform" We wait anxiously
to see what the mountain will bring forth.
The new Congressman unused to the official
and social requirements of Washington, is just
now engaged in studying up etiquet from the
book. 1t is said that the demand for this sort
of literature is so great during the first part of
a first session that the booksellers can hardly
keep up with it.
The members of the United States Supreme
Court all good pedestrians except Justice
Field, who is too aged to take much exercise.
1t is a pretty long walk for most of them from
the Capitol to their homes, but Justice Harlan
aud Justices White and Brown are often seen
on the Avenue pacing it easily and steadily to-
gether. Justice Shirass usually walks alone,
and the faces Of all the rest are familiar to |
people on the city's proudest street.
Michigan's new Senator, Julius Cesar Bur- |
rows, is old to public life and well known TO |
the veterans. He has been in the House of |
Representatives Is years, entering with the |
43d Congress and serving in the doth, 47th, |
50th, 5lst, SD and SD Congresses. In the 51st |
lie was a candidate for Speaker against Mr.. |
Reed, and was recognized as one of the leaders |
on the Republican side. He was born in Penn
sylvania in 1887. read law. served two years in
the army and settled at Kalamazoo Mich. He |
became Prosecuting Attorney. and having an
aptitude for politics ran for Congress He |
made no little reputation for himself as
stump speaker during the greenback craze in
lS77-7S He is good parliamentarian and
strong partisan. He has paid little attention
to money making, and is comfortably poor.
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Representative Hardy, of Indiana, used to
be Pension Office clerk, and later worked in
the Treasury. One day Secretary Window
called him into his room, and asked him how
he liked his job Hardy admitted he did not
like it, and would take anything outside if he
could get il. Window thereupon offered him
the place of Superintendent of the public
building at Paducah, KY, which Hardy took,
kept three years, finally drifted into Indiana
aud eventually came to Congress.
Gov Gear takes the seat in the Senate occu-
pied for many years by James F. Wilson. He
was born at Ithaca, n. Y, in 1926. received
education, and entered Oh
pioneer line in Illinois in 1896. For time he
lived at Galcna, then, in 1893, he went to Fort
Smelling. Engaging in flat-boating down the
Mississippi, he finally located at Burlington in
1913, where he has since lived. He has been
elected to Office a great many times, serving
several terms in the Iowa Legislature, several
times being chosen Speaker OF the lower House.
Twice he was elected Governor OF Iowa, and
then to the 5oth and 5lst Congresses. During
a part OF the Harrison Administration, he was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He was
then elected to the SD Congress, and finally
10 the Senate.
They have some pretty things over at the
Agricultural Department. and among them are
the lifelike (if may call them SOY repre-
sensations in wax of all sorts of luscious fruits
for specimens. These are the work of j. w.
Hendley, who has been sort of jack-of all