The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-26
SHOOK UP THE SENATE,
ror.ker and Mason Made Capt..
tai Speeches.
RHETORIC, SOUND LOGIC AND WIT

aua,r Trigger" Chap - The Retort to
e..or EllSins Newspaper Reports
From Cuba.
WASHINGTON, May 25.--lSpecial THE
s.lote on tho Cuban resolution i'm the SEN
Inns brought to the front number OF
80 orators. Among all those who spoke
- tho resolution recognizing the bclliger
orcy Of Cuba perhaps Senator Foraker OF
Ohio achieved the greatest success. Before
n, Foraker came to the senate he had the
.ooutation of being an excitable man. Ev-
-, ono knew he was eloquent, but his
t,,no was chat of fire ALARM of man
,rno dcperdcd largely upon rhetoric and
noise for his impressiveness. How unjust
tbis was TO the junior senator from Ohio
bs first set speech in the senate amply
demonstrated. He made an address which
Cor solid argument, learning, research and
effectiveness had not been equaled through
ant the debate. Mr.. Foraker apparently
wos not unmindful of the gossip that had
rlaced him i'm the fire alarm category, and
be evidently set out to show how much
Good stuff there was in him. He succeeded
most admirably 1t is now said on all
sides that the former governor of Ohio has
taken high place in the senate that he
has at one leap become a member of lit
tle coterie of 10 or l2 senators who are the
real leaders of that body. This is quick
work, and the eloquent senator from Ohio
ot,,lo
cess.
lie "Rolled" In.
Senator Mason of Illinois made one of
the most sensational speeches of the Gu
ban debate Mr.. Mason is a man of re-
markable appearance He is short and
fat and almost as big one way as he is the
other. He has smiling face, a swarthy
countenance and big, bass voice, which
rolls through the senate chamber whenever
he lets il go. Speaking of rolling reminds
me that one of Mr. Mason's fellow SEN
aors tells me they never ask Mason in the
cloakrcoms, where the grave and reverend
senator's dearly love their jokes how he
came to the capitol or where he has been.
They invariably speak of him as rolling"
up to the White House or as rolling"
across the floor
When the jolly and rotund senator. from
Chicago made his speech on Cuba, it was
with the determination to shake things up.
He loves to be iconoclastic. He has pref
udicc against traditions and such old, cob
webby things as the courtesy of the senate.
International law he called "an ancient
barnace, and the senate itself he spoke of
as u body in which the minority always
rulo M ig IIx, oil
public speaker, but he loves to close his
most eloquent passages with what the lit
erary men would call bathos. For in
stance he shouted at the top of his voice
that the Republican party had placed
Cuban pledge in it's national platform.
Ihisw very impressive, but queer turn
was given to the thread of his discourse
when he paused looked Mark Hanna, who
sat near by, straight in the face, and said:
THAT was when we were looking for
votes. l."
little later Mr.. Mason most eloquently
pledged himself to support the platform Of
the Republican party concerning Cuba,
and did it with much impressiveness, but
he could not resist the temptation to in
dulge in one of his little quips at the finish,
like the cracker on "a whip. 81 will stand
by the PLATFORM" he shouted, las long as
am on the pay roll" OF course the SEN
ate had good laugh at this confession.
Needed No Coaching.
There was one feature Of Mr.. Mason S
speech which escaped the observation Of
most of the spectators. 1t was his coach.
Perhaps it is not generally known that
senatorial speechmakers have their coaches.
but they do. New senators who are anx-
ious to make record on the occasion of
tner debut get some obliging fellow sena-
"r 10 SIT near them and prompt them, to
make suggestions to. them soto voce, to
neip Keep their papers in order and occa-
sonally to remind them "where they are
al In case they become flustered. Mr..
mason had such a coach, and a very good
one ne proved to be. 1t was Senator Chan
uler the wasp from New Hampshire
;, Take 1T easy, Billy" whispered Chan
uier when Mr.. Mason became too much ex-
.l'eo and was trying to lift the rafters off
'ne senate chamber with his voice. lyon
are uoing splendidly, old man, but don't
speak quite so loud. Now you are all
n m Don't be in a hurry. Take it easy.
M MATS Us right. F" This was the way in which
Mr. Chandler coached his man through ~
nours OF stirring debate. The coach was
expected to help out when it came to inter
.upuons by other senators and to suggest
h ~, IN case the actor appeared to need
r.'r But, bless your SOUL" said Mr..
~nanuier afterward, Billy was so quick l
.vu'uil get word in edgewise when they
"ue ihterrupting him. He is hair trig-
eor chap, and no mistake
r. Newspaper Reports.
turing The senate debate there was a
80. ueal To say about the newspaper re-
ro.s from Cuba. Senators, as a rule, do
~ No.. appear to put much confidence in
r nv reports. In this case, however,
c ns loct remains that the reports of our
sS S"suiar officers in Cuba have confirm
everything that the newspaper men
e. Nv, ana disclosed much more. There
d,oee.her too much of this business of
70 sa' newspapers, and am sorry
in Iii, .nat some newspapers are engaged
,De'ouiing their own nests. MY obser-
yar; ;oh is that newspaper men almost in
Tho 10 their best to get at the facts
tons prefer the truth to any exaggera-
e i,s., Errors creep in Of course, but there
\ in. Sa excuse for this wholesale and carp
AS fa J,enunclation of newspaper statements
n 1"se and misleading.
Ono senator NM. a. -.