The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-21
TROUBLE BREWING FOR HANNA.
BY Alfred Henry Lewis.

by AHreu tienry Lewis
Washington. March 10.-Today the SEN
ate closed its books and adjourned sine die
FIVE days from now. however. the old
gentlemen will be at their old tricks
| again. That is. all save Harris Of Tenn
esse. Harris is sick. and when gentle
man so years old feels the chill of illness
on him he must set watch forward and
ait. He must attend to himself with care.
The French say that at 10 man must be
either fool or a doctor. At SO he ought
to be whole college OF physicians. Such
10 Harris. And being i'll, he will be alb
sent from the coming congress. Harris
VIII HE him to Mississippi. and, wrapping
himself in its swamps, its hospitality.
It's moss and its mocking BIRDS" as in a
blanket. paint the hue Of health on his
| hard old cheeks again.
Today Hoar. who looks like Cruikshank's
Pickwick. and has all the pecking and
peevishness OF a setting hen-which fowl,
| by the way. resembles Hoar-arose and
offered rule. 1t is meant to end debate,
choke flibuster and get what some sport
i've souls call action" 1t is the same
| four years ago in extra session.
| There is no good reason why this choke
rule should not go through. There is
naught OF excellence about a flibuster
This latter is merely the minority ruling
the majority. which is what we don't want.
Therefore. let us have the rule today prof
fered by Pickwick Hoar. 1t will conduce
| to business in the senate. bring affairs to
focus and clothe that grey and reverend
half of congress with a confidence on the
public part that it has not known for years
My impression is that cloture rule Will
be adopted. 1t should be. 1t runs the
same risk in its passage. however. that
| attends on all measures that are sent for
ward TO shoot the senate chute. 1t can be
iilibustcred against itself: and thereby the
filibuster can be sent to its own relief
ms rule proposed, they say. has ema-
nation from Hanna. Hoar offered il, but
Hanna fashioned it and battered Hoar into
becoming its champion. Hanna displays a
pretty Wit in all this Were Hanna to
orer this rule for adoption as something of
which he was the author. coming from him
self, the jealous old senators would pounce
upon 1t tooth and talon and make rags and
raveiings of 1t in moment. 1t would not
last as long as drink OF whisky.
has been Senator Hanna" for nearly a
week, and yet no portion OF the sky has
iallen; no large section Of the earth crust
collapsed. Yes, indeed. Hanna is In the
senate, which is as il one were to say THE
cat is in the strange garrett"
hanna senate mood is stalky. He turks
about the senate chamber in wool foot
way, conversng in gusty whispers: or he
SITS silent in his seat and tries to look like
an undertaken. That is Hanna's notion of
senatorial cast of countenance to look
as does the rural director OF funerals And
as one watches him from the gallery. one
CAM shake OFF the impression that sooner
or later Hanna will arise. compose his in
temperate Nisage to still more horrible
solemnity. and, sliding the lid from the
coffin, announce: Friends and relatives of
deceased viii now pass by and take a last
look at the corpse"
OF course Hanna will not make this
defamation. that is not Immediately. not
before four years from now; but one feels |
as II he might
Aside from this undertaking expression |
which is assumed Hanna wears a look of |
suspicious perturbation which is not as |
shmed. The senate soares Hanna. The !
good man has had no legislative experience |
beyond what a coal directory might fur |
nish when deciding to cut down the wages |
OF its poor creatures in its mines As The |
senate is distinctly not a coal directory |
ana does not proceed by coal directory
methods. Hanna is at sea
Hanna Is not by nature statesman
Were Hanna romping In some deeper floral
glade. to be suddenly captured by some
Agassiz. that naturalist would hold him
up by the ears. and after marking The
small dollar and cent eye. the snubby.
poking nose. the face. red and broad a.
'uipine as vulgar, fun of jowlsh voracitv
ALTER marking all these, say, he would
note In his book: Hanna biped. genus
commercial. species grocer e''
llama is commercial a true son Of ,rade
ne Is strong with money. Hanna can buv
NM sell lie Is essentially a grocer n,
that enterprisng sort that sands the s,c,r
waters the whisky, buries a lump Of sail
IN every roll Of butter. nuts tho ro,'