The Irish standard., 1897-03-27
The New Senator from Ohio in
Precari0us Position in
Congress.
He Turks About in Woo1=foot
Way and Tries to Look
Like an Undertaken.
Is Like a Cat in Strange Garret
and Had Better Stay
Away.

Today the senate closed it's books and
adjourned sine die Five days from now,
however, the old gentlemen will all be at
their desks again. That Is all save Har-
ris, OF Tennessee, Harris is sick, end
when gentleman 80 years old feels the
chill Of illness on him he must SET watch
forward and aft. He must attend to
himself with care. The French say that
at 40 a man must be either fool or g
doctor. At 80 he ought to be a. whole
college of physicians. Such is Harris.
And being i'll, he will he absent from the
coming congress. Harris will hie 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, wrote Alfred Henry Lewis in the
New York Journal from Washington On
the 10th inst.
Today Hoar, who looks like Cruik-
shank's Pickwick, and has ali the peck
ing and peevishness Of a setting hen.
which fowl, by the way, resembles Hoar
arose and offered rule. 1t was meant
to end debate, choke filibuster and get
what some sportiye souls call action
It Is the same rule in sort that Hill ad-
vanced and failed with four years ago
in extra session.
There is no good reason why tllis
I,
is naught of excellence about a f1libuster.
This latter is merely the minority ruling
the majority, which is what we don't
want. Therefore, let us have tic rule
today proffered by Pickwicl Hoar. 1t
will conduce to business in the senate,
bring affairs to focus and cIothe that
gray and reverend half of congress with
confidence on the public part that it
has not known for years.
My i'm presson is t,,st +1is c'ot,!re r'' nc
will be adopted. 1t should be. 1t runs
that attends on ali measures that are
sent forward to shoot the senate chute.
It can be fiilibustered against itself; and
thereby the filibuster can be sent to its
own relief.
This rule proposed they say, has elna-
nation from Hanna. Hoar offered IT,, but
Hanna fashioned it and fattered Hoar
into becoming it's champion. Hanna dis
plays a pretty wit in all, this. Were
Hanna to offer this rule for adoption as
something of which he was the author,
coming from himself, the jealous old
senators would pounce upon it tooth and
talon and make rags and ravelings OF ii
in moment. wold not last as long az
a drink of whisky.
Speaking of Hanna reminds me that
it has been Senator Hanna" for nearly
week., and yet no portion OF the skies
has fallen; no large section of the earth
crust collapsed. Yes, indeed, Hanna, is
in the senate, which is as if one were to
say. "Tshe cat is in the strange garret.
Hannas senate mood is stalky. He
turks about the senate chamber in
'wool-foot way. conversing in gust whip
ers, or he sits silent in his seat and tr1es
to look like an undertaken. That Is
Hanna's notion of a senatorial cast OF
countenance--tO look as does the rural
director of funerals. And as one watches
him from the gallery one can't shake the
impression that sooner or later Hanna
will arise. compose his Incorporate Wis
age to a little more horrible solemnity,
and, sliding the lid from the coffin: an
nounce: "Friends and relatives OF de-
ceased will now pass by and take last
look at the corpse"
OF course Hanna will not make this
defamation, that is not Immediately,
not before four years form now; but one
feels as if he might.
Aside from this undertaking ex-pres-
sion which is assumed, Hanna wears
look of suspicious perturbation, which Is
not assumed. The senate scares Hanna.
The good man has had no Legislative ex-
nerienco beyond what ccal directory ),
might furnish when deciding to CUT
down the wages of its poor creatures u
;ts mines. AS the senate Is distinctly
not a coal directory aud does not proceed
by coal directory methods, Hanna IS Is az
sea. sss
I Hanna is not by nature statesman lalll
Were Hanna romping in some deepeIs,
floral glade, to be suddenly captured fps g ]
some Agassiz, that naturalist WonA vs. 4
hold him up by the eccs, and after mar rAsS
ing the small dollar and cent sye, ,stna
snubby poklng nose, the face, red a1aSS qssSg
broad, as v,llpine as Y,,l full u 5oH