The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-22
Gam BIZ HAD FOR CASH.
Speeches and Press Notices to
Order.
IDEAS OF BRIGHT YOUNG MEN.
Walter Wellman's Gossip at the Capital
The Washington Diplomatic Corps-An
Important Legation-Unbounded Praise
to Our ambassador to Great Britain.

WASHINGTON, Dec. o2.-[Special. Two
or three bright young men have started
here at the national capital queer busl-
ness. They get up speeches for senators
and representatives and they are DOING
well at il. In some eases they only collate
the information. In others they arc asked
TO gather the facts together ana then 10
prepare speech of given length Ihey
are exucrts at the business. Ihey KNOW
lust where to turn To get the latest ana
hest information. They know how to put
all this in logical order. 1t makes no al
ference to them which side their client Is
on or what the question Is they are AZ
wavs ready TO iii orders on short notice.
The fee they leave To the senator or repre-
sentative himself He may give what no
likes. ana as IA rule the customer passes
over "A chrck Tor IA larger amount than the
vounu men would dare ask Tor. Inc same
burc;lu also attends to pension cases ana
other departmental work. Tor the states
men 1t undertakes to attend to their COT
| resnondcncc and TO run all sorts OF crranus
Inasm,ch rs the average member OIL con-
grass il not much more than an errahu
| bov for his constituents, the services Vi
| this bureau are often eagerly sought
An Ingenious scheme.
Another scheme not quite SO Worohy
communication, Is to ask members Vi oon
uress to pay for press notices Oh theilsc a
| i'm the newspapers of their distric,s' Inc
| man who Is rying 10 work this Is S'ia Ia,
( uer in Washington. lie loriheo oic y,
| liant plan of having the statesmen einp'u!
him as sort of advance agent anu no
thought he was going to get rich at H. as ~,
he had it figured out, the senators anu
members who are eager lor 10 oioo0i s''.
would gladly pay him handsome suns aos
getting friendly notices oil their SCI w. ,.s
i'm the press of their state, anu oho' no
thought editors would DO giau 10 p'y nm
something for copy In the hature VI ""s ,,,
ington correspondence In whicn ho oou,a
work off these 'puffs. mus hc wac ~ =
ing to catch the nimble dollar h-oo'nin ". ~
a-eoin. But so far he does not hppcar "
have caught on to any very Bie'so oN'S'''
Both the statesmen ana .ho eo''oJ -,
near to be little shy OF TINS insc'iioua
plan to make money for the cute proi'o. ''a
One of your renders writes W "aM n' =,
elbow large is the DIPLOMATS VIZ 20 -
Washington? How many COUNTIES =
ssantedsu The diplomatic corps u
unite an important colony mere. =
| cort pf lpaIpr III eOOlOAsi e''N
life of the capital 1t Is espec'ai'y :,
Thirty -four countries arc represented u
the corps. These are Argentina Austria '',,i'
Hungary, Belgium Bolivia Brazil, on, rS
China. Colombia, Costa Rica, DenI,ark
Dominican Republic, Ecuador l'aiJt
GERMANY. Great Britain, Greater hepup,s
; - rantral America Honduras, NicaFaS u
and Salyador), Guatemala, Haiti Hawaii Hawai-
l lso-oo Mpx iro Netherlands
p p~v' Portugal, Russia, spain, swedse
and Norway, switzerland, Turkey an ~,
Venezuela. Greece Is abou, .nc onns !
tion in the world far enough adVancsu
s,v,,,zation and government to SEND ou
. diplomatic representatives that is not roi
, resented in Washington, sN
china Loads Them All.
All tbcsc nations with few exceptlol
|. r.nresented here by 'envoys extrao
d din and minister's plsnip p..a,S Hs
y The e1ceptions arc. Great .Erisaln' We