The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-06

sign fror, the senate and wolcoss,s de-
NAL OF the story. The fact IS that VOL
colt did say, within hearing % the pep
perry Chandler and o. several other sen
ators, one Of whom repeated his words
10 me that evening thai be .eas when he
had read Secretary Cages remarks to the
house committee or the subject % the
gold standard that he ought 10 resign
that he had no place in .he senate. Eus
feeling that one ought 10 resign and re-
signing ara far apart Few men have re-
signed from the senate. excepting those
who have gone up higher. and wolcogt Of
Colorado looks too Well consented WITH his
place 10 give Il up voluntarily.
Chandler of New Hampshire IS another
OF the silver group, though he elings 10
his place in the Republican PARTY and
consoles himself with the periodical APP
nouncement that the administration Is
for bi-mstallism. Chandler has given aid
and counsel 20 woicott In his assaults on
the secretary OF the treasury. lie has a
quarreiSosne expression "a he sits hack TN
his chair. with his eyeglasses perched on
his nose. and watches his chance 10 Jump
into the debate with a question or a com
ment- His tongue has Il razor edge. and
he knows enough TO make him formidable
in debate. II Is a curious and interesting
fact that he has as many personal friends
as he has political enemies among his coli
leagues in the senate.
These are not the warmest friends OF
silver perhaps, but they are the most
spectacular on the floor and the most In
teresting We look down from the gall
lery into the amphitheater of the senate.
l never hear tina; word Spectacular
but my mind goes back to the speech of
Cockrell sf Missouri in which he gave "a
MIC saf aff.a
senator from Delaware. Willard Snuls-
bury. One OF the famous family OF that
name which held a mortgage on "A seat
IN the senate through three generations.
Senator salisbury was as inconspicuous
and retiring as any man in public life.
Therefore when the plain and practical
Missouri senator described him drawing
~ as THE spectacular and dramatic sem
ator from Delaware the senate dubbed
over in laughter. l think IL was Senator
Cockrelfs one joke.
He sits there in the front row-.he SEN
ator from Mlssouri--doing his famous spe-
cialty. The senate has got into one or its
busy moods. and 'unobjected cases on
the calendar are up for consideration.
That means as fast as the clerk can read
them aloud bills for pensions and relief
and other private measures are put
through the senate mill in the order in
committee. Only one eye watches these
measures. Sitting far back In his chair,
the senator from Missouri follows the
clerks reading. On his knee are the bills,
bound together with red tape He turns
the pages the clerk reads, and not
word escapes him. There Is not an old
timer among the bills which he does not
know at a glance-not 4 job which ne
doesn't scent in a moment.
Let the report be read. Mr.. President"
he says. when any thing suspicious or
unknown comes under his eye.
Let that go over he says, il the re-
port is not wholly satisfactory, and the
bill goes back to the calendar for an In
definite stay. 1t would be money in the
pockets of great many men II AIR. Cock
reil should be absent from the senate on
ore OF the calendar" days but no one is
more faithful in his attendance than the
senator from Missouri.
In front of Senator CockreIps desk
stands Vest, the other senator from Mis-
souri,. He is more vitriolic than Chan