The age-herald., 1899-01-08
the.same way. We don't know what course

thessame way. We don't know what course to pursue"
 It was a serious conversation. There were both seantors from Massachusetts, who were utterly at variance on the question of expansion. Several other senators, includ- ing Senator Chandler, the wasp of the senate" present. Before any one could help Moody out of his mental dilemma Senator Chandler said, grayely:
 You fellows from Massachusetts over there in the house ought not to have any trouble as to what to do. Just follow your senator's " Lodge and Hoar looked at each other qulzzically, and the other senators filed back into .-.e senate, .chuckling softly to Themselves.
 Representative Moody is not without subtle vein of humor himself. Last session when Representative Pearson was asked for unanimous consent for the consideration of a bill to incorporate the American Con- gross of Mothers, MT. Moody arose and sad with great solemnity: Preserving the right to object, l will ask the representative from North Carolina if there is anything in thls bill or in the purposes of the organiza ton which suggests the artificial hatchlns or chickens There was great laughter over this and Mir. rearson assured. Mir Moody that the same old process ot natchlng chickens would be continued.
 Mir Moody, by the way, was the chief prosecutor of Miss Lizzie Borden, who was tried at Glen Falls, Mass, for the murder of her father and mother. She was ac- quilted, but MT. Moody still claims the woman was guilty. The fact that he came into the case and espoused the side of the prosecution did more than anything else to prejudice the people against her. Such IS his moral standing in Massachusetts as a lawyer. He does not like to discuss the case, but sometimes he will get started ana when he concludes it would be hard to prove to any of his listeners that the jury was justified in her acquittal.
 Grip May Force Extra Session
 An extra session of congress may yet be forced on account of the grip. Legislative matters are being delayed in the house and in the senate, too. The most serious delays are the appropriation committees in the. senate and the military bills in the house. MT. Hull, of Iowa, the chairman of the military committee in the house who has charge of the proposed army bill is seriously i'll and all work on the measure has come to a standstill in consequence. There is no one who is able to take up the work where he left off, Should his ill., ness terminate fatally the committee would have to begin from the ground up in fram- ing an army bill. MT. Hull has always been the great worker of the committee, carrying in his own hand most of the data and acting as the clerk of the committee most of the time.
 Over in the senate several members of the appropriation committee are laid up. Work has had to stop entirely on these important bills, and none was done at all during the holidays on account of the ill., ness of Senators Cullom, Cockrell and Sewell. Senator Cullom's illness also puts a stop to the work of framing laws for the government of Hawaii
 The labors of the joint high commission have been indefinitely postponed on account of John w. Foster and Representative Dngley. Senator Cockrell is better, but unable to do any work. I never appre- ciated the Irish bull until I had cause to study the effects of grip. This Irishman said after a spell of the grip that he was sick six months after he got well. It begins to look as If some of these old gentlemen will be sick fully three months after they are pronounced we'll Those who are able to be out are very weak and seem unable to take up any of their committee routine work. Speaker Reed said today that unless the committees made more progress than they were doing now neither the house nor the senate would finish the | necessary work for running the govern ment until next December.
 A. w, BUTT