Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-11
COMING CONGRESS
Its Members Expect to Participate in
Great Events.
new SENATOR FROM INDIANA
Believed to Have Gained Much
Valuable information.
OTHERSWHOHAVETRAV

1t is evident that men who are to serve
in the Fifty-sixth Congress expect TO par
ticipate in great events. Some of them are
making preparations to distinguish Them
selves and share some of the glory that
comes with great occasions. Nearly all the
newer senators and members of the House,
and some of the older ones, are making
special studies of questions they expect to
afford them opportunity to make display
of their talents. While some are confined
to their libraries, others have been travel
ing to the remote parts of the earth where
American interests are now developing.
There is said to be very active rivalry
between the two senators from Indiana,
that state having two republicans in the
new Senate for the first time in many
years Fairbanks has been but a short
time in the Senate, and Beveridge has not
yet taken his seat. The senior senator Is
very sleek parson-like man, cold as
John Sherman ever had the reputation of
being. but much more affable in his man
ner and adroitly non-committal IN an
things. If you do not like him you Will
find it difficult to point out the reason why.
Indiann's Junior Senator.
The junior senator-elect Beveridge, Is
quite a young man. who is in no wise
abashed by the consciousness of never hav-
ing Hdu any experience III pupii' nv sAN
is of rather under size, with a smooth, boy
ish face, distinguished for strikingly clean
cut features and self-confdent frankness
of expression. With his introduction to the
public outside of Indiana by his election to
the Senate 1T was announced that he was a
brilliant orator and would very soon give
an account of himself in the Senate. An
introduction like this is calculated to bring
out the goose flesh on old senator's. who
think that young men, like children, should
ha nat ha.l nd
Since Proctor made his great hit in the
Senate by going down into Cuba and then
making a report to the Senate in speech
of what he saw. having previously declined
to make any disclosures to the press. the
eyes of young men have been opened to
this fine method of getting fame. 1t
has given quite an impetus to the idea
among men in Congress to become special
lists and to reserve their Information for
disclosure to their colleagues on the floor
as a surprise.
Beveridge on being elected to the Senate
found that he had three things to contend
| against. besides such he might know
nothing of One was his youth. another
was the seniority in point of service as well
as in age of the other Indiana senator,
and, still more difficult to counterfeit. the
fact that Fairbanks was a member of the
Alaskan boundary. commission and would
have some important secret information to
impart to the Senate when it should meet,
and withal would be man of considerable
consequence.
On Voyage of Discovery.
But probably no brighter genius than
that of the youthful Beveridge ever flashed
across the mirror of fame. The greatest
of his difficulties was the easiest for him
to overcome No sooner he brought
under the public gaze than he suddenly
| disappeared, taking himself off on a voy-
age of discovery. GlimpseS of him were
caught now and then. He was reported
as having been seen here and then there,
on the seacoast of some obscure island.
on the firing line in the Philippines. There
was a period of obscurity and then he was
| reported sick somewhere, and the next
thing he was lost altogether. Inquiries
were sent out through the State Depart
ment, and for weeks the whole country
was kept in state of interest and anxiety
The newspapers We're kept lively with in
quiries and speculation. When the excite
ment had reached its highest point he
suddenly turned up all right and happy
constituency in Indiana celebrated his re-
turn. while the whole country breathed
freely once more. But from being a free
talker. an orator, In fact, he had sud
denly become as close-mouthed and mys-
FERROUS as a sphinx. Now he is here in
Washington for the first time, perhaps,
cultlVatlng the curiosity of the public by
obtrusively refusing to disclose ito any
body but the President a fund of valu-
able information he is supposed to pos
SeSS about country which we capture first
and study afterward 1t is announced that
he was sent for by the President The
next day he spends three hours at The
White House, and then goes out riding with
the President in the evening. 1t is enough
to make the older men in the Senate turn
green, and, Of course. Fairbanks does not
approach him. He has a start in public
life that man before him ever dreamed
of short of twenty years service There
| IS no question about his being bright
fellow. He has a most prepossessing man
ner and people who know him say he is all
right In every respect
New Sarutn, I,.,,~.
Foster the senator-elect from Washing
ton, who succeeds Wilson, arrived here the
same time as Beveridge. He too had been
on a special mission which was expected
to bring him into notice and concerning
which he was very mysterious He had
been up into Alaska. and knew lot about
the boundary question which he was going
to impart to the President alone He would
not be interviewed by any newspaper man
and was altogether on the way to become
an interesting person, but when he got to
the White House Beveridge was there and
had such hold on the Presidents ear that
the Washington senator could not find room
to get in even whisper, and the next
night he talked Washington politics to a
hotel reporter.
Representative Foss, the young Chicago
statesman, has come back from his mission
abroad and is loaded down with Informal
ton about the navieS of the world and
about the great German emperor. But he
has been in Congress long enough not to be
toe mysterious, and then being from Chi
cago he does not know how to appear mys-
FERROUS. He has an immense amount of
rev things mapped out to promote the
greatness of this country. He knows things
about naval construction, naval reserves,
guns dry docks and armor plate that will
make him very interesting when Congress
meets.
When all these reports of travel. investi-
CATION and personal experience are made
to Congress by the various ambitious young
or new statesmen who have been putting
in this summer to an advantage 1t Will
rake the session one of vast interest.