The evening times., 1900-01-31
SEEN AND HEARD ATTHE CAPITOL

| Former Representative Tim Tarsney Of
| Michigan was on the floor of the House
the old members who served with him dur
ing the Fiftieth Congress. There are not
many of the old-timers left said Mr..
Tarsney, 'but still enough to keep me
| from feeling lonesome"
The repulse and retreat of the British
| from Spion Kop does not surprise me-"
| said Representative George w. Smith Of
Illinois. When | was in Paris last Sep
tember I met several English gentlemen
who are engaged in business in the Trans
| vaal and they told me that the Beers had
been preparing for this war for six or sew
en- years. Why they said, we have writ
ten to the officials in London time and time
again warning them of the preparations
that were being made by the Beers, but
the British officials paid no attention to
the matter. They really secuted the idea
and sent us word that If the Beers made
trouble they would go to South Africa and
clean them out in less than a week. But
the English haven't done 1t yet, added
Representative Smith. 81 think in the
light of what has happened, my English
friends in Paris knew what they were
talking about"
The Presidents seats in the private gal
lery of the Senate were occupied yester-
day for the first time in several days
Mrs. George E. Morse, accompanied by
-
Miss Duncan and two escorts, entered the
gallery soon after the opening of the ses-
sion, and remained for a considerable
time attentive observers Of the Senate pro-
ceedings. II is so seldom that the seats
set apart for the use of the President
and members of his family are used that
the presence of the party attracted COM
ment both in the galleries and on the Sen
ate floor.
The speech of Senator Bacon on the
Philippine question yesterday developed
into one of the longest of the session thus
far. He is recognized as one OF the quick
est men at repartee in the Senate, and In
this instance he ably demonstrated his
right to that title. Several times Sem
atUr Bacon was interrupted and asked to
explain a point in his speech to some
and each time the reply came without
hesitation and was accompanied by sar-
castle remark as to the lack of attention
to his previous remarks shown by the
questioner. Senators Teller and Stewart
were the principal ones toward whom
these shafts OF sarcasm were directed, anu
though they went straight to the mark
the good natured way in which they were
said prevented their being received in
other than the same spirit.
W. D. Chandler son of Senator Chan
dler and editor of the Concord Monitor,
was at the Capitol yesterday. He came TO
Washington with Postmaster Robinson OF
Concord and expects to leave for home to-
day or tomorrow.
Charles W Clark. son of Senator Will
liam A. Clark is constant in his attend
ance upon the sessions of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections. He appears
to be about twenty three or twenty-four
years old, ripe in experience. and as
rule finds cGmpanionship with men VINO
seem to be considerably his seniors. he
is smooth shaven, has very dark, sleek
hair. wears eyeglasses, and is exceedingly
cool and self-possessed.
Representative Campbell of Montana,
who is conducting the case against Sen
ator William a. Clark, won much praise
from the spectators yesterday for the
manner in which he forced an unwilling
witness to make discriminating admissions.
Mr. Campbell is a cool and penetrating IN
terlocutor and has never lost presence OF
mind under the fire of opposing counsel
Neither does he lose his temper with wit
nesses. One of his peculiarities while
closely examining witness is 20 draw
idle and meaningless diagrams on sheet
of paper before him. While his eyes are
riveted on the face of a witness and while
his mind is on edge. the hand with pen
Gil is making squares and circles and dla-
monds and triangles trapezoids and rape-
ziums before him. When he has blackened
page with pencil marks he mechanically
throws il away.