Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-29


out. Under our theory we would say
TO him at the threshold. Thou keeper
OF an Oriental harem, avaunt and quit
our sight,
South Carolina statesmen are usually
fine food for kodaks. Here is one taken
of Senator Ben Tillman. He Is not US
ualiy considered as either ornate or
classic, but 1t would be hard to paral-
lei his allusion to the speech of Sem
ator Beveridge on the Philippine ques-
ton. 81 beg you to remember" Till
diana did not trust that marvellous
memory of his. because we all know, at
least those who have made speeches
and we sometimes talk ourselves-that
those flowing periods and those beau
tiful sentences and that rhetorical love
illness and finish and glitter did not
come from any we'll in which he can dip
bucket and draw ii out at will"
NO finer subject for n snap shot ex-
lists than Joseph c. Sibiey. of Pennsyl-
Vania. Politically he wears L coat of
many colors. but he is always an inter-
esting figure. coat or no coat. His
speeches are refulgent with variegating
colors. and at times have a shimmering
brightness which makes it difficult to
understand them. In some remarks on
territorial expansion, Mr.. Cochran, OF
Missouri, who claims to know some
thing about the business. asked Sibley
if he thought the Philippine Islands
We're susceptible TO American immigra-
ton.
II want to tell you n story" Sibley
replied. at seems to me that you gem
tlemen are like an old man who lived
up in the country at the time they
built the Allegheny Valley Railroad.
He had some fla land in n valley where
they wanted to build the road. Never
hn
to it. Under the right OF emf
nent domain they built the road.
After it was built he and his
wife concluded that they would
go to the top of the hill and see the
train go across. They reached the top
around the curve and swept down the
valley. They watched it until 1t went
out of sight. Then his wife turned to
him and said: We'll. JOSIAH it didn't
do any harm
THAT'S all right, Maria,' he replied.
She went cndwise this time, but the
next time she may come sidewise and
wire grass region
You people," shouted Sibley, waving
his hand toward the minority, ARE
afraid that the next time it is going
to come sidewise. but it isn't. It's going
to come endwise, just as 1T has always
done"
BY way of putting n nub on the
speech, Sihley said: primitive man
lived in caverns, clothed himself in
skins. and ate his meat raw, squatting
on his launches. and there has never
occurred a. change for the higher and
better forms of life without arousing
the hostility of some old moss back
conservative bunker, who will prate of
those fairer and better days of old,
when their grandfathcrs swung by
their tails from the limbs OF the trees
in the forests primeval."
While Mr.. Sibley was making his
speech Prof. w. Jasper Talbert. of
Parksville. S. c., turned his kodak upon
the great Pennsylvania. He develop
ed the picture without going into n
dark room. and exhibited It to the
House in Il pension discussion a day
or two afterward. Talbert was insist
ing upon a strict scrutiny of each pen
sion bill with view of squeezing out
those not really entitled to pensions.
Mr.. Sibley was annoying him by OBJ
JectionS and points OF order. II was
then that Talbcrt began to exhibit the
productions of his kodak. Mr.. Sihley
said that it cost $500 an hour to run
the House of Representatives. He adj
ded that even his friend from South
Carolina would admit that in the last
few years he had used so much OF the
time of the House in opposing legisla-
ton that the cost of the time would
nave paid every pension bill that had
been before the House this session.
Talbert replied: my friend wonder
goes out of one place and into another
so often that I cannot follow him."
a moment afterward. when he had
called for the reading of report and
Mr.. Sibley had objected. Talbert said:
Il hope this House has not arrived
at that understanding, or at that point,
where they want to stiile free speech,
where they want TO gag anybody, es-
pecially my distinguished, smooth
faced chameleon from Pennsylvania, CO.
quoting with silver and gold with the
facile ease of an agile acrobat
When this picture was shown the
whole House burst into uncomfortable
laughter.
About this time William Neville. who
lis the successor OF Judge Green, of
Nebraska. asked Mr.. Talbcrt why
he did not make the point of no quo
rum when other than pension bust
ness Was being considered.
IF the gentleman will sit down and
be easy. and let his hair grow. 1 will
tell him why 1 do it," Prof. Talbert
responded. He then said that he did
1t to keep pensions from bummers, de-
serters, and coffee coolers, and that
he was opposed to these Internal in
creases to men and women who had
already competency. while old SOL
diers were left out without original
pensions.
Not long afterward Joseph w. Ford
ney. of Saginaw. Mich. caught fish
light picture of the South Carolinian.
1t was intensely characteristic. Ford
ney. indignant at the delay in the PEN
sion bills. told Talbert that he would
not believe him under oath. The pro-