The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-28
Lobbyists Pouring Into Wash
ington by TrainIoads.
EVERY ONE WANTS FAVORS
Brewers and Temperance
People Lobby Together

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short session Of congress preceding the
beginning Of President AIcKinley's second
term. All of the plans that have beer
laid for great schemes in connection with
! the expansion Of the Americansnatio fol
/ lowing the war with Spain are beginning
/ to sprout
/ It is no new thing to see promoters Of
| legislation coming here by the car load
/ but it is a new thing to see them coming
| literally by the trainload. A trainlOad Of
brewers arrived here during the first week
in December. At the same time a dozen
! trainloads Of members Of the Woman S
Christian Temperance Union came to
keep the tax on beer and abolish the
army canteen- They were known as the
anti-lobbv.
A trainIoad Of bankers came on De-
cember g. headed by A p Hepburn Of
New York, Myron T. Herrick OF Cleve-
land. and J. H. Eckels of Chicago. They
desired the tax on bankers and brokers
RENTED. Men representing steamship
lines are here in sufficient force to make
high priced suites in the hotels hard to
obtain
Representatives Of the oleomargarine
manufacturers Of the west, all Of them
looking fat, sleek and oily are holding
forth in the corridors Of the hotels and
besieging the roms Of the agricultural
committee of the senate. Hearty looking
citizens with a weather-beaten face and a
heavy tread, indicating cow-hide boots at
home, are watching these same oily gen
tIemen.- They Of the weather-6eaten feat
ures are the representatives. Of the Ma
tional Dairymen's association and might
be known as the anti-olsomargarine
lobby
These are a few Of the interests rep
resented here. Clustering around the
one subject Of an inter-oceanic canal. on
which the government will spend 800. 0o0,-
90. are able and versatile agents Of a half
dozen different vested rights" Some Of
them represent the Pacific railroads;
others are looking after the Maritime ca
nal company that once had a concession
from Nicaragua; still others, If they were
to divulge their paymasters. would be
found representing the Panama Canal
company. There are agents of the French
government and the Russian government
on hand and interests are so interviewer
that frequently three or four Of these
different influences are found working
toward one erI. These, collectively
speaking. make up the anti-canal lobby
There is an army and navy lobby, and
that. like the poor, is always with US"
The secretary of war wants one bill the
general commanding the army wants an
othr: the line pulls in one direction, the
staff in another. Makers Of patent guns
and patent shells; manufacturers of ar
NOR plate and builders Of battleships;
promoters Of private claims, seekers for
Increases in salary commercial bodies
that want their home creek deepened and
delegations from interior towns that de-
mand a new postohice-au of these ele-
ments contrive to make the short con-
gres1onaI session a continual round Of
lodging and yielding to the lobby.
There have been changes since tire old
days when the famous Samuel Ward and
Or. r Bruce Bradford We're the acEnovl-
edeged leaders in promoting legislation.
If anyone can he called the king of the
Lobby" now it is probably Colonel W. E.
Ayres. Colonel Ayres has been one of the
most successful members Of the Third
House" His life is a romance
When he came to Washington, IN the
neighborhood Of twenty years ago. he
was in desperate straits financially. He
himelf tells the story how, not having
street car fare in his pocket. he walked
miles to the Washington and Georgetown
car stables in order to apply for a posi-
ton as conductor. He is now very rich.
Colonel Avres for years has represent 4
ed the Union Pacific railroad in congress. !
He was long known as a personal friend
of Charles Francis Adams. When he be-
came versed in all the ms and outs of
legislation he succeeded to the task of
plotting the famous McGarraghan claim.
Sam Ward had it before Ayres. It had
been d-aeging its slow length along in
congress for many years A day. few
years ago. the whole capitol was con-
vulsed with establishment The McGarra-
shan claim rad passed, but was vetoed
by the president
A Wen known representative Of corpo-
ratons IS JOHN Boyd Mr. Boyd is
medium sized man. dresses much like
parson. with very bright eyes set in
very small head The size Of hat Mr..
Mr. Bovd wears IS no index to his abil-
tiles Nir. Boyd, ip the days Of recon
struction. held a small position in the
house Of representatives. He attracted
che attention of the late Charles Terrill.
who until his death. represented the late
Coils p Huntington. when Mr.. Terrill
died. 1Ir. Boyd succeeded him. and he IS
now the sentinel on guard for the South
ern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
The Southern Pacific road has for many
years succeeded in ohstructur the Mic
a-aEua canal 1Tr. Huntington was the
inspiration Of the operation. but MI BOYD
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