Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-28

II was probably more of a shock to Mr..
ouay TO learn that his friend Platt had
.fled'' upon his CQuay'1 old seat in the
Senate than was the course of Mr.. Hanna
The filing on a mans seat in the Senate
is a very delicate matter; one concerning
which senators are extremely sensitive. 1t
is so delicate a matter that ii is pro-
found secret intrusted 10 none but the con-
fdential employee of the Senate in charge
of the seats who would under 10 circum-
stances reveal it. The discovery is made
only after the old occupant of the seat mas
retired and the new one taken possession,
Filing on a senator's scat is putting your
name down for it in anticipation of its be-
ing vacated. To file on seat implies be-
lief that it will be vacated. and senators
are usually sensitive about having their mis-
fortune thus anticipated. 1t is particularly
painful to find that this has been done by a
friend The seats in the Senate are not all
equally desirable When Il desirable seat
l. about TO be vacated all senators who are
not satisfactorily seated set their eyes upon
it. Promptness is essential to success IN
this diguified and GccorouS secret scramble
for a good seat but there is something I'M
generous in assuming too soon that seat
will he vacated II required delicate us
examination TO observe the proprieties in this
matter. If senator making i hard hSht
for recollection finds that some one-he can
not know who-has filed on his seat, II OPP
crates like a hoodoo. He is like man
marked for death. and the unknown prophet
OF evil is object Of resentment. W men
he is gone and the seat taken he thus DIS
covers who was first to anticipate his mis-
fortune. but he cannot tell how far in adj
vance of the vacancy the application for
the seat was filed. That is a secret kept
from every senator. Usually a senator does
not know that any one has filed upon his
seat in advance of his retirement.
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having a very hard fight for reelection, but
who felt confident of success discovered
that some one of his colleagues had filed on
his seaA- He could not tell who it was, but
the knowledge made hun lose confidence in
his fight His resentment was so great that
he set about Systematically TO tell every
senator on his side of the chamber what ne
thought of the man who had thus antici-
pated his defeat. being sure that in this way
he would make the right man secretly feel
the weight of his displeasure. 1t turned
out afterward that the seat went to man
10 whom he had denounced the unknown
with particular bitterness of invective.
II has been long since Quay's seat was
placed in jeopardy that it is obvious that
The man who got it must have filed on il a
long time ago. II is therefore easy for Mr..
Quay to infer that Mr.. Platt's friendship
for his fellow boss did not make him for
get his own interest, and that he quietly
made the most of his prophetic vision. The
evidence is plain that no one got ahead of
MI Platt in anticipating Mr.. Quay's down.
fall It may be regarded as rather queer.
however. that Mr.. Penrose was so well
prepared 20 avail himself of the seat thus
vacated by MIR. Plat.
SuCh are the delicate attentions senators
pay their parting colleagues.
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\ w"ll-k1own official of the War Depart
nlcnt Who related this little story TO a Star
reporter declares that it is really true The
parties concerned are both clerks in the de-
partment mentioned; at least. one of them is
while the other was up 10 a few days ago.
1t seems that very recently a popular
young man of the northwest was invited to
a card party Among other guests he met
for the first time was young lady, un-
usually pretty. if not beautiful, and unqucs-
tionably attractive. For a few fleeing
moments he CHANGED to be her partner at
one of the tables. great deal may hap
pen during a brief period. however. While
the cards We're being dealt the conversation
vas directed toward the Paris exposition
and the young lady remarked:
! would marry anybody who would take
me to Paris for the exposition"
DO you mean THAR inquired her card
partner.
Il most certainly do was the reply.
Il am going to Paris" then announced
her partner: will YOU marry me?''
Why. Of course, was the laughing agree
ment.
The bell a the head of the table rang.
the parties changed their seats and the
Little affair was apparently thing of the
past 1t CHANGED that the young man was
asked to escort the young lady home that
night. Before reaching her residence de-
tails had been arranged and they were ac-
tUally married the following day.
Some of her female friends say that she
Is sorry now because she has found that
she does not like him so very much. At
all events. they are going to Paris early in
June.
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Every time l hear city men talking
about raising chickens" said a prominent
young official of the treasury, reminds me
of the time when / had the chicken fad
myself | don't think there is any fad
over which man can make a bigger fool
of himself had no more back yard at my
home than the average city man but 7
concluded must have some chickens So
began 10 talk with chicken growers sub