The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01

and starts off, the reel sings in earnest
and the erstwhile somnolent and dignifed
congressman is all attention for the bat
tie royal which is to rage for the next ten
minutes. Mr.. Heatwole has fshed for
every kind of game fish that swarms sea,
lake or river, and if any one should sug
gest a heaven without a bass stream, 1t
would be no paradise for him.
Representative Babcock of Wisconsin,
chairman of the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, will be 100 busy
fishing for votes this summer and fall to
make his usual tour of the Wisconsin
lakes The records of his catches are
scattered through every notable club book
in Wisconsin. The muskalonge is his ia
vorite. This denizen of the clear, cool
lakes of the Northwest seems to combine
all the fighting qualities of every game
fish that swims. You troll for him in a
boat and when he strikes the hook he
makes a bee line for the boat. The game
is to reel in so fast that he does not get
any slack line for the moment he does
he's gone.
How the Speaker Angles.
Speaker Henderson of the House of Rep
resentatives is a fisherman-after a fash
ion. The spirit is willing but the flesh is
weak He has the instinct, but his wood
en- leg interferes, so he sits on the We
randa of the club house all day, reading
and smoking and taking in the glorious
ozone of the mountains, chatting with
the cid guides and boatmen, until 1.-The
boys" as he calls the others of the party,
come back in the evening with their
strings and then he is as mach interested
as any one He wants to know how long
this seven-pounder fought, where that big
fellow was picked up, and after supper,
when the fish lies are in order, he always
has some sumner of his own younger
days to match the best one told. Speaker
Henderson is great favorite with the
country people around the fishing grounds
and they all know him and come to see
him when they hear he is on hand.
Uncle Joe" Cannon, the chairman of
the House Committee on Appropriations,
is another "lain BARR fisherman, as the
guides call the statesmen who stick to
the club house verandas on hot days and
let others blister in the sun, Turing the
willy bass. He is very fond of fishing
excursion and starts off with great enthu-
siasm, but the next morning, when the
boat parties are made up, will find I'm
Gle Joe" making for a hammock at the
breezy end Of the veranda with hand
full of cigars and a book.
Former Senator Wade Hampton of
South Carolina the noted Confederate cav
airy general, although he had only one
leg, was one of the most inveterate OF
fishermen. He used the fly altogether, and
could sit down and cast with the expert
who used both legs. He made the record
of the Upper Potomac for fly casting. he
dropped a fly eighty feet away from the
boat and picked up bass that weighed
six and one-quarter pounds. They say he
could put a fly on a spot of water the
size of a water bucket at fifty feet dis
lance.
Photographic Fisherman.
"NIark' Smith of Arizona, was one Of
Gcha WI q
mained in Congress. He disdained to use
anything but fly and has whipped every
mile of the Potomac that is fishable from
Harper's Ferry to Cumberland. Last Con
gress he was left at home. He took triI
to California and went angling in the Pa
cific ocean for sea bass. He caught one
weighing 375 pounds and had a photo
graph taken of himself and the fish, which
he sent to Washington. The fish was sew
eral times larger than himself and wa:
caught with a rod and reel. He sent wore
that he wanted to hear no more tales
from the Congressional Fish Liars Asso
citation until some one could match hi
feat. They wrote back that ne shoul(
have got the seiners to bring in a 20
pound sea bass to the photographer; i
would be just as easy. That cruel fins
broke his heart and they have nevel
heard from Mark Smith since.
OF course, the king fisherman amons
statesmen of latter years was GroVel
Cleveland When he was in the White
House he went frequently to nearby fish
ing grounds after small mouth black bass
Mr.. Cleveland's favorite bait was frog
THAT fellow says Old Man Petty
John. up at Edwards Ferry, could Sc
on a rock and cast a frog furd er'n an!
man ever seem"
He tells the story on the former Pres
ident that one day they were fishing il
rocky water, and, not getting strike 70
a long time, the President set about to in
vestigate, when he found that his fro'
, had calmly climbed on a rock and wa
summing himself serenely, hook in mouth
The President remarks upon that occa
sion were omitted
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