The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-09
WESTERN MEN
IN CONGRESS
Affairs Of This Section Are in
Good Hands.
SKETCHES OF NEW MEMBERS
SENATOR CLARK TO BUILD RES
IDENcE AT WASHINGTON.

Washington. Dec. 4.-This is ses-
sion Of congress IN which the west
should get its inning The president
himself a western man through sew
eral years of western experience,
knows the needs of the west thorough
Is and has given full expression con-
corning them in his first message to
congress.
tt is slowly dawning on the east that
the message devotes more space to
irrigation, forestry and other kindred
western matters than it does to ship
subsidy, international affairs or other
matters more directly concerned with
the east in addition to he personal
. interest the president takes in the
west, Il viii be noticed that the west
is represented in the new congress by
an infusion of new and vigorous blood
AS a rule, the new representatives ia
the senate and house are typical west
ern men who have built Up their for
tunes by hard knocks and who un-
derstand fully what the west needs and
are prepared to get it,
Colorado sends 4 new man to the
senate in the person Of Thomas N.
Patterson, who should become a power
III LiEAL UUuNr ne He AtNEE III AUAUE4uC
for thirty years, and the history Of that
state from territorial days TO the pres
emf tine has been almost identical with
his own varying fortunes, politically
and financially.
Montana sends two new men to the
Fsnate, Clark and Gibson. The biog-
rarhy of Senator CLARK reads like a
chapter from Monte Christie" A
miner in the quartz mines of Central
City, Colo, in 1862 fighting Indians in
1877; later a business man, banker and
mine owner, and now one of the
wealthy men of the world He is Just
at present engaged in developing the
railroad facilities Of the west and, as
he subordinates politics to the welfare
Of his people, he can be counted upon
as power in the senate Tor western
interest.
How Gibson Rose.
His colleague, Senator Gibson, is also
a pioneer. He drove the first fiocks
OF sheep into Montana and has
watched that industry grow until his
state is now the leading sheep growing
state in the west. he founded the
city of Great Falls, Mont, and is in
every sense a type of the successful
business man.
Nebraska's two new senators are
also products of the west Senator
Dietrich was one of the BLACK Killers
Of 1S75-76 and helped open that rich
region. Later he was a pioneer in the
farming development Of Nebraska.
Senator Willard has been a resident
o. Omaha for over forty years and has
seen that city grow from a struggling
village to one of The finest business
centers of the west
Senator Kearns Of Utah is another
hardy son of the west who has carved
a place and name in the world with
his own hands. AS freighter, miner,
ranCher and prospector, ne has learned
what the west requires and is prepared
TO assist III securing it Representa-
tive Sutherland of Yah takes his seat
in the house as a new member He is
cOnversant with western conditions,
having been in active practice at the
Salt Lake bar for nearly twenty years
With this infusion of young and Wig
orous life into the national congress,
and with a president alive to the in
terests of the west, a new era Of de-
ve,opment may be confidently ex-
pected.
Mckinley Favored the West.
Had President Mckinley lived, it is
certain that much would have been
done by him for the west at this ses-
sion Of congress. To numerous west
ern men he expressed his qualification
of what he saw during his visit TO the
Pacific coast and on his trip across
the continent. Especially was he inn
pressed with the possibilities of irTi-
cation and it is certain ne would have
recommended in the strongest terms
the adoption of a policy of national aid
had he been permitted to live to make
recommendations to the Fifty-seventh
congress.
Next 20 the Importance Of president
being a good president, the Washington
people consider it chiefly important
that ne be q good society man. and
have a following Of wealthy and so
Cially influential friends. The social
prOpensities Of the ROOsevelts are the
subject Of more than casual curiosity
1T is realized that they may mean mil
lions for the city.
the golden age of Washington came
with Cleveland's first m-nistratiOn
The Whitneys aided the Clevelands
much TO give their administration so
cial eclat. Wealthy families came to
Washington TO live and to buy hand
some homes in greater numbers than
ever before. In fact. it might be said
that the Washington habit was
formed by the millionaire families dur
ing this administration. Real estate
doomed; prices doubled. and I'm many
cases advanced tenfOld.
The ROOsevelts are an old and
wealthy family and their social posi-
ton is unassailable, aside from Mr.
Buosevelts present position. They be-
long TO the millionaire set as well as
the old family set They belong Il
New York society and to New England
society, as well as 10 Washington so
ciety
Washington the Social Center.
There are the best reasons to believe
thst they VIII make the Capital City
the winter social center OF the country
while they are at the White House
Al d this viii be reflected, il the experts
are correct in their deductions, in q
continuance of the prosperity Of tbs
Washington real estate market.
1t is said that Miss Belle Hagner, pri-
vate secretary TO Mrs. Roosevelt is be-
cCmiEg exceedingly unpopular with
some of the women newspaper writers
OF Washington. The matter has as
sumeG such formidable shape that a
boycott is threatened to be placed upon
the social function Of the White House
and that IN the future the great Amer
lean daily press viii have scant news
from mat neWs-p producing center. Miss
Hagner is reported 70 be somewhat
lacking in tact and is said not TO show
sufficient consideration for the women
writer's who go 10 the White House
not because they want to. but because
the editors of their papers instruct
them to do so.
She is a charming young woman
noted FOR husiness-like methods. buI