The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-11

seems to have largely disappeared from
mis- tongue. The bursts of vitriolic elo.
quence that used to make Administrat OF
members writhe in their seats are nov
! reserved for the minority. His opeI
advocacy OF the Ship Subsidy bill is the
cause of comment, especially as his posi-
ton was not clearly defined until a few
days ago. There is an appearance of seren-
/ ity on the Republican side of the Chamber
when he gets up to speak that was alto.
gether wanting in the old days. All this
! has set those in the Hobbies to wagging
{ their heads wisely. 1t is thought that Mr.
! Chandler. having lost his toga. is getting
( himself in line for something equally as
! good
Administration FavOritism.-Among
| Senators who are not completely under
the spell of the Administration leaders
the action of the Committee on Military
Affairs in holding up and deciding to in
vestigate the promotions of Colonel Bell,
Brisadier General Wood and Brigadier
General Grant. is looked upon as being
justified from every point of view. 1t is
regarded as being the proper step to take
when, for unexplainabIe reasons, officers
known TO be favored are advanced on the
list by so many numbers. The charge of
fayortism is made freely enough, and the
opinion is general that the Military Com
mittee has done right to put a check upon
it.
Without taking into consideration the
number of deserving officers over the head
Of whom the three officers are promoted it
is considered that their records and their
present standing in the army by no means
make them worthy or ready for any such
honor as has been bestowed upon them.
Colonel Bell stands 119 in the lneal list.
and on July u was made colonel of the
Thirty-sixth United States Infantry. He
graduated as cadet from the Military
Academy in 1874. and reached March 2,
1893, to captaincy in the regular organ
ization From this captaincy 1t is pro-
posed to advance him to a brigadier gen.
eralship.
Wood was made brigadier general of
volunteers April H. 1899. In the Regular
Army he stands sc on the list. and is an
assistan, surgeon with the rank of cap.
tain. His promotion to be brigadier gen.
eral is generally attributed to his close
relation to the President
Grant has not been in the permanent or
ganization of the army since 1881 when he
left it with the grade of first lieutenant
In The volunteer army he was advanced
to his brigadier generalship in 1899. In
the regular organization he will jump to
the new position over the heads of many
men in the regular ranks whose right TO
promotion at this present time is ad
mitted.
The fact that the Military Committee
has seen fit to scrutinize these recon-
mended appointments when they were
known to be especially desired by the
President is considered by Senators to
be an evidence of independence on the
part of the committee. and n cause for
1t is regarded as a sign
that though the President may have. in
the new Army bill, much power OF an arbi-
trary sort granted him, there will be SIS
much restraint put upon him as is pos
sible through the legislative department.
Out of this the former opponents of the
Army eorganizationa bill are getting a
small measure of comfort.
Faithful Friend.-Speaking of the
late Representative Daily OF New Jersey,
House Saturday, Representative Fitzgerald
Of Massachusetts said: Il knew him quite
intimately, and 1 must say that he was
The most faithful frisfd l ever knew. |
one time that he showed his
ability for self-sacrifice in a most strik-
ing way. / had invited him to come to
Boston to be present at the Bryan dinner. |
He had accepted and had come up from |
his home. As he came down the steps in |
his evening clothes ready to enter the |
carriage that was to drive up to the din |
ner telegram was handed 10 him. 1t |
was from friend In New Jersey, whose |
case had been set for the next morning |
before the State Supreme Court asking |
Daily TO be sure TO be there. Daily gave |
up the dinner. took the next train, and |
WAS in New Jersey before the court the /
next morning. His friends liberty was
Involved, and he would not let his own
pleasure stand in the way OF that
1T was because of that dinner that | got
Mr.. DAILY into some trouble. He was TO come |
up from New York with Fitzgerald of
Brooklyn. Glynn of New York, Rupert,
md Mitchell Nav. A New York newspaper
published The pictures of all OF them, under
The head OF something like Bevy OF
at Bryan Dinner Daily happens
10 have a wife and three children, and the
leXt time she met NE she informed me that
she proposed to make me, the so-called |
Rose OF Congress look like a crushed
strawberry If / led her husband astray
again, and made him parade as bachelor"
Broke Up the Trio.-Whep Senator
Searns of Utah took his seat in the Sem
tie il seemed that there vas to be trio
VI Senators who part their hair in the
middle, even after Senator Wolcott left
rhe Senators in this Congress arranging
heir hair in this way are Senators Ken
ley, Kean, and Wolcott Senator Wolcott
las failed to be returned by his State, and
I seemed al first as If the trio was TO be
n ga !
ppeared on the scene. When he entered |
he Senate chamber TO take The oath, 1t |
vas evident in minute that he was TO
AXE Senator -Wolcott's place in the broth
.rhood. His slightly rotund form was
lad in a scrupulously we'll fitting cut
way coat, in the lapel of which bios
omed red carnation, and. best OF all
lie had the rule-stralght parting of his
lark chestnut hair. The division was
over the bridge OF his
lose, and the curling ends of the bang
we're brushed back toward the ears.
Unfortunately, somebody made mention |
II the fact that Mr.. Kearns was one of
he very few Senators who part their hair I
n the middle. Perhaps it was the bar :
'er. and rumor says 1t was. Whoever |
to make the observation de- 1
troyed all the little edifice of hope that |
hose interested in preserving to the SEN
tie trio OF members parting their hair
IA the middle had built up. The next day
senator kearns appeared with his hair
arted over the left eyebrow
An Old OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES George !
Y. Ray Representative from the Twenty
ixth New York district, is pretty old /
foeholder. but he has among his con-
Lituents man who can claim justly TO be :
ne Oldest Federal postmaster In the Uni