The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-20
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

| prepared after two years OF study ana
only used it to convince an aunt OF NINE
! that the use of chewing tobacco IS no
drawback should one desire to go down
| into history as a statesman.
This is a list of Senators who use
| chewing tobacco necessarily while on the
floor of the Chamber. I have seen straug-
| ers wonder at thu. array of china cUspi-
! doris in the Senate and / can assure you
! that they are not there as ornaments
! Some of the best men in The Senate are
! never happy unless masticating piece OF
the weed and / think this list ought TO
silence some of those who oppose the
habit.
Senator Morgan chews tobacco all the
time. The others in this class are Sena-
tors Vest. Fettus Daniel, Bate, CocErell.
4!cEnery, Berry. Sp0oner. CuipeTSoh'
Scott. and Cullom.
| Those Senator's who used chewing to-
! baCco. who went out on March I. were
MeSSrs- Butler, Caffery, kenney, Chiitoh'
and Carter
Those who chew while listening to
spe.ch or while speaking. are Senators
Clay, Hanna. Penrose. Mason, Pritchard.
Hale, Tillnan. Jones of Nevada, Nelson,
ard Turner The fiery Pettgrew always
ate candy during a debate. while Nr Al
len kept box Of snuff on his desk.
William z Haynes, Of Fremont Ohio,
formerly q Representative in Congress IS
at the Riggs House He has been spend
ing few weeks in the South, and IS now
on his way 10 New York, whence he will
go to his home. Mr.. Haynes was IN the
F7ifty-first and F'ifty-second Congresses,
having been d member of the Committee
on Banking and Currency IN the Fifty
first Congress, and a member of the Riv-
ers ard HaTbors Committee in the FIFTY
second Congress. He was nominated for
r L. IL 70 pm .
given up politics and deyotes himself to
''Ths volume of business in the Middle
/ West is immense said he last night.
Money is easy. and no one IS feeling
pinched- Banks are continually multiply
ing. and money IS getting more ana more
within the reach of those VINO need II
IT have plenty of work on hand said
the telegraph operator in the little box
at the corner of the Pennsylvania depot
wafting-room today i always do about
this time OF the year Putting his hand
on Il pile Of telegraph blanks, the opera
tor continued, here IS work piling up on
ne, aad it looks as If Ia never get II
done. II is all on account of franks, Con-
gressiouaI franks newspaper franks, and
! franks of a miscellaneous nature, that
are every bit as bothersome as the others
if NOT more SO Taking it all In all.
guess M. greatest trouble comes in the
spring from the Congressional frank when
tCongressmen are leaving for home Il
seems TO me that every time RepreSen-
tatiye or q Senator comes into the station
be walks right over to my booth and
takes out his book Of franks Then he
picks up q pen and 4 telegraph blank,
and the combination brings my UuhdDpl-
. ness Here IS u telegram from d Repre-
sentative Just returning home HIS frank
covers twenty words, and he uses every
k. gfelr.~ 1v-E
+ every now and then for good measure
and here IS place where he has interim
Cd in order TO set all his words on the
blank
The average man who comes to write
out telegram cuts II down, in many
/ cases 50 that il IS almost unlntejlIgl3ie.
His message IS always short, If not TO the
point, and II does not take me much tine
/ 10 get il over the wire. but when L have
q run OF Congressional frank messages,
l have all / can handle and more. too
(
Much that is dramatic is condensed
into the last hours of dying Congress
Many things arise. grow, come to their
climax, and pass without anyone but
those most interested knowing that
they ever happened, and even those con
! cerued when once the danger 70 their
interest is passed, forget the incident.
/ 4 little story of how the Sundry Civil
: bin was nearly killed by the friends OF
the ST Louis Worlds Fair appropriation
was told last night.
Ny associates and I had fully deter
mined TO defeat the Sundry Civil bill
if we did not succeed N getting an appro-
priation for the fair" said Representa-
tive Richard Barthoiit at the PennsyIva-
MIA depot just as he Was about to take
/ the train for home. We had been GriY-
en- into a hole and things looked very
| doubtful Tackins on the Charleston
/ and the Buffalo Exposition appropriations
/ and making them part Of ours, seemed
for a while likely to Kill all three propo-
sittons- we were reduced TO extremities.
/ ana something unusual had 10 be done.
We could not get any satisfaction from
| 8fr- Cannon, and as the bill came again
| and again from conference. our hopes
| grew weaker and weaker
! Finally after conference with other
ST Louis members I went TO lIr. Cannon
and served notice on him that if the St.
! Louis Fair proposition was eliminated
from the bill ( would hold up everything.
and put of action on the Sundry Civi
measure with the intention Of defeating
it, by calling for quorum. That was
in the early hours Of the morning. We
had our own House bill, appropriatus
the money in the Senate at the time,
bat we We're afraid OF the SeRate-s ac-
ton ana G}G not dare IrUSt ourselves TO
the meTCirS OF the other body. our threat
I TO Air Cannon set him TO thinking He
hid a conference with Senators. and l
supposed fixed up thu entire matter with
{ them. Tor in IeW- hours the Senate
passed our House bill Freed from amy
fer OF opposition from as. 5r. Cannon
then rose and asked for an agrFe ment
I ON the Suuary Fivn bill, conference re
/ port / nodded my agreement ID him
/ and the BIN went through
/ IF our BIZ HIu not passed the senate,
q
I time we threatened which was 5.I5 Mon
daE morning. we would have made plenty
/ OF trouble in the camp Of our opponents.
/ and would, ] think, have defeated the
! Suudry civil bill.
/ Representative Barthodt. having sue
/ ceeded IN getting the appropriation, is
now on his way home 10 reap the fruits
o. his IabOrs. n company with Repre-
sentative JOY he viii arrive Ia St Louis
| tomorrow. +ad viii be met ut the train by
bands and procession Ills friends have
prepared a great and enthusiastic vel
come Tor him.
Fourteen years ago, when ! came to
Washington for the first time said G.
W. 2JcGahey. of Philadelphia. Pa. at
! the Metropolitan today, i had the pleas
ure of giving our Representative in Con
surprise II his life Ex-Governor Curtin
was thea representing my district in
! Congress l was d younger man then
than 1 am now, and / was hunting for
! amusement when / made that trip. l
| landed I'm Washington in the morning,
{u H. afternoon Thought thar