Evening star., 1901-03-02

of former Vice President Henry Wilson and
former President Pro Tempore La Fayette
Foster will look solemnly down upon their
successor.
Mr.. Roosevelt will have his back turned
to marble mantel surmounted by a large
mirror covering the space between his two
windows. whose light will be reflected in
the polished tops of three small mahogany
desks upon another Northumberland
twelve-dollar rug, in the rear of the room.
The Vice Presidents necessary reference
volumes will be visible through the plate
glass doors of a broad mahogany book ca Sc
almost covering the wall to his right. If
he wishes to wash the dust of official labor
from his hands he need but brush aside
the draperies Of an alcove penetrating the
wall to the left of his doorway.
When Mr.. Roosevelt wishes to dictate a
letter he will turn to his private secretary,
to whom Uncle Sam will pay a salary of
$2,22o year. His official errands will be
attended to by a messenger made happy by
generous annual salary of S1,440 year.
Parliamentary Law.
Roosevelt has Eeen cramming Senate rules
and precedents during his leisure since the
Philadelphia convention. AS parliament
tartan he is not so experienced as was Mr..
Hobart when he arrived at the Capitol
four years ago. The former Vice President
had been speaker of the New Jersey house
of representatives for two terms and presi-
dent of his state senate one term. Mr..
Roosevelt was a member of his state legis-
Ia ture for two years but nearly two dec
AIDES have elapsed since he gained that
brief parliamentary training. Therefore he
has had to spend considerable time of late
mastering the routine and detail of the
Senate proceedings. Moreover he has had
to study the numerous and technical parlia-
mentary precedentS established in the Sen
ate since the very first days of the republic
Although presiding over the Senate, Col
Roosevelt strange to say, will be neither
q Of
will be impossible for the Senate, acting
directly, to remove him. Yet he will re-
cefVe all communications addressed to the
Senate by the President the House, any
other branch of the government or any in
dividual. He will not participate in de-
bates. He will only be heard when giving
his decisions and opinions He will have no
vote except in case of tie, and this op-
portunity will have a slim chance for oc-
currence during the next four years. The
most notable case of a Vice Presidents
making history thus was the passage of the
Walker tariff bill by the deciding vote of
George NJ. Dallas, Vice President during
Polks administration. No bill or resolution
passed by the Senate during the next four
years will be authentic without Mr.. Roose-
velt's signature. But not being member of
the Senate Mr.. Roosevelt will have no hand
in the formation of the Senate committees
Neither will he be admitted to the caucuses
of republican senators, which will appoint
the committees and the many officers of
the Senate. In other words, Mr.. Roose-
Velt's legislative powers will be almost at
the absolute zero of Importance compared
with those of the Speaker of the House.
Indeed, President Pro Tempore Frye
of the Senate is today more pow
erful man in his body than Mr. Roosevelt
will be on Tuesday and thereafter. More
over, Mr.. Frye. in addition to receiving the
full vice presidential salary, enjoys many
perquisites which will not legitimately fall
to the Vice President.
Being senator. Mr.. Frye has been en-
titled each year to 90 cents mile for trav-
cling expenses 10 and from sessions, S12J
tor stationery. $40 worth of packing boxes
of bound government pubIca tions
Il box of plants and cuttings from the Bo-
tanical Gardens. ten charts from the coast
survey. 5000 packages of garden seed 400
packages of flower seed and various bulbs
and cuttings from The Department of Agri-
culture. But while no one appears to be