The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-24

handbag into the nOlel ONCE WdS 70 AAliS
for cab. In minute he was in it and
The -steeds were on the jump for the
White House. Beveridge shot into the
presidents reception loom and in frac-
hon of a second there was a. sound like
The bursting of one of the Gathlnan gun
projectiIes. 1t was Teddy's JOY at seeing
Albert The president is very explosive
when pleasurabIy excited The date for
lunch having been arranged, Beverage
was off again like a planet loosed from
It's orbit. The cab horses foamed ana
praneed all over town; the senator was
making calls and doing errands In the
various departments The asphalt pave
ments grew so hot it became necessary
for the fire department to turn out and
spray them.
The junior senator from Indiana is
looking prime He is as straight as
match and as immaculate as the deck of
a warship He Is as full Of business as
fox terrier chasing rats.
Senator Charles w. Fairbanks is once
more in "our midst" He is tail, slim and
uncommunicative. There appears to be
little doing in the presidential boom line.
II he is laying any pipe to succeed Theo-
dora Roosevelt as tenant OF the Whte
house he is not buying any space IN the
local papers to advertise the fact. me
day he arrived he decided to cut out the
formality Of paying his respects to the
president" Instead, he locked himself
up In his study and communed with
bunch of unanswered letters.
Senator Orville H Plat, of Meriden,
Conn, has come back to the national
capital. Orville has that pale, tired look
to which the patent medicine ads allude
He loafs around the Arlington rotunda
apparently uninterested in affairs terres-
trial and celestial. Seated in one of the
big chairs, his elbow on the arm, his lett
thumb pressed against the projecting
tooth Of his upper incisors, he gazes into
space His gray whiskers are scraggy'
his hair moth-eaten; the mercury in his
vicinity registers two degrees below the
normal Platt is figuring on the effect
OF the French reciprocity treaty on the
sock-makins industry of Meriden.
Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom is In his
house on Massachusetts avenue, having
settled down for the winter. Your I'm
Gle Shelby was never so serene IN his
ASPECT, He never looked in better
health The young bucks from lilnols
who have been told that he is seventy
three years old and that this would De
his last term in the senate are becoming
er he will be a fractions colt about the
time his term runs out. Uncle Shelby is
anticipating a gay social career THIS
winter. He and Alice Roosevelt are
going to come out. Uncle Shelby Is 10
be chairman of the foreign affairs COM
mittee. and in a social way that's better
than being queen of the May his
daughter. who is the wife OF w. b.
Ridgely, comptroller of the currency,
is here, and has taken the Reginald lie
Koven house, on Sixteenth street, and
viii help entertain. Uncle Shelby has
Just been reelected, and can afford to
be as independent as a street car con-
ductor And he is. He and Chauncey
Depew are going to be as merry as
merry can be.
Senator Billy Mason was in Washing
ton this week for a few fitting hours
Senator Billy suggests the poem of Gene
Field about the small boy 'jest before
Christmas" who was being as good as
he could be. There is something doing
in the political line out in Illinois, and
Billy has not fingers and toes enough
to count the Indians who are after his
scalp And his hair is long and curly
and sometimes combed. Senator Billy
has not grown thin worrying; his wer-
rtes never have that effect. But he has
grown very well behaved. He has LAID
or dignity with trowel. He puts VI
bluff that would do credit TO a street
faklr. He has quit throwing stones al
the White house; never mentions the
Ftiipinos, the Beers or the Cubans ex-
cept to commend the wise and conserva
tive course of the Mckinley Roosevelt
administration. Because Christmas ant
election are coming
Henry Cabot Lodge is gradually re-
suming his customary role of scholar
In politics." For a brief spell he was
In the lmelight as friend of the pres
ldent." He and Roosevelt once ran 6
book publishing scheme together, ant
on the strength Of this he was touted as
future secretary Of state, "mouth-piect
OF the president" chairman of the for.
egn affairs committee, etcetera ad in
faitum. But he fell down on the chair
Rlanship and faded from the canvas II
the other pictures. Now he has JOINED
tile class with former Congressman Lor
liner and gets an occasional lunch.
The Hon. David B. Henderson. of Iowa
Is preparing the duties of speakership
Dave has acquired lot of dignity since
he became speaker In fact it is only
tAe old boys who call him Dave now
David used to play poker with Tom Reed
and was a great admirer of Tom. He
took lessons of the big man from Maine
RAd among the things he learned was the
fact that speaker must hold his tongue
With the young members of the house OF
representatives, Henderson is very aus
tere parsonage, full of business, gruff
and short. He unlimbers with the old
chaps, and at some convenient season
during the session has them all up to
dinner at the Metropolitan club. They
have champagne and sing Marching
Through Georgia." 1t is taken for grant
ed that Henderson Will be reelected
: There will be no opposition.
Former Senator Thurston. of Nebraska
is Just as much in evidence now as whe1
he was member of the American hous,
OF lords. He is a member of the Louis
lana purchase exposition committee. anC
filds 1t convenient to make his head
quarters in Washington. About a veal
ago he took unto himself a young wife
sac is as pretty as the day he married
her. and the ex-senator is as proud a.
pinch. Mrs. Thurston likes good clothes
Rad a gay time, and is getting both
Senator John T. Morgan is here to be
gAn his twenty fifth year of service in tn,
Inited States senate. The gentleman
from Alabama is sprightly young chal
cg. seYenty-eight years. He has been II
the senate long enough now to know
tstie about its workings, and he says tn
tariff is to be the bone Of contention H
predicts that the political history of tel
years ago will be repeated. Morgan Is
"a "a