Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-10-12

berson said soto voce:
"See Jumbo return to his stalker
The southwesterners say the Judge
was a great stumper. In the famous
prohibition fight he sided with the cold
water crowd. On one occasion a big
fellow, sitting on the back of bench
in church, with a flask Of whisky in
his outside coat pocket, kept interrupt.
ing the Judge.
BiIPs Argument.
Every time he would lean forward to
ask a question his bottle would nearly
fall out of his pocket. At last Culber-
son said:
"Hp, 4fsy06so6 lppk out you win
es5uursHseSirnmtp at THE. sapei time
placing rfls hand on ( ftiis. dwn breast
aboutswheretwi iliiams6arried his;bottle.
The bit was potent and the audience
gave Bill such a asracket, that hesheld his
peace and wagged' his tongue no more
that day.
onceseaw Judge Culberson. electrify
and observation-disclosures In q most unique
manner.
One Of the most frequent requests
made by members Is for unanimous
consent to extend remarks in The Rec
cord" which Is hardly ever refused.
Recently the senate made a feeble
effort to curtail this privilege. While
individually I make little use of it, I
sometimes doubt whether its abolition
would prove profitable. AS 1t is, q
member may, and frequently does, con-
tent himself with delivering the snowy
parts of bis speech and printing the
more tedious but substantial parts.
This process certainly saves time, even
IL 1t increases the bulk of The Record,
and. as 1t costs pot of money per
hour to run congress, 1t saves money.
Another thing-if members are not per-
mitted to print, they will speak more.
However that may be, one day Judge
Culberson was making some remarks,
and the hammer fell upon him In me-
dias res. He said
''Mr. Speaker, ask unanimous
The speaker, supposing he was max
ing the usual request, didn't wait for
him to finish, but ratified off the stereo-
typed formula, "The gentleman from
Texas asks unanimous consent to ex-
tend his remarks In The Record"
"Mr. Speaker, Mr.. Speaker" shouted
Culberson. you got that wrong !
didn't desire to extend my remarks.
What I want Is leave to withdraw all
| have saidv'
This was such an unheard of per
formance that it knocked the speaker
all of a heap, and it was several sec
onds before he stated Culberson's
strange request. The members laugh
ed and whooped till they nearly crack
ed the glass roof.
"Pow'fuI Reg'lar."
is little pecuniary profit In serving in
congress. 1t Is easy enough to say and
Is frequently true that many congress
men and senators would not make So
900 per annum at home. But the diff
ference in living expenses, the neces-
sary and legitimate outlay In cam
paigning and other incidental costs
more than eat up the surplus.
So that a common performance is for
members to fall to talking of the un-
profitableness of the whole business,
voicing In many ways old King Solo,
mons undying wall, 'vanity of vani-
ties; all is vanityw One morning some
members were indulging In lugubrlous
talk about the smallness of congress.
sional salaries, etc. Culberson listened
awhile and then cheered them up by
saying, "Yes, boys, the pay amt very
big, but you must remember that 1t Is
pow'ful reg'lar;" which cured them Of
ennui, temporarily at least.
Thomas Bracket Reed is a rare
Judge of men, and, while he is bitter
partisan in politics and says many bit
ing things, l think that he tries to be
and is fair In his estimate Of his fel-
lows. When he heard that Judge Cul-
berson was sick unto death. he paid the
great Texan this tribute, and have no
doubt that 1t came straight and warm
from his heart:
Judge Culberson has done more to
soften the asperities Of the civil war
than any man who was ever in con-
gress, and during his long and honora-
BILE term of office he has ever been a
great conservative force. He has been
the architect of nearly all of the gen.
eral statute laws enacted In congress
since 1875"
1t seems to me that that paragraph
would make a splendid epitaph for the
illustrious jurist.
Modest Greatness.
Judge Culberson was one Of the very
few men whose usefulness was dimin-
ished by his modesty. In this age of
brass that is distinction enough for one
man, and l have no doubt that, save
for this modesty and Indifference to
fame. he could have been the most re-
nowned statesman of this age.
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