The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-11

Cummings after floundering for a few
! minutes, sat down.
"The nearest thing ever said about
| anybody in Congress was Tom Reeds
remark about Doliver." said Repre-
sentative Steele. Reed was talking
about candidates for Vice President and
said:
'''Thcre's Dolliver. Now, Deliver IS
! Vice Presidential impOssibilty."
While Senator Lodge was making his
elaborate explanation of the Major
! Gardener incidents Senator Culberson
recalled ex-senator Pettigrew's remark
about Lodge.
Lodges mind" said Pettigrew. ere
minds me of the soil of New England
Impoverished, but highly cultivated"
Representative Williams, OF MissiS-
siLpi, has new negro story.
Are YOU the defendant?" asked a
man in the court room, speaking to an
old negro.
"No, boss" was the reply, 81 amt
done nothing to be called names like
that Use got q lawyer here who does
the defensins.'
'Then who are you?'
"Ise the gentleman what stole the
chickens.
day or two after Representative
Cushman delivered his memorable roast
in the House declaring that there was
too much power vested in the Speaker,
Gen. Henderson took an afternoon off TO
witness the opening baseball game of
the season. The Speaker noticed the
umpire seemed to be running the entire
game and facetiously remarked:
well, l suppose if Cushman was here
he would object to the umpire running
this game"
The slim and energetic Congressman
from the Pacific Coast heard of this re-
mark
"Oh, I remember once observed
Cushman nonchalantly, as he blew out
wreath of cigar smoke, seeing a base
ball umpire mobbed. He thought he was
running the game but before it was
ended he found that instead of running
the game he was running from the
game"
Cushman arose and sauntered out with
out celebrating on the moral of his COM
parison between the Speaker of the House
and the umpire, says the Washington
Post.
Senator Hanna likes good things to eat,
but sometimes he has Indigestion This
afternoon he was at luncheon in the
Senate restaurant, when Senator Bur-
rows came in and sat down beside him.
Hanna looked up.
do you know" he said, Il have one
ambition in life-an ambition that is
paramount to all others?"
THE Presidency" asked Burrows
good naturally.
NO" said the Senator.
well, what them"
Il should like to eat everything the
palate could wish, the finest dishes that
could be prepared, and
Here Hanna stopped.
And WHAT" asked Burrows
Il should like to have the work of di-
gestion devolve upon some Democrat"
One of the Western members has re-
ceived a poetical request from one of the
little girls in his district for some seeds
She subscribes herself as only eleven
years old, and drops into verse as fol-
low:
"Howdy, Mr.. Congressman, p'lite as you
can be.
l wish you'd bundle up some seeds and |
send EN- rund to me-
I'd like lot of large Petunias, with col |
ors so intense,
To decorate the pathway from the door
way to the fence.
I'd like some Star Phlox and Canterbury !
Bells SOS to beautify the scene,
And lot of Double Balsam to be jovial |
and green.
Send around some Cobaea Scandens to ,
make the window gay,
And perhaps we'd start patch of Double |
Zinnias right away.
We ought to have some Holyhocks to |
help things out a bit,
And Japanese Chrysanthemums would
surely make a hit
And if, perchance, there are some things .
that we have quite forgot,
Just put 'em in a bundle, and we will |
take the lot.
And I'll vote for ySu right freely, and
rise up and declare
That this country's agriculture is
mighty fine affair"
The people of the South said Rep
resentative John Sharp Williams, of Mis-
sissippi, today have different ideas
about money than prevail in many parts
of the North. 1t is sCarcer with them.
Il remember in a little town where |
was in mississippi of hearing of bust