Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-01-11

Senator Allison chairman of the Senate
committee on appropriations, is now in his
home state, in which the election of his
successor will take place within a few days.
There Is no doubt about the action of the
Iowa legislature. The republicans In that
body are unanimously in favor of Mr.. ALI
sons reelection and 1t is not unlikely that
the democrats will join them in making
their choice entirely unanimous. This pop
ularity of the Iowa statesman is of kind
that is seldom accorded any one in public
life. The term for which he will be chosen
will be his sixth in the United States Sen
ate, and If he serves until it's end, he will
have by several years the longest record
OF membership In that body. At the pres
ent time he has served nearly as long as
the late Senator Morrill, of Vermont In
many respects Senator Allison's career In
public life has been very remarkable. He
was elected representative as early as the
Thirty-eighth Congress, and after four
terms in the House took his seat In the
Senate, March 4, 1873. As chairman of the
committee on appropriations he has, per-
haps, made his greatest reputation HIS
suave manner, by which he hgurat1Vely
pours oil on the troubled waters of legisla-
tive contentious over the distribution of
public funds, is known to every one who
has come in contact with him. He has had
the disposition of many hundred millions Of
dollars. and seems to enjoy 1t, notwtth-
standing the hard work involves. Yet
he appears entirely Indifferent to financial
matters of personal nature: He Is looked
upon as a man of very moderate fortune.
The District of Columbia has always had a
friend in Senator Allison, who never with
holds good things from the District, except
when opposition or the exigencies facing
the treasury are such as to make him feel
that it is absolutely necessary to retrench
He is a man of broad and liberal views, and
as the Nestor of the Senate that body may
well feel proud of such a man and states
man, whose vigor of body and mind fndi-
Gates that he will probably be an important
figure in public life for very many years to
come.
The new livery which President and Mrs
Roosevelt have selected for the White
House coacnman and footman has a cock
ade of red, white and blue. The national
colors are also in evidence throughout the
costume. The coats and trousers are of
heavy dark blue vicuna, the best quality of
goods being used. The outer seams of the
trousers are bound with white cord. The
long paddock driving coat, which termi-
mates midway between knee and ankle, is
of military cut. with snug waist and broad,
square shoulders. Down the front from the
collar TO the waist line run parallel lines
of silver buttons. Underneath the coat is
worn a long-sleeved tunic of the same ma
terial as the other garments and fastened
in front by single row of silver buttons.
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1t is not uncommon for visitors in the
Senate galleries to see Senator Morgan Of
Alabama busily engaged at his desk on the
floor of the Senate writing letters. This
recalls characteristic of the senator from
Alabama Senator Morgan will be seventy
eight years of age next June, yet he pos
sesses the vigor of mind and an ability to
perform arduous mental work that are
the accompaniment of middle life. He
has not abandoned the use of the pen for
the easier method of debating which has
become so common among busy men. He
conducts a very large correspondence and
he writes with such eXactnesS and ease
that his letters never have a single
scratched word. The subjects treated In
many of his letters are of a nature to re-
quire the geatest nicely in the use of lam
guage and many people would find it nee
essary to make one or more revisions in
handling them
In the Hobbies Of certain downtown ho-
tells. and more particularly in the bar room
attachments to the hosteIr in question
there Is often to be seen the striking figure
Of man beyond the sixties In the span of
life. with gray hair and grizzled beard. He
Is known among his intimate friends and
those who have become acquainted with
him through his association with the cafes
they often visit as Governor"
The governor Is very fond Of his tipple,
and fonder still Of allowing some one else
to meet the demands Of the bartender when
the cash equivalent of the destroyed decoc-
tton is in order. The governor knows
SO many people and has been treated so
often that he has come to look upon 1t as
his prerogative. and it is said he has not
paid for drink in many, many years To
the governors credit 1t must be stated
that in return for the money lavished by
others upon his thirst he gives
ceived in the shape of stories and varied
entertainment for the crowd
On the latest legal holiday the "gover-
nor strolled into one of his favorite tip
ping places, and then something unprece-
denied occurred. The governor" walked