New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-29
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
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NOT EASY OF ACCEsS.-speaksr Henderson and
Representatives Payne and Dalzell were inspecting
this morning the Improvements which superinten-
dent Elliott Woods has effected in the House in the
recess. and with Mr.. Dalze were constituent
and his nine-year-od son. The little chap was
much interested in the chamber and its furnish
ings and finally asked what the Speakers Tostrum
was for. Mr.. Dalzell explained. and told the little
fellow to go up and Sit in the Speakers chair In
a moment the boy returned his face heaminsI ana
exclaimed, ITS fine and dandy up there, amt HE'
then turning the father added. IT'S hard to get
there. too
DO REPRESENTATIVES, NEED WATCHING?
That the Chaplans of both houses OF Congress
should be blind has frequently Occasioned COM
ment but there are prospects, that the Repre-
sentatives will have chaplain who can keep his
eye on them" To the genuine regret OF all who
know him. DIR. William II. Miburn, the chaplain
of the Senate. will be unable to oftCats longer in
that capacity the condition of mis- health COM
polling him spend the winter in California. The
Senators have already taken steps to secure the
services of DIR. Henry Noble Couden the blind
chaplain of the House and unless the custom of
Or Milburn's .arly service is reverted To and the
Senate clock is kept perpetually slow in order To
permit one chaplain 10 open the sessions IN both
chambers, the House will be obliged to procure a
spiritual director. DR.. Mtburn has expressed
some OF the wags say II is because the doctor
knows how great shock the Senate would prove
to man who saw Dr. Couden says, however,
that he fears ii will be case of the blind lead
ing the blind Perhaps it would be Just as well
lain who could keep an eye on them"
IT MAKES SUCH y DIFFERENCE.-A dirninu-
tive boy, clad in a blue flannel shirt, corduroy
breeches and a sombrero. and riding a tiny calico
pony. which Hoped along at furious pace of per-
haps three miles hour. Gathering down
Fist. to-day and he entered the principal shop
ping district encountered stout handsomely
dressed elderly woman, who appeared utterly in
capable Of making up her mind whether to pro-
coed retreat With considerable difficulty the
small boy avoided collision and rode on. but the
clustered and irate woman rushed 10 the police
man on the corner exclaiming;
See that horrid little brat! He almost rode me
yoq lock him s up at ,S 0ne Scsr ,nt i, n .
dents SON Archie and couldn't arrest him. He
wasn't riding half alias as fast as the LAW allows
dear. I'm so glad TO have seen him: SO like his
father toe" was the reply. which astonished the
DEFICIT OF LEGAL ERUDITION''-BUT-
Senator Beveridge. as chairman OF the Senate
Committee Territories. has with several OF his
colleagues been making tour of those Territories
which candidates for Statehood and has been.
according to of the members OF the party
oveTpoW ering the natives with the rounded periods
and 'poysyllabicaI' oratory with which he oc-
casionay entertains the Senate. At Albuquerque.
however. he met his match The Senator had been
mercilessly exposing the ignorance Of the law of
local justice of the peace, when the old fellow
turned him and said with the peculiar Hoosier
drawl:
Senator, in the spring OF the year / always go
back to dear old Injanny ana round up my old
friend. Jeems Whitcomb Riley. the Hoosier poet.
We Law In about three gallons of kentucky wills
key. get boatman, and whip the Wabash River
and it's tributaries for black bass. | les wisht
you'd come along of them trips. I know
YOU don't keer nothin for the whiskey nor the
hshin but | wsht while we dSht you'd step back
into the tall timber along the Wabash bottoms
and put your tests to some of our Injianny ies-
tees OF the peace"
There instant's pause. and then the Sena-
tor remarked maiestlcally: 81 think gentlemen
that the Justices eminent common sense will COM
pensate for any defects there may be in his legal
erudition."