The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06
GROWING coRPuLENr.
President Roosevelt Is Much Heavier
Than He Was Year Ago.
From the Globes Washington Bureau,
Post BuiIdinq.

President Roosevelt Is Much Heavier
Than He Was Year Ago.
From the Globes Washington Bureau,
Post Building.
+. WASHINGTON, D. c., July s.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt is getting fat. He
weighs fully fifteen pounds more than
he did when he entered the White
house. 1t shows quite plainly, partic-
ulaFly about his neck and joWls His
face is fuller and redder than it was
last fall. His belt measure is also in
creased by more inches than he likes
TO think about. The increase Of adj
pose is attributed by Mr.. Roosevelt to
lack or exercise. Being president is
more combining than Mr.. Roosevelt's
previous occupations. He rides horse
back almost every day, but he is UNI
able to get in as much pedestrianism
and outdoor sports as aforetime The
pressure of business and the demands
of people keep him at his desk and in
doors often when he would like to be
out Only few days ago he revolted
and took Gen. Wood and walked to
Alexandria and back. But he cannot
afford time for such trips often. The
president hopes to have more freedom
this summer at Oyster Bay, and ex-
poets to get down to his fighting
weight.
Plenty OF Work in Sight.
The president has got quite a lot of
I work cut out for him as result of the
session of congress just closed. The
lSthmian canal matter will keep him
busy for few months, and he is
charged by the Philippine civil govern
ment bill with another discretionary
junction In determining when the Phil
1ppineS shall be ready for the exercise
| of civic functions Then he is author
lied to get up a native legislative as
| sembly for them. 1t is not anticipated
that the Philippine legislature will be
convened In the near future; but the
law makes 1t the duty Of Roosevelt to
at once inform himself of the facts in
| this regard, and he may find it neces-
| sary to follow the illustrious example
| of his predecessor and appoint a COM
| mission.
Allison Snubs Bailey.
| The day after the Bailey -Beveridge as
sault the young Texan walked over to
! private. word with Allison. Just as a
matter Of habit. Bailey reached out his
hand: With evident elaboration and de-
| termination the senator from Iowa drew
| his hand back and kept it out of reach
| The incident was very trifling and was
probably not noticed by half dozen per-
| ing toward Bailey in the senate
| Young Mr.. Bailey. of Texas, is what
| Mr.. Stevenson would have called vio-
| lent man. He has no long, consistent
| record like that of fernando De Soto
Money, of Mississippi for seeking and
finding personal encounters; but Bailey
| has a past. The little autobiography in
| the Congressional Directory notes that in
| 1884 Bailey was an elector on the Cleve-
| land and Hendricks ticket, in Copiah
| county, Mississippi. 1t also notes that in
permanent residence there. There are
| some musty records on file in Washington
| of congressional Investigation which
| took place into what are known as the
Coplah maSSacreS, the same being GER
| tam shotgun methods used at that time
| Anyone seeking light on the peculiar code
/ or honor among some sensitive Solons
VIII find flood of illumination in the
testimony taken at that hearing
Spooner Compromise Artist.
| AS a. compromise artist Senator John
| G. Spooner, of Wisconsin, Is in a Way
| to gain fame. He has hitched his name
| to the law which will build an isthmian
| did the work Morgan particularly bore
| the heat and burden of the day, though
| he had passed his three score and ten But
| Spooner sat back and watched for the
| opportune moment, when the discordant
| factions might be brought together on
= common ground; then he furnished the
ground. Thus the Morgan law became the
| Spooner law. 1t was he who devised the
| reciprocity bill in which the Republicans
J OF the senate all but came together 1t
| was his amendment which passed the
| army bill during McIinley's administra-
/ tlon John is a very resourceful fellow