The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-08
HAS TAKEN A HOUSE
MIR. CANNON IS TIRED OF HOTEL
 LIFE.
First Speaker Since Blaine Who Has Not Resided in Q Public Hostelry. Congressman and Their
 Washington Homes.

Washington. Oct. 7.-(special. .)-Your Uncle Joe Cannon is tired or hotei pot. luck and Is going to have house and Speaker and make 1t consonant in pos sibility for entertaining with the high position. It is recniled that no Speaker since Blaine had his own house, except Samuel J. Randall. Tom Reed lived at the Arlington Hotel. Mir. Crisp dwelt at the Metropolitan and Speaker Hender- son, Kerr and Keller, of aforetime. exist cd at hotels. 2.
 Mr. Cannon has found house to suit him on Vermont Avenue, four or five blocks from the White House and. with his young daughter, expects to enjoy some degre of privacy and at the same time be prepared to give party or cut d watermelon on his own back-porch.
 Speaker Reed used to live, before he became the parliamentary Caesar, at the Hamilton. an old-fashioned hotel on Four tenth Street. which was, always resort for New Englanders and extreme north ern Republicans. No Democrats ever ventured to sleep there until Representa- tive Charles W. Thompson. imbued with the inspiration that it was time some good, clean Southern Democrat was mix ing with these Yankees and showing 'em now nice our people could be ana not try, went with his bags and official chat. tels to the. Hamilton and feilowshipped not mere conjecture to surmise that MT Thompson did some good It VIII be remembered that he induced party of these prejudicc-held peop,e to go with him to Alabama and behold how we'll and pleasantly the whites and blacks dweit together. One of them at least used the occasion to express the belief that great mistake had been made in granting sui frage to the negro through the fifteenth amendment. This was Mir. htueheld of
 Speaker-to-be Cannon's new residence Is at 1014 Vermont Avenue. At 1ol6-nexr door-is the abode of Representative Syd- ncy J Bowie, of the Fourth Alabama District The committees are yet to be appointed but Mir. Bowie has promptly ab- solved himself of self-interest In the Speakers direction. and the Juxtnposl- tIon of the two statesmen may be safely rega rded as innocent of menace to hhs aspirutions of others for Your Uncle Joe wink.
 Tho hard-worhing Congressman does not usually live at hotels, exceptions in- cluding. of course. men like Bankhead, Richardson. Clayton. Whey n unoerwoOd ,i,o 700 Bowie have usually kept ''faT from tns modding crcwd' Bankhead CIayton and Richardson last year stopped at the Riggs. which has of late become popu- lar resort for Southern people. Under wood lived at the Cochran. on Fourteenth Street, being practically alone as South ern Democrat in that quarter. Across the street 1s the Hamilton where Tnomp- son stopped and proselyted the Republi- cans to enlightened views of Southern civilization. Wiley bided at the Metropo- Htan which for years has been favored by Southern and Southwestern Congress- men. It has always been regarded as sImon-pure Democratic tavern. It was sometimes designated by scallawags and carpet -baggers as the "Kuklux House"
 Senator Morgan has for many years lived at his own home. formerly known as 315, Four-and half Street, but now named John Marshall Place. It is a short street, between Judiciary Square and Pennsylvania Avenue. In the way-back days of Clay, Calhoun and Webster this part of the city was much favored by statesmen, but now Senator Morgan is remote from the most of them. Sena- tor Pettus has lived on Capitol Hill. boarding with a Mississippi family, of which Captain Beall Is the head. The home of the Senator and his beloved wife is bordering on Capitol Park and Is thus convenient for the Senator to walk across a few hundred yards to his desk in the Senate chamber His office is on the ground floor of the Senate Annex. also adjoining the park. ,.S
 Senator Morgan's office is in the lsth- milan Canal Committee room. which is in the center of the capitol building. It consists of an elegant suite or two rooms which were converted from the old libra rv of Congress when Its quarters were removed to the grand new building on one hi'i R. H. Watkins.