The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-24
SOME SIDE LIGHTS
IN WASHINGTON
Picturesque Pettus Remains
in the Senate
for Lame Ducks.
From Globe Washington Bureau.

From Globe Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 23.-Sens
atOr Edmund Winston Pettus, of Ala
bama, has just been chosen to servs
for another term in the United States
senate. Next July Senator Pettus will
be e~ighty-tWO years of age. When he
finishes the term to which he has just
been assigned he will be lightweight
years Of age. Senator Pettus is the
picture of health and his mind is one
of the brightest in that body. He does
not talk often, but when he does the
press gallery quickly fills. Without
Pettus, his red bandana handkerchief.
his spectacles on the tip of his nose
and his little cud of Alabama tobacco
well to the front of his mouth, the sen.
ate would seem quite unnatural.
Not Long Out of a Job.
Taking care of the lame ducks has
become quite the custom in national
politics. The Republican members Of
congress who fell by the wayside in the
recent congressional elections will
nearly all be looked after. Only where
they do not need or care for it will they
be overlooked. For example, Judge
Page Morris, of Minnesota, who de-
cllned denomination, will be judge of a
new federal district court to be Gre
ated for him by a bill in congress now
well on toward passage. Representa-
tive Samuel Davis Woods, of Cali
fornia, is to be supervisor of the Dort
at San Francisco at an excellent SAL
airy. Representative Eugene Loud, Of
the same state, is to be assistant post
master general, or something equally
as good" and so in every state they
will be cared for in one way or an
other.
No Mining Stock for Beveridge.
Senator Beverage recently received
a registered package from Douglas,
Arlz., which contained shares Of valu-
able stock in a copper mine in hat
place. While he and his senatorial
party We're on their trip Of investtga-
ton through the territories, the train
was tagged after midnight and the
senator was invited to get off and look
at a mine. With characteristic energy
he did so, and the package was a mark
OF appreciation from the mine owners.
But the senator ordered his secretary
to return it with his compliments,
Which the latter reluctantly did.
Divorce Laws Hard to- Harmonic.
Nothing short of an amendment to
the constitution of the United States
will harmonic the divorce laws. 1t
has been settled now that congress has
no power to legiSlate OH this subject.
The United States supreme court, in
the case of Andrews VS.. Andrews, had
a lou 10 say on the subject, and was
particularly emphatic in saying that
each state was supreme in it's respec-
tive borders, in regulating the domestic
relations. None of this power was ever
surrendered by the states to the feds
eral government.
Hoar as a "Trust Buster"
That s%prightly young chap, George
Frisbie Hoar, is becoming more popu-
lar as a champion trust buster than
as the defender of the Filipino and
preserver of the constitution. Since
his speech and bill We're introduced In
the senate he has been invited to adj
dress a large number of those organi-
cations which eat and settle the fate
Of nations. At least two Of these he
has accepted and will appear in Ohio
and Indiana in post-prandial trust-
busting stunts.
Speaker and Refreshments.
Since he has been speaker of the
house, Mr.. Henderson has inaugrratad
the custom of having things to eat
and drink in his office at the capitoI
Not only his own meals-and between
meals-are served there, but he has
done considerable of his entertaining
u The other day Sir Thomas
S~haughnessy, president of the Cana
dian Pacific railroad. with some guests.
was at a luncheon there. The Catering
is done by the man who has the con-
cesslon n bar privilege for the houex
Which makes it very pleas
ant.