The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-23
Tales roId in washington.

Delegate Rodey of New Mexico was
on the Senate side of the Capitol yes
terday, bemoaning the lack of infor-
nation which the average individual
in the states displays about that tenn
ing territory in the Far Southwest,
says the Washington Post.
Why" said he, Il was up in YER
mont not long ago, where / used to
live when boy. Some one asked me
If the money they use in Vermont was
good down in New Mexico. Just think
of it!
But that isn't any worse than the
experience one of our wealthy New
Mexican merchants had not long ago
in New York city. He entered a big
wholesale house to buy $4,000 worth
of goods. 1t was the first dealings
with that particular house, and he was
a stranger.
Where did you say you were
from? inquired the obliging clerk.
New Mexico
" Export department, second floor,
said the clerk. Take the elevator over
there"
Representative Lacey of Iowa re-
ceived a letter the other day, which
he thinks was from a wag. The seeds
you sent me-" wrote this man, who
seined himself John Allen" were
no good. Nothing but weeds grew
where I planted them"
By the next mail Mr.. Lacey sent a
reply. Il take pleasure in forwarding
you under another cover" wrote the
Iowan, "a copy of a bulletin from the
Department of Agriculture. 1t is en-
titled: Weeds, and How to Kill
Them"
Representative KIuttz of North Car
DINA was discussing state constitutions
and negro suffrage with a group in
the Democratic cloakroom. He observ-
ed that the constitutions of California
and Massachusetts are almost identi-
cal in their provisions about suffrage
with the much-abused constitution of
North Carolina.
"Old Senator Vance of our state hit
1t off pretty well in a speech that he
made at Union Square, N. Y, way back
in 1868, when Seymour was our candi-
date" said Mr.. Kluttz. Vance during
that speech recited a rhyme, which
ran like this:
Negro suffrage to all the South must
come,
But not to fair New England, for
that's too close ter hum
Chaplain Edward Everett Hale went
around to the Senate stationery room
yesterday. There he encountered Sena-
tor Daniel, to whom he was introduce
ed.
II once met Edward Everett, but
this is the first time 1 have met Ed
ward Everett Hale" the Senator was
saying. Il heard Edward Everett's
Grafton on Washington at the Virginia
Military Institute back in the sos. l
was so impressed with his oratory
that I followed him to Richmond to
hear hfs grafton again"
Just the Gen. O. o. Howard entered
the stationery room, and all three ex-
changed greetings.
Where did you get that?" Gen.
Howard asked, pointing to the Sena-
tors leg.
I'm the Wilderness, ".replied the SEN
ator, jauntily, accompanying his re-
mark by lifting the manned member
laterally and upward, as friskily as a
chorus girl. You weren't there"
"Oh,. no, but 1 was at Gettysburg.
You were there, too"
Yes" said the Senator. What did
you get there?'
This" rejoined Gen. Howard,
throwing back his coat and exhibiting
tne stump OF MS arm, which ne Hopped
three times as though 1t were a wing.
All this talk proved only a preface
to an earnest dialogue about Gettys-
burg, and an agreement between Gen.
Howard and Senator Daniel to visit
the Gettysburg field together next May.
Me, too" calculated DR.. Hale, who
had been an interested listener. That
was promptly assented to, and the
battle "reminiscences closed by Sena-
tor Daniel taking Chaplain Hale to the
Senate restaurant for lunch.