The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
JUNGLE JOE0 OBDURATE
YIELDS NOTHING TO "sENA-
 ToRIAL COURTESY"
spooner Finds It Hard Work to Find . Room for Hanna and His
 Committee on Inter
 Oceanic Canals.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

Advertiser Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington. Jan. g. When Senator Hanna first came to the Senate there was a contest over his ad- mission to a seat. Now that he has re- ceived his first committee chairmanship of any importance. there Is ,,s,..s roy on oyer pointed to succeed Senator Morgan as Chairman of the Committee on Inter- oceanic Canals, the Ohio Senator natur- ally thought he would be entitled to use the apartments employed heretofore by that Committed.
 Senator Morgan and his small working force stood ready to vacate the great isthmian parliamentary shop whenever the new superintendent saw fit to claim the quarters. But it turns out that making the claim and getting the rooms was a different proposition. Senator Spooner, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules, which has supervision of the as- signment of committee rooms, intended that Senator Hanna should have the rooms that Had been occupied by Sena- tor Morgan. but his heart failed him
 when he started to carry out the idea. He disliked to remove the venerable Ala bamian and consequently was much per- piexed to find quarters commensurate
 with the augmented importance of the
 Committee on Interoceantc Canals. of
 which Hanna is Chairman. One day the
 Wisconsin Senator chanced to open a heavy mahogany door of one of the rooms
 near the center of the Capitol. The room
 was both unoccupied and unfurnished.
 "Eureka?' he cried, and rushed to the
 office of the Superintendent of the Capitol
 to order sumptuous finishings and fur
 nfture for the Hanna headquarters.
 Why that room is on the dead line be,
 tween the Senate and House territory and
 the title has never been settled" That
 was all the comfort MT. Spooner got.
 He had hardly turned, in his vexation,
 when he "butted into'' Speaker Cannon,
 the boss of the Representatives. ranch.
 Now 1t is well known that Your. Uncle
 Joe enjoys nothing so much as a chance
 to swat the essential stuffing out of that
 awful entity which, in Federal legislative
 parlance. is termed, Senatorial cour-
 gressional road.
 Senator Spooner lost no time in making known the wishes of Senators with re-
 gard to the use of the desired room.
 Speaker Cannon listened and needed not.
 lie could not see 1t as the Senators saw
 It. In other words, Senatorial courtesy
 had no sway of eminent domain over the
 narrowest strip of territory in which the
 House. held interest That ended the
 struggle at least until Senator Hanna re
 turns from his election in Ohio about the
 middle of the month. v
 M Meanwhile Senator Morgan will remain
 in the old canal room writing resolutions
 and preparing carloads of speeches against the Panama Canal and incident ally as Chairman of the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine compiling an awful array of sickening details. respecting the Isthmus of Panama as a Golgotha and the most fearful pest hole on the American hemisphere.
 Meanwhile also, Buster Brown Spooner of the Senate, while wrestling with his new territorial-acquisition problem. has virtually reached a conclusion as far as this: Resolved. That hereafter l will not attempt the Senatorial courtesy racket upon Uncle Joe Cannon.