Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-19
SOME STORIES OF H0AR
How the Massachusetts Senator
 Got Out With Harris.
FoRAKERAND PULLMAN CORRECTED

Talke-oR on General Butlex, Hoar's
 Pet Aversion-Inquiring as to the
 ''CorDoral"-Fits of Absentminded-
 ness-The Youthful CuIIom and AL
 Iison.
 An incident in Senator Hoar's public career which occurred some years be- fore the death of Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennessee is thus described by man who spent much of his time at Washington, says the New Orleans Times-D
 'The senator from the Bay State and the senator from Tennessee had been friends for twenty years and, while belonging to different political parties and often clashing in the senate, talk ing against each other and voting against each other, nothing had ever happened to disturb the intimacy of the relationship.
 "One day some question was up in the senate which developed great deal of partisan wrath, and Senator Harris had been well to the front in the debate and had given way proba- bly, too much to his Confederate sym pathy and certain smoldering prej- udice which he carried to the tomb with him. He was attacked, of course, and in defending the position he had assumed one of the younger members took occasion to refer to Senator liar ris as a major. Senator Hoar finally drifted into the debate, and in the course of his remarks he criticised Senator Harris rather sharply. The senator from Tennessee did not mind this so much. But the statesman from Massachusetts did not stop here. He began to have fun with the idea that Senator Harris had ever been major and climaxed his scathingly sarcastic remarks by saying he could not con ceive the senator from Tennessee be- ing major, 'unless,' he added, he was a major in the drum corps-a drum major
 "The Tennessee senator was stung to the quick. He made no reply. He would barely speak to Senator Hoar. One day Senator Hoar was talking to one of his senatorial associates when Senator Harris passed. By the way, Senator Hoar.' said the friend, you have wounded Senator Harris deeply by your reference In the senate few days ago in which you compared him to drum ma5or' Senator Hoar was surprised, for he had intended no of fense. The next day when the senate met Senator Hoar rose to a question of privilege. He recounted the incl dent in the senate a few days before. No man on this hoor,' he said, has more respect for the feelings and the ability of the senator from Tennessee than have. regard him as not only the greatest practical parliamentarian in this body, but as the greatest in the world, and I offer him now our long continued and intimate friendship as sufficient evidence that I did not mean to offend him and I trust he will ac- cept it. And so he did. Senator liar. ris shook hands with his friend from MassachuseSss, and that day they left the capitol together"
 General Butler once said in explain ing and defending his Hat money scheme that the word flat meant '1et there be-" God said, "Tiat lux" let there be light" and there was light. He argued that Hat money was excellent from the very fact that it cost nothing and had no intrinsic value. SoAif bill were lost or destroyed a new one could be supplied without cost. He also said that 1t would stay in the country and would not be sunk in the morasses of Asia, especially in China and India, where silver and gold wera absorbed and never heard of in civilized nations afterward. Tn answer Senator Hoar quoted these sentences with the following comment: "That, fellow citizens, is precisely the differ ence between omnipotence and hum bug, between the Almighty and Gen. eral Butler. God said, Let there be light and there was light. General Butler says, Let there be monoy,' and there is-rags. This is the first time in our history that the American work ingman has been gravely asked to take for his wages money it costs nothing to make, that it is no loss to lose, that it is no gain to get and that even a Chinamah won't touch"
 The relations between Senator Hoar and all the presidents were, of course, the most cordial, and the visits of the Massachusetts solon to the White House were frequently quite pro- longed: On one occasion Mr. Hoar was ushered into the presidents room, and MT. Roosevelt asked him to be seated in one of the big chairs. Then the president and the senator plunged into a discussion which stretched out for over an hour. Tn the meantime other senators who wanted to see the presi- dent were held up in the secretary's room. As time went on half dozen or more were waiting, and they became impatient at the delay. Presently Sen ator Cullom, who is seventy three years old, asked Senator Allison, who is also seventy three, what was the cause of the delay. ''Why, old Hoar Is in there" !" said the youthful Iowan disrespectful- 4,re, 1II "a