The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-22
Mr., BEVERIDGE WAITED
LONG FOR A NEW SEAT
His Removal from the "Cherokee
Strip Accomplished Only
After Years of Effort.
MORAL LAW ENACTMENT
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WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator Bev-
eridge has now secured one of the best
seats in the Senate chamber 1t is the one
occupied for two or three years by the late
Senator Hanna, of Ohio. In the House
seats are apportioned by lottery. This cere-
mony, one of the most amusing that takes
place in Washington, is the first business
of the House on the first day of new Con-
gress. But the Senate does things differ
emily. When a new recruit appears in that
august body he must take whatever he can
find. Since he entered the Senate Mr.. Bev-
eridge has been located in the Cherokee
strip a row of seats on the Democratic
side where the overflow of Republicans
must take their places The seat which
Senator Beveridge will occupy in the future
is in the third row from the center, in the
neighbOrhOod of Aldrich Spooner, Fair
banks and other leading figures that control
the destinies of the higher branch of Con-
gress. There is great rivalry among SEN
atOrs to secure good seats Applications
are filed with the sergeant-at-arms, and
each is served in his turn. Senator Cullom
now sits in the first row, directly in front
of the rostrum He was after the seat seven
years. Senator Foraker who entered the
senate with Mr.. Beveridge, has not yet been
able to get away from the Cherokee
strip. Mr.. Beveridge'S application for
seat on the Republican side was filed two
or three years ago.
"Moral Legislation in Congress, Passed
and Pending is the title of public docu-
ment just printed by the authority Of Con-
gress. This document contains the annual
report of the International Reform Bureau,
which has its headquarters in this city. The
primary object of the reform bureau"
reads the report, lis to secure the passage
by Congress of important and much-needed
legislation along the lines or moral reform,
and also to prevent the passage of bad legiS-
lation affecting the moral welfare Of oIT
country"
The bureau takes the credit for the pas
sage of eight important bills during the
past eight years including the new divorce
law for the District of Columbia, the anti
canteen act and the international temper
ance treaty. The substance of this instru-
ment is expressed in the Lodge resolution
the time has come when the principle, twice
affirmed in international treaties for Central
Africa, that native races should be pro-
tected against the destructive traffic in in
toxicants, should be extended TO all uncivil-
lied people by the enactment of such laws
and the making of such treaties as will eff
fectually prohibit the sale by the Signatory
powers to aboriginal tribes and uncivilized
races of opium and Intoxicating beverages"
Thfs proposition has ben Endorsed by the
President and the secretary of state has
asked the British government to join with
the United States in drawing up such q
treaty to submit to the other great nations
of the world. Sunday closing at the St.
Louis fair. the anti-prize fight bills, the act
prohibiting the sale of liquor in government
buildings, among the results of agitation
by the reform bureau.
1.-THE change in sentiment among the peo-
pie toward Senator Hanna" said Repre-
sentative Watson, twas one of the most re-
markable things in the history of American
politics. A few years ago Mr.. Hanna was
scheduled to address a gathering in little
town in Ohio. On the day of the meeting a
Republican met an old Irishman a Demo-
crat who announced his antagOnism to
| everything and everybody even remotely
| connected with the Republican party. Are
| you going to hear Hanna speak, PATTI he
| was asked. Sure, L am, was the reply.
! DO you think I'd miss a chance to see the
| government.
"And So it was. said Mr.. Watson. "Some
| Democrats had an idea that Mr.. Hanna
controlled the President, both branches of
| Congress and run the government to suit
himself. He was pictured as a man with
! horns Hanna's own personality removed
| this prejudice from the public mind. He
/ only had to show himself to demonstrate
| that he was a man Of flesh and blood
| kindly, democratic, and one of the people. u