The Washington times., 1905-12-21
THE Personal SIDE
oHT THE CAPITOL
Pettus Going Home TO Spend Sixty-first Christ
mas of Married Life.

Are you going to your flower garden.
SENATOR"
The question was asked the junior
Senator from Alabama. as, yesterday.
he stepped out of the Senate chamber
after the adjournment
mo. sir; there are no flowers there
except what are in the pit. I don't
care for pit flowers. / want the flowers
that come and go with the seasons. not
shut out from heaven"
''Then. there Is nothing particular 10
take you back to Alabama during the
holidays2"
"Oh. yes. there is" insisted Senator
Pettus; I've a wife down there. and
she is coming back with me-
And when the sage of Selma goes TO
ioin her. they viii spend together the
Christmas of their sixty-frst year OF
married life.
Eyes. sir; I'm going to leave here on
the first train after the Senate ad-
iourns today"
And the stalwart octogenarian bit a
gigantic hunk out of new plug OF
tobacco as ne went down the basement
stairway.
Representative Charles Curtis. the
dean of the Kansas delegation, has
gone home for the Christmas holidays
When he returns in January. he will
come back. his friends say. with the
assurance that he'll be the successor 10
Senator Burton. This prediction Is
based on the sudden change of several
leading Kansas newspapers that have
come out strongly for Curtis within the
last few days. Curtis was a candidate
for the Senate several years ago. but
was beaten by short neck by Senator
Long 1t was friendly rivalry and
no sore spots were left 10 mark this
contest. This time Curtis has prac-
tically an open field. and as he Is polit-
ically the most popular man In the State
of Kansas today. his election 70 the
United States Senate is almost a fore
gone conclusion
Curtis is regarded a born diplomat, In
that he never loses his temper nor flies
off on a tangent IN debate AS a mixer.
he is the best ever. and in national cam
paigns his services are in demand. The
Kansas statesman IS friend OF the
National Capital and he is ever ready
10 champion any needed Improvement
for Washington
Since the days of Holman of In
diana and KiIgore of Texas" said a
veteran emplSye Of the House. mo one
on either siGs Of the chamber, has es-
sayed the role Of objector. nor is any
particular member now spoken OF as
the watch dog of the Treasury a title
fittlngly bestowed upon Holman and XII
gore by the members and the press OF
the country. Those two statesmen. now
dead and at rest. We're not regarded as
profound parliamentarianS. but they
understood the rules so thoroughly thai
II was next to impossible for any mem
ber TO secure the passage OF any bill
or resolution by unanimous consent
without first making a fun statement q
Tor the regular order. which. when de-
manded. acts bar 10 all requests
for unanimous consent. II WAS their
custom to call for the regular order
after few bills had succeeded IN
weathering the stormy unanimous con-
sent passage.
treated every member alike who bobbec
mn for unanimous consent recognition
/ Another rule they often invoked 10 th'
dismay and discomfort OF the memDel
seeking little appropriation was !
point Of order. which invariably knosAe'
{ out the extra allowance
/ Holman and kilgOre We're terror
/ TO the new members. but or those WI
understood them and appreciated IN
position they filled in the house. the.
we're all right. and their help 70 pas
national measures was otten ANoHT' A'T'
/ by the leaders. If some memoer "our'