The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-16
SENATE SEEMS
SOMEWHAT EASY
Statesmen Asleep While Money
Is Being Appropriated.
SECRETARIES DO THE WORK
MRS. BURNETT HAS RETURNED
TO WASHINGTON.
Especial to The Herald.)

business and is working as serjouslxr n
(tldI supposedly august body does work
tIIL iouS VISITORS from everywhere I'LL
In me galleries, and the effect is much
IKE looking down on a lot of p,0od-
losing Old gentlemen spending ah hour
at the club Certain senator's seem to
1iolu a KIND OF court. Everybody comes
20 their desks to shake hands and pass
Ine compliments of the day. Senator
Platt OF New York continually eniovs
THIS distinction. He is the best living
example OF all is mind; there is no
His body is 50 sEriveled. he walks
Win a cane, taking shuffIfne stems
ABOUT two inches in length and col
IaPseS INTO his chair when he reaches ii
out there his apparent weakness
ceases He can rise to his feet in
Stdntly when things are not moving
ms way he is alert, bright-eyed: a
Nohuer1ul man. Witness the shifting
around IN twenty-fOUr hours of the
CUT and dried plans to defeat Depew
Tor the Senate in New York. This re-
mafkaDle old man is a bridegroom. too.
married only last summer. and lives in
beautiful apartment with his wife
ana stepdaughter at the New Willard.
he shares honors equally with Senator
stewart of Nevada, who was married
last year This bridegroom is known
as the Santa Claus of the senate on &C
count of his long white beard
Flood of Pension Bills.
1t is amazing to hear the bills for in
crease of pensions that come up every
day. What puts it into the heads of
oIG soldiers to ask for an increase at
TINS late hour? Why have they not at
tended to it long ago? 1 confess the
pension problem would be riddle to
me forever.
If L had claim against the govern
ment or wanted money for a public
a. fGtF r,ff, I
would put il in the hands of some mag
netIc senator, and one day when every
thing would be drowsy and droning
along he would rise and ask for imme-
olate consideration of bill No. now
pending before the United States sen
ate. Then in a voice calculated to in
crease the drowsy spirit the clerk
would read the bill once, twice. thrice.
SLOWLY 50 as not to make any Earring
sound. The president of the senate
would call for the ayes and nays; there
would be no increase of voices in any
way; the gentlemen's club would go on
visiting and the bill would be an
nounced passed" That's precisely the
way ITsaw put through the bill apprO-
priaHng for public buildings in Raw
Inns, WyO-, and another similar bill to
reimburse an orphans home for having
shipped some little Indians in or out of
the asylum. Senator Warren of Wyom-
ing is the champion benefactOr in this
line; perfect Santa Claus for filing
the stockings of needy asyIums and
old soldiers.
The Cmnibus bill, consisting of legiti-
mate claims from everybody ard for
everything from nearly every state in
the union was passed after an hours
brisk debate last Monday The bill
carried an appropriation of about two
and half millions Of dollars.
Kearns Will Be Missed.
In h..
k1ttredge Of South Dakota. and Senator
hearns have seats side by side. The
former is SO stout he OverfiOWs the
arms of his chair. kearns, the anti
latter-day saint from Zion City sleek
prosperous and debOnnair, will be much
missed by his associates. In their
morning discussions they are frequent
ly joined by Senator Clark of Wyom-
ing. The general routine of business is
seldom of sufficient interest to cause
the increasing of leg or the straight
eniug of a back. AS it appears to the
whelming cares Of state we read 50
much about, the Jealous devotion to in
sistent constituents, weighty discus
sions of knOtty problems that beset the
gentlemen in political life-an these
burdens seem to be borne in the heat
of the day by the private secretary,
toiling early and late in some far-off
committee room.
Has Parted From Stephen.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. the
most popular of American novelists, is
soon to return to Washington and Will
reside here permanently. 1t is under
stood that Mrs. Burnett has parted
from Stephen Townsend, and that
henceforth she will drop the name as
well as the man, and viii be known
by the one under which she has gained
International celebrity For
years past Mrs Burnett has maintained
4 handsome home on Massachusetts
avenue Unlike the majority of absen-
ices, she has not rented her domicile
but has kept il in readiness at all
times against just what has happened.
According to this talented lady's friends /
mere, she Will dismantIe her celebrated !
lcme at St. Johns Wood, London, and /
all the treasures and souvenirs collect /
I'd in a quarter of a century viii enrich
her residence here. That her venture /
With her youthful secretary. Stephen /
Townsend, did not come up to the ideal |
'equirements of welded bliss surprises (
10 one. 1t seemed an incongruous ]
lnion. and one which could not fail to /
md in disaster. Mr.. Townsend was 1
'ome fifteen years younger than his !
pride, and he was led into the affair (
rom purely selfish motives. Vivian /
Burnett, the original of Little Lord /
has been living with his
ather and stepmother, and has been /
completely estranged from Mrs. Bur- /
lett since she became Mrs. Townsend.
{ is hoped that a reconciliation will be
nected when the authoress returns to /
next week.
Cabinet Receptions.
The cabinet receptions on. "Wednesday
tternoons have again begun. and the
Id question OF serving light refresh
lents came up at the Tuesday meeting
4 the cabinet hostesses with Mrs.
Roosevelt. Formerly salads and other
Kings formed such 4 feature Of these
fternoons that il was declared there |
'as "A regular brigade who made The
ounds each day for free lunch. For
ONE time no refreshments have beer |
mered. Mrs Taft, Mrs. Morton ana
irs. Wynne We're in favor of serving
Unch or some light collation.. lust to
reak the monOtony. But Mrs Roose-
cit did not approve of the suggestion
nd Mrs. Hitchcock was loud in her OBJ
ections. Mrs. Shaw. it appears. who
; the soul Of hospitality. had been
crying tea and waters without know
* that she was breaking one of the
on-clad rules. 1t was decreed thar
othins. not even glass of cold water.
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