The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-21
MEMBERS ARRIVING
WASHINGTON IS BECOMING TO GET
 LIVELY.
speculation As To wAether John C. Spooner VIII OHer His Arm To His Deadly Political Foe.
 LafOllette.
By R n. watkfns.

Washington, Nov. 20.--tSpecial.)--- Senators and Representatives are com ing to town in noticeable numbers just now, most of them looking for quar- ters for the congressional session. The audience chambers at both ends of the capitol are about ready for the legis- lators and even the committed rooms are prepared for their prospective oc- cupants The House members arrty- ing show at once their minds bent by inquiries about the Speaker and Minority Leader Williams, the impor- tant gentlemen who have for the past several days been engaged upon the trying task of committee construction.
 There has been some queer gossip lately whether Robert M. LaFolettc, United States Senator from Wisconsin, intended to relinquish the office of Governor in time to be sworn in as Senator at the coming session. The wisconsin people who are here expect the Senator will be along In time. They say Mrs. La Toilette has already been here looking for residence.
 Sergeant-at-Arms Ransdell. of the Senate. has picked out seat for the Wisconsin Senator. It will be with a bunch of new Senators on the Dem- ocratic side of the chamber among whom are Burkett, of Nebraska; Bran degee, of Connecticut, and Warner. or Missouri. Eighty-nine Senators ought to be on hand when Vice President Fairbanks on Monday, December 4. returning to "the simple life. calls the Senate to order and invokcs sup plication by the venerable chaplain, Dr. Hale.
 Delaware Short . Senator.
 Delaware, of the forty-five States Is short Senator. as usual. none hay ing been elected in place of MT. Ball, whose term expired March 3, 1905. mt rt,r xrrnx fln put" will be on hand to test whether his former boss was right in suggest i ing that the "slow-moving finger of scorn" would always identify him among the crowd.
 Governor, or Senator La Toilette, is we'll remembered here. He was rep- Resentative in the Fiftieth and Fifty first Congresses, and is recalled as the possessor of an exceptionally strtdent and bellowsome voice., Old Horizontal | Bill Morrison used to call him Little Folly" bit of speculation con1ec- lures what will be the department of wisconsin's puffy little senior senator John c. Spooner, when the time reaches | for La Toilette to be sworn in. VIII Senator Spooner proffer his arm to his deadliest political foe and magnani- | mously escort him to the Senate's all | tar?
 l There are about a dozen Senators | whose terms began last March whose | names are not familiar to the country | thus far as members Of the great pody | which will this winter be relied upon to | correct the cratic legislation that gets | through the House. The special ses- | sion of the Senate last March was too | brief to afford an opportunity property | to take the measure of the new Sena- | tors. Besides La Toilette, who has yet | to take the oath of office, Tennessee | M nswfa hna n sworn in. Two new Senators, Frank B. Bran l degee and Morgan c. Bulkley, come l from Connecticut, succeeding the late | Messrs. Platt and Hawley.
 Some More New Ones.
 Others are Crane of Massachusetts, in place of Hoar, deceased; Flint of Call l fornia. successor of Mir. Bard; Hemen- | way of Indiana, in place of Vice-Presi- dent Fairbanks; Nixon of Nevada, sent instead of Papa Stewart; Piles of Wash | ington, taking the seat of Foster; Ray ner, coming from Maryland as success
 sor of McComas, and Warner Of Mis- souri, representing the mysterious
 stranger" who will nave 70 pc snown M Ihow he will begin to succeed that long apparently impregnably seated Francis Marion Cockrell.
 Two Senators who arc in trouble with the courts being on trial for onenses affecting their good names, will prop ably not be DreSent-MeSSrSs mltcneii oL Oregon and Burton of Kansas.
 There is some curiosity here as to | whether Senator Chauncey M. Depew will come over from New York wearing his chaste mutton chops as Jauntily as of yore, after having run the stinging gauntlet of cross examination by lnsur- ance Inquisitor Hughes. There will
 also be a craning of necks in the gal leries when Senator Platt Judges into
 view, to see how chesty he will look over the embarrassment lately visited upon his devoutly detested rival in New
 York bossism, Benjamin B. Odell. There has been considerable unfeigned laugh ter here the last few days over the spectacle of Boss Platt undertaking to clean the Republican Augean stalls in
 the New York stable. It Is suspected
 that MT. PIatt knows all about how dirty they are. He has been here with
 in the week to invoke the aid of Pres ident Roosevelt in making things de- cent among Empire State Republicans. Mir. Roosevelt has been too busy arm
 ing for the railway rate fray to pay
 much attention to the little feuds IF
 New York. and 1t Is doubted if he has
 really given MT. Platt any encourage
 ment as a partisan of his cause.
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