The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-10
AS MANY MORE TO COME
Some Interesting Auto b.ogra-
 phies in the Directory.
Hon. Gustav A. SehneebeIi is a Mem- her From Pennsylvania, and Hon. T. E. scrossy Hails
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in the House alone. Of the number 5.273 are known as public bills, and 5,s63 are designated as private meas ures, for the reason that they are in the interest of individuals or corpora tons. Of the latter class pension bills constitute the great bulk of the num- ber presented Before this session comes to a close there will be some thing like 10000 bills recorded, but comparatively few will become laws.
 MT. Mccleary, the we'll known Re- publican Congressman fIs m Minnesota, says that each session he has requests from scores of people who wish him to press their pension claims. There Is an unwritten rule in the House that only about six pension bills to mem Der shall be permitted to pass at ses- sion. Mr. McCleary has made 1t a prac- tice to select the six most worthy on his list, and has never failed to have them passed He tells the other applicants frankly there is no chance whatever for them, and they have to be satts- fled.
 To illustrate the methods that are pursued here to get as much as possi- ble out of the Government by those who believe that with little perse- verauce 1t is easy to hoodwink Uncle Sam. a Congressman states that within the past year one of his constituents
  crease in his pension because he was so sick that he doubted if he would be able, to retain his position much longer in one of the departments. The story appealed to the Congressman. and the pension was raised through his in~ fiuence. for it was represented that the claimant was almost a physical wreck.
 In less than ten months that same fellow went after his Representative for an increase in his salary on the grov Id that he was able to do more and better work than younger men in his division who had not been soldiers and who were drawing more money than was allowed him by an already generous Government,
 Hen. Gustay \. schneebeis.
 Two new Republican members of the House have 41ueer-sounding names, and they nave fallen into the habit indulged in hy quite a number of first session statesmen of puffing themSeIve4' con- siderabiy in the sketches which mem bers are called upon to furnish for the Congressional directory. One of these embryo statesmen is the Hon. Gustav A, Schneebeli of Nazareth, Pa. Tn what ha wrote about himself he tells the country that he was born at Neu- saIz, Prussia. The fact that he was brought, at tender age, to the United States by his parents is recorded; oth- GTWlSG ne fll8hL ndNG tEtAdttAOQ e4A AtaS days at Neusalz and never have risen to the prominent reached by him at Nazareth. Pa.
 As the schneebelis did not bring much coin with them. young Gustav had to hustle as a boy. He worked at a trade. saved money and on being elected to Congress found himself res ident of a bank, at the head Of a big lace factory, besides being interested in numerous other industrial enter prises in and around Nazareth. He wants people to know he is Moravian in religion, and sticks in this import ant sentence:
 MT. Schneebeli has the distinction of never having held any other politi cal once whatsoever"
 In other words it is evident that MT Schneebeli, banker, lace manufacturer etc, apparently wishes to emphasize that he is very different from most Of the Republican Congressmen from the Keystone State--no sooner out of onS office than they hop into another.
 MT. Scroggy of Ohio.
 The great state of Ohio boasts of a new member of the Houes by the name of Scroggy. His two front names are Thomas Edmund, and he was born at Xenia, where he lives now when at home. Mir. Scroggy worked on a farm"-that's a thing of which most members are so proud that they always record 1t in their sketches. And quite naturally he attended the public schools"--most poor farmer boys do be- cause they have not the money to break into the paid schools. At fifteen Thomas Edmund Scroggy had begun to serve at the carriage making trade, but the war came on when he was eighteen. and that settled the carriage trade for him. They could not hold him back. He took up arms. and that part of his story as furnished for the congressional di- -xectory can best be told in hts own language as follows:
 He served as corporal in Company H. S9th Ohio infantry. until July 4. 1S64, when he was shot through the right annnlder and lung in an assault on the lxsonfederate works at Nickajack Creek. Ga, he had forty-two pieces of bone taken from his body, and was confined to his bed for about six months: and was honorabiy discharged in 1s6S.'
 The war over scroggy was engaged fin the grocery business, and then in the rnfIIfmery business, but while in the lat ter he got tp reading law. He has been justice of the peace. clerk of the court. solicitor of his county. and climbed right along in the law until he reached the ambition of most young lawyers he's at last in Congress. and no doubt NOptHA some DrlGHt udJ " OO SSHNSSA'
 Directory Unusually Staid.
 The older members must be giving fine new ones tips, for the directory issued the other cay is remarkably free from funny things that the fresh statesmen say of themselves compared win former directories.
 when the late Hon. Thomas B. Reed was speaker of the House there was member from somewhere up in the Northwest by the name of Sauerner- and his family "sowring." Like most new members Mir. Saurherring wanted the best possible committee places. and called upon the big man from Maine to ascertain what his chances were. Af- ter he had stated his preferences the Speaker requested him to make a note of them ard leave the mmoranda with him. Some days later they met again. The Speaker referred to the note and drawled out. MT. sour-herring,' I'll do the hest can for you. From your Saune tt would be appropriate to put