The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
From the Washington Post.


 N UP1D's darts made the atmosphere
 V of the Senate champer warm and
 O palpitant for while yesterday. Just after the close of the morning hour, when the clerks voice had ceased to drone off bills and resolutions by title, there came into the chamber Hon. Nicho- las Longworth of Cincinnati. Apparently he had come over from the House for a consultation with Senator Foraker That facile statesman was occupying the seat 0. another senator on the front row of the republican side. This caused Mir I.ongworth to walk down the full length of the center aisle. A whisper rippled round the Senate chamber:
 There's the groom-eect.'
 Grave senators hearing the whisper looked up from their desks and smiled bengnantly upon the trim form Of the Presidents future son-in-law. Statesmen gray and grizzed nudged each other in the ribs The silence that had brooded over the Senate only a moment before, with nothing but the monotonous sound of the clerks voice to disturb it. sudden ly was broken. There was merry rumble
 
 for the galleries were infected almos. as quickly and as much as the senators by thoughts of the Cyprian grove and all that sort of thing which the pres ence of Mir. Longworth had inspired. A look of ineffable pride and Joy shone on tho face of Hon. Nicholas Longworth. Op- viously he was endeavoring to appear un- conscious of all the rumpus his visit was causing Senator Foraker grasped him by the hand and clutched 1t tight. The Sen ator rose when he did it. MT. Long worth bowed gracefully. Bushes deep and rapid chased each other over his face and up the broad expanse of his patrician brow back to where there is mere rim of black hair left upon his head.
 Then up sprang Senator Kean of New Jersey, himself a bachelor through no fault of his own, and seized MT. Long worth by both hands. Senator Depew, still enmeshed by the silken cords, was next to approach the visiting young statesman and merrily whisper into his ears the words that bespeak his triumph. One af- ter another did the senators extend con eratulations. until the Senate was all a. chatter like a girls seminary. Even Sem ator Pettus. four score years and more young. and fond of life as when he. too. was in the eestatic state that now holds MT. Longworth, beamed through his Confucan spectacles a glance of hap piness and congratulation. Senator Nor gan usually stern and austere of visase, could not prevent the emotions that were yelling up in his heart from showing in his fine old face. Senator Dick. as if 1eai- ous of the time the distinguished ohloan was giving to his colleague, hustled down from his desk in the back row and carrleo Mir. Longworth captive back to that part of the chamber
 By this time the chatter and rumble had grown almost into a roar. from floor and galleries. and Vice President Fairbanks, raising his gavel. as if to give admoni tory taps, seemed unable to summon strength enough to his uplifted right arm to strike the blow. Senator Tilman, Cyclo- pean usually in aspect, was filled to over flowing with speech against the Panama canal commission. and the hour had ar- rived when he should have begun to give a tongue, but he waited patiently, and with a smile playing upon his furrowed countenance. until the Vice Presidents voice rAns out tremblinsly: