The National tribune., 1906-06-07

dIteE the ne-SuaOuHCeIneHt OI MS Idtdi dCt-
In that he said he had taken his own
life, because he was no longer able to
meet financial obligations. He wished
to be buried by the House, but wanted
no Congressional cortege, no splurge.
He abhorred such things. He also said
that he did not want any memorial ex-
ercises held In the House in his honor.
That was farce which he hssd always
consistently opposed. 1t Is an awful
thing to have a sincere. honest life
snuffed out this way, and men who
have served with him for these past 1:
years in Congress are bowed down with
grief over it.
When the Senate gets cranky it's
cranky, and that is all there is to it. The
other day Gum Shoe Bill Stone" of
Missouri, was making one Of his lucid
talks to the Senate, when two or three
messengers appeared in the gallery
above the head of the presiding officer
and made noise and began to unfold
huge map. 1t crinkled and crankled
like breaking glass. Senator Stone look
ed up, annoyed, and then the messen-
gers tried to hastily roll the map up
and back out, but the thing made more
noise than ever. Senator Stone calmly
stopped. and the Vice President jammed
the little ivory mallet down on the mar
Bile desk and commanded silence. THE
work until after the Senator from Mis-
souri, has concluded" he declared stern
ly. "Or until the Senate adjourn" sug-
gested Senator Foraker. A dozen Sem
ators added their protests, and the
scared-to-death messengers finally got
out. About this time Senator Knox
came gliding in, and he proceeded to
blushingly explain that he was going to
talk late in the afternoon on the pro-
jected canal from Pittsburg to Lake
Erie, and had had this map made to
make his exhibit on. Then Senator
Knox, who is a newcomer in the Senate,
you know, only about year old, learned
that when he wanted to display maps
in the United States Senate the men,
bers of the august asse-blage have a
certain kind of oiled paper that has no
rustic to it which they use for that
purpose, and that hereafter he will
please have his maps made on this kind
of paper. Falterfngly he declared he
would, and the episode was over.
The maddest lot of men you ever saw
were yanked up before the bar Of the
House one day last week, under arrest
by the Sergeant-at-ArmS for being abb
sent from the House when they were
needed to make the quorum which Rep
resentative Williams, the minority lead
er, demanded. Mr.. Rucker, of some
uOWh tooutH, uCHoubtcu tiAC sIi
rest of himself and another Southern
gemman, sub. as "a foul and contempti-
BILE outrage" which anyone must see is
pretty near the limit for language 10
the Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives, the second gentleman In the
land, If you please.
The Sergeant-at-Arms he called "a
usurper with no authority to arrest"
and by way Of emphasizing the discrim-
ination he believed had been manifest
ed, asserted that "a member of the
Presidents family" referring to Mr.
Longworth. had been apprehended last
week. but had not been brought to the
bar and put In a list of members "ar-
rested"
After these gentlemen had concluded
their explanations and their structures
upon the House officials, Mr.. Payne, of
New York, the Republican floor leader,
proceeded to lecture members, particu-
larly the Republicans. He declared it
to be the primary duty of members to
attend upon the House sessions. and
warned them that, under the rules If
they did not. there was provision where
by they might be "docked," and inti-
mated that this would be done unless
there was marked reform on the part of
some of those most negligent in answer
ing to the call for a quorum.
Despite the efforts of several of the
influential Republicans, the reference in
the Journal to the arrest proceedings
was not omitted from the permanent
record, and those gentlemen who were
arraigned before the bar of the House
Monday night will go down In history
as having been, once in their lives at
least, under arrest,
It was supposed that with the ap-
nf tho Oh ta axxyh ho1o fav
was closed. but it seems not Mr. MUIR
ply. also from down South, rose in his
seat and declared that he arose to n
question of the highest privilege. and
quoted rules and precedents to show
that the Speaker had no authority to
issue writs of arrest unless SO directed
by the House.
Mr.. Murphy is new member, and
he does not know exactly what IL is that
he has undertaken when he bucks up
against the Speaker of the House.
Speaker Cannon gravely heard the high
personal privilege question" Of Mr..
Murphy. then in his most judicial tone
proceeded to do the gentleman up. He
cited Rules of the House to him, and
after making the gentlemen feel like go
cents, declared THE Chair believes that
under the Rules of the House the gem
tleman was legally arrested" Then the
gavel came down with a bang that made
the tiles in the corridor jingle, and the
speaker gave his gavel over to some
member called up for the purpose. and
walked out into the lobby as calmly as
though he had just shooed a fly off his
bald head.
A dispatch to the Bureau OF Manu-
factures from Minister John Hicks, of
Santiago, states the Chilean Government
has appointed Edward C. Spencer. an
American citizen. who has lived in Chile
for 40 years. to advertise in the United
States the commercial. mining. manu-
featuring and agricultural resources of
that country.
process whereby a lens for astron-
omical purposes can be produced In a
few weeks at a cost of $500 instead of
thousands of dollars, is reported by
Consul-General w. A. Rublee, of Vien-
ia. He states that Hungarian chemist
has produced fluid, which, inclosed be-
tween two thin crystals. will overcome
the defects of ordinary lenses.
Charges by about 40 Indians of the
Umatilla Reservation, in Oregon against
Maj. e. o. Edwards, Superintendent of
the Indian Agency shere, have been
thoroughly investigated and have re-
suited, as far as the Government Indian
Office Is concerned, In a complete vim
dicatfon of the official.
few weeks back a petition was re-
ceived from dissatisfied Indians. asking
that the administration of the Superin-
fQndepf no Inakad into and hintfno thot