The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-03

individual and possesses power. one man
IN the Senate could not permanently hold
up bill, but he could delay It's passage
Tor q long time. In the House ono mem
Dor can defeat unanimous consent, but he
gets run over when the machine gets In
operation ard no one waits even 10 hear
him squeak" In the Senate the process
OF SupprcSSing man Is accomplished
with a great deal of noise. especially If
the man objects But II is fact that
men who have attained considerable
prominence in tho House. who arc pop
ular among their fellows and who have
reached good positions on committees
will voluntarily retire simply because
they do not care for the life or because
they do not want To remain until old
age ovcrtakeS them and finds them prac-
tically where they were when they be-
gan, This desire TO get out OF Congress
is not so prevalent as TO cause great
change IN It's membership. At least
four-ffths OF the members are engaged
In a frantic effort to retain their seats.
Filibustering Material.
About the timo that Senator Tillman
was explaining ex-senator Chambers
connection with the railroad rate leGis-
lation and incidentally paying his re-
committee room noticed cn a bookshelf
six volumes entitled winning OF the
West by Theodore Roosevelt senator
1illman was complimcnted for his choice
OF literature. and he replied ''oh. ] keep
those to read In the Senate when | want
to filibuster against some bin"
President Likes Foraker.
OF all the opponents of rate bill legls-
lation in the Senate tho ono who has the
highest respect OF the President is Sen
ator Foraker The President likes an
opponent Of that kind a man who nights
fair. who fights TO the end and who does
not surrender his convictions. Senator
Foraker, during the elaborate hearing on
the railroad rate bill a year ago showed
that he was opposed TO the measure, All
the questions he asked Indicated that he
did not believe that Congress had the
power to dictate to commission the
power to FIX rates In his discussion OF
the bill he took the same ground. In his
efforts to amend the measure he tried
10 make II effective from his standpoint
and he fought along those lines TO tho
end and finally voted against II. Like
those in the House who would not sup
port the measure Senator Foraker was
In eminently respectable company and
had no need to be ashamed OF his asso-
ciates or course the President knew
ing TO defeat the bill. He was not un-
mindful OF the fact that certain men
would have been glad to so amend II
that 1t would not have been In the least
effective Some of these he might not
have been able to place, but he always
knew just whero Foraker stood, No man
In opposition TO the rate bill won q
higher place In tho President regard
than Senator Foraker,
Bailey Won't Write.
Senator Bailey OF Texas, like many
other public men. is frequently asked to
write articles for periodicals. but he In
varlably declines. II have no desire to
enter that field" said Senator Bailey;
II understand that my name is wanted
as much as anything else. but my Views
are expressed publicly when | have any
thing to say. There are many men In the
literary profession and they are COM
petent to write on questions which are
before the country. II 1 had no other
reason / would decline to Invade field
where men are already employed when
I have my own chosen profession and
other duties to occupy my time
Picturesque Uncle Joe.
Uncle Joe Cannon in action is GER
| tainly n picturesque and interesting fig
ure When chairman OF the committee
| on appropriations and vigorously defend
| Ing his bills or opposing amendments
| the galleries. Earnest in manner and
with gestures which would excite mirth
| and laughter. he always had the House
| In good humor. even when refusing a
large number OF members something they
| wanted. AS Speaker. he wields the Gavel
| In his left hand. In Itself an oddly. But
| when he counts a quorum. which John
Sharp Williams compels him to do very
frequently these days. he grabs the gavel
| around its head and points the handle
| toward the members he Is counting. His
| arm is first bent like the voting emblem
| of the labor party and then IL shoots
| out straight and the gavel Is horizontally
pointed for an instant. This action rs
kept up. and western men are reminded
| Of bad man shooting the lights out in
| a mining camp booze Joint. 1t Is anus
Ing, this performance of Uncle Joe: 1t
| caused Williams to tell the story of the
| lady who constantly asked n gentleman
| the time OF day and explained that she
| did SO because the facial nction Of the
| man with the watch so interested her
llttlo boy that he stopped crying. And
80 sometimes 1 expect that I want a
| quorum counted because the movements
| OF tho Speakers Gavel amuse us so that
| they keep the House quiet and put every
| body In good humor." Uaughter)
| But while Williams acknowledged that
| the members OF the House were grown
| up boys, as all men arc" he wanted 1t
| understood beyond any question that
| there was no trining with sacred things.
| as he said:
| that there is nobody in the House OF Rep
| rescntatives that is laughing ct or MAX
| ing toke OF the requirements OF any part
| OF the fundamental law OF the republic or
| the United States,
Chinese as Workers.
Senator Hale presented to the Senate AN
| interesting statement by Chauncey r.
Burr Burr of Portland, Me. regarding the Chi
| nese boycott. saying that It was caused
by the treatment of tho Chinese by the
United States. He points out that the the
the United States, but they have been
shut out of the Hawaiian Islands, the
| Philippines, Porto Rico, Guam and Gu-
| tuiIa Some interesting features of the
Chinese are described In the statement
'On the quay at Manila, he said, ono
can Tor could see the coohe AT his best,
| Tall. stalwart men, six feet or so mot tho
| understood Cantonese we sec In this coun-
| trYl naked save for a breech-cloth ana
| straw hat much like an inverted basket,
! their yellow skins burned orange by the
| tropical sun, they are always In motion
fetching and carrying impossible loads. At
| Cavite, across the bay, the writer once
| watched four Chinese smiths under the
| l. ndershIp OF a nth or foreman hammer
| a steel plato Into shape for fitting TO tho
| side Of gunboat II was an operation re-
| ouirng considerable skill as well as
| strength. but with the regulation OF
| ciockwork the blows descended full and
| true, and in marvelously short time the
| rIate was fitted. Call In Chinese boot
| maker at Cavttc and order pair OF
shoes. He will draw an outline OF your
! foot on a piece Of paper. take two or
| three measurements with another piece
of paper and bring the completed shoes