Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-22
WILL NOT Be A
cattle OF BABES.
those Fighting on the Rate Bill
Are Veterans and Are
Determined.
OKLAHOMA is DEMOCRATIC.
.,,s session OF Committee, Senators
HAD a Difficult Time in Finding
A Bible.

so,c,s Correspondence
w.shington. Feb. 21.-"They are not
,..r,r with babes" is a remark heard
-, the senate, reference being made
:. senator's Elkins, Aldrch, kean.
r.r.ker and Crane the Republican
..r,bers OF the Interstate commerce
.mr,,ttee, who differed with Senators
non,ver and Clapp on the railroad rate
s,r "polllyer and Clapp are more
Nan seven years old" was the response
:, man who has been watching the
.ontest between these opposition forces.
un,b sides acknowledged that an ex-
,sedlngly hard contest is on between
ne contending factions. They may
,..m 10 agree at times. but It Is well
.,ow, That the actual differences be.
..'osr them are irreconclable and that
Nav cannot move In the same grooves.
VIZ battle Of brains, and that Is the
ia of contest that Is enjoyed in
The Capitol
WILL BE DEMOCRATIC
There seems to be not the slightest
ouestion that the new state OF Okla
soma, II II ever gets In, will be Demo-
rrstic. oklahoma Territory now has a
Republican delegate but he Is elected
nv The western portion of the proposed
new state while Indian Territory does
not vote. This eastern, or Indian,
eo,ntry has been peopled by white men
rom the south almost exclusively and
,hey are naturally Democrats. In
"cy oklahoma alone has very
strong Democratic population. as Del
srote Mcclure received bl,5i votes
and bis opponent 1855 votes. The
margin was not very wide, considering
me large vote cast,
TILLMAN WANTS LIGHT.
rt want 10 know" declared Senator
rlInan in the senate, IF there Is an
other santo Domingo affair in Costa
RIca,"
~ will let my euphemistic friend
make his own statement In regard to
that remarked Senator Bacon, whom
TIllman had Interrupted
Il want to get light, If there is any
Hgh, lying around" continued Till
man.
Il have not got IT," replied Bacon.
MAYBE the senator from Massachu.
sets has IT," Tilman remarked, He
seems to be well posted
you can ask him when get
through" said Bacon, who wanted to
continue his speech.
We don't want to drag this thing
IN By the head and ears after you get
through" declared Tillman.
81 know nothing about Costa Rica,
remarked Senator Lodge, to whom the
conversation was pointed, but | Will
observe that the senator from South
Carolina does not seem TO see any
better after he gets light.
TAwNEY WONDERED.
Chairman Tawney Of the house COM
mittee on appropriations Is very much
inclined TO think that the large ex-
pendtures for the government are due
10 lack Of system and discipline, The
other morning he watched newsboy
in front Of the treasury selling papers
10 the clerks as they entered one door
FOR the days work. How many pa
pers DO you sell every morning. asked
Tavney.
-Four hundred and nifty" responded
the boy.
Relating the Incident, Tawney asked
a friend, How many heads Of big
business esta bllshments would allow
their employees time TO read newspa-
pers in business hours?'
WHAT CLARK WOULD PAINT.
Senator Clark of Montana has loaned
to the Corcoran gallery here a large
number Of his most famous paintings,
and In speaking of his collection and
love OF pictures he said he sometimes
wished he had studied art and
been painter. Asked what kind OF
pictures he would have painted, he re-
Piled
"Oh. would have chosen great sub
jects. ! would never have painted
sheep or peasants; would have chosen
lions
And yet some Of his best paintings
are OF peasants. sheep, CATTLE pas
toral scenes II Is these subjects that
ihe great artists have chosen rather
man kings, courts and grandeur
WHO HAD BIBLES.
pouring the closing days Of the smoot
Vesligatl0n some questions came up
as 70 whether there was a Bible In the
TWIN SNiN'l AhtA' Hhh p'Nt
an unsuccessful search Senator Bur-
rows remarked:
We seem to be a little short on
Bibles
There IL one IN my committee
room' said Senator Dillingham;.
Oh. yes, put In Senator Knox; "you
moved into the room that | had been
occupying,"
Well responded Dillingham;, you
,ook away everything when you left
'nat would be OF any use to you
DIVERSE WESTERN VIEWS.
They We're discussing the pure food
nlll between NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
hansbrough Of North Dakota and
Clark Of Wyoming.
I'm for It," said Hansbrough
I'm not said Clark.
Wen, the amount Of rotten stun We
aIe putting In our stomachs Is doing
great injury" said Hansbrough.
Not as much as the rotten stun we
are putting on our statute books" re-
Piled Clark.
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