The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-06-07
WASHINGTON CHAT

turned into a court room one day last
week, with Speaker Cannon as the
presiding Judge and several members
of the House as prisoners at the bar.
1t was the first time in many years
that the Sergeant-at-arms of the House
had actually arrested absent members
and brought them before the Speaker.
OF late, at the end of each days ses-
sion, the point of no quorum has been
raised and then if the absentees did
not appear the House would be
compelled to adjourn. The last time
that a quorum was not present,
Speaker Cannon ordered the doors
closed and issued batch OF warrants.
Then ensued such scramble as has
not been seen in Congress for many
a day. A few members, notified by
friends on the floor of the Speakers
action, hurried in to their seats. Ten
members were brought in under arrest
and led up to the bar, the Sergeant-at-
arms announcing their capture, after
which, upon motion, they were
discharged.
So many arrests were to be made
that even the pages were called upon
to act the part of policemen. One
little fellow brought in big Soy"
Sulloway of New Hampshire, six feet,
seven inches in height and weighing
800 pounds. This "giant OF the
house, took his arrest in good fashion
and instead of being led to the bar by
the youthful policeman, he picked the
little fellow up and carried him in his
arms. Several members were greatly
angered over their arrest, especially SO
when a motion was defeated to strike
from the Record the names OF the
arrested members.
The Bureau of Animal Industry OF
the Agricultural Department is con-
graduating itself in having received
a priceless gift from Doctor Dorset. a
member of the Bureau, who has
invented and received patent upon
process for protecting swine from the
ravages of hog cholera. The doctor
gives his invention without price to
his country and will in time, no
doubt, receive the thanks and bless
ings of farmers the country over. The
new method consists of the injection
of serum from the blood of an immune
hog, after the immune has been treated
similarly with the serum from hogs
afflicted with the disease. Heretofore
the treatment for cholera has been the
injection of the cholera virus directly.
About 20 per cent of the treated
animals have died.
Just at present the Departure of
Agriculture is at work upon bulletin
giving complete information on the
subject and which, whets it is finished,
may be had free for the asking. DR..
Dorset's invention may be used by
any of the employees of the U. S.
Government or by any person in the
United States, without royalty. The
invention is success, not theory,
and is the outcome of several years
constant labor and study.
The greatest Prince OF India is .
visitor in Washington. The dusky
hued monarch is Maharaga Gaikwar,
one of the richest men in the world
and the ruler of more than three
million of people. Accompanied by
some thirty or more of his native
countrymen, bedecked in oriental
splendor, he is travelling for his health
and also to acquire knowledge of the
United States and its people. The
Prince and his party was given a
cordial welcom e by President Roosevelt
at the White House, where they also
took lunch, after which officials of the
War Department conducted them for a
visit to the United States Fish Com
mission building as the Prince is
greatly interested in fish hatcheries.
One day was occupied by pilgrimage
to Mt. Vernon where the Prince placed
a wreath on the tomb of Washington.
The party is indeed royal appearing
one, in fact the most picturesque
looking visitors who have arrived at
the Capital in a long time and so
pleased is the "rich man of India"
with his reception in this country,
that he is already making arrange
ments to repeat his visit in year or
two from now.
1t has just come to light that den
Of counterfeiters has long been in
existence in Washington and has been
located very close to the big Treasury
building over which Secretary Shaw
presides and in which Secret Service
Chief Wilkie has his Office. For
several months counterfeit coins of
denominations ranging from nickel
to dollar have been circulated in
Washington to considerable extent
and Secret Service men have been un-