Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-01-08

disapp pointed office seekers
like a dozen men would
egisaate for eighty millions
With the recDnvening of congress
he house has set itself seriously to
he task of passing a statehood bill.
Speaker Cannon is determined that
the measure agreed upon by the re
publican conference 4 shall be put
through with the least possible de-
lay. The insurgents wild divide
among them limited time for de-
bate, but the. vote will be taken on
the minute, and, there will be mo-
hitch in the speakers program. ii
When The statehood bdn reaches the
senate it will get an oveThauling, but
the best opinion is that Oklahoma and
Indian Territory will be admitted as
a single state. Now Mexico and Ariz-
ona have able and energetic cham
pions, but there is a growing convie-
ton that they will have to wait un.
til some other year.
The senate galleries were we'll filled
at noon Thursday, and it is a safe
guess that a majority of the visitors
were attracted by a desire to see
Robert NJ. LaFoIlette, the new sena-
tor from Wisconsin. Already the
Wisconsin senator has put Senator
Tiliman in eessissse JJa,tt is La Toilette
came Tilaman had been the senator
whom most visitors wanted pointed
out to them, but nine out of ten now
demand to be shown Senator LaFol.
lette. ~
The career of the Wisconsin man
viii ibe well worth watching. Just
how he will fit into his senatorial
niche is hard to figure out. 1t isn't
likely he Will be satisfied to serve
am apprenticeship in silence, as most
senators must do, and it is equally
hard to believe the senate will allow
him TO kick over it's cherished trz,di-
tions. The middies at Annapolis are
mere tyros alongside the United
States senators when it comes to
hazing. The senate has been prac-
ticing the sport for generations and
has got 1t down to a fine art.
Were it reduced to betting propo-
sition, however, any bookmaker would
lay long odds that the senatorial sup
per classman" who attempted to
stand LaFoHette ON his head" would
be willing to admit before he got
through with the job that he had
caught a tartar.
Senator Depew is kept busy these
days denying reports that he intends
to resign his seat in the senate. The
ink on one denial is hardly dry until
another is forthcoming.
Incidents have not been lacking in
the past where men have been driven
out of public life by persistent re-
ports that they intended to retire.
Even cabinet ministers have not es-
capped! 1t doesn't appear on the sur
face that there is any such con-
spiracy to drive Depew from the SEN
ate, but If the thing is kept UP the
parbtic will come to expect his resig-
nation, and public expectation is a
hard thing to resist.
A great many of his colleagues find
in Senator Depew a subject for their
deepest pity. Once a conspicuous
and ready formidable candidate for
the presidency, for a quarter of a
century he has been one of the most
falked-about men In the United
States. This public notice and public
praise has been the breath Of life
to him; aearer even than the great
fortune he has piled up. Now he is
comp arable to a faded foot light faV-
orite. The piaudits OF the multitude
no longer ring in his ears, and there
must be harboredt in his soal a dread
that misses would greet him were he
again to seek the center of the stage.
Some uhing must he the matter
with Channcey,'' said a friend III
New York the Other day. q know