The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06

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distribution Of vegetable and flower seeds
has been csnisted from the bii. There IL
not. and never has been. any warrant Of
for thls expenditure. and the Item simply
has been tolerated In appropriation bills"
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Mayor duth RE OF Pntsbure has refused
annual pass 20 baseball eamea.
Former United States Senator PETER Of
Kansas has not disappeared. He 10 only In
retirement compiling o summary Of the
Congressional Record from its beginning.
olassii ed by topics.
The nomination Of Capt. Richmond p.
Hobson for Congress In the Sixth district
Of Alabama recalls o stirring little story.
John Hollis B~ankhesd. wbtm Hobson de-
feated for the nomination. In q Confederate
veteran and has represented the district for
twenty years.
Several years ago there was Q bill before
the Naval Committee to transfer Hobson to
the retired list Of the navy as for disability
incurred In the line Of duty" Hobson
charged that Bankhead prevented q favor
able report Of this bill. and that. IL is said.
determined him TO oppose him In his district.
Upon the failure Of the bill Hobson re-
signed from the navy. Bankhead Ia "a and
Hobson 30 and both are Ala Hob
" . hOpby = W bPch-S
up the greatest navy in the world.
Roscoe Conkling. like John J. ingalls,.
was q master at invective. Conkling. II Is
said, once upon a time in summing up to q
jury thus attempted to belittle the testi-
mony Of q rummy faced. knobby nosed wit
ness for the opposition:
"Methinks. gentlemen, I can see that wit
ness now. his mouth stretching across the
wide desolation Of his face. a sepulchre Of
rum and q fountain Of falsehood!"
Mayor schmitz OF San Francisco when
first elected three years ago was leader OF an
orchestra in a theatre.
Charles B. Spatz Of Boyertown. Pa, q DEM
ocratic candidate for Congress. announces
seven specific pledges of which the seventh
Is: Il will in all respects follow the leader
ship Of William Jennings Bryan, who VIII be
our next President"
Mayor Ekers Of Montreal Ia addressed per-
sonally as your Worship" and in the third
person as His Worship"
The old story Of keeping thing In the
family Is recalled by the admission Of Mrs.
Ella Knowles Haskell Of Butte. Mon. TO
practise In the Supreme Court Of the United
States. In 1892, as Ella Knowles, she was
the Populist candidate for Attorney General
Of Montana, and was defeated by Henry j.
Haskell, Republican. After the election, the
successful and defeated candidates shook
hands and were married. and Attorney-Gen-
Reral Haskell made Mrs. Haskell Assistant
Attorney Genera Latch they were divorced.
and Mrs. Haskell has since practised law In
dependently.
The foregoing serves to recall that the late
United States Senator Calvin Stewart Brice
and Gen. Sam Thomas. both Democrats. early
in life were law part ners In Lima, ohio.
In order TO get all the law bushes In that
territory II was thought advisable that one
member Of the Arm should be a Republican.
80 Brice and Thomas one fine morning COM
PLEASANTLY Tipped up O cent 20 decide which
should be the Democrat and which the Repub-
lican. The coin decided that Brice could
remain a Democrat. but that Thomas must
be q Republican and In that political align
ment they remained to the end OF their days.
Twenty-Five years ago Secretary Taft
was law reporter for the Cincinnati Times
and later for the Cincinnati Commercial
President Diaz returned from q hunting
trim, the other day with three mountain oats
and seventeen deer. Mexico's President Is
only 70.
Folks are beginning to ask, when Is Con-
gress to ADJOURN" Some predict June 1.
but Speaker Cannon Of the House has a diff
ferent view. for he plaintiveiy says:
When those fellows over In the Senate
ret through talking it'll be long after the
Fourth OF July, or l miss my bet"
Representative William Sulzer OF the Tenth
New York district has a bill before the House
making the anniversary Of the birth OF Column
bus a national holiday. Mr.. Sulzer says
that although most people think we have
in this country numerous legal holidays
authorized by Congress there Is only one
Labor Day. He has looked up the question.
Thanksgiving. the Fourth OF July and other
days on which public offices and business
institutions are closed Mr.. Sulzer declares
are not authorized. but are merely by COM
mon consent.
President Roosevelt has q pet story about
a negro preacher who. In delivering q forceful
sermon on theft. volleyed forth:
Il see befo' me twelve chicken thieves.
inoludin' that thar Bill Sanders"
Sanders resented this clerical attention
and threatened his reverend detraotor with
a broken head and a Islander action. unless
a retraction were made next Sunday. The
apology came in due course.
What l should "a said" the minister
explained, was l see befo' me eleven chicken
s~tealers, not includin' Bill Sanders"
The Republican Congress campaign COM
mittee is to adopt as It's slogan for this falls
Congress elections: Stand by Roosevelt"
Otto Kelsey. the new Superintendent o:
Insurance for New York State, is 81 and a
bachelor. He entered public life as a Repub-
lican Assemblyman In 1898. and from that
day has been known as Honest Otto Kelsey. .
which Mr.. Kclsey's friends do not think much
OF a compliment-as inherently, they say,
Kelsey couldn't be anything but honest.
United States Senator Francis F.. Warren's
friends in Wyoming say that it is a mistake
TO say that he is to have diflculty in being
reelected this fall,
80 far as the Senator knows" said one Of
Mr.. warren's supporters yesterday. there
9 no opposition 10 his return, and his friends
expect him to be named by both the State
convention this summer and the Legislature
next winter" I