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OF the famous deadlocks the series
in Delaware incident TO the determined
effort OF J. Edward O'Sullivan Addicks
TO break into the senate was easily the
most famous. 1t may not be inappro-
pirate to set down here an accurate
outline OF this contest, which has never
before been printed. Addicks began by
controlling four or five members of
the 1898 legislature. when Higgins was
a candidate. Addicks finally agreed
that on .ti1e last day he would vote his
people for Dr.eBurtpn--now member
OF congress-if Higgins would do the
same and elect him senator. Addicks
carried out his agreement, but Higgins
failed and voted his men for Du Pont,
leaving the agreement failure and
the state vacancy.
After that Addicks worked incessan.-
ly and built UP a machine in the state.
There Is no doubt that he spent mil
lions on his ambition to be senator
how many is only subject for conjec-
ture. At any rate, when the 1895 cam
paign was coming on he. in control
of the state, had a deal with Quay,
Reed and the other Mckinley peo-
pie under which he took an uncontested
delegation to st. Louis to vote wfAh
the anti Mckinley forces. The kcou-
test was organized after arrival there,
Higgins protesting the Addicks dele
cation. The Hanna-McKinley people,
in complete control, offered first to seat
the Addicks delegation IL IT. would split
its vote. Addicks, who was for William
B. Allison for president. refused, and
his delegation was rejected. Four years
afterward, at Philadelphia, the Iowa
delegation took a leading part in seat
ing another Addicks delegation. simply
as a means OF paying back the loyalty
of Addicks to Allison.
At the 1899 senatorial election tho
Higgins people refused to enter eau
Gus and there never was chance o..
eiecting senator. At the third dead
locked session the Addicks and Du Pont
people agreed to elect senator-Sen-
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ator Dick of Ohio, as emissary from
Mark Hanna, arranging the deal. AS
result Du Pont and Addicks gave Up
their personal ambitions and Alice and
Ball were elected. At the fourth en-
counter Roosevelt politics entered Del
aware for the first time. Alice had
become a Roosevelt adherent-R Roose-
Welt now being president-and through
the White House influence was induced
to cut Addicks and make a deal with
Du Pont. Under this deal Du Pont
agreed to take the senatorship in sue
cession to Ball and then turn in with
all his influence and help re-elect Alice
1t was carried out to the extent OF
electing Du Pont; but being once
elected, Du Pont betrayed Alice just as
Alice had betrayed Addicks.. Du Pont
not only wanted to be senator. but he
wanted to be the senior senator--the
real boss. So he refused when the time
came to support Alice: he threw his
strength to Harry A. Richardson. elect
ed him and left Alice out In the cold.
And thereby hangs the tale. Alice
was very, very sore. He was also very
close to the White House. During his
relations with tho Du Points he had
learned the secrets of the powder trust.
After he had been shut out by the
powder trusts senator he decided to
explode that particular trust. So he
went to the White House. told what
he knew about the powder combine,
and forthwith there was announcement
that the powder octopus would be
prosecuted. The attorney general is
now busily on Its trail and this is the
real story in the case. Everybody IN
the senatorial family knows it. The
senatorial family" is the group of
elder statesmen who are custodians Of
the traditions. the conscience and the
manners of the upper chamber. The
family" is the most select and ex-
elusive thing in America.
There have been at beast two cases
In recent years of men getting clear
majority of the votes in a legislature
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Temptations of the Shops People Who Forget to Pay

As she stepped back rather unwilling
iy the saleswonan noticed that some
thing moved at the side of her dress.
which was also black Putting out. her
hand she caught the glove and pulled
the mate to which IL was fastened from
the woman's pocket, secreted In the
old-fashioned way IN . seam Of hsr
dress.
Then Il was that the contract was
drawn up By the manager. by which
In the days Of her old age this woman
had to acknowledge that she had been
caught In the act OF stealing goods BE-
longing to the hrm and promised that
she would never again enter the doors
of the shop. She has never been seen
there since
There Is one more story. that OF q
woman who had been looking at sweat
ers. but came to the conclusion that she
could not AFFORD TO buy the one that
pleased her. so she left the counter.
saying she would have to look else
where
That she had taken the sweater
pleasing in her eyes escaped the notice
of every one except the door keeper.
to whom IL did not seem natural for
piece Of green knit wear to peep out
between the buttons Of a light jacket
on warm spring day. Without hesi-
tation he tore open the coat and the
oW c8tcL lcll u tue n0ol.
Come with me- he said. and will
have this wrapped for you
IT don't want it," she replied angrily.
I'm sure you do. Come right this
way"
Back she had to go to the counter
and to the clerk who had waited upon
her.
The door keeper looked at the tag
",Ihls is s3-5O" he said
Its not, either" retorted the woman.
looking to the clerk for verihcation.
But the man said, You don't under
stand. madam Bought in the usual
way this would have been S1.75. as
marked But for various reasons the
price Is now just twice that You will
please pay me what I ask without fur
ther argument"
Trembling with fear, anger and kin
dred emotions. the woman complied
with the request
Such are the occasional lapses from
the path of rectltude noted by the
keepers OF our shops-not material to
them; but annoying to the lapsers
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sion. after many weeks OF effort, has
adjourned without an election. Only
within & short time the legislature of
unable TO choose a senator. The Wis
consin legislature has just chosen a
senator after a contest which really
began on March 8. The remarkable ex-
periences OF Delaware, Montana, Penn
sylvania and Nebraska, az well as other
states, hardly need to be recounted TO
suggest how entirely the business of
choosing senators has come to be the
overshadowing, all engrossing function
of legislatures. Everything else has
been traded of, neglected or forgotten
in the eagerness to devote attention
10 this. Not only have nearly
third of these deadlocks resulted in
failure to elect at all, but about as
many more have ended IN the selection
OF men utterly unknown as senatorial
timber, men agreed on as compromises
between bitterly hostile factions, whose
availability too often consisted In the
fact that they were unknown, untried.
untested, unmeasured--had not been
FAR enough involved In the affairs OF
their communities even to have be-
come identified with their political
divisions. Here is list of the cases
OF deadlocked legislatures since 1891.
which is given by DR.. George II. Haynes
in The Election Of Senator'S" pub
lished recently. DR.. Haynes does not
pretend that 1t Is a fair representation
OF this aspect
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amateur willing to risk anything for .
black and white checked shirtwaist.
She was within a minute of safety
when discovered. 1t was half an inch
of the cuff that told the observant
manager what had been dono and how.
He stood by the door ushering the
customer out and remarking upon the
weather when he noticed part OF the
cuff of a conspicuous shirtwaist ex-
tending below the edge of the skirt.
Immediately he understood the situa-
ton. Instead of opening the door he
laid his hand on the knob and said:
Pardon me. madam, am afraid you
will lose your shirtwaist." and point
ed to the cuR.
My skirt" said she.
More likely one Of our shirtwaists," !"
said he. tearing 1t away from the pin
that held 1T to her underskirt.
~sWhy. 1 didn't know I had that she
said with nervous laugh.
No? Shall I wrap 10 I'D for you?
Marked $1.50, see"
With bland smile he extended his
hand and received the money.
II am sorry to have kept you wait
ing" said he when at last he sauntered
back to her.
'Oh, that's all right" she said. sim
peringiy. IT was tired"
printed contracts for the use of people
of this class. They were for the pur-
pose of warning those who possessed
unusual ideas OF honesty. Only once
since the fire has the frm found occa-
sion for the use of such a contract, ana
then the manager wrote out one with
quite q satisfactory results
A saleswoman had detected a beau-
tiful pair OF black kid gloves disap-
pearing over the edge OF the counter.
She stepped out to piektthem from tho
floor, where she supposed they had
fallen, but was bewildered at finding
no trace of them. Then she looked
scrutinizingly at the customers ranged
along the counter and noticed that one
of them, a rather elderly woman. was
looking hard in the other direction.
She touched her arm and the woman
jumped.
"Did you take pair of black kids?'
she asked.
mo, didn't
.Then. would you mind getting up
and letting me see if they are there on
the doorr
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the price when she took 1t away few
minutes ago. but now she does
When the pin came back duly
wrapped he handed it to the completely
crestfallen woman and said, Il guess
you won't prick your arm with 1t now"
She took the package from him me-
chanically and fed.
Rather hesitatingly at first the man.
ager of one of the better class dry
goods stores made known some ex-
periences with a customer whose credit
is always good in the store.
II think may say.'' said he, that
she never comes into the place without
taking away at least one article. usu-
ally two or three, that she doesn't have
charged. As she has an account here
we don't lose anything by her eccen-
trio methods.
All our clerks know her and like
her for that matter. She is very So
ciable. As soon as she comes in sight
the whole force watches. When she
covertly slips pair of silk stockings
into her shopping bag the clerk makes
a note OF it; when she is looking at
fancy collars the clerk knows exactly
how many collars she lays out and
their exact values. noting how many
remain when our friend has gone;
when she buys half a dozen handker-
chiefs we usually find that two or
three more have gone the same way.
After her departure one of our floor
walkers goes from department to de-
partnent getting items. All these ex-
tras are, of course, charged to her.
When she pays the bill. does she
make no objection to these over
charges? suppose she would call
them overcharges.''
Her husband does the paying was
tho reply. He never questions nor
exclaims. pays when the bill Is pre-
sented, and there Is an end Of the
matter"
Didn't you lose anything before you
recognized this popularity of hers?"
No. / think not She has had an
account with us since she has been
in the city, and she is so unskillful
about her thievery that there is no
dificulty in detecting her One month
her bill was 5000 and 500 worth that
she did not let us wrap up for her.
Being woman of means we call her
= kleptomaniac, ! suppose she really
is one"
More pitfful is the tale Of the little
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and still not being elected. In 1895, In
Oregon, Senator Dolph got the caucus
nomination and in the separate con-
ventions of the two houses of the
legislature was elected. But before the
joint convention on the next day
him to prevent his getting majority
in the joint oconvention, and he was
never-again so near election. In the
end Mcbride was elected. That deal
was engineered from beginning to end
by Fred Dubois, who on March re-
tired as senator from Idaho Dubois
was a representative of the silver wing
of not being firmly devoted to silver's
cause Later Dubois himself "fopped"
on this issue and was elected senator
a second time in his own state as a
demooDat.
The Missouri case of 1905 was SIM
ilar and is better recollected. Niedring-
haus. chairman of the republican state
committee, received a majority of the
votes of each house on the first day Of
balioting, and that night received con-
gratulations from all over America, in
cluding one from the president. But
next day in joint convention he failed
to connect with the some support, and
within three weeks he was Withdrawn
from the fight. A scandal about his
collection OF 1unos from ot- LOUIS
brewers during the preceding cam
paign was his undoing.
One OF the most famous deadlocks
was that of 1899 in Pennsylvania when
Quay failed of election and the legis-
lature adjourned without action. The
states governor afterward appointed
Quay to fill the vacancy. When the
question of accepting his credentials
came up in the senate number of
senator's voted to admit him, although
explaining that they did not believe it
was constitutional. Quay was person
ally very popular in the body and this
fact was frankly given as the reason
why several voted to admit him The
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shop Girl whose sobs were dismal
acknowledgment of her guilt. 1t was
all on account of a miserable remnant
of ribbon too brightly pink to be re-
sisted and too tear stained and RUM
pied afterward to be worth even the
original FIVE cents.
The child in question thought 1t
would be simple. Such lots OF rem
nants. Who would know IL one should
go? And the girls back was turned
So she took the pink one, the one with
flowers on it. But the girl looked
around just then. She called the man
on the floor and told him about it,.
Then followed the terrified sobbing and
supplications and the wiping OF the
red eyes with the bit OF pink ribbon.
The sobbing brought one OF the man
ayers to the scene Of the tragedy--no
more nor less than that to the child
and he led the little culprit out gently
and told her never to come back again
She had learned her lesson once and
for all and rather cheaply, although in
her overwrought state OF mind it
seemed anything but that. So great
was the pity she aroused In the specta-
tors that they fell to berating the
salesgirl, who could find nothing to
say for herself.
Recently, during sale in a white
goods store, a saleswoman drew the
attention Of the floor walker to wo-
man in the aisle who wore a loose coat
with large pockets. Out OF the corner
of one of them protruded the end of a
familiar bit of lingerie. Feeling Sc
cure from observation. the woman was
making no haste in leaving, seeming
to be looking around. rather. for some
thing else However, when she saw
the door walker coming toward her. she
looked uneasily at her pocket, discov-
cred the evidences of her carelessness.
turned her back abruptly and, singing
the offending embroidered pieces on
the fioor. hurried out The floor walker.
getting to the door at the same time,
bowed her out obseQuiously and wished
her good morning.
One OF the most audacIous acts per-
petrated by an amateur is related of a
customer in a shirtwaist establishment.
Such goods as shirtwaists, dresses,
coats and suits, articles OF greater size
and larger value are more apt to re-
ceive the attentions of the shoplifter.
But this occasion disclosed bungling
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Blockades Tie Up States

The decision TO have senators elected
by the state legislatures was q COM
promise between popular election.
which meant too much democracy, and
presidential appointment which meant
TOO little Nobody dreamed that in
time the compromise would result in
the senators controlling the legisla-
lures II some seer could have arisen
10 tell the constitutional convention
that this system would bring about =
condition in which legislatures would
be completely dominated by the respon-
sibility for a senator's election. they
would have laughed at him. Yet We
have seen it come TO pass that the
whole legislative business OF a state,
containing more people than there were
IN the United States at the end OF the
revolution, has been subordirated and
fOrcotten IN the pressure to control the
senatorial election. The senator's who
were expected to be .the creatures Of
the legislatures, have come TO be their
masters.
Originally seats in the house OF repre-
sentatives were more priced by most
men than those in the senate. The full
significance Of the senate's participation
fn the executive power-of its control
over patronage and its part in trea*y
mal1ing-were not appreciated. But
today the people Of real consequences In
this government are the senators. They
make terms with the executive, they
control the patronage and they head
the delegations which Nominate presl-
dents III national CONVERSIONS and. per-
haps more than all. they actually con-
troll legislation In Washington, partieu-
larry all that bears on production and
exchange, a power that cannot be
overstated in terms OF Importance and
range.
with this tremendous growth OF the
prestige and power of the senate has
come the senatorial deadlock, the CON
dftion in which pressure upon the state
legislature becomes so great as 10
paralyze it and prevent its perform
snce Of the function Of senatorial elee-
ton
Since 1891 there have been no less
than ze oeadioclzs In state legislatures.
In Is q these cases the legislative ses-
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ribbons. the laces, the gloves. the hos
iery and the what-nots of woman's $
desire. And very rareiy-more rarely
than you or l would imagine--tempte-
tion stalks too close a woman finds her
left hand closing over something that
does not belong to her and finds no
inclination on the part of her right
hand to pay for the same. Thereupon
she discovers certain facts relative to
the methods of the trade that hereto
fore have been undisclosed.
The. shoplifter and the piiferer be-
long each to a class of their own and
each is dealt with in a manner betting
the case, but in no instance with such
leniency as tempts to repetition of
the offense Following are a few in
stances of the post st-coniiagration period
that the floor walkers are still! chuck
ling over
One of them tells of hearing woman
say ouch. rather suddenly. and as sud-
denly extricate hatpin from her coat
sleeve and stick it into the lining of
her coat. Neither place being the usual
one for an ornamental hatpin, the
floor walker stepped up AID remarked
pleasantly that the hatpin she had just
put into her coat was very pretty
one.
She looked up nervously. then away
again, and Kept on walking toward the
front of the store
did you get 1t here?' persisted the
floor walker.
.I don't know what you are talking
about" she answered. with pout.
"Oh, yes. This was the reply, as
her annoyer laid back the lapel of her
coat and pointed to the imitation ame-
thyst head Of the pin.
That's mine" said the woman. as
with her last breath of hope.
Did you pay for it,"
"Of course. I've had it a week."
Funny you didn't take the tag OF, .
the fioorwalker remarked, musingly
twirling the pin in his fingers.
We'll. take It." said she, assuming
great dignity and proceeding again in
the general direction of out of doors.
'Oh, no, madam! want you to have
the pin
Unwillingly she followed him back to
the notion counter, not daring to do
otherwise.
Just make out check for this pin,p
said he to saleswoman. This GUS
toner did not realize that it was worth
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L tempting to the shopper? In a
moments weakness does she
Yield? II so. upon discovery how does
she act? What treatment does she re-
ceive? And what percentage of loss
can be traced to her misdemeanors?
These questions have been asked.
seriously. searchingly, all along the
streets and avenues where women's
shops-if they may be so termed-are
chiefly situated. Displeasing though it
be TO dwell upon. such pilfering seemed
not only likely. but very probable N
view OF the abundant opportunities
continually offered.
The replies received have, however,
aroused both incredulity and surprise.
SO seldom does anything of the sort
occur and so insignificant Is the loss
attributed to that source that the mat
ter does not invite minute investiga-
tion.
our profits are too great" said the
manager of one of the most prosperous
OF the shops. for US to trouble over 4
loss so small as we know that to be,
although OF course we continually
guard against It, In my many years
experience in this mouse / can recall
only three incidents OF that nature.
And one of them was the work OF a
professional shoplifter operating in the
city at the time. If we do suffer from,
pilfering II is in such way as load
of hay progressing through the streets
loses in weight by the depredations OF a
small boy or gust of wind. Not more
than that"
How often this thought passes
through ones mind as one handles the
pretty trifies on the glass cases and
counters: 1T would be the easiest
thing in the world to carry off some
OF these articles without being seen;
very likely it's done every day. But
YOU don't do IL because you are too
honest. and there are others who don't
do it for that aud possibly other rcas-
ons.
Yet there they are-lhe hat pins, the
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ROM 1895 down 10 the present there
l. has been only one congress in
which the full membership OF the
senate sat IN all the others there
were one or more vacancies. due to the
failure Of state legislatures to choose
senators.
At present the senate's membership is
incomplete, the state OF Rhode Island
having failed after an all winter EFFORT
OF sts legislature 10 elect a senator in
place Of George Peabody wetmore-
There was g full senate for short
time after Delaware had elected Colonel
Henry A Du Pont; then, with the ex-
piratson OF wetmore's term and the
failure 20 elect IN Rhode Island, the up
per house returned 70 its chronic condi-
tion OF short handedness-
4 The senatorial deadlock is responsible
for this condition. The deadlock IS a
matter OF comparatively recent devel-
opnent. There were occasional failures
OF state legislatures IN the early his
tory OF the country 20 elect senator's.
but until within about Is years these
in the American house or lords are SO
highly priced, the stake Is so immense
and political feeling runs so high over
them that Il IS the exception 10 pick
on a date at which all the seats hoe
been filed.
The problem OF the senate looms
larger year by year in the American
system. In Great Britain there is sol
emn talk Of abolishing their house OF
lords. That cannot be done in America.
Nothing short Of revolution would ac-
complish IL. The complaint against the
lords-in both countries-is that they
are not sufficiently responsive and re-
sponsible to public opinion.
SO * IS interesting to note that only
a little more than a century ago, when
the constitution OF the United States
was being drafted, there was serious
support for the proposal to have the
president name the senators. and name
them for life. That was based, OF
course. on the English system, where
the peers are created by royal mandate.
In century the senate, which under
that system would have come 70 be a
mere reflex of the executive viii. has
developed so far IN the opposite direc-
ton that IL is now esteemed the chief
barrier TO the execution OF executive
designs. Mr.. Cleveland despised II. and
Mr.. Roosevelt simply cannot get along
with It. But otherwise the senate has
lived up TO the purpose OF Its founders,
who wanted It TO stand between the
country and an excess OF democracy.
De Tocoueville. a French writer on
our institutions, said that the cure for
the evils OF democracy is more democ-
rscv." That theory is pretty widely
accepted nowadays. But in the times
when the fathers Of constitutional gov
crnment were worrying over the con-
stitution, which the rest OF US have
worried over ever since, the French
mans notion had not sunk in very deep
on this side OF the Atlantic. The
great fear was of too much democracy.
A house OF peers. OF privilege, OF aris-
tocracy, OF heredity-of something ex-
elusive and aloof, anyhow-was wanted
by most OF the men who sat in the
constitutional convention. Only one
state. Pennsylvania, voted for popular
election or senators. and that state was
dominated in doing so by one man.
James Wilson. Today popular election
OF senators Is one Of the pressing issues
before the nation.
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Here Are the Deadlocks

Tt is only a list OF deadlocks in legis-
latures. 1t takes no account OF the
scores of contests in political conven-
tions and caucuses In which senator
ships have been at stake, but from the
legislative records alone this list IL
made up: