Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-02-14

debate on the bill is Captain ]. F.
Ellison, of Cincinnati, secretary of
the National Rivers and Harbors con-
gress. Congressman Ransdell is
president of this organization, which
includes in its membership nearly
every commercial body of note in the
United States.
Among the new senator's who pu:
in an appearance this week to look
over things in general, were Sena-
tors-elect Curtis of Kansas, Guggen-
helm of Colorado, and Mulkey of, Or
egon. Mr. Curtis, through his long
term in the house, is well known to
the members of the upper chamber
so that Mr.. Guggenheim and Mr.
Mulkey were the only centers of at
traction. Mr.. Guggenheim was in
troduced to the senators by Senator
Patterson, whose seat he is to take
after March 4. IL was a decidedly
strange sight, this perambulation of
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around the senate chamber, for the
former has publicly denounced the
methods by which Mr. Guggenheim'
election is said to have been brought
about. Mr.. Mulkey, who was elect
ed to serve out the term that ends
with this season, was given an ex-
t,thgtson 80 otorgoI ,,oIgt4,o1 oor+h
quaks shocks, when he was appoint
ed chairman of the committee to ex-
anime and dispose of Useless senate
documents. Senator Hale, of Maine.
offered the resolution, which was
promptly adopted. and Mr.. Mulkey
was thereupon given the appointment
of a clerk at $500 year and mes
senger at $144O. While he was con-
graduating himself, Mr.. Hale was
thinking deeply and suddenly remem-
bered the fact that this committee
Craftsmanship had been promised to
Senator-elect Smith OF Michigan,
who undoubtedly will be appointed
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late Senator Alger. Twenty minutes
after Mr.. Mulkey had been made
chairman, another resolution was Of
fered to reconsider the vote, and he
was ousted. Mr.. Mulkey now is COM
mittee-less and has not yet quite re-
covered from his sudden transition.
Representative Francis w. Cush-
man, of the state OF Washington, a.
rapidly displacing j. Adam Bede OF
Minnesota, and is becoming recog-
nized as the legitimate successor to
quaint Private" John Allen, of Mis-
sissippl. The White House has rec
ognized Congressman Cushmans
powers of oratory, and President
Roosevelt this week suggested TO n
delegation from the Hamilton club
of Chicago, which had invited him
to be the guest of honor of the club
at their Appomatox day banquet.
that the club invite Mr.. Cushman az
one of the public men to be asked tc
attend II is probable that Mr.. Cush-
man will directly represent the presl-
dent, who cannot at this time see his
way clear to attending the affair.
It's hat of all along the line TO
Congressman Arthur Phillips Murphy
OF Rolla, Pulaski county. Missouri!
Mr.. Murphy is certain to take a place
in history with George Washington.
Abraham Lincoln, and other emanci-
pators OF his country, He has just
introduced in congress a bill pro.
hibiting the giving of tips, and pro-
viding that the one who accepts a
tip or the one who offers IL is liable
TO a fine of not less than S1O0 nor
more than $500. Throughout the
length and breadth of the District OF
Columbia prayer are ascending from
an oppressed population that the bill
may become a law. The tip nuisance
has gained it's fullest flower in the
national capital, until today the visi-
tor Is held up by these petty high
waymen in the guIse of walters, por-