The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-04
MANY GRAND
OLD MEN
How Venerable Senators
Stand Washington
Winter.
(Mail Special to the Adsertiser.)

| (Mail Special to the Adsertiser.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., February 16.
President Roosevelts colts in the
Executive Departments are wintering
well. He has been appointing young
men mostly to the important offices.
They do not mind the unusually severe
storms they are prancing around as
lively as the members Of the tennis
cabinet have to do when the snow is
off the courts at the rear Of the White
House offices and battles with raquets
are in order. The grip, which first
swept the adjacent city of Baltimore
so that at one time one-fifth OF all the
people there were down and in bed
and which subsequently made its
ravages felt In Washington on a large
scale, has had no terrors for these
young bloods. The work in the execu-
| tive departments has been proceeding
| at full tilt in all kinds of weather.
It has been otherwise up on Capitol
Hill. Young men have rear seats there.
Old men rule the Senate and, it might
be said. also the House of Represen-
tatives. And these old men have had
a hard time with the Washington
weather, that brings grip, severe colds
and pneumonia. They have been abb
sent from the sessions Of Senate and
House a great deal and the work of
both branches has suffered to some
extent because of these absences
Speaker Cannon, almost seventy-one
years old, is only out of his house af-
ter an attack Of grip. He returned to
the Capitol very weak IN the knees
and having no energy for work. Col.
Pete Hepburn, of Iowa, seventy
three years old, the ablest dehater in
Congress, perhaps, and chairman Of an
important committee, has been away
much of the session because of colds
and grip Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio,
almost seventy-four, has stood the
rigors of the present winter better than
any colleagues of his years. There are
few other septuagenarians in the
House The other leaders are in mid
die life or only along in the three |
score class.
The Senate's old men have had a lot |
OF illness because of the hard winter |
Senator Teller, of Colorado, now al |
most seventy-seven years of age, is |
still i'll at his apartments and has /
not been in his seat for two weeks. He
is an aggressive figure on the Demo-
cratic side of the chamber. Senator
Pettus of Alabama, almost S6, has been
i'll much of the winter He is the
Nestor of the Senate. His colleague,
Senator Morgan, almost SO, is now
quite i'll.
On the Republican side Senator AL
lison of Iowa, now almost rs. Is in
feeble health When the cold winds
blow or the weather is at all inclenn-
ent he keeps within his hotel and even
on the most sunny days spends only
few hours at the Capitol. Senator
Proctor of Vermont, who will be rs
years old June 1 next. has been laid up
with colds considerably, but was able
10 get out to handle the Agricultural
Appropriation Bill that comes before
the committee of which he is chair
nan.
Senator Frye of Maine, who is near '
ne his seyenty-sixth milestone, has
,een in good health, but he is never {
heless very careful and does little leg
slative work except what is impera- q
i've. Perhaps his long life in the q
lardy Maine climate is responsible Ter a
is immunity in Washington this win
er. William Pinkney Whyte. Senator I
rom Maryland, and 50 years old. has
TODD the Washington winters better
han any other octogenarian. He Is
ew Senator, who succeeded the late
.rthur P. German. although Mr..
Vhvte had one term in the Senate T
hirty years ago. v
senator Cullom of Illinois, now u, !.
as been In feeble health most Of the |,
inter. but has not missed many days
t the Capitol. .
Most other Senators who carry quite
burden of legislation are In the oos'
xcept Senator Hale of Maine, who viii
ION be IL He does more work snan :"
nv other Senator, and does it as N
,sily as though he were but so. He Is }
.rely absent from the Capitol Or a
tisses doing a big days work.
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