Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-12-18

NJ Will Dc recalled that jeff proposed
to tame the senate and have it eating
out OF his hand in few short weeks.
In his campaign for election. one of
the most spectacular and peculiar in
the history of this country. in one of
his wild and woody meetings he de-
clared in frenzy of passion, as fol-
lows:
| pledge you my word, my fellow
citizens, that if you. the most intalIi-
gent men of the great commonwealth
OF the greatest nation ON Gods
matchless earth, send me to represent
you IN the greatest deliberative BODY
that the sun ever shone upon. l will
walk down the center aisle in nv sock
feet to the vice presidents desk, shake
my boots in the Arctic Fairbanks
face, and demand recognition in the
name of you, my sovereign fellow
citizens. The proposition is whether
trusts are good or bad. say they are
bad and propose to destroy them. -
1t happened that l was present and
saw Senator jeff Davis when he
walked down the middle aisle of the
Senate. but he was not in his sock
feet, neither did he shake his boots in
the face of the Arctic Fairbanks. On
the contrary he seemed to me to be
about the humblest and meekest SEN
ator who took the oath of office that
first day. Instead of making the glass
| roof rattle with the reverberations
| that follow loud speech, as he com
menced to destroy the trusts, jeff
Davis was silent. wearing sort of
sickly smile. Instead of shaking his
boots in the face of the vice president
he held out his big hand and shook
Mr.. Fairbanks hand, and as he
walked back and took seat in the
rear row he LOGGED like man who
was rather glad the ordeal was over.
Senator Tillman, who, reports say,
cleaned up about $25, 600 during the
summer, quite portion of which
came out of Iowa peoples pockets, is
on deck and in first class fighting con-
dition. He looks as slick as though
he had just emerged from the tradi-
tiOnal band box when he leaves his
| committee room and starts for the
chamber. His hair is combed down
smooth. his tie is correctly adjusted
and he is dessed up to date. At night
when he returns TO mis- room his tie
| is apt to be askew aud his hair a regu-
lar jumble. When he gets into action
he runs his fingers through his hair
and his physical exertions often times
disarrange his apparel. Tillmau is
evidently loaded heavily for the ses-
sion and will make things interesting
after the holidays if not before.
Notwithstanding this is not the
climatic period for flowers outside
hot house. in Washington buds are
appearing every day-feminine buds
A bud in Washington is young
lady who has reached the age of about
Is who is about to become debutante
Ito bloom out into society's garden.
This is very important and necessary
function III Washington and is attend
ed with much fussing and detail The
mother gives coming out'' recep-
tion at which everybody in the set
ladies, of course-is invited and
presented to the bud. After that it
is all over and the bud has become a
full blown blossom and is eligible to
see and be seen and to participate
actively in the social swim. 1t was
expected that Miss Ethel Roosevelt
would become a debutante this win
ter, but for some reason it was later
decreed otherwise, so Ethel is still only
bud. although very pretty and
very bright one.
l feel perfectly safe in predicting
that this session of Congress will be
practically as devoid OF important
legislation as the last short session or
any other session. A thousand propo-
sitions will be presented including the,
tariff. but | doubt ii one of them, un-
less it be currency bill. will become
a law and the probability is that they
will not even be reported from COM
mittee. Senator Delivers committee
will no doubt take up seriously the
question Of child labor but it is not
certain that bill will be reported at
this session. Before final action is
taken it is proposed to inaugurate a
searching investigation to determine
the actual facts. A good deal of talk
will be indulged in concerning the
great waterway proposition but there
is little prospect that bill appropri.
ating money will pass this session,
The big appropriation bills will be
passed. Oratory will be let loose for
months and then Congress will ad.