The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01

lation. which has had a married eject
upon the private affairs OF. the people.
During this annual shopping season,
which embraces the ~first5weeks Of the
congressional session, It is always no.
ticeable that tile galleries and corri-
doris of the Capitol are thronged with
out-of-town men and women, here on
business. primarily, probably. but talk
ing advantage of the opportunity to
see the greatest legislative bodies in
the world making the laws which gov
ern a free people.
Greatness Mt Close Range.
And after seeing Uncle Joe Cannon
welding the. gavel in the House of
Representatives; after hearing John
Sharp Williams. the Democratic floor
leader, make one of his characteristic
speeches. setting the hair on the
Republican side; after listening to john
Dalzell. OF Serene Payne, or Champ
Clark, or DeArmond. or. maybe Adam
Bede, make n of those speeches
which are the purest bits OF humor
Americans hear these days; after sucl,
an experience in the gallery of the
House of Representatives. the visitor
goes back home with an entirely diff
ferent conception OF affairs AT WASH
ington in so far as relates to the per-
%sonality OF the men by whom we are
governed.
The Senate side is equally interest
ing. There the gallery visitor a
ample opportunity to study the pre-
siding officer. Vice-President Fairbanks.
and endeavor to form an opinion from
appearances as to- whether the long
statesman from Indiana is really the
Icy proposition people say. More in-
tcresting are the characters on the
floor of the senate--Joe Bailey, whose
name has recently been in every paper
in the United States,sa a whose in-
tellectuality Is not second TO that OF
any man in u public life; John Dam
Iiel. ylrginta's Lame Lion" generally
writing at his desk, while one OF his
colleagues is addressing the chair:
Senator Martin. more often moving
around than sitting. and bored to
death unless the speeches ara above
the average; Culberson. of Texas, car
Trying his Hfty-odd years With the
ljaunty; grace of a college boy. showing
III his bearing; T~illmanyprobably WELD
ling his pltchforksS n demaking, a is
always the case, no end of a row o
the Republican side, for there is no
man who can make Republicans MAJ
like sTillman cain; Stone. 4of Missouri,
Cum Shoe BIll." his friends like to
cali him; for he has a way of saying
and doing things notselesslY which
suggest the passage of nlan with
his feet in those useful rainy-day arti-
fcles;s Bacon, of Georgia. always ready
TOR a scrap; the venerable McEnery,
OF Louisiana: who. though he has been
ltchief Justice of the Court OF Appeals
LOT Louisiana, Governor Of the State,
and has. for years represented her In
1.-THE Senate SORROWS TO this day that
lie. failed to achieve the honor he most
Ecoveted. the commission of hrlgndieI
of louisiana brigade. fnSEWh1eha he
won distinction ais a colone! Of q res'-
tlnent. u.
IN the senate Side
sNosless interesting arc tile personals
Ties of the Senator'S on the Republican
side-Aldrich,gs of the little State u
I Rhode Island, the eadersofsSennte and
In that capacity SSdangerously near tn
being the real ruler of the Unitad
States, ALLISON, ofaIowa,Ythe father u
thess8senate, who Is serving his THIRTY
fourth year tnAthis greatest OF al
Legislative bodies n BLUE IIysd BILL
aPussy--Noot Rllly,"" 'ThogGCreat Com-
Is promiser,,' s,ns lio Us Nartqusly Known
!. .Gullom, OF Illinois, the personal frleMl
II OF Lincpln,s and Whoseschfef pride nov
Is This resemblance ITO the flrst ofSoul
murdered Presidents Elkins. ~ West
Virginia. fat heavy, smooth, smillng
Scott, IFS seolleague.4AAdu allow, SnoN
!, quite ceTtatns What it Ks alls tabollt,.sshU
llscontidellt efsWill find outs Halle, III
IL Maine, al real 3intollectuhl heuYyWeisbt