Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-19
SENATOR'S WHO ARE cHuMs
Feuds Between Members from Sons
StateS-Edmunds and Thurman.

niged States senators often become
very good friends, bur somehow they are
not prone TO becoming real chummy with
one another Exceptions occur from time
10 time 10 prove the rule One of those
exceptions applies 10 Senator Philandey
! =: Knox of Pennsylvania and Senator
/ ". Murray Crane of Massachusetts. II
the afternoon wanes without their meet-
ing one is very likely 20 start ont 10 se.,
Where the other is aud to learn what has
happened
| The fondness thar Senator Crane and
Knox evince for eating together is REM
Inlseent of the fondness that ex-senator
| Edmunds Of Vermont and the late Sen
ator Allen g. Thurman of Ohio used To
nave Tor drinking together. That was in
/ the earlier days, when drinking nj the
capitol was not frowned upon
All the oldsters in political Washington
are fond of recalling that story Of how
| the TWO senator's kept a black bottle in
| the room Of the committee on judiciary.
Ihey were certain TO adjourn there twice
or thrice every afternoon that the Senate
held long session. 1t was nj first n
marvel why the two men seemed to have
the same thought at the same moment
and began to make tracks simultaneously
from different parts of the senate cham
! ber-one being a Democrat and the other
a Repuhhcan-toward that committee
room,
Ii turned out that they had prear-
| ranged signals. The Old Romans sig
nal was TO pun oul that famous red
bandanna handkerchief and To blow his
nose with clarion loudneSs
When William +. Chandler was in the
Senate there were long intervals when
he and Senator Gallinger We're entirely
obliyious of one another's presence. They
Fought and made up again aud again.
The two Maine senator's. Hale and FRYE
have always maintained amicahle rela-
tons, but there has been little love lost
between them. They work together but
train with entirely different contngents
in the Senate. When Senator Raynor
of Maryland was sworn in he was hardly
ON speaking terms with the late Senator
German Generally the two senators
from state come from different factions
or followings, as is the case with SEN
atorS Neutrality-suspicious. parents still live
in his native state of New Hampshire
and Gamble of South Dakota, who have
a personal feud.
But there is long list of states whose
senators are alienated 10 greater or less
degree by riyalries or iealouses or open
quarrels. These are SO numerous as to
be regarded almost commonplace around
the capitol.
While there are comparatively few in
stances where senators have been real
chummy, especially where senators from
the same state have enjoyed such clos :
personal relations there are many whCre
they have differed hotly. These differ
enceS are generally denied by both
parties. but sometimes become open and
well known. For example, the present
senators from Texas-Bailey and Cuber-
son-do not speak as they pass by. Vice
President Fairbanks when a senator, and
his colleague, Senator Beveridge, lived a
cat and dog political existence. Out
wardly they We're friendly, but they had
frequent whirls in committee rooms. Sem
ator Foraker and the late Senator Hanna
Were hardly on speaking terms.-Boston
Herald