Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-05
SENATORS WHO ARE CHUMs.
Feuds Between Members From Some
 States.

United States senators often be- come very good friends, but some how they are not prone to becoming real chummy with one another. Ex- captions occur from time to time tc prove the rule One of those excep- tons applies to Senator Philander c ! Knox of Pennsylvania and Senator l w. Murray Crane of Massachusetts. | If the afternoon Wanes without their meeting one Is very likely to start out to see where the other is and tc learn what has happened.
 The fondness that Senator Crane ] and Knox eyince for eating together is reminiscent of the fondness that ex-Senator Edmunds of Vermont and the late Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio used to have for drinking to- gether. That was in the earlier days when drinking at the Capitol was not drowned upon.
 All the oldsters in political Wash ington are fond of recalling that story of how the two senators kept a black bottle in the room of the com mittee on judiciary. They were cer- tain to adjourn there twice or thrice every afternoon that the senate held long session. It was at first mar vel why the two men seemed to have the same thought at the same moment and began to make tracks simultan- eously from different parts of the sen ate chamber-one being a democrat and the other republican-toward the committee room.
 It turned out that they had prear- ranged signals. The Old Romans sig nal was to pull out that famous red bandanna handkerchief and to blow his nose with clarion loudness.
 When William E. Chandler was in the senate there were long intervals when he and Senator Gallinger were entirely oblivious of one another's presence. They fought and made up again and again. The two Maine senators, Hale and Frye, have always maintained amicable relations, but there has been little love lost between them. They work together but train with entirely different contingents in the senate. When Senator Raynor of Maryland was sworn in he was hard ly on speaking terms with the late Senator German Generally the two senators from the same state come from different factions or followings as is the case with Senators Kilt redge-whose parents still live in his native state of New Hampshire-an Gamble of South, Dakota, who have a personal feud ,a
 But there is a long list of states whose senators are alienated to a greater or less degree by rivalries or jealousies or open quarrels. These are so numerous as to be regarded al- most commonplace around the Capi- tol.
 While there are comparatively few instances where senators have been real chummy, especially where sena- tors from the same state have en- 1oyed such close personal relations. there are many where they have diff fered hotly. These differences are generally denied by both parties, but sometimes become open and well known. For example, the present senators from Texas Bailey and Gull berson-no not speak as they pass by VicerPresident Fairbanks when a senator and his colleague, Senator Beveridger lived a cat and dog politi- cal existence. Outwardly they were friendly, but they had frequent whirls in committee rooms. Senator Foraker and the late Senator Hanna were hardly on speaking terms. s.-Boston Herald.