The Washington herald., 1908-02-07

! and was made superintendent of schools
and mining trustee Of Indian Territory.
! When elected to the Sixtieth Congress
/ he Was IN the insurance business. HaV-
/ ing lived so many years among the In-
! dams, familiarizing himself with their
/ habits and wants Representative Carter
/ viii be valuable member of the com
mittee on Indian Affairs. 10 which ne was
! assigned.
John Sharp Williams. minority leader
Of the House Of Representatives and Sen
ator-elect from Mississippi is stin trying
10 accustom himself to the august atmos-
phere Of the Senate wing.
Yesterday Mr. Williams strolled into
the Senate restaurant He wandered aim
lessly about in the public dining-room,
and in his eyes was the troubled look Of
a frightened doe. His gaze swept the va
rious tables. but he looked not az the
diners, but over them. He seemed like a
stranger IN strange land.
At last he wandered out, his head on
his breast. Evidently he did not yet feel
at home amid the environment in which
he must perforce continue his public ca
reer. The burden Of that Scnatorshlp lies
heavy on the heart Of the gentleman from
Mississippi.
During the course Of the debate on the
bill 10 provide Federal aid for the Alaska
/ Yuk0n-Pacific Exposition yesterday in the
Senate. Senator Depew made a speech
which was in the vein Of his old-time
/ post-pTandial performances. OF course
he told several good stories, and he KEEP;
/ Senator's and spectators in continual mer-
riment for fifteen minutes.
He recalled having been the oratcr ol
the day on one occasion during the
/ Omaha Exposition, and detailed the en-
thusiasm Of the Nebraska people over the
exposition and what they believed ii
would do for their State and section
And one instance reminded me-" he
said. that the Yankee can make oppor-
tunity fit his needs under almost any cir
cumstances, In the East OF In the West
i was taken into one Of the sideshows
. by my hosts. The people were crowding
in to see the show, and the seats and
/ standing room were soon taken up. ]
couldn't understand why the crowd grew
SO rapidly
Then I went out and as 7 reached the
open air ! saw the barker working In
Idustriously, with much success. He was
calling out to the multitude:
Walk i'm, ladies and gentlemen, The
only chance you'll get Only 10 cents q
see the orator of the day"
The Senator from New York also raised
a laugh when DE said. IN speaking OF the
/ jamestown Exposition.
The President made a speech down
there. He makes a good many speeches
some 10 the public and some 10 Congress
/ One Of his speeches IS 20 oratory like The
! Marseillaise is to music-'It goes itself "
Delegate Thomas Gale. or Alaska, is
the Rip Van Winkle OF the House.
Hereafter Mr. Gales fame may rest upon
the .laurels which sooner OF later wreath
the brow Of an orator Of the House. but
for to-day and tomorrow and next week
+ he is the Kip Van Wrinkle. Not that
the delegate from the far North isn't an
orator, for he is. He demonstrated yes
/ terday that he is perfectly at home on the
( floor, and quite at ease in debate.
There may be other members who have
passed through enough strange expe-
/ riences 70 I'LL the moderate space occu-
pied by private pension bill, but those
of Mr.. Gale If they were all set forth IN
print, would fll large and costly tome.
! however much that may be.
/ For ten years before coming 70 Con
gress Mr.. Gale had not been on the "out-
side" which in States English means
that he mad not left the interior Of Alaska
/ for the seaport towns.
But even that doesn't prove that he is
| the real and only Rip Van WinlSle. Mr.,
/ Gale. however, can lay claim TO that title
| because he has a good right to Il.
/ Many years ago, just after the first
/ klondke rush started, Mr.. Gale voyaged
/ 10 the North to seek his fortune He
sought long and-after a time, we'll But
| he kept wandering about IN that vast
| unknown region for seventeen years. and
then returned to the States.
! When he did reach this cOuntTy-after
about seventeen 'years-his wife did not
/ know him, nor did a small child. who. IN
/ all those years, had grown most notice
ably
lie was real Rip Van Winkle. al
/ though he was more fortunate than the
/ one of whom Washington Irving told, be-
cause this later Rips wife finally recog-
nized him.
Marcus A. Smith, Delegate to the House
| from Arizona. won quite a number of
friends and admirers in the House yes
terday by the manner in which he ex-
pounded the comparative values Of edu-
cation for Indians. secured at home on
| the reservation or away at some school
like Carlisle
The Indian appropriation bill, which
has been the subject Of considerable
silence for the past week, came in for a
real talky hearing yesterday afternoon.
and, after several other Representatives
had spoken, Mr.. Smith asked for the con
sideTatOn of an amendment
The amendment he proposed was to the
effect that the education of Indians be
carried on In schools upon the different
reservations and not at schools thou
sands of miles away. He said that the
place for the Indian, when he leaves
school. is back among his own people.
and maintained that a higher education
at Carlisle or other similar schools did
not furnish just the shade of veneer
needed in Arizona.
Some members who were opposed TO the
amendment cited the instances of gradu-
ates of Eastern Indian institutions who
had taken positions as cab drivers, hotel
porters, stenographers, &c.
'Stenographers, said the indignant Mr.
Smith. "A stenOgrapher in Arizona is
about as much use'-this is the way It
sounded in the press gallery-"on an In
dian reservation In Arizona as a prairie
dog would be on Pennsylvania avenue. ."
The amendment was lost. however.
Misleading Label.