The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-19
A TOURIST IN CONGRESS

brought a howl of Alternatives from
the democratic and frantic shrek
lot no from the republicans. The
chairman thought a moment and then
he said "The noes seem TO have IT,
Fatal word. Seem The KentucR-
ian unwound his legs from his chair
again. and insisted ON a rising vote
The two sides of the house rose i'm
turn, and the chairman laboriousIy
counted them. Again he concluded
that the motion was lost
TELLERs DO THEIR TURN.
There was a howl for 'telers,' and
now came what, TO am outsider is the
most ludicrous performance of that
majestic body Two congressman took
a stand in front OF the speakers desk,
and between them walked in double
file the entire membership of the
house, to be counted as for yea or
fney." They hocked through like
Sheppard appropriately too, for 90
not they, like sheep, sometimes go
/ y
scious of galleries, and supremely con-
cerned in trying to hide that conscious
ness. Some made a show of great vo-
lubility in conversation. Some slapped
the tellers on the back as they went
through. Some marched along solemnly
with eyes on the floor, and others
threw their shoulders back and held
their hands rigidly at their sides, mill
tary fashion.
SOME OF THE CELEBRITIES.
A man sitting next me in the gallery
pointed out some of the celebrities as
they squeezed between the tellers.
There goes Bourke Cochran" said
he. THE chap with a long, oval face,
IKE Humpty-Dumpty. Right ahead
of him-the fellow with a mop of gray
hair tumbling to one size, staggering
as he walks, is John Wesley Gaines OF
Tennessee. He passes mis- time ex-
ercising his clarion voice and hating
Wall street Now, look there just
beyond the tellers about to go through
the man with the bald head, and the
UNDERLYING chin, looking as II he got
up too early-that's Longworth. Nick
Longworth. All, there's Hobson; yes
the Merrimac Hobson. See him? Right
there, the tall, pale chap in the gray
suit, with a furtive expression of the
eyes, as if he were afraid of being hi
by bouquets
There go a couple of celebrities
from New York. ! he thin, nervous
fellow, smooth shaven is Herbert Par
sons, Roosevelt's Sancho Panza in New
York state. The other, the lionlikt
old chap with big white head is Sc
reno e. Payne, republican leader on tn,
floor. Hi! there's John Sharp Will
liams, hiking out of the door beyond
the speakers desk. We must have
missed him when he voted. The sal
low man sitting down away at the
left is De Almond of Missouri, who
battered Williams countenance. They
have made it up since.
ANY more. Well, there's a scholarl!
looking pair from Illinois-Mann ant
BOutell. But I'm about exhausted OF
the fellows | know. All, the demo
Gratis lost their motion"
They had lost it indeed; but the!
made several more before one coul,
, catch his breath, and there was
count by tellers on every one of them
thanks to the gent from Ky. | go
tired of it at last, and when | left tn
: gallery and plunged for fresh air the
, were still being counted. So far a
I parliamentary numbskull could tel
, they hadn't even got so far as to dis
a cuss the amendment to which the poin
q of order had been raised. l figured
q couldn't afford to stay in Washingto
c long enough to see the bill itself take
4 up, and 1 departed for the gorgeou
c library of congress, where | could b
certain not to encounter a congress
, man.-Chicago News.