Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Up on Capitol Hill

There's not a more cheerful man nor
better yarn spinner in the Senate than
Thomas Pryor Core who halls from Law
ton, Okla. This is passing strange. too.
for he has never seen any of the cheer
ful things in the world and never even
seen the smiling faces and dancing eyes
of those whom he has put in the best
,f humor by his funny tales.
He is stone blind.
Not SO very long ago Senator Gore was
ed into the Senate chamber by page
and II could be seen very plainly from
the gallery that he had something on his
mind He was in hurry and u ged the
nov to walk faster 1t was during the
morning hour right alter II O'Clock
the time Cor attending TO routine matters
such as introducing bills and attending 10
little things that don take much time
When he got to his desk he quickly
opened a book he was carrying and took
out a slip of paper, which he placed be-
fore him on the desk. Then he arose and
in few minutes said:
Mr. President"
THE senator from Oklahoma" said Mr..
Fairbanks
MIR. Gore said he wanted to know what
disposition had been made of a certain
bill, which he mentioned by name
The president of the Senate whispered
then said:
the bill about which he desires informa-
| tion?"
Cores face His sightlesS eyes almost
twinkled, as he picked up the slip or
paper before him and raised 1t before
his eyes. looking at it intenty-
My memorandum does not give the
number, he said.
Mr. Fairbanks looked confused, but not
so the Oklahoman: for the joke was not
on him.
History is but repeating Itself. said
a republican senator who is unusually
good in the history line yesterday after
noon.
! Some one had suggested in the presence
that if the Senate expunge from the
Congressional Record the part of the
Presidents recent annual message criti-
cising Congress in connection with the
secret service legislation of last winter.
il would be doing an unprecedented
thing.
WHY" continued the senator. Il was
Just reading yesterday in copy of
newspaper, dated December 10, 1858
| which one of my constituents sent me,
the following paragraph:
1.-The Presidents message. which we
publish today. is the last and In some
respects the worst of Andrew Johnson's
splenetic harangueS at Congress and the
loyal portion of the American people.
"Then the dispatch goes on to say that
when the message was read In the Sen
ate 1t was interrupted. after time, by
motion to dispense with the further read
ing A lively debate ensued and adjourn
ment was finally taken without the COM
pletion of the message.
The senator hesitated moment He
evidently decided that he was talking to
sufficiently discreet persons for he went
on:
And the funniest part of it is that they
made typographical errors In those days.
, lust as we do today, and 1t SO happens
that the story of the reception of Presi-
dent Johnsons message by the Senate
concludes with this interesting bit of in
formation:
dispatches from Sicily report a fresh
eruption of Mount Etna on Tuesday night.
Another example OF that habit of his
tory, l might observe.
"Who was that one with the big book
In front of him. asked the pretty girl
in the party Jimmy MCGEE. the noted
Capitol guide. was showing around.
They had just come from brief sojourn
in the Senate gallery. and Jimmy had i'm
pressed them all before they went in with
the idea that they must not make any
noise It was all the pretty girl could do
to keep from asking food of questions
right there.
you mean the one over on the demo-
cratic side, near the middla?" asked
Jimmy swelling with importance.
Yes she giggled. He must be an
awfully great man. He was reading that
book so hard.
He amt a great man because he's
demicrat," announced Jimmy. He would
be If he wasn't a demicrat. But he's ia
nous for somethin'. all right. Now that
Mr. Allison is dead. who for years and
years was the father of the Senut. that
man-and his names Bacn and he's from
down Georgy way-has the honorary dis
tinction o. bein' the cautiousest man In
the Senut.
why. he's so cautious that he'll talk