Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-02-19
MORGAN IN THE SENATE.
GREAT FINANCIER ATTRACTS ATTENTION
OF OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Interesting Incidents Of Washington Life.
Women in Scraps, Indians, Senators
Taking Snuff. Popular fads. Etc.


cial Correspondence personally
witnessed a rather unusual perform
ance. Monday afternoon Of this week.
l saw j. Pierpont Morgan. the King
of Wall street and the Napoleon OF
finance. sign his name to a note. 1t
was not a promissory note simply a
note of reply to a message from the
Vice President of the United States.
Mr.. Morgan, as the guest in the
Senate of the Vice President. Mr.
Fairbanks, occupied the reserved seat
of the latter in the executive gallery
About O'Clock the private secretary
of the Vice President entered the
gallery and handed Mr.. Morgan an
unsealed letter. The great financier
Withdrew the letter, read it twice,
then looked around to see if the pri-
vate secretary still fingered, and then
dove into his vest pocket and drew
out fountain pen. Turning the note
inside out, giving blank page. Mr..
Morgan, using his knee as desk.
scratched off. rapidly, reply, folded
the letter, replaced it in the envelope,
scratched off his own name and wrote
"Hon. c. w. Fairbanks" on the en-
velope (that is assume this was the
name written, as the messenger was
Mr.. Fairbanks private secretary and
gave it to the young man who with
drew
During this incident--if it may be
called an incident-I happened to be
standing on the top tep of the execu-
tive gallery, and watched the pro-
ceedings OF course l was too far
from Mr.. Morgan to see what he was
writing, and would not have attempt
ed to, had the opportunity offered,
but | had curiosity to see him sign
his name, and was not disappointed.
Mr.. Morgan wrote very rapidly, in a
flowing hand. There was pause.
after he had written half dozen
zines, then q sors Of hourIsn, sucn as
one makes in writing the capital let
ter ~" With that as a cue it was
easy to follow the motion of his hand
and realize that ~. Pierpont Nor
gan" was being written on paper.
AS his hand flew over the paper |
could not restrain small feeling OF
covetousness that / had that name on
the lower right hand corner of blank
strip of paper.
l have seen Mr.. Morgan frequently
usually at least once each session
in the senate gallery. He is always
the focus of all eyes, and attracts
more attention than the entire men,
bership on the floor, unless Tillman
should be speaking. No difficulty is
experienced in recognizing Mr.. Nor
gan. He is in facial class by him.
self. There is only one j. Pierpont
Morgan-one man in this country
possessing such nose. 1t is nose
that would frighten timid person
The face is not handsome hut it is
strong. The head is of good size.
rounding on top. slightly bald and
with hair snow white. 1he forehead
is full and high. Eyes are black
and very deeply set. under heavy dark
eyebrows. The chin is rather pro.
minent and protruding; jaws square
and noticeable. The mustache is iron
gray, sharply contrasting with the
white hair. The nose. normally quite
prominent, is conspicuous a hundred
feet distance because of the disease
with which it is afflicted. being very
large, red, and of sort of sponge-like
formation. 1t is said the difficulty
is incurable and is not the result of
immoderate use of intoxicants.
Mr.. Morgan was attired in very
ordinary clothes, such as are worn by
thousands of business and profess
sional men i'll Iowa. with a cutaway
coat, dark vest, large brownish cravat,
standup collar. with rundown points.
no diamonds. He wore a silk hat
He was we'll but not conspicuously
dressed
Mr.. Morgan was present to hear
Senator Aldrich's speech in support
of the financial bill bearing his name
1t was "a regular field day in the Sem
ate, and Mr.. Morgan got his money S
worth, even on the basis that time is
money. He heard Senator Foraker
when the OHIO senator undertook to
place the President in the Ananias
club, and no doubt enjoyed It, Then
Senator Depew replied at considerable
length to the speech of Senator Cul-
berson critizing Secretary. Cortelyou
in his disposition of government
funds.
In the gallery with Mr.. Morgan
were Mrs. Depew, Mrs Perry Bel
mont. a member of the Rothchilds
family of London. and other notables.