The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1908-04-10
SENATOR STEWART IN
WASHINGTON.

d WISH 10 Ills lTlSllu dAu sui -.
friend, Theodore Roosevelt. So h
journeyed over to the White Hous
offices and stopped at the entranc
to the cabinet room 10 renew ac
quaintance with Major Leofler, tn
veteran doorkeeper.
AS they talked the door was ajar
The President was moving aroun'
inside with much energy. He hap
pened to look through the door
"By George, Senator Stewart"
he exclaimed, cutting the converse
ton with Major Loeher, short
"Come right in, | am glad to SCI
you"
Before the new Senator had {
chance to say anything he had beer
invited to the White House TO
luncheon today. He had to hurry
away to the capitol to be sworn il
at noon and to take his place al
the most aged man of the upper
legislative branch The gallerie;
were full of tourists and some of the
spectators were Vermont schoo
girls here on an excursion. The
senator's attention was called tc
that, and also to the fact that they
were going to the White House al
2.30 p. m. to see the president. I
"Not invited to the luncheon, too
are they?" he inquired.
About all the Senate came to
shake hands with him He seemed
to know most OF the employees,
down to the doorkeepers and mes
sengers-people who were around
the Capitol in some capacity when
he was here as a representative,
twenty years ago. On every side
the octogenarian was given the glad
hand, and tonight, he will like being
a senator very much.
Says dispatch to The Boston
Globe;: A week ago the youngest
member of the Senate died. To-day
the oldest member of that body
took it's seat when Ex-Governor
Stewart of Vermont, the successor
of the late Redfeld Proctor, was
sworn in.
"Twelve years ago Mr.. Stewart,
then member of the lower house,
went out of congress. Everybody
supposed that was the end of his
public career, for Mr.. Stewart had
thenEexceeded the Biblical age of
three score years and ten. He was
70 years old when he retired from
the house because it no longer in
terested him.
"To-day he comes back sena-
tor, looking scarce day older than
when he left, and so far as one can
Judge from looks, GOOD for many
years to come
~ pVhaps he may be a dis
appo' - a,ae a. sne Yer
mont politicians who have counted
on his being content to serve until
the meeting of the legislature next
October and then dropping out of
sight But Mr. Stewart likes the
Senate and if he should be candi-
date before the next legislature
when a senator is to be elected it
would perhaps rot be surprising.
"Mr. Stewart was asked that
question to-day, whether he would
be a candidate in the fall, and he
answered in regula on New England !
style:
"This is March. The next cleo
ton is in October Never do fall
work in the spring, with which |
reply inquirers had to
be satisfied.
Before to-day, Senator Allison,
of Iowa, was the father of the Senate. |
He is 70. Senator Stephenson, of
Wisconsin, is a few months his
junior. Senator Stewart with the
added weight of his five years looks
a goodtwenty years Younger than
his colleagues, and several senators
from different parts OF the country
that they were sorry they
did not live in Vermont, where the
fountain of perpetual youth must
have its source deep in the heart of
the wonderful Green Mountains. "
Senator Stewart has been made
the chairman 81 the committee on
industrial expositions. He has also
been made a member of the fol- I
lowin g committees: Fisheries, pub ;
lie health, naturalization, quaran-
tine, revision of the United States {
laws, and committee on five tribes J
of civilized Indians.