The Washington times., 1909-07-07
Capital T Ies


much behind Uncle jim Wilson in
this respect.
He is not afflicted with that disease.
so common among officials, of trying
to turn away as many people &. pos
sible and see as few as possible He
goes at his Treasury Department duties
just as he would at his business. He
gets down to his Office in good season
and stays there until late. He makes it
a point 70 see anyone who wants to
see him on legitimate business. More
over, he makes a further point of taking
/ or seeming to take a close interest in
what his caller is saying
The result is that the new Secretary
of che Treasury is making numerous
friends. His faculty for seeing and Civ
ing attention to all callers WHO have
business Of any sort with him, how
ever, compels HIM to put in long hours
lie has a heavy correspondence to look
after and between the large number Of
/ callers at his office and this correspond
enca he is a kard-worked man.
Nir MdCNcagh'S long training as
business man enables him to 20 straight
He is a mild-lOoking man, but he has
backbone Of large dimensions never
theless.
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The unfortunate obtuseness of the
voters Of J. Adam Bede's district, which
led them to select another man in his
place and the death Of Representative
Cushman of Washington, leaves the
House rather short of humorous speak
ers. Just who will arise TO take their
places is ard to tell. But it is expected
some one will arise to the occasion.
Some of the members who have
good vein Of humOr keep it concealed
on their persons They are afraid that
ii viii hurt their political chances II
they get regulations as wits and humor-
lists and they viii be expected always TO
be funny.
Representative Walter l. Smith OF
Iowa. one of the three Republican
members Of the Rules Committee, is in
a tight hole with respect to the tariff
bill As member Of the Rules Com
mittee and a spoke in the wheel Of the
Cannon organization. he viii stand for
the rule which Representative Dalzen
viii report TO the House, which will
preclude any thorough consideration OF
the tariff measure and viii allow mere
ly voting it up or down.
Out in his state sentiment is strong
against the bill and Judge Smith wants
a denomination and reelection. Various
aspirants fer his shoes are rising up In
his district and trying 10 make life
uneasy for MIN.
. ENATOR RAYNER has never been
y known to smile in the Senate be-
fore but he had to smile in the
course of his attack on the customs
court, in which he got into a most
amusing argument with Senator Aldrich,
Senator Flint. and others.
Senator Rayner had to laugh, he
couldn't help it, So did everyone else.
Senator Root enjoyed the affair so
much that he congratulated Senator
Rayner on "the perfectly beautiful time
he has been having" The Maryland
Senator was trying to point out what
he believed to be fatal defects in the
proposed legislation for the customs
court Among other things, he con
tended that it operated unconstitution-
ally to deprive a man of a jury trial
in certain cases in which lie was en-
titled to one. Senator AldTirh tried to
defend the measure, and not being a
lawyer. was soon in deep water. SEN
ator Rayper kept telling the Rhode
AcAdilU 6t1lukbE that AAE ulult WdAki ~
hear from him. that ne knew he was
ignorant Of the law. and that what he
was after was information from a law
yer Flint OF California, who is one
of the torch bearers Of the Senator from
Rhode Island in the tariff procession,
rushed TO the rescue Of Aldrtch, where
upon Rayner lit upon him and stung
him Flint came back in satirical
fashion. whereupOn Rayner remarked:
Satire is not the forte of the Senator
from California. The Senator's principal
forte is an increase of one-half a cent
i'm the duty on lemons
At one stage, Rayner told AldriCh that
he might know all about a duty on oil,
but he didn't know law, Aldrich ex-
pressed his thankfuluess that he was
not a lawyer. Altogether II was one
of the funniest exhibitions the Senate
has ever seen and no one seemed 10
enjoy it more than Senator Aldrich.
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Former Representative James Eli
watson OF Indiana, who has been in
Washington much Of the time in the
snecial session. looking after various
phases of tariff legislation as attorney,
is one of the men mentioned for the
new customs court.
1t is said that If this court is created,
Jim" will have a chance to go on as
a member of it. At any rate, there is
little doubt his political friends in the
House viii say a good word for him.
His name has been mentioned in con-
nectiOn with a number of places since
he Joined the lame duck" class March
l. But he has not connected with a
Government salary as successfully as
his feUcw-HOOsier, former Senator
Hemenway, who was retained by the
Senate Appropriations Committee TO
look into the workings of the Secret
Service and into various appropriation
matters. Watson has refused several
appointments
The command of a modern battleship
is a hard strain on a naval officer This
was shown IN the course OF the world
cruise or the batueship fleet The
nerves of one or more captains went to
pieces under the stress. which is un-
doubtedly great.
But Rear Admiral SeatOn Schroeder,
who is IN command of the half hundred
war vessels which engage in the ma
neUvers of Provincetowu, has. much
more OF burden on him than any of
the commanders Of an individual vessel.
And Admiral Schroeder has been in the
navy tOTty-fiVe years, over half that
time in actual sea service. If he didn't
have a rugged constitution. ne couldn't
go through the ordeal. he is much
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