The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-27

to recall any details demanded by
those engaging him in debate. His
answers are always direct and ready.
Visitors to the senate who did not
know Senator Gore was blind would
never imagine it to look down upon
him when he is speaking. He always
wears dark glasses, concealing his
affliction, but he has acquired man
nerisms characteristic of many ex-
perienced public speakers, all serv-
ling to disillusion those who are not
informed. If he has occasion to
quote statistics he will hold In his
hand slip of paper, and from time
to time apparently look at his memo
randum for data. At other times he
will hold in his hand some book or
document, explaining that that book
or document contains certain facts
which he will recite. And when en-
gaging in controversy Senator Gore
will allude to senators with whom
he is talking, calling each by name,
or by his state, so familiar has he
become with the voices of his COL
leagues. Never yet has he made a
mistake in identity
Senators Abuse SmoOt.
Senator Smoot of Utah has been
put forward in the tariff fight in the
senate to receive most of the blows
aimed at the committee on finance.
The Utah senator Is one of the new
members of the committee, and,
aside from Chairman Aldrich, the
hardest worker among the republi-
can members. He has made a hard
study of tariff problems since his
new committee assignment was given
him, and whenever Senator Aldrich
is out of the chamber it is Smoot
who answers for the committee, and
he makes many such responses even
when. Aldrich is present. Quite a,
large' number of republican senators
were candidates for the place which
was given to Smoot on the finance
committee, and most of them are
'sore' at him because he was named
and they were set aside. Whenever
any of the 'soreheads" discuss the
tariff they endeavor to arouse the
Utah senator by cOndemning the fin
ance committee, and Senator Smoot
always rises when such attacks are
made. That is just what the "sore"
ones want. They way they "lam-
bast' him is something frightful He
has been so roundly abused and so
frequently insulted by those who are
disgruntled that the official report
ers of debates have finally under
taken to eliminate from the Congress
sional Record many of the slurs cast
upon the Utah senator. 1t may be
hazing, after a senatorial fashion,
but to a less sensitive man such
treatment would be very humiliat-
ing. Smoot, however, bears no re-
sentiment. for he remembers that he
got the coveted place on the finance
committee while those who abuse
monty said around senate corridors
that Senator Smoot is 1.-The goat of
the tariff gfiht''
TiIlman Looks Like Mckinley?
No one ever noticed the slightest
resemblance between the late Presi-
dent Mckinley and Senator Tillman
of South Carolina Yet there must
have been a physical resemblance.
and for this reason: In the presi
dents room at the capitol is bronze
bust of Mckinley, considered by his
friends to be splendid likeness.
The Mckinley bust stands on a ped
estal behind the door opening into
the senate lobby. Through the crack
between the door and the wall, as
the door stands open, profile view
of the bust can be had. Recently
newspaper man CHANGED to glance
through the crack and caught a side
view of the Mckinley bust. 1t was
apparently a bust of Tillman. 1t
bore no resemblance at all to Me-
lKinley. So striking was the likeness
to the South Carolina senator that
the attention of several senators was
called to it, and al commented upon
the remarkable resemblance. 1t is
Tillman's side face, bad eye and all.
Yet from the front it is a bust of
Mckinley, with not the slightest re-
semblance to Tillman. Perhaps 1t is
the peculiar light that strikes the
bust that gives it the Tillman like
ness; but whatever the cause, the
fact remains that from one point of