The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-01
Capital Tales

- Alexander Hamilton having ASKED
Congress to provide a site and
PEDESTAL for a monument to Hamilton
in washington. legislation kas been in
itiased looking to compliance with the
TefEest
Senator Johnson of North Dakota,
who would appear to have read at some
time a book on Hamilton written by
an ardent aid partisan admirer Of JET
ferson and never got over the notion
that Hamilton was monster in human
shape, made a speech Immediately af-
ter he took his seat in the upphr cham
Der entering solemn prstest asainst the
nation spending money to onor and
reco gnize the memory of so bad man.
He painted Hamilton as the acme of
undesirability in all our eminent citi-
zenship, and his doing so attracted the
more interest because johnson is hint
self a Repub'ica and Hamilton is
commonly accepted as a pare saint
by statesmen of that faith.
There has scarcely been a day since
that speech Of JohnsOn's that mas fall
ed TO cali forth from some quarter an
euiogy of Hamilton. Senator Root him
self delivered one, Senator Cummtns
grew eloquent over the tTst secretary
of the Treasury: one after another the
Senatorial orators paid their tributes 10
/ the genius of Hamilton
Johnson became more and more dis
gusted with the perversity Of the Sen
ate. day by day. At last the croWning
Bailey, Democrat and presumed oppo-
nent of every fundamental principle
| represented by Hamilton, outdid oil the
others IN a Characterization of the
| HAM Itonian genius for governmental
Then johnson gave It up as hopeless.
| What was the use trying to revise an
Z nsssH
wesd the DemOcrates were going TO be-
come Hamiltonians?
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| Senator Bacon was talking and Sena-
| to- Tniman had gone over to sit by
| Senator Aldrich and have brief talk
/ with him Bacon wanted the attention
of Aldrich, and finally stopped and pro-
/ tested against the Rhode Islanders at
! tentiou being distracted.
Il had supposed" said Itllman, as
/ he rose and returned 70 his own seat,
tat the Senator from Geo .'gia was
talking to the Senate. OF course, he
has become so accustomed to recOgniz-
/ ing that the Senator from Rhode Island
I is the whole Senate, that he realizes
the uselessness of talking to the rest
unless the Senator from Rhode Island is
/ listening"
Precisely: the Senator from South
/ Carolina understands the situation per-
/ fectIy," replied Bacon.
''BuG ] want 10 aQus resumed llti-
man, that there are others Of as who
/ recognize that the Senator from Rhode
/ Island is the whole thing here, and we.
, also, are compelled from time to time
+ to talk to him.
/ Senator owen Of Oklahoma is one OF
1 the hardest workers about the Senate.
He gets down to his Office at the Senate
( Office Building every morning at z
I O'Clock and works until late at night.
/ Night sessions of the Senate have no
/ terrors for the Senat2g from Oklahoma.
rival for the Senate in the person of
Dennis Flynn, the Republican politician,
/ of his State. However. Mr.. Owens
friends say that ne is making record
/ on the tariff that will satisfy his people
and that Flynn or any other competitor
wiz have a hard time defeating him.
! Senator Rayner's recent speech. in
which he bombarded the Republican
"c.tadel of protection in a fashion at
[ once humOrOus and sarcastic, calls at
/ tention To the fact that the Maryland
I Sena tor IS the most soIemn-Vfsaged man
/ tn tie United States Senate. 1t is not
I Of record that Senator Rayner ever
/ smiled certainly not since he entered
/ The Senate His colleagues often re-
mark on the fact. Yes in spite Of this
/ he can make a speech that VIII amuse
1 the Senate and that conYulses the gal
leries, and has done so a number OF
/ times since he has represented Nary
land in the upper house.
=
Speaker Cannon visits the Senate fire.
quentIy. He is often seen in the Senate
/ chamber. consulting with the leaders.
! Presumably he is "cussing out" the
,Ho,&ness of the Senate in getting rid
/ Of the tariff bill However. there are a
lumber Of schedules in which the
I Speaker is concerned. One Of these is
lead, which he promised the folks down
I about Joplin he would stand BY in the
I campaign last fan. He is also anxious
over. oil, for a tariff on which he per
/ sonally made a plea on the House
/ floor.
here is story that is going the
roU nds of the Senate It happened, so
they say, when Roosevelt and the King
Of Italy were at Messina looking over
/ the terrible wastes Of death and de-
I struction and desoIetion. Roosevelt was
/ trying as well as his feeble and ciTcum-
/ scribed vocabulary would allow to ex-
press his horror and his comm seratiOn
/ on account of the suffering entailed.
Yes" quoth the King. but all this
| suffering is as nothing compared to the
suffering and the loss that will be
! caused it your country increases the
/ duty on lemons
Which suggests that the press agent
! Of the California lemon industry is a
! busy person and a genius. and that he
| doubtless has great literary future
! ahead of him.
Senator Root of New York is no re-
lation TO Tim woodruff. but he habitual-
/ IN wears yelIOw-hued waistcOat about
! the Senate that brings to mind thoughts
of the New York State Republican chair
man.
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Secretary of State Knox continues to
| spread dismay in the State Department
by his persistent habit OF early rising
| and OF getting down to work early. He
gets to his desk at 2 o'clock, and bY the
time callers 5egin to arrive he has dis
I uosed Of a large share of the business
/ hat has accumulated over night. Secre-
| tary Knox has the advantage, more
over, of being a rapid worker, and hence
K seldom happens that he permits him
self to get behind. When he used to
be head of the Department of Justice,
Knox followed the same course, and his
remarkable capacity for digging through
th'- 3 and getting rid of them tended
&C ginger up the department.
~. rises IN the morning at q and fiAdS