The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-23

tions during the summer season. are on the anxious bench because they are uncertain as to when Congress will ad- journ.
 Some of the featuring statesmen ad- init that they have been away on in their calculations Hon. Champ Clark, (Mo.), Democratic leader of the House. is ene of these. Tn making his en- agreements for the season. he thought he was safe in arranging to start out on June a.. Nearly two weeks a.go, as he is alluded to out in his country, was observed talking with first one Senator and then another. and it was evident to those watching the move ments of Mir. Clark that he was trying mighty hard % find out something. And he was. When he started back to- wards the south end of the Capitol. he was stopped by . couple of friends. and one of them said: Looks as if the session mighy be brought to a close by the end of June. does 1t not?'
 End of June; thunder" replied Mir. Clark. T have been talking with Senators. and if we get through before the middle of July will be the most agreeabiy surprised man in Washington. What I fear. Is that the tariff bill may not be passed by the Senate before July 1s. and if that IS the case, we are likely to stay here until some days after August IT.
 And the usually buoyant, happy Champ Clark looked as If he were in a brown study. He was candid enough to admit that many months ago he had contracted for delivering addresses through the summer season at S200 per day and expenses, and that his en- agreements on that very prosperous = .a~ k- Yssn 1e nf course he has had to cancel some of the engagements. and now that Press- dent Taft has sprung a new issue on Congress, by sending in his message urging that tax be levied upon the net earnings of corporations. the Con- gressional lecturers are in 8 hutter lest this tangle alone may proiong the session from three to four weeks.
 Hon. Robert L. Taylor. (renn.). has done very little lecturing since he came to the Senate. But he lectured nearly all of the year in which he was sworn in, for the reason that Congress did not meet that year until the hrst Monday ine December. His engagements closed on the Pacific Slope only about ten days before the assembling Of con gress. Senator Taylor Is understood to have received for his last long engage ment s1.oo0 a week nnd expenses, and it ran nearly nine months.
 The same year, Senator Ttl1man,- tS' CD. also scooped in big money by his featuring tour He is said to have re- ceived approximately s4o.0oo. MT. Tili- man has given up the lecture business altogether on account of the serious attack of illness through which he passed last summer. and which neces- sitated his taking a European trip ana having absolute rest for about six months. Even now he has to be very careful. and does not plunge into the discussions In the Senate as often as he would like.
 Among the other noted Senatorial lecturers are Mir. Dolliver. (Ia.), and MT, LaFollette, (Wis.). As is well known, the latter is now like Hon. William J. Bryan. running publica- ton of his own, through which his views upon public and other questions can be given. Senators Deliver and LaFoliette have picked up a great deal of extra money before the Chautauqnas and the understanding Is that they will giean that field this year after Con- gress adjourns.
 The wisconsin statesman. rom what he says, did not make any early dates this year, for he has been of the opin. ion for many months that the contest over the revision of the tarifd would not be settled as speedily as most Con- gressnien thought.
 Senator Beveridge, (Tnd.). has done comparative1y little featuring. For picking up extra money the writing aeld has been explored most success fully by the Hoosier statesman, and his checks from leading magazines, sincs he entered the Senate, have run hign into the thousands. However, he hal slacket up in this line within the past eighteen months, for Mfr. Beveridge hal been taking such an active part In leg islation that he has little or no time to wield his pen. even If he needed tns rIioney as badly as when he first caYns to the Senate. He has been probably the most aggravating insurgent to Mr Aldrich and the other Republican mem- bers of the Finance Committed, since thn tariff discussion opened.