The National tribune., 1909-07-08

Il IEStIA. ocliutOl 1AdhN
had a pipe line of communication with the
committee and possessed rare qualities OF
diviua ton as to what the committee would
do with any particular topic of tarif In
which Senator. whose vote might be i'm
portant, was interested.
An Imposing Array.
The sphinxes of tariff debate comprise
a most imposing array. In the interesting
leonine of aspect and huge in physical
proportions. Hobson, the hero of Santi-
ago, defeated him for u denomination to
the House of Representatives, which
proved to be a kick upstairs, for Alabama
turned around and elected him TO the Sen
ate. Second to him on the roster alpha
betically is Bourne of Oregon, the origin;il
Roosevelt second-termer. who has gotten
into the good graces of President Taft, and
who has been busy all during the tariff
debate serving in the Presidents golf cab
met.
Briggs, of New Jersey, who is a New
Hampshire Yankee, and received q mill
tary training at West Point, is another OF
the tariff splnxeS, as Is Burnham, OF New
Hampshire. Burrows. of Michigan, in his
day and generation accounted a leading
party orator, the temporary chairman of
the Chicago convention and a member of.
the Finance Committee that framed the
Aldrich-Payne bill, has been emulating
the oyster ever since April II last, when
that bill was reported to the Senate. An
other of the Senate's fluent orators in the
earlier days, Frye, of Maine, has been sit
ting mute as an Indian chief while the
powerful demonstrations of tariff speech
have been in progress.
Chamberlain, Democrat, from Republl-
can Oregon who again and again has been
able from the stump to charm majority
of votes from o politically hostile electO-
rate, has hardly lifted up his vo.ee. Clark,
of Wyoming. a forceful speaker, and
Clarke, of Arkansas. who can speak mora
words in a minute than any other of all
the Senators, have been counting the pro-
verbal silence of the tonIbs. Cullom, of
Illinois, like burrows one OF the Finance
Committee: Curtis. of Kansas; Dick. of
Ohio, and Dillingham;, of Vermont; Cam
BILE, of Sonth Dakota Warner, of Mis-
souri,, and Nixon, of Nevada, are all in a
group on the Republican side of the cham
ber, from which group there has come
hardly a tariff sound. They nave not
spoken sufficiently to come within the one
speech-during- g-the-tariff-dehate class, albeit
certain of them have qualified once or twice
with q few remarks. Du pont, of Del
aware, pressed Wetmore, of Rhode Island
the champion sphinx of the Senate, for the
honors of utter silence, but he lost adj
vantage one day by feverish appeal for
duties upon potatoes. Guggenheim. of Col
orado, who, like Nixon, of Nevada, is no
taller and no larger than the lustiest of
the Senate pages, broke into print with an
observation or two on the metal schedules.
One of the strong Senate speakers, who
in former days, when he was member OF
Ways and Means, could hold the House to
attention, has said no word ON tariff. He
is. johnson. the Norwegian from North
Dakota Frazier. of Tennessee. the tall
est man in the Senate since Fairbanks re-
tired to nrivate life-the one who had a
swift ride from his hotel to the Capitol
the other day-the while Bailey, of Texas,
talked against time, so that he could record
his vote on maximum and minimum, has
been as quiet as docile giraffe ever since
the tariff debate began to rage.
Jones, of Washington, now in his first
term after long and useful service in the
House: Kean, of New jersey. who is in
the Senate inner circle; McEnery, OF
Louisiana the Bourbon Democrat, who
has voted consistently with the Republi-
cans on tariff questions; Paynter. of Ken
tncky who seems to enjoy the distinction
of looking like President Taft; Richardson.
Of Delaware. and Stephenson, of Wisconsin,
the octogenarian multi-millionaire, and one
of the most voluminous converse tionalists
in the Senate, have kept in the company
of the sphinxes of the upper Legislative
branch of Congress. Lorimer. of Illinois.
the newest Senator. should not be omitted
from the list. but. always silent man in
politics, he has little time even to pre-
pare a tariff speech. for he took his seat
in the Senate week or two ago.
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