Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-01-28

members, representative, Campbell OF
Kansas and representative Sims OF
Tennessee alone supported the bill to
introduce absolute prohibition in
Washington.
The incident of the Governor OF
one of the greatest states in the Union
continuing to draw his salary as
member of Congress and accepting
checks for his full amount OF station
cry and clerk hire and making his
requisition for mileage to and from
session which he has not attended Is
perhaps without parallel in the his
tory of that body. The gentleman
with the iron clad nerve to attempt
these things is Governor Lilley OF
Connecticut, who got himself into all
temperatures of hot water last year
by his so called Investigations involv-
ing the Electric Boat Company but
who won vindication in his own
state this fall by capturing the Gov
ernorship. Mr.. Lillcy succeeded in
making so many enemies for himself
in Congress that when the question
came up few days ago whether he
was entitled to his Congressional pay
and perquisites while he was filling
the office of Governor there was not
dissenting voice raised to the pre-
position to Gust him which was
promptly and neatly done. The law
makes it mandatory for the Govern
or to call special session to fill a
vacancy in the Congressional delega-
ton but as there is no penalty at
tached Mr.. Lilley will probably take
his time before filling the seat which
was SO unccrcmoniously jerkcd from
under him.
The second White House reception
of the season took place Thursday
night when the Supreme Court Just
ices were the honored guests. These
receptions are all so much alike that
were person introduced into the
East Room during one of them he
would have no way of judging in
whose honor it was given except by
observing the guests who We're given
precedence. There is always strug
gle though for the invitations to the
receptions in honor of the Diplomats
and of the judiciary for AS these are
the first two of the season they are
most largely attended and one sees
at them the greatest array of distln-
guished men and gorgeousl y arraycd
women. However the Presidents
strained relations with Congress may
effect politics they do not seem to
affect in any way his social relations
with its members and there are only
Il few of those with whom he has
come into direct conflict or whom he
has assigned to the Ananias Club that
absent themselves from his receptions
and they're never missed in the great
throng that crowds the White House
on these occasions. The list of guests
invited Thursday would fill seven or
binary newspaper columns of fine
print and the line of carriages that
had assembled before the doors were
opened at nine O'Clock extended for
more than three city blocks. The
additions which have been made to
the White House since President
Roosevelt has presided there has
greatly improved the facility with
which invited guests can enter its
doors but it is an expression not soon
to be forgotten when one for the first
time, with possible fancy that the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will be
waiting Just inside the door to receive
him, finds himself in the great push
| inc crowd that iS nnyinp inch hy
inch through the corridor and up the
stairs to the main floor of the eXccu-
tive mansion. The stairs are the
particularly trying stage of the Jour
ncy for it is often from thirty min
utes to an hour that one must take
to make that flight of about twenty
steps. From side to side and end to
end it is packed with people so close
that one can move neither forward
nor backward until the receiving
party gives the signal for the Blue
Room doors to be opened and the
line begins to move through the rooms
known as the Red Room and the
banquet hall to the receiving party.
At the door of the Blue Room the
approaching guest is asked his name
and this is mentioned to the Prcsi-
| don't NV his oi1 CnlnOoI Rrn,ovaI