The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-06-07

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1.-THE Southern states interested in cane
sugar and tobacco. From this situa-
ton in the house it may be inferred
that interest in the Philippines is de-
clning, and that competition from that
source is no longer seriously feared.
There was a time when the mere an
nouncement that senator Depew in
tended to speak in the Senate would
/ fill the galleries and draw a large at
tendance on the floor. The other day
when Depew delivered his advertised
speech on the tariff, he had a scattered
audience in the galleries, perhaps 70
people all tolu. and the attendance on
the floor was below normal Chaun-
| cey is no longer on the Senatorial list
of star attractions; indeed, he is vir-
tually in the "has-been' class.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma is one OF
the most interesting participants in
! the current tariff debate. Though to-
/ tally blind, he handles himself in run
ming debate in a way that would do
credit to man possessed of all his
! faculties, and in anything like a set
speech, shows himself to be a deep and
thorough student. Senator Gore is
well versed in public questions, ac-
quiring much of his information from
standard authorities which are read to
| tive memory, he has at his command
/ facts and figures which few men could
commit to memory. And the time has
not yet come when the blind Senator
has been at a loss to recall any details
demanded by those engaging him in
debate His answers are always di-
rect 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
aftliction but he has acquired manner
isms characteristic OF many experience
ed public speakers, all serving to dis
/ illusion those who are not informed.
! If he has occasion to quote statistics,
/ he will hold in his hand a slip of pa
per- and from time to time apparently
look at his memorandum 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 engaging in controversy, Sen
ator 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
mistake in identity.
| Senator Smoot of Utah has been put
! forward in the tariff fight in the Sc
nate to receive most of the blows aim
ed at the committee of Finance. The
| Utah Senator is one of the new mem
bers of the committee, and, aside from
Chairman Aldrich, the hardest worker
among the republican members. He
has made a hard study of tariff pre-
blems since his new committee assign
ment was given him, and whenever
Senator Aldrich is out of the chamber
! it is Smoot who answers for the com
mittee and n makes many such res
ponses even when Aldrich is present.
Quite large number of republican
senators were candidates for the place
which was given to Smoot on the FL
nance COMMITTEE and most of them are
sore at him because he was named and
they were set aside. Whenever any OF
the sore-heads discuss the tariff they
endeavor to arouse the Utah senator
by condemning the Finance committee,
and Senator Smoot always rises when
such attacks are made. That is just
what the sore ones want. The way
! they lambaste him is something fright
full. He has been so roundly abused,
and so frequently insulted by those
who are disgruntled that the official
reporters of debates have finally I'M
dertaken to eliminate from the Con-
gressional 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 treat
ment would be very humiliating. Smoot
however, bears no resentment, for he
remembers that he got the coveted
place on the Finance committee, while
those who abuse him were turned
down. 1t is commonly said around
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