The Washington times., 1909-06-07
Capital Tales

= ENATOR TlLLMAN has held aloof
from the tariff debate for the most
part.
This is not because of lack of inter
est but because his health is such that
he does not feel warranted in engaging
in the rough and tumble of tariff dis
cussion-and the discussion these days
is not particularly refreshing and restor-
ativC for an invalid But "Pitchfork
Ben cannot repress himself entirely
even if he knows he might have 10 go
to bed for = the next minute.
HIS speAch in che Senate the other
evening after a Gay OF hot argument on
the cotton schedule was typical of The
Tuln-an of old. Prefacing his remarks
BY saying ne was tired of the Republi-
can sham battle, he said:
I earnestly want the Senator from
Rhode Island to get together his big
band, his Macedonian phalanx. as I
have said sOldered together by lead.
stuck together by beet sugar. rivsted
together by steel, and hooped together
by iron, and by all the other villainies
that are in this bill-the combination of
greed in the West and I'm the East and
in The Middle West holding this man
and that man and the other man in line
to vote as he is ordered because we
have all seen practically that the Sena-
tor from Rhode Island is the Senate
on shis question.
Il want him to quit Why does he not
press things 10 a vote, ring down the
curtain on the farce and get through
and then let as go hone2'
Then Tillman wound Up by telling the
Repuf licanS they We're not all hypO-
critics but the boldest band of bucca-
rsers he had ever seen got together.
Committee Assignments.
Considerable nervousness is manifest
about the House as 10 just when
Speaker Cannon will announce the com
mittee assignments for ithe remainder Of
this Congress. It is generally expected
he viii not do so until carly in the
regular session. However, there is some
talk that it may be done right at the
close of the special session.
This has been done in times past.
notably by Speaker Tom Reed The
easier way for the Speaker is to name
his committees just before the end of
the special session. An old House mem
Der explained why the other weN.
IF ] were naming the com mittees,
said he. I'D name them just uofore the
end Of the special session Then I'd
catch a train for home IS quick as
possible. By the time the regular ses-
appointed ones would have forgot their
soreness If the Speaker waits until the
opening Of the regular session to name
the committees. all the disappointed
pnes viii be venting their grievances.
and he VIII have no way Of escaping
from il.
on the other hand. Speaker Cannon
is perfectly used to hearing people kick,
and If he waits until next December 90
name his committees. he will have the
better opportunity to know just what
legislative situations be viii have 20
deal with, and can make zap the COM
mittees accordingly.
The suffragettes never get tired. Year
after year. they hapS been rebuffed by
Congress. but they always return, wear
ing their best clothes, and smiling Now,
they are getting up monster petition
70 Congress 10 be presented AT the regu-
lar session.
The National American Woman SUI
frage Association Is back Of the move
ment for a mammoth petition. and al
ready host of signatures has been OBJ
,ained.
=.
The serious charge IS made that a
Baltimore woman wandered into one of
the pubic galleries CT the Senate the
other day, and, after listening 10 some
OF the mtricacies Of the tariff discus
sion, walked out with a weary look, ana
sand TO the dOorkeersi.
What meeting house Is this2"
Madam" replied the dooTl1eepcr re-
pressing his pain With difficulty, this
is the United States Senate"
Senator Theodore F. Burton goes
around under the heavy load Of the
degree of Ii. ID from three educatIOual
Institutions. They are Oberlin, Dart
mouth, and Ohio University.
Everybody is wondering what Senator
Billy" Lorime VIII do on the tariff
f ne chances t. get into the Senate and
settled down TO business before the tar
II bill lis passed by that body. in the
House, IsOrineT sided with the Cannon
organizat ton and voted steadily with
the high tariff forces Originally, hs
would be expected to do the same
thing I'm the Senate, but his speech TO
the Illinois Legislature he limited that
he lad become supporter of revision
downward.
It is not often that one man has a
chance to help dispose of a tariff bill
in the House and then go over TO the
Senate and help dispose of it there.
This opportunity has come 10 LOrimer.
However, the indications are that he
will sidestep tae responsibility by TAX
ing. not 10 the woods. but TO Europe for
q brief rest