Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-12
SNAP SHOTS
OF SENATORS
Incidents in the Lives OF the
Great Lawmakers of
the World.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 49,
The famous Roosevelt tennis court
in the rear of the White House Office
building is now hole. Excavators
with pillow and shovel went at 1t
ruthlessly yesterday and today it
looks like a cellar.
Where once the members of the
tennis cabinet met to decide mo-
mentous world affairs will soon rise
the foundation walls of the Office
buildings extension. Mr.. Taft does
not care for tennis, and as soon as he
entered upon his duties at the White
House decided that the space occu-
pied by the court could be put to
better use by constructing upon it a
much needed addition to the Office
building. The present structure, a
One-story monstrosity of painted
brick, which cost the government
$4,000 and could be duplicated by
any builder for $4,000, is entirely
too small to accommodate the presi-
dent and his clerical force and the
crowds of visitors that daily call to
pee the executive.
The new portion of the building
viii be occupied by the stenogra-
piers and clerks and Secretary Car
penter. The secretary's present
Ofice will be converted into a special
waiting room for senators and repre-
entatives. Under the present ar
angement the waiting statesmen are
hOWn into the cabinet room. Often
he crowd is SO large that the cabi-
pet room overfiows, and the men
Eho make the laws are compelled
Q rub elbows with the plain people
the outer ante room. OF course,
lone of them would admit for a mo-
nent that he is not tickled to death
DO this, but the idea of giving
hem a waiting room all to them
elves has made a great hit with
ne senator's and representatives.
The addition to the office building
I'LL cost $4,000. During the sum-
ner the White House proper will be
enovated throughout at a cost of
bout 5000.
senate Committee in Trouble.
The senate committee on library
In great quandary. The trouble
rises over the marble bust of Theo-
ore Roosevelt. whose effigy as a for
ner vice president of the United
p'ates is entitled to a niche in the
shate chamber. The sculptor, James
Frazier, of New York, to whom
ne work entrusted of producing the
ust' complicated matters by max
TWO. One of these represents
ne expresident as the calm, repose-
w. thoughtful Roosevelt. The other
epiets him as the real strenuous
OoSeHelt, with fierce eye, protrud-
: Jaw and tense facial muscles.
ne question is as to which of these
asts to accept.
some seem to think that the SEN
&c would feel more at home if the
tehuous Roosevelt should be look
down upon the body. But ROose-
eH himself has expressed a prefer
1'e Tor the efigy of his more re-
.selaI self. While the senate COM
'''ee realizes that perhaps the ex-
sS'uent and ex-vice president has
uie right to express a preference as
which bust shall endure as the
Aroie embodiment of his features.
realizes that the senate also has
NE rights in the matter.
'us' what will be done has not yet
determined. but a meeting of
committee will be called in the
future to say which one of
a'ptor Frazier's productions shall
Aooed to the group Of vice presi-
A'lai ousts which now decorate the
A'e chamber and corridors Of that
VI the Capitol and which repre-