Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-22

Senators stone and Warner, both of Mis-
souri,, had a picturesque tussle for prece-
dence in the senate one day last week.
Each was trying to make a hit by introdue-
ing a bridge bill.
Mr.. Warner was standing. Mr.. stone
arose and said: Mr.. President"
The vice president said: The Junior
senator from Missouri"
Mr.. Stone thought that the designation
hardly FIT him and looked across the hall,
He saw Mr.. Warner standing.
Am I the Junior senator7' inquired Mr..
Stone.
THE chair recognized the Junior sena-
tor first because he saw him first" ex-
planned Mr.. Sherman. Then Mr.. Warner
offered a bill authorizing the city of st.
Louis to construct a bridge across the
Mississippi river.
"The senior senator from Missouri" said
the vice president when Mr.. Warner had
sat down. Mr.. Stone solemnly introduced
a bill authorizing the city of st. Louis TO
construct a bridge across the Mississippi
river.
Captain Megrew Of the capitol police is
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preached him he lost tina characteristic
and hid his ever present cigar behind him.
Carrie asked the gallant captain the way
to the Union station, and he, with much
grace, escorted her to the portico and
gave the necessary directions. When she
had gone he turned and spluttered: A
II she didn't know where the station was"
Previous to this the champion Ratchet
thrower had been a visitor to the SUI
preme court and to the house Of repre-
sentatives, all the time, however, under
the watchful eye of one Of the capitol
detectives.
While passing through the corridor on
her way to the house she took occasion
to deliver a curtain lecture to several gem
tlemen who passed her putting away on
their Havanas.
The entire expense of the White House,
according to tn, National Magazine, in
Guiding the salary of the president and
cost or Clerical and office assistance Is a
little more than the sum allotted by the
H~oIlanders to Queen Wilhe.mina, and is
certainly not an extravagant ratio of ex-
penditure, contrasting the proportions of
the two countries.
The total appropriation for this year, for
telephone service, automobiles, house-keep-
ing, care Of conservatory and greenhouses.
printing. lighting and the multifarious
trifles necessary to keep up such an es-
adjustment, is SIT. 2S5, the lowest sum ex-
pended in the maintenance of the White
House since 1904, except during the ,ast
two years Of the Roosevelt administration,
when a record was made by keeping down
expenses to about $50, 900 each year. With
the exception of these two years the ex-
penses have been higher, chiefly owing to
appropriation for repairs and additions,
which vary from year to year. The highest
executive expenditures are about one-tenth
Of the Civil list of Germany and one-eighth
that Of England.
Captain Archibald Willingham de Graf
fenreid Butt, United States army military
aid to the president of the United States,
lives with two brother army officers in
an old-fashioned house just a stones throw
from the residence of Representative and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. 1t is a few doors
removed from the Abb club, the most ex-
elusive and unique social organisation in
washington Captain Butts house is filled
with interesting mementoes, curios and SOU
venirs gathered by him in his tours around
the country with Presidents Roosevelt and
Taft.
The souvenir which Captain Butt prizes
most is a letter written by Theodore Roose-
welt, which has been framed. 1t was writ
ten by Mr.. Roosevelt to furnish a perman-
ent record OF the famous horseback ride
by the president and his military aid,
which later caused MIR. Roosevelt to insist
on riding and walking tests by army and
navy officers. The president desired Cap
tain Butt to have a written record Of the
incident, and in course OF time the letter
will become a ~aluable document. 1t re-
cites the history of the ride, gives the
route, names the places where new horses
were obtained, and tells Of the terrible
condition Of the road and the driving sleet,
rain and show which beat into the faces of
the horsemen.
A true Rooseveltian touch Is given in the
fiual sentence Of the letter. The writer
told how both the riders returned In ex-
cellent condition and declared that this
furnished conclusive PROOF that the rid
ing and walking tests for army and navy
officers was not upduly severe,
Eugene w. Chafin, one of the presiden-
tiaI candidates in the last national po-
litical campaign, drifted into Washington
the other day. After calling at the White
House In the morning, he went to the