The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-22

the Senate only week or two ago.
Passing from the Senate sphinxes,
there IS quite a class of one-speech
Senators and of occasionally participant
ing the proceedings Senators. For in.
stance Fletcher of Florida, had been
a tariff mute till the higher duties on
pineapples was proposed. 1t happened
on one of the hottest days of the ses.
sion. whereupon Fletcher, clad in white
fannels and leisurely tanning himself
in the rear row, suddenly sprang to
| action He pulled up his coat sleeves
disclosing more of the expanse of
| dainty blue shirt, pitched his voice in
a high and rather musical key and
shot facts and figures and observations
on the pineapple industry at the swell
tering Senate for couple of hours.
In the same category comes Carter,
of Montana, whose carefully grown
chin whiskers simulate the farmer s.
He probably uses the purest and most
precise English of any Senator-an ac
accomplishment that has been twice
brought into play during tariff discus
| sion. Once he made a set speech on
wool and once on a duty for hides
He has also "mixed it up occasion,
ally when the Senate has found itself
in a characteristic wrangle. Burton,
of Ohio, one of the most effective
speakers in public life, who has the
rare combination of a good voice and
good mind, has spoken three or four
times briefly but on such subjects as
coal and anthony In which his Buck
eye constituents are interested.
Bradley, of Kentucky, has tried
tariff speech or two on the Senate on
such subjects as jute and jute butts.
Bulkeley, Of Connecticut, life insur-
| ance company president, voiced his
disapproval of the corporation tax be
cause it would hit hard millions Of
| poicyholders, who, he warned the SEN
ate, are voters. Daniel, of Virginia,
finished orator of the old South
school, has had a couple Of tariff pro-
nouneements. Depew, of New sYork,
1 who prepares his speeches in advance
| and makes a generous distribution Of
| proof sheets in the press gallery, was
the author of a pretty good general
/ tariff effort. Dixon, young man of
| Montana, who has grown very rich
from mining enterprises, inveighed
against the corporation tax. Elkins,
one of the largest owners of coal mines
in West Virginia. came out in set
| speech for continued high duties on
his product; Page, of Vermont, large
dealer in calf skins, spoke instructive
i ly to the Senate for free hides Oliver,
/ of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has
i been largely interested in the iron in
dustry, spoke at some length and par
tieipated in the running debate about
| duties on steel and iron. Senator New
lands, of Reno, Nevada, one day dwelt
upon statements about mechanics work
ing ten or twelve hours a day in type
writing machine factories at Pittsburg,
whereupon Oliver retorted that the
gamblers of Reno worked twenty -four
hours day and set up their devices
right in the hotel Hobbies. Since then
Oliver, speaking, has been bothered
with few Interruptions.
Root, of New York, and Hale of
i Maine, have made practically no set
speeches, although the ex-Secretary of
States presentation of the case in be-
half of the Taft corporation tax case,
came pretty nearly within that cate
CORY. Both, however, have figured
much in the debate-chie1y in three
/ minute and fve-minute efforts, which
some regard as the most enlightening
y features of Senate discussion. Sen
/ ator Gore, the blind Oklahoman, has also
been frequently among the entries for
this hundred-yard dash style of speak
ing. He and Senator Hale had a num-
Der of very sharp encounters. CALM
ger, of New Hampshire, who has been
frequently in the hundredsya dash
ranks pitted himself occasionally
against the Oklahoman.
The breeziest and most thrilling lit
tie incident of the debate was Senator
Roots effort TO lecture the Senate for
dillydallying and Senator Money s
strong measure of advice to the New
Yorker. The Mississippian is very
forceful in such roles. His Gliding of
the former preuier of the Rooseveltian
administration will be recalled long af-
ter much of the tariff speaking has
been forgotten. Bailey, of Texas, who
is among the dozen or fifteen frequent
ard long distance tariff speakers of the
extra session, bounced upon Hughes the
new Colorado Democrat, one day and
was given in return dignifed and in
c1slve lecture that may survive as a
classic of the extra session.
Fiddler Bob Taylor, of Tennes
see, made one speech only, IN which he
held attention with some of his enter
tanning anecdotes, an effort in whc h
he was possibly outclassed by Johnston,
OF Alabama, who proved anew to the
Senate that he possesses the trophy as
high class raeonteur. Ever and anon
Senator Tillmann, "Pitchfork Ben, =
Numbered a few incisive words into the
discussion and coined phrases that will
be remembered, but his colleague, one
of the Senate S three Smiths, now
: known as "Popgun Smith at the
: Capitol, one of the wordiest orators IN
: the South, has contented himself with
{ only an occasional sentence or with a
comment that would scarcely total a
!, paragraph.
However, these brief senatorial
l speakers have occupied but little time
e in the aggregate and are not for a
D minute in a class with such long dis
lance and frequent tariff speakers al
!, the Cumminses, Beveridges, Heyburns
a Newlandses, Bacons and La Follettes.
OVER THIRTY-FIvE YEARS.