Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE.
Minor Scenes and incidents sketchet
on the Spot.

BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE.
Minor scenes and incidents Sketched
on the Spot.
Walter Wellman in the Record Herald
gives currency to a story circulating in
Washington, indicating that Postmaster
General Meyer is likely to be a member Of
President Taft's cabinet. The story refers
to the opposition OF the bankers to Post
master General Meyer because Of his persis-
tent advocacy OF postal savings banks. "A
Few weeks ago say Mr.. Wellman, some
of the largest and most influential finan-
cial men and bankers in New York City
sent representatives to Mr.. Taft to protest
against the retention of Mr.. Meyer on
the ground that he had made himself
obnoxious to the bankers Of the country
by favorlng postal banks. Mr.. Taft's reply
was what might have been expected. He
said he also was in favor Of postal
savings banks and so was the republican
party, and that an attack upon Nj. Meyer
on that ground was an attack upon the
party and himself. This iIl-advised effort
to keep Mr.. Meyer out of the cabinet did
that gentleman more good than harm, for
Mr.. Taft Immediately concluded II might
be a good thing TO retain Mr.. Meyer in
40 u iai VI NHt utttI u1ludNlOn
Of the new administration to stand by
the postal savings bank as well as other
pledges made by the party at the Chicago
national convention.
Major Sylvester, the superintendent of
police in Washington, has started a cru-
SADIE against the large. gaudy and in
decent poster. He fears that visitors at
Inauguration time will be shocked at some
OF the billboard displays and has asked
congress to pass a law giving him author
ity to censor the "three-sheets," where
posters are submitted to the authorities
for criticism, it devolves on one official
to be the judge OF such matters for the
whole community, unless taken to court,
where 1t becomes the question for the
jury" says Major Sylvester. aside from
the pictures which are along the line of
the nude, there Is a class Of posters depict-
Ing crime and hold-ups which are not
instructive to the growing girl and boy.
The law should prevent the sensational,
misleading and exciting pictures that
deface the billboards."
DR.. II. w. Wiley, the CONSERVATION NJ
pure food. almost broke UP a dinner party
on a dining car running between Washing
ton ana New York recently. The car was
well filled when he entered, and seeing that
roast spring chicken was the headliner on
the menu he ordered It. When II was
brought on he examined it carefully, and
then called the waiter to his side, and
said in a voice that carried throughout the
car:
This chicken has been in cold storage
eight months, three weeks, four days and
five hours. 1t has Bonassa umbrellas.
Take 1t away"
The dining car conductor took DR..
Wiley's name, reported the incident to the
general superintendent Of the dining car
service, and an order was subsequently
Issued that no cold storage fowls should
be served on that train.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Brooklyn Eagle, dipping into the social
side of life In the most august and de-
Lucrative body in the world says there
is almost as much petty jealousy among
United States senators as in a troup of
opera singers, and cites these instances:
Apparently there Is not room enough in
the senate for the two big men from Texas.
Culberson and Bailey are always at odds;
that is, they would be If they ever cx-
changed views enough TO give rise to q
difference. They treat each other with
lofty disdain. Jealousy over the role OF
leadership in the senate was the principal
cause for the split.
The same situation, IN a somewhat less
degree, exists with regard to the Georgia
senators, Clay and Bacon. II Bacon dis
covers an unconstitutional point in a pend.
Ing bill-and such discoveries are his long
suit-it is a two to one bet that Clay will
support the opposite contention.
Senators Kittredge and Gamble or South
Dakota never speak except when they APP
pear on opposite sides OF a question. The
Oregon senators, Fulton and Bourne, have
no use for each other, and their seats in
the senate are as widely separated as the
limits Of the chamber will admit. Senator's
Hemenway and Beveridge used to live
fairly amicably so long as Beveridge was
content to be satisfied with second honors,
politically, in Indiana. But since he downed
the old republican ring, including Hemen-
way the atmosphere when the two sena-
tors approach becomes chilly.
Close friendship, politically and person.
ally between Senators Deliver and Cum
minis Of Iowa Is just about az likely as the
even mingling OF oil and water. Senators
Lodge and Crane of Massachusetts first
split on the subject OF the presidential
nomination, and the breach has since wild
ened in the struggle for cabinet patronage.
Senators Long and Curtis of Kansas are
suspicious OF each other and are never
known TO work in pairs. The same situs-
ton is true regarding Senators Carter and
Dixon of Montana and smoot and suther-
land Of Utah. From all of which it will
be seen that the senate is not entirely a
happy family.