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WASHINGTON. March a good like
ness oI Theodore Roosevelt Ia marble
will be placed IN position a. sOOn n the
senate Committee on the Library IL able
10 decide which one oI the marble images
10 twenty former Vice. Presidents. which
now occupy the twenty inches in the
senate chamber. shall be relegAied to-
Ohacurity.
That one % them will go IL a foregOne
conclusion. Thomas Jefferson. Aaron
Burr. Hannibal Hamlin and others have
been suggested a. proper to give way
to the Colonel. but the committee has not
taken the matter up for formal action.
"a IL recalled that this same embarrass-
ing situation confronted the senate
officials when the bust % vice-President
Fairbanks was received from the sculptor
Finally. after all tho talk about what
wa 10 he done with Il mad died away.
the marble image of Richard ". johnson,
Who was Vice-Pre~ident when Martin
' an Buren, was in the White House. Was
quietly removed from the senate cham
her to one of the corridors % the Capitol.
Ia was a week OF more later before
| the exchange WAS discovered. and then
it was pointed out that Mr. johnson and
has friends an being dead and Mr. Fair
and the demands 81 history had bsen
satisfied and everything was all right.
Mr.. Roosevelt In marble IN the work
Of James Earl Fraser % New York. Al
| though the Senate allows only $50 for
welt wanted Augustus saint Gaudens 10
chissl him. Mr.. Saint Gaudens's health
was failing and he declined. recommend
ing MIR. Fraser.
Folks who know a lot about art say
this Fraser bust Of Mr.. Roosevelt II good
IL IN supposed to represent the former
President ia artion within the limitations
Of marble.
The express company delivered the
bust this morning. After Il had been
Woods once IL was carried zap Ia the
room VI tbs senate COMMITTEES ON the
Library. where II remained on view ali
day. Many Senators and Representa-
tive- dropped in during the day to look
at the bust. senator Lodge viewed ia
from all SIDES. strOked his whiskers.
nodded approval and left Senator
Bourne Of Oregon was much Interested
You know you could have had a third
term he murmured a. he gazed at the
marble head.
Several Senators, however. failed 90
develop enthusiasm enough to make the
trip to the committee rooms. and they did
not seem Tan care either whether vacant
niche was found for the bust.
Representative TAwney. who did not
Wait the White House much in the last
few years Of Mr.. Roosevelt's second term.
was one OF the HOUSE visitors 10 the
Library COMMITTEES in the course u the
day .
me. said Mr.. TaWney. -of the day he told
mo I was A-but never mind. Il IN a
chillyp-
OF course the senate Library Com
mittse doesn't have 90 put Mr.. Roosevelt
believed that il where he will land. In
the north lobby Of the senate gallery
there are marble images OF Thomas
Crawford, + KOsciusko. GaribAldi. Charles
sumner, X. X. Pulaski. Abraham Lincoln
and q Chippewa chief. name not given.
In the north Vestibuls John Tyler.
Andrew johnson. William A. Wheeler
and Richard NJ Johnson-who was moved
to make room for Fairbanks look on
the passing show. In the Presidents room
there u . buat Of William Mckinley and
in the Vice Presidents room busts Of
Henry Wilson and Lafayette \. Foster
A nearly all the distinguished gentle
men represented in the Hobbies are ds~d
there probably viii not be any difficulty
in finding place for Mr. Roosevelt there.
IL u the custom. however. TO put the
Vice Presidents in the inches in the senate
chamber itself
Marble hkenesses Of three living Vice !
Presidents p Morton. Adlai D. :
stew enson and FAirbAnks- are already
in the chamber and IL " thought that Mr.. /
Roosevelt would deem u a slight n he I
were showed out into one of the Hobbies I
With the dead and departed statesmen.
There 10 some talk OF putting the Roose- |
welt bust in the Senates marble reception I
room all by itself II the Library Com |
mitfse finally decides 20 move somebody /
from one Of the senate chamber inches I
TO make way for the Colonel there may he I
few remarks offered from the floor 81
the senate.
Mr.. Roosevelt presided over the Senate
a. Vice-President only FIVE days. and the 4
senate Was in executive session practi- .
cally all the time.