Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-07-03

pers Weekly. We have come to the
national capital to see the sights. We
came on a round trip excursion ticket
that allows us five days here when
this beautiful city is all abloom and
June is at it's best. We must see ev-
erything that is to be seen, and that
means that we must carefully parcel
out our time.
We go through the State, Army and
Navy buildings. and take a ride in a
sightseeing car through the residence
district. We find that we must go
up in the Washington monument and
visit Mount Vernon and Arlington and
see them make the money at the bu-
reau of engraving and printing, go
through the treasury vaults and be
allowed to hold a package containing
three millions OF dollars in our own
hands and-but before we go any
where else we must go to the Capt.
tol. In the central rotunda we are
accOsted by a gentlemanly and volu
BILE guide. He has already collected
the nucleus of a following and tells
us he is about to start on a trip
ito all the points of interest about
the historic building" We join him.
1t is only twenty-five cents and he
shows you everything. We see the
statues and the big pictures on the
walls and the whispering stones and
Senator Beveridge emerging from his
committee room hurriedy. with a
statesmanlike frown on his brow, and
fl,1., ;,,4. h.
gallery of the house.
1t isn't a bit like you would expect
it to be. We all get seats on the
front row of the gallery and look
down on the floor of the big cham
Der. 1t is nearly empty. A little knot
of men is gathered in the center of
the house, and two of them are on
their feet, talking to one another.
Sometimes their voices rise so that
we can hear what they say, but we
don't understand what it means. For
the most part they wrangle in tones
that do not carry to us. Where is
Cannon? The guide explains that the
speaker does not preside when the
house is in committee of the whole
We don't ask him what that means
because we don't want to show our
ignorance. little gray-headed man
with a squareg ray beard and wear
ing gold trimmed spectacles is in the
speakers chair. That is Mann of ILL
nois. says the guide. Who is he and
what did he ever do? Why, says the
guide, he is the great director And
what does he object to, we ask him
Everything, says the guide He looks
We sit there nearly an hour trying
to find out what's going on. We
learn why the newspapers back home
do not print a detailed and compre-
hensive record day by day of what is
said on the floor in the debates in the
two branches of congress.
When the guide said it was time |
to be going, we wanted to climb to
the dome or go in and see the supreme |
court for a little while; we told him |
we didn't think much of what we aid |
just seen and heard, but he told us it |
was not always like that Sometimes |
he said ali of the members were in |
their places on the floor and there |
was plenty of excitement and high de- |
bate. We told him we wished that |
we might have seen something like |
that going on. The guide pointed |
across the press gallery above the |
speakers chair. There is just one |
sure way of knowing when something |
is about to happen in the |
house." he said. when you see the |
begin to come out of |
their own room back of their gall |
Iery and fill up their seats, then you |
no haf hifu is,
to happen on the floor, and when you |
see them get up and leave the gallery. |
no matter how noisy it may seem on
the floor. you may be sure that moth |
ing is going to happen for a while, at |
any rate"
We looked across at the press gal |
lery, but there was only one young fell
low in it, and he seemed tobe draw