Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18


other member of the Legislature.
Sneads' host nonchalantly passed him the
bill of fare. Sneads held it before him as if
studying it intently.
well, how does that bill look to you?"
asked the host, unaware of his guests inabll-
ity to read.
well, it may be all right" replied
Sneads, shaping it down on the table; but
you don't catch me votin' for it till know
more about it,"
EVERIS ANSON HAYES, a member of
II the House from California has been
known among his colleagues as the boarding
house keepers friend,'' because he made
big pile of money growing prunes.
IN the eyes of some people, seat IN Con-
gress is merely an opportunity for the
man who occupies it to accumulate much
money in ways that are devious and queer.
When Representative James R. Mann
was in the thick of his fight for denomination
in his district in Chicago voter approached
him boldly with the request for gift of five
dollars.
Look here, my friend" said Mann, II
can't give you any money. In the first
place, I haven't got it to give, and in the
second, there's law against handing out
money to voters"
This had no effect on the visitor, who
lowered his request to two dollars. II need
that two dollars!" he pleaded.
I'm sorry, but l can't help you" an
swered Mann. "Why, just look at this
thing from a financial viewpoint! Suppose
there were twenty-five thousand voters in
this district, and each one had to have two
dollars. If could give it to them under the
law, that would mean an expense of fifty
thousand dollars"
"Oh, what do you care?" asked the visit
or, laying his hand Familiarity on Mann's
knee. You can get it all back when you
go down to Washington"
TOHN WESLEY GAINES of Tennessee
L" was in Washington not long ago talking
about his plan to publish some of the letters
he received from his constituents when he
was member of the House.
Here is one of the letters:
DEAR Mr.. GAINEs.-I am a farmer in yore
districk and 1 have built big pond. Plees
send me sum CONTINENT bulfrogs, SO I kin
raise big sight of them.
And this is the reply Mr.. Gaines sent:
am informed by the bureau of fisheries that.
while the Government furnishes the people
with fish eggs. it is impossible for the bureau to
fulfil your request. because, unfortunately,
bullfrOgS do not lay eggs.
COLONEL JAMES GORDON, who was
- United States Senator from Mississippi
for sixty days and signalized his term of ser
vice by making brilliant speech for the
abolition of sectional feeling between the
North and the South, was once accused of
completely in the assassination of Lincoln.
He was in Montreal, Canada, when a
reward was offered for his capture as result
of the accusation; but he had no trouble in
proving that, although he was acquainted
with Booth, he had had no part in the crime.
SENATOR BAILEY of Texas, who once
- promised his constituents that he would
never wear dress suit, is thinking of buying
a residence on Connecticut-ave., the Capt.
tails fashionable street.
SECRETARY OF STATE KNOX, who
irnpresses on all the diplomats under
him that silence is golden and garrulity the
source of many international troubles, is the
patron of a school for deaf mutes in Pennsyl-
vania.
CHARLES r. NIXON, assistant secre-
~ tary of the Senate bought handsome
hat, and the morning after making the pur-
chase dropped it out of his window on the