Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-08-12

sons and to inability to get Office are compelled to
return home.
There are plenty of evidences that former rep
resentatives who have chosen after having once
been defeated in the home district to stay away
from the native heath, are not altogether free
from the criticisms of the home people, and per-
haps there is no reason why they should be. When
man who has spent his entire life among GER
tain people is weaned away from them by short
residence elsewhere, 1t seems that resentment
springs and few denials probably will come to the
statement that good many of the former Off
Gals who stay in Washington in preference to go
ing home are not without frequent intimations
that the people back in the district regard them in
some degree as deserters.
OF course there are exceptions to every rule
and in the case of senator's and representatives
OF long service who are poor and perhaps too
Old to renew the practise of the law, to take up
again their mercantile business where they dropped
1t to serve their constituents there is excuse for
the acceptance of Office in Washington in order
mat the way OF old age may be smoothed.
Then again there are the cases of men who
have been in Washington so long representing
their states, their districts that Washington
mas become their real home, and here they stay
after a change of party administration has re-
moved them from representative office.
VI the men who stayed in Washington because
the place was like home. there should be men
TONED former Senator Stewart, Silver" Stew
ted figure on the Washington streets all through
his congressional career. and through the few
years of his retirement prior to his death Stew
arts hair and beard white as the snow
on the top of the Nevada mountains but until
within few hours of his death he was apparent
E as strong as any tree that grows below the
mountain timber line
frequently the former senators and represent.
atIyes who live in Washington appear upon the
moor Of congress. They have the right there to
appear because of their former services. There
IS one marked and shining exception, however. to
mis- rule of occasional return to the chamber
where the legislative service was rendered When
senator Spooner of Wisconsin left congress in
1881, to be gone six years, he declared that he
would never appear upon the floor OF the senate
while he was out of office, nor would be go to the
capitol unless his professional business called him
20 practise before the Supreme Court Spooner
Kept his word. He always had objected to the rule
which admitted former senators to the floor of the
senate. He did not say so, but he thought that in
some few cases the lobbying opportunity might be
700 strong to be resisted by some of the senator's
"ho were not above using their personal infu
eHce with their former colleagues on behalf OF
some specific legislation.
In the spring of 1907, John C. Spooner resigned
rom the United States senate. After the six years
VI MS absence from congress was ended he had
sen returned again to the upper house, but in the
spllng three years ago he resigned to enter the
pAcuse of law. Since the day that Senator Spoon
81 lett for this supposedly the last time, he has
"o' oeen seen In the senate OF the United States,
10. mas he been in the corridors Of the cap
'oL He is in law practise in New York, and oc
0s'Onally he GENES to Washington, but unlike
'1any other former representatives he shuns the
~~luaI scene Of his legislative activities
, zen Charles Grosvenor Of Ohio, who was In
-s mouse Of representatives 70: years, and who
as considered one Of its most picturesque char
efs man lively and energetic in debate and
A'peAhng personal qualities, stays in the Buck