The Lamar register., 1910-08-10

and to inability to get ONCE are compelled to
return home.
There plenty of evidences that former rep
rosentatives who have chosen. after having
been defeated In the home district to stay away
from the native heath. not altogether free
from the criticisms OF the home people. and per-
hsps there In no reason why they should be When
a man who has spent his entire life among
tain people IL weaned away from them by n short
residence elsewhere. II seems that resentment
springs. and few dennis probably will come to the
statement that goos many Of the former on
cins who stay In Washington In preference to GO
ing home not without frequent limitations
that the people back in the district regard them In
gone degree deser.ers.
or course there exceptions to every rule
and IN the case OF senators and representatives
of long service. who are poor and perhaps too
old To renew the practise of the law. to take up
ngnin their mercantile business where they dropped
" to their constituents. there Is for
the acceptance OF Office In Washington In order
that the way OF old rye may be smootbed.
Then again there the cases of men who
have been In Washington long representing
their states. or their districts. that Washington
has become their real home and here they stay
after change of party administration has re-
moved them from representative ONCE.
OF the men who stayed In Washington because
the place was like home there should be men
toned former Senator Stewart, Silver" Stew
art of Nevada who died recently. He was no
TED figure 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 were white the snow
the top OF the Nevada mountains, but until
within a few hours OF his death he apparent
iy AZ strong any tree that grows below the
mountain timber line
Frequently the former senators and represent.
ntiycs who live In Washington appear upon the
floor OF congress- They have the right there to
appear because OF their former services. There
IA one marked and shining exception. however. to
this rule Of occasional return to the chamber
where the Legislative service was rendered When
Senator Spooner OF Wisconsin left congress in
1891 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
kept his word. lie 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
rome few the lobbying opportunity might be
too strong to be resisted by some of the senators
who not above using their personal innu
with their former colleagues behalf Of
some specific legislation
In the spring OF 1907, John c. Spooner resigned
from the United States senate After the six years
of his absence from congress ended he had
been returned again to the upper house. but In the
spring three years ago he resigned to enter the
prictsc of law. Since the day that Senator Spoon
left for this supposedly the last time. he has
not been seen In the senate of the United States.
has he been seen In the corridors of the cap
itol lie is in law practise In New York. and oc
casionally he comes to Washington. but unlike
many other former representatives he shuns the
actual scene of his legislative activities
Gen. Charles Grosyenor of Ohio. who In
the house Of representatives for years. and who
was considered one of Its most picturesque char
actors man lively and energetic In debate and
appealing personal qualities. stays In the Buck