Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-31
HANDS OUT FOR new MEMBER
Cordial Welcome in Washington for
Amateur Congressman.
THEY KNOW NOT THE WAYS
They Pay the Price More Readily
Than Those Familiar with the
Touch of Landlords and
FerdePiea.

Going to congress" sounds awfully big
I'm the provinces, and the salary Is still
called princely there without any rising
infection OF mirth. Country politicians.
who have lived with ease on less than
half the amount given them by a fond
government to sign NJ. c. after their names
and attend TO a whole lot of other i'm
portant legislative matters, think they can
put up at the best hotels and take life
easy" when they get TO Washington. But
this same town with the open-faced ave
nues and splendid public buildings, which
seem to extend so gracious a welcome to
the man who has won, is popularity ad-
mitted to be the most expensive for its
size within these United States. Unless the
raw recruits who will next March. in
larger numbers than for many sessions,
usurp the desks and committees OF expert
enced veterans In the art Of running the
nation. are provided with surplus funds
they will discover that they can get what
ever they desire-if they pay for II.
Included In the price is the most AFFECT
servility and repetition OF a congressman s
title He has hotels recommended as the
best until he nearly has a brainstorm try
ing TO reason out which really is the best;
he tries a different restaurant every day
on the strength Of advertisements offered
In person. and every haberdasher and shoe
maker and cab driver in town who hears
Of his arrival sends him a reminder lest
he forget And the representative who is
still so new that he can't help being con
scious Of the galleries and has 10 tell his
name 70 the doorkeepers likes H.
He has ways all his own, this new mem
Der, very tolerantly amusing to the old
inhabitant who has stayed right here and
seen so many take the course" as witty
senator Rayner once described II. I'm
pressed by the magnificent distances o.
Washington. the new member invariably
seeks quarters near the capitol as pos
sible He wants to be on the job early anC
late. After breakfast-the mere time 70
which would determine for the close OBJ
server how long the partaker had been II
congress-he often strolls over the hous'
for look around.
Expansion of the Cheat.
There Is a certain pOmpous strut anC
proprietary air that none but men witt
have served In other conspicuous publ
positions previously ever seem able q
dodge lie has won and he is glad. an,
he feels that everybody here is his friend
In his native town he goes with everybodl
worth while. 50 why not here IN Washing
ton? This for the country member, N
matter from which point he started Tina
anybody should look down on an occupRn
OF a seat IN the house OF representative
is beyond comprehension. So he does no
bother 20 ascertain whether or not the 10
caity he is settling IN is fashionable. Tha
Il bear the patent OF respectability is a
that bOthers him
And this rural NJ. c. 10 divided into tw
classes-the one who brings his wife wit
him aud the one who doesn't Usually IN
latter has come as temporary bachelo
because Il will be more economical 20 saw
money that way lie isn't going 20 thro'
his salary away like some foolish men VIII
went TO the legislature and came hon
broke. No, sirreel SO wife stays az HON
and looks after the farm or whatever