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and to inability to get office are compelled to return home
 There plenty of evidences that former rep resentatves who have chosen after having once been defeated fin the home district to stay away from the native heath are not altogether free -9nA the criticisms Si tka hooe peepte, Gna Der. Aaps there Is no reason why they should be When man who has spent his entire life among cer- tain people is weaned away from them by a short residence elsewhere. 1t seems that resentment springs. and few denals probably will come to the statement that good many of the former off cials 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 deserters
 Of course there exceptions to every rule and Tn the case Of senators and representatives of long service. who are poor and perhaps too old to renew the practise of the law CT to take LID again their mercantile business where they dropped 1t 10 serve their constituents there is for the acceptance of office in Washington in order that the way of old age may be smaothed.
 Then again there the eases of men who have been in Washington so long representing their states or their districts, that Washing on has become their real home and here they stay after a change of party administration has moved them from representative office
 0t the men who stayed in Washnl5ton because the place was like home. there should be men toned former Senator stewart. Silver Stew art of Nevada. who died recently H. was Ho- ted hElIro the Washington streets all through his congressional career and through the lew years ot his retirement prior to his death Stew arts hair and beard were white as tha snow the top ot the Nevada mountains, but until within few hours ot his death he @aa apparent. ly as strong as any trce that grows below the mountain timber line
 Frequently the former senators and represent. atives who live in Washington appear upon the floor of congress They have che rie6t there to appear because of their former services There is marked and shining exception however. 10 this rule of occasional return ta tbe chamber where the legislative service Was rendered. Whom Senator Speouer of Wisconsin left congress ia 1891 Co be gone six years he declared that he would never appear upon the floor ef the senate while ne was out ot office nor would he go to the capitol unless his professional business called him 10 practise before the Supreme Court Spoouer kepg his word. He always had objected 10 the rule which admitted former senators to the floor Of the senate He did not say so, hut he thought that in some few cases the lobbying opportunity might be too strong to be resisted by some of the senators who were not above using their personal infa. ence with their former colleagues oil behalf of some specific legislation
 In the spring Of 1se5 John sPeonaf resigned from the United States senate After the six years Of his absence from congress WAS ended he had been returned again to the upper house but in the spring three years ago he resigned tC enter the prictise of law. since the day that Senator Spoon CT left for this supposedly the last time. he has not been seen in the senate of the United States. nor has he been seen in the corridors of the cap itol He Is ill law practise in New York and casionally he comes to Washington but unlike many other former representatives he shuns the actual scene of his legislative activities
 Gen Charles GrosYenor af Ohio. who was in the house of representatives for years. and who was considered Of it's most picturesque char acters. man lively and energetic in debate and appealing personal qualities. stays h the Buck