The Carlisle independent., 1910-08-11
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sons and inability to get office are compelled to return home
 There are plenty of evidences that former rep zesentatiEes who have chosen after having once been defeated in the home district to stay away from the native heath are not altogether free sTem LSs eGiueisms of the home people, and per kaps 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 it seems that resentment springs and few denials 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 intmations 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 senators 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 for the acceptance of office in Washington in order that the way of old age may be smoothed.
 Then again there are the cases of men who have been in Washington long representing their states, their districts, that Washington has become their real home, and here they stay after change of party administration has moved them from representative office.
 or the men who stayed in Washington because the place like home there should be guoned former Senator Stewart, Silver" Stew srTt 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 as white the on the top of the Nevada mountains but until within few hours of his death he was apparent ay strong as any tree that grows below the ,nounlain timber line.
 Frequently the former senators and represent atives who live in Washington appear upon the floor of congress. They have the right there to appear because of their former services. There is me marked and shining execution 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. would be go to the capitol unless his professional business called him to 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 too strong to be resisted by some of the senators who were not above using their personal inlu- ence with their former colleagues on 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 was ended he had been returned again to the upper house but in the spring three years ago he resigned to enter the sDricsise 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 ffOI. He 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 Grosvenor of Ohio. who in the house Of representatives for years and who was considered one of it's most picturesque char acters man lively and energetic in debate and appealing personal qualities stays in the Buck