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25th Pennsylvania District, called on
tened with some interest to the Presi.
dents eulogy of his service in the
House-Mr. Eates is a Republican
and how difficult it would be to have
good legislative work carried on II
many more of Mr.. Batess class would
leave, and the President then assured
him of his good wishes in whatever
occupation Mr.. Bates might enlist him
self. About that time Mr.. Bates got
onto the fact that the President thought
him a lame duck and was rying to
cheer him up. He replied: L hope,
Mr.. President, the fact that 1 was re-
elected by 1900 votes does not change
your estimate of me-" And then the
President laughed his good. hearty
laugh, and assured him that there was
no going behind the returns.
Mr. Robert H. Hamilton, one of the
moneyed men of Pittsburg, was in the
city last week taking in Congress and
the other sights. Mr.. Hamilton believes
after years of earnest study abroad
that the United States is far behind
any other civilized Nation in the world
in the protection of its industrial work
ers. MIR. Hamilton says that people
who visit Europe and see women work
ing in the fields howl at the lack of
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to speak of them as 1nciviiized and
treat them with scorn. But look at
these women. at their strong, sturdy
bodies and blooming cheeks. and then
look at our slim, pale, anemic shop
girls. The trouble with us is that we
have too much chivalry outdoors and
too little indoors. 1 would rather have
my daughter plow in the fields than
work in the factories" Mr. Hamilton
then goes on to tell about the making
of the ordinary lucifer match, which is,
in his opinion, the most dangerous of
all industries He says the effects of
white phosphorus on workers are ter
ribly deforming, and that all other CIV
ilized countries have given up its use
except the United States. Europe, he
states, has abandoned 1t thru interna-
tional agreement, but the United States
has made no move to that end. Mr..
Hamilton also thinks that chronic over
work and the hurry-up system is the
crowning evil of American industry.
Mr.. Hamilton deplores the fact that
16-year-old girls can always get work,
but that work which is reserved for
women is that which requires long
hours of standing on the feet. Struc-
turally and anatomically women are
not adapted to standing, and eight
hours of this labor is long enough. But
every year thru the Christmas season
shop girls stand behind counters from
s o'clock in the morning until nearly
midnight. and work the same hours day
after day.
H. II. Couk. of Cincinnati, who has
been in Washington this last week,
rather surprised soma of the pessimists.
Mr.. Couk is connected with large job
bing house, and tours the larger cities
of the country. He declares that rner-
chants thruout the country have re-
ported that there has been larger
amount of Christmas shopping than
ever before. and he argues from this
that there is plenty of moRev. and that
1t Is being put into circulation.
The Office of Chancellor of the Smith
sonian Institution having been vacant
since the death of Chief Justice Fuller.
the Board of Regents elected James S.
Sherman, Vice President of the United
States, to I'LL the vacancy. Resolutions
Of sorrow at the death of Chief Justice
Fuller were passed.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
been quite seriously i'll with a severe
cold. but il is stated that he will be at
his desk In few days.
Attorney General Wickersham states
that it only cost ss,500,090 to maintain
the Department Of Justice during the
last year. AS Congress appropriated
$4,000 more for that purpose. At
torney-General Wickersham is very
proud of the fact that he has saved
1000, 900 TO the Treasury. 1t will of
course, be well TO wait until emer-
gency appropriations are reported a
year hence, when it is very likely that
Some Of these Government Departments
reporting such tremendous savings VIII
have 10 ask for an emergency appre-
priation to make up for the former
parsimony.
Senator Clark of Arkansas at least
has the courage of his convictions as
far as they 60 Somebody asked him
what he thought of the appointment
of Judge Lamar, of Georgia, TO the Su-
preme Bench. Il don't know him.
said Senator Clark, but all of US DEM
ocrats are for him because he's from
down yonder' Surely a United States
Senator ought to have some slight
knowledge of a man fitted for the SUI
preme Court Bench.
BY the way. the Georgia delegation
1n the House has had caucus, and
decided to support Mr. Livingston, OF
Georgia, for Sergeant-at-Arms for the
next Congress. There are only seven
other aspirants up to the present mo-
ment, and indications are for lively
Gght. Mr.. Livingston is pretty old and
lottery for the place.
In the settlement Of the Ogden Mills
estate Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, daughter of
The late Ogden Mills and wife of the
French ambassador, gets $3.50, 900 as a
partial distribution of the California
estate of her father. There is whole
heap more to follow.
The new torpedo-boat destroyer Nc
Call, tried out on the Government test
ing range at the entrance to Delaware
Bay last week, made over 80 knots an
hour. This would go 10 prove that the
oil burner is going to be Il success on
The submarines, the Mccall being fitted
up in that way. At least that is what
the Navy Department thinks of it.
One sign of the times that there is
no need for Esperanto as universal
language was emphatically eXemplified
at the French Embassy the other day.
A clerk of one of the United States Sem
ators had message and a package
both TO deliver az the French Embassy,
and was evidently quite green in the
business. He thought it necessary to
furbish up his college French a little
bit TO use IL when he met the Embas-
ssador. He arrived at the door, and
when the footman appeared he ad-
dressed some remarks in French to
him. handing him the package. declar-
ing that he desired to deliver it to the
the young man severely, evidently not
knowing just exactly how TO take him.
Then he said, Cant you speak Eng
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