The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-26

they seldom live over the age OF 20
His one amusement was to sit and dozs
under the broiling sun during Summer
months and in the Winter to crouch be
fore an open fire and sleep. He was
not an inordinate eater, as giants usu-
ally are, and had no taste whatever fol
alcoholic drink. He was hideously ugly
and seemed abnormal in every respect
w. M. S. Carroll, the Consul General
to Dresden during President Cleveland's
second Administration. died last week In
this city. He was 73 years Of age, and
had undergone an operation for cancer
of the stomach, which gave only tenn
porary relief. He belonged to the great
) family of CAROLS, whose name
Charles Carroll, of Carroliton, a signer
of the Declaration OF Independence,
made famous.
Speaker Cannon meets up with other
things quite as refractory as the insur-
gent element of the House of Repre-
sentatives He started the other night
to an oyster roast, to which he had
been invited and where he expected
to have whole lot of fun, when his
automobile stuck in the mud, and he
was stranded.
Everybody about the United States
Capitol has expanded excepting the
still has the same little old tuck-hOle
quarters that 1t has occupied for the
past 40 years or more, and which was
the old Senate Chamber. The room is
in itself hardly big enough for good
sized dress closet in the average million
aires palace of to-day, but is dear,
| clean little bandboX of room, just
half-circular in form. and now Is so in
timately associated with the Supreme
Court that no one would like to see
that body leave it, and yet it looks as
! If this Is what must happen. The Su-
| preme Court Justices, in reaching the
| court room, have to cross the main
corridor of the Capitol, and they have
no private room to themselves at all,
excepting the one small robing room.
There was a move made in Congress the
other day to have offices for the Su
preme Court provided in the new Sen
ate Building. Senator Bailey, of Tex
as, very PROMPTLY and emphatically de-
clared against such action as this, and
Senator Bailey was undoubtedly in the
right. He condemned the beggarly
chambers devoted to the highest trib
unal, but at the same time he did not
believe that the Senators should give
up any portion of their fine marble
building to the Supreme Court. In the
discussion which followed, it developed
that the Senators are unalterably OPP
posed to accommodating the Supreme
Court elsewhere than in the Capitol
Building, where it occupies as court
room one of the most historical rooms
in the whole Capitol. Senator Bailey
suggested that the old library wing,
which can be reached from the robing
room of the Senators, be cleared out
and the offices there, which are used
by Senators and Representatives. be
transferred to the Senate and House
Office buildings and the Supreme Court
have private offices in the suite OF
rooms-a suggestion which is eminently
proper.
II you have no superstitious beliefs
do not read this item, but, just the
same, the farts in 1t caused a great
deaf &C amusement at the National
Geographic banquet the other night.
When the next Speaker of the House,
Beauchamp Clark, of Missouri, who is
better known as plain Champ Clark. To-
Gated his seat at the banquet table he
found that 1t was No. 13. Almost OPP
positive him sat Representative Dwight, !
the Republican Of New York. and his !
ticket called for seat %. The two
party leaders called attention to their !
hoodoo numbers, but declared that they
had no fear of political misfortune.
Former Representative C. j. Erdman. |
of Allentown, Pa, died at his home
there Jan IA after lingering illness.
He served two terms in Congress from /
the Thirteenth Pennsylvania district, |!
and was the author of the Erdman |
act which stops all arbitration in labor |
disputes and which was used severai
times in the past year to settle labor |
troubles. Interment was in his home |
town.
James D. Richardson. Sovereign |
Grand Commander of the Southern Jur- |
isdiction of the Ancient and Accepted I
Scottish Rite Masons, has been Obliged. |
thru i'll health. to be temporarily re-
Iieved of the duties of his office, and
George F. Moore, of New York, has
been appointed to fill his place. 1t is /
stated that the Supreme Council, at the
instigation OF Mr.. Richardson's physi- |
clan, suggested that the latter take a
complete rest This action was con-
sidered imperative. as Mr.. Richardson's
mental condition is such that it would
have been extreme cruelty to permit
him to assume the responsibilities in
cident to the erection of the new mil !
lion-doilar temple in this city. Mr.. |
Richardson was formerly Representa-
tive in Congress from Tennessee, aud, !
under Democratic Congress. Chairman
of the Committee on Public Printing. |
He was considered a very valuable man
as a Representative, but when elected |
Sovereign Grand Commander ne was
obliged to give up politics. from which |
he has entirely retired during the last !
half dozen years. Mr.. Richardson has
served In his high Office most accept
ably, as he is an earnest worker worthy
of the honor. 1t is said that Mr.. Rich
ardson is suffering from nervous dis
order and that he will go South. His
physician thinks that in a very few
months he will be able to return to
his duties.
Representative George f. Huff, of the
Twenty-second Pennsylvania district,
who has been confined in the hospital
the result Of Incorporation. has return
ed to his duties in Washington.
There was fierce scare at the United
States Pension ONCE the other day
when 1t was discovered, about O'Clock
in the morning, that the rooms of
Pension Agent John X. King were all
abIaze. 1t is believed that spontaneous
combustion caused the fire. The dam |
age to the records and furniture of the
office, handling pensions for West Vir-
GINA, Virginia, District of Columbia. |
Maryland and Delaware, is placed at
$4,000. The work of the office was
two. and the desks, chairs, screens. rugs
damaged. None Of the important pa
least.
Washington has just had a visit from
Con Iacnh tina C. CoYav |