, 1911-12-07
Why Wyoming is the Most
Powerful State in CONGRESS-

From the Saturday Evening Post, of resent date. W q r.nri,t
in par, on Hon. Francis Emroy Warren, which when
by the thinking people, should be argument enough w
'yoming should and will keep that gentleman in our National Co
res' ANY one can readily see, with Wyoming the strongest DOW
that great b'dy, why some of the weaker states thru jealousy
Il lo II" Few c'"mlty howlers of Wyoming in trying
"enh'or warren year hence. The clipping is as follows;
when we read the list of committees to which the a
ious senators ae allotted and committee places show conclu-
sivly the standing of the Senator in the sepate-when y.
read these lists-uot very exciting as reading to be sure, but
important-we discover that the Hon. Francis Emrov War.
rem OF Wyoming is chairman of the appropriations commit
tee, and a member of the committees on rules. agriculture
irrigation, public buildings and military affairs, among 9th
es Hastily turning to another part of the book, we find
that the Hon. Francis Emroy Warren has served as long con-
tinuously in the body a IS any Senator living except Senators
Cullom, Lodge, Clark aud Perkins-Lodge4 and Perkins hav-
ing two years the better of him only. W. find, also, that
Mr.. Warren's colleague from Wyoming, Senator Clark, has
served a few months longer thao lie has, a point that enhan-
ces the beauty and projection of the logic of this argument.
as will be observed later.
"What, then, is the answer? The answer, l would
have you know, is that Wyoming is a state that embraces
within its borders about 100000 square miles Of territory,
being 1865 miles wide and 275 miles long, and having IN 1910
a population of 1896, which 8 a few more people than
live in Syracuse, N. Y, not quite . many rs live in Atlanta,
Ga. and about the same number as live in Worch-ster, Mass.
Being wiser than many of her sister states, Wyoming has
kept her senators on the job, and at the present time has the
Craftsmanship of the judiciary committee and the chairman
ship of the appropriations CON nittee to her credit, while
other Western states, with ten times the population, change
senators SO rapidly that even the pages do not have time to
get acquainted with them
"Wherefore Wyoming, with 1853 population. is more
powerful in Inc senate of the United States than almost any
little group of six or eight other states you care to put to-
gether. When one state has, in the persons of her two
senators, the craftsmanship of the mighty appropriations
committee aud the chairmanship of the judiciary committee,
to say nothing of memberships of other most important CON-
mittees, that state cuts a heap of sagebrush in the control of
the destinies of this great and glorious nation
THUS we reach the summit of crystal demonstration
and from that summit look down on those other foolish states
that 30 constantly change their senators-and Simultaneous
ly change their ratio in the great Legislative game. Stand
ing beside us is Francis Emroy Warren, who you may have
shrewdly guessed is our hero. Continuously since 1895,
Francis Emroy has been in the senate from Wyoming, and
now he is chairman of the appropriations committee. There
has been nothing spectacular about the rise of Francis
Emroy. He is not one of those brilliant boys who dash il
and are dashed out
"He has been there, steady as a rock, for all these years;
and he began at the bottom and worked to the top"