The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09

MAY HOLD RECORD
. FOR LONG SITTING
Hot Weather Hasn't Driven
Martin Away From His
Work in Senate.
SHERMAN IS IMPATIENT
Sunny Jim Would Rather Be
Tearing About Country in
His Automobile.
SHERMAN is IMPATIENT
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l


Washington. July Slot days in
Washington. when the mercury is
soaring close to the 100 mark, afford
an excellent opportunity for the study
of human nature There Is plenty. OF
II around Washington. Members OF
Congress themselves afford not Only
an interesting but an instructive study
along this line. Picking out three of
the most interesting men in Congress
at this sunny Jim" Sherman,
senator Thomas 5. Martin. of Virginia.
and Citizen Champ Clark. of Missouri
ono wonders what they are doing
and how they maintain themselves
when most other persons are fretting
and tuning because of climatic cond!-
tons.
1t is probable that when Congress
finishes its work, whenever that time
comes. Thomas S. Martin. minority
leader, Will hold the record for long
time sitting in the upper house of
Congress. No matter how hot the
weather gets or how much other SEN
ators may use the big palmetto fans
In their effort to keep cool-no mat
ter how many of them may quit the
Senate chamber for cooler places
there Is one man who says there dur
Ing the long, all-uay session-Scnator
Martin. Nothing seems to tire him or
TO fret or worry him Quiet and calm
he sits throughout the dull and musty
sessions, always on guard either to
advance the issues FOR which his party
is lighting or to prevent the other
party from getting a coup. How long
the Virginia Senator will be able to
hold out is problematical. but he
never appeared in better health before
Sherman Docs Not Like Ii.
is nntiCeD h1c hot
antithesis to Senator Martin so far as
this long extra session OF Congress is
concerned. Is found In the person of
Vice President sherman. When he is
forced to be in Washington TO preside
over the sessions Of the Senatc-wh.ch
is not very often-he wriggles and
squirms and fumes and frets much like
sick baby In its efforts to get out
of n crib. He can never live COM
fortably any more unless he is speed
ing between Utica and Washington in
his big automobile.
He is automobile crazy. and II has
frequently been remarked that a man
who really dislikes work so much as
he dislikes the duty of presiding over
the Senate. ought not to be made to
do so for the small amount OF coin and
the honor that is in the job. In the
land of the free sunny Jim" ought
not to he tied down to anything OF
so small consequence as presiding
over the United States Senate. But
the end Will come at last, and with
the fall of his gavel one may see
troll of dust and smoke and steam and
say. There goes Sunny Jim"
Citizen Champ.
Still another type of the Washington
statesman. whom the weather does
not affect, is that presidential posi-
bility and homespun philosopher
Champ Clark. The Missouri Congress-
man is losing in actual money every
day that the sun rises. s1i2, and few
odd cents. Had Congress adjourned
on the first of July he would have
taken the lecture platform. and would
have drawn down for his own use
and that OF his family the small sti-
pend OF $1,000 per week. But without
a murmur Mr.. Clark would rather stay
in Washington and help to revise the
Payne Aldrich tariff law from bottom
to top than to quite Washington now
for all the wealth that any gold mine
ever produced. He is here, and is
gong 10 stay here. TO use his own
expression. just as long as may be
necessary.
While other members have been run
ming away to nearby mountains and
seaside resorts. Mr.. Clark has remained
an overnight trip TO some nearby city
to deliver a lecture of one kind or an
other. The Capitol is never too hot
for him. the day never too dull. and
the general situation never uninter-
estins for the man who is waiting to
Kill the present tariff law and for the
appearance Of that old-time presi-
dental lightning. He Is here and
means to stay.
Hikes Abroad on His Bicycle.
Another of Washingtons most in
teresting characters-and he stands
highs the Third Secretary OF State,
Alvey y. Adee. Mr.. Adee is passion
ately fond OF using the bicycle. He
abhors the use OF the horse. the au-
tomobile and other modes of locomo-
ton, and has never shown any spe-
clal preference for the aeroplane. The
bicycle is his now and for ali time
A week ago SIR. Adee returned from a
tour covering 1000 miles abroad on
his wheel. 1t is the eighteenth time
that he has made the trip in this
fashion. He returned to Washington
the very picture OF health. and main
tains that II he lives long enough he
proposes TO make eighteen more such
trips. He lives up on Fifteenth Street
very close to the Department of
Justice-and those who happen to be
sitting In front of their doors on
warm night frequently see this high
State Department official skim out
about midnight for n hike about the
city. He hates crowds. and he avoids
congested streets. Midnight. when
everything is quiet Mr.. Adee takes his
twenty-five or thirty-mile ride. and