Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
BY JAMES HAY. JR.

ton. Mr.. Cockrell submitted to the full
commission one opinion and Commission
ers Clements and Lane handed in one op-
posed to the findings of Cockrell.
After full consideration, the commission
rejected the findings of Clements and Lane
and gave Cockrell's opinion as the correct
one in settlement of the case-which may
mean that some evidence is valuable as a
soporihc rather than as substantiation of
case.
THE Democratic Party has promised to
! take away from the Speaker the power
to appoint committees and to give this privl
1ege to Committee on Committees. Now
the party doesn't want to do it. Where will
they drift on the question?
This proposition was put up to one of the
@oldline" Republicans of the House, and
he said:
"The Democratic party in this respect re-
minds me of what happened to a little
donkey which was shipped in an express
car. The donkey had tag round its neck
and nobody paid any attention to it during
the first few hours it was aboard.
"Then the negro who was working in the
car went up to the train conductor and with
great perturbation said Boss don know
whar dat mule is goin'
"'What's the matter?' asked the con-
ductor.
ats dis way explained the negro. Dat
mule has done eat up whar he was goin ;"
JOSEPH M. TERRELL, appointed from
) Georgia to the United States Senate to
fill out the unexpired term of Senator Clay
enjoys the distinction of having caused the
withdrawal of an entire edition of the Con-
gressional Directory. In the directory he
was mentioned in one place as James NJ,
instead of Joseph NJ, Terrell. Conse-
quently, the edition went to the scrapheap
and new one had to be printed.
THE best story heard in Washington for
a long time is one told by the Secre-
tary of War; who is brilliant lawyer, to IL
1ustrate what grievous mistakes lawyers
sometimes make by trying to browbeat wit
nesses.
An attorney of considerable reputation
went to a small town to try case, in the
course of which he saw that, in order to win
for his client, he would have to discredit the
testimony of young man.
After several offensive questions, the law
yer asked the youth sharply, "Are you not
a worthless fellow"
II don't know, sir" replied the young
man.
3Now, as matter of fact" repeated the
lawyer, tapping the table IN front OF MIN TO
emphasize his remarks, "dont you know you
are SO regarded in this community"
II don't know, sir, repeated the boy.
"Well," continued the lawyer, @isn't your
father a worthless fellow"
II don't know, sir, was the monotonous
reply.
"Come, come!" roared the attorney. @An-
swer me. Don't you know that your father
is worthless fellow, who lies around the
house all day and won't work."
Il don't know, sir, said the youth. @Why
don't you ask him? There he sits on the
jury
GOVERNOR FOSS of Massachusetts,
gives lot of thought to political af-
fairs and all important matters; but on one
occasion he got SO tired of thinking that he
reached decision on the flip of a coin.
He had been debating whether he should
take trip to Europe. The boat was to sail
from New York at such time that Mr..
Foss found himself obliged to make de-
cision within thirty minutes if he wanted to
catch the steamer. He got up and paced his
Office. He had much work to do; but he
wanted that trip. His brain had been re-
volving round the matter so long that he felt
just about calm enough to hurl a chair
through window or to cut the carpet into
ribbons.