The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-25
BAILEY AND GALLINGER
By SAY OYARD

responsibilities attaching to the place. It will be remembered that the chair appointed the committee that white washed Lorimer. In the absence of Mir. sherman the president pro tempore would be called on to name select com mittees and the insurgents have no sort of faith In MT. Galinger as the maker of committees and they have 1 good reason.
 Gallinger loves to solonize, and the l United tSates Senate never had mem Der who was better satisfied with himself | than he. An arch-mediocrity, prostrate on the dead level of the commonplace,
 Jacob M. Gallinger is serious in the be- lief that he is the first statesman now l living and the equal of any statesman who ever lived. Some twenty years ago he and Carl Schurz had a controversy
 in the Boston newspa pers that might be
 named a pamphlet war between a giant and a pygmy. Schurz played with him as a cat with a mouse. Now he would smash him with bludgeon. then he | would carve him Brutus suggested l they would murder Caesar, and all the 1 time Gallinger was blissful in the vanity that he ate his adversary up blood raw. Schurz discovered that thought In his man and he humored 1t in one letter that would have brought a roar of irresistible laughter from a convocation of solemn owls. I have always had an admiration for Gallinger ever since I read that con- troversy. Running the bases on the green diamond, his constant cry would be, Never toch meH' even when out by a mile.
 Gallinger had in charge the ship sub sidy monstrosity and 1t died on his hands. Nobody will ever forget the time the late E. w. Carmack laughed 1t out of the Sem ate. That was the nearest 1t ever came to enactment; but the speeches Gallinger made for 1t and the papers he wrote about 1t would fill library. He Is a Canadian by birth and patriotic to a | degree. Charles James Fox declared that it was impossible for any man to be as wise as Lord Thurlow looked. I say l it is impossible for any man to be as patriotic as Gallinger says he Is. Not half as able man as his former col l league, Bill Chandler. he got to the Sen l ate over the protest of Chandler and re- mains there long after the Boston and Maine Railroad whired Chandler out. His industry Is marvellous, and we must admire him for that. He has a flow of commonplace words that he can turn on in the Senate on the slightest provoca- tion and to which there Is seemingly no end He is the real ruler of this town and few weeks ago some of our big rich men gave him a dinner that was the wonder of a week.
 And yet in some respects Washington is the worst governed city in America The public utilities are full of water gorged with 1t, and they are perfectly | content with the Honorable Gallinger fol chairman of the Senate committee of the District of Columbia. There will likely be san airing of these before this Con- | gross expires, and as the district belongs to the whole people the story will be interesting reading from one end of the country to the other.
 1 This town, more than any other in l America, is cursed with the 'loan shark '' | His regular rate of interest is 10 per 1 cent month and his victims are num- bered by the thousand. And it Is to the eternal shame of the American Congress that this vermin was not extirpated long, long ago And what Is more, If the cam paigns both the committee of the Dis tricts of Columbia make against them had not been sham fights they would have gone long ago.
 They say that Cabot Lodge can be se- lected president pro tempore of the Sem ate. That would be better-inflnitely bet ter.
 Washington, May 19, 1911.