The National tribune., 1911-02-16

Representative
has almost come to the point of the
country Observation-Disclosures who. when
some ruffianly boys made fun Of him,
fined them for contempt of court. When
they protested and said court was not
in session, he retorted: This court is
always a subject for contempt" Mr..
Macon has persisted in registering
points of order against increasing the
salary of clerks and other Government
employees proposed in appropriation
bills, and has made a practice of do
ing this for several years. He performs,
in one sense of the word, the
part of wasp in the House
of Representatives. and the MEM
bers thoroly dislike him. He got
into scrapping match with some men,
bers of the Appropriations Committee
and the newspapers lambasted him in
fine shape. For this Mr.. Macon arose
upon the floor of the House and pro-
ceeded to roast the members of the
press gallery. The things he said We're
not a bit pretty, and had to be cut
out of the Congressional Record. The
newspapers used some of the express
sions, but dared not use all of them,
and then Representative Macon went
up in the air because the newspapers
had correctly quoted him. At the pres
ent time the correspondents seem to
have the best of it. and a committee
is sitting on Representative Macon.
Representative NJ. r. Denver, of the
Sixth Ohio district, is almost the alb
lette. They both wear their hair POM
padour, and there is a decided similar
ity in their faces.
Miss Della Torrey, aunt of the Presi-
dent, is paying her annual visit to her
nephew William" Miss Torrey was the
of all observers at the state
reception last week. and occupied q
roomy chair in the Blue Room close to
the receiving line. She was dressed in
elegant black satin and rare old white
lace. and was quite the belle of the
evening.
It Is said that at the sale Of the man
uscripts of Mark Twain the other day
good prices were obtained for the orig
!nal autograph copies. 1t is stated for
a fact however. that former President
Roosevelt did not buy the original man.
uscript that Mark Twain had recently
expressed of him.
Senator Hale, of Maine, the leader of
the Senate old guard, whose long serv-
ice comes to an end March 4. is a game
loser. He did the unusual thing of pre-
Senting the credentials of his successor,
Charles f. Johnston, a Democrat, to
the Senate recently. Moreover, he said
It was with pleasure" that he did so.
Turnout the reading of the credentials
Of the new Senator from Maine Sena-
or Hale remained standing at his desk.
The Senate has not witnessed a more
graceful act in all its history was the
of some Of the older men,
,ers. The credentials of John w.
,I,r ,,,;1t a T
dge in the Senate, were presented by
senator Shively.
Howard Chanler Christy is real I'M
kind. He has just finished a sketch of |
san Juan Hill, in the Spanish war, |
which is to go in an encyclopedia. The |
charge is being made by the infantry
that President Roosevelt does not ap-
pear in the sketch, and Artist Christy
says: Roosevelt was not there" He
said the Rough Riders were three-quar-
ters of a mile away from the hill, at
lacking the Kettle Hill, and the artist
produces various histories of that i'm
portant charge to prove his claim. This
is the most unkindest cut of all.
All this racket about buying votes
in Illinois has aroused Senator Cullom
not a little, and well it might. The
sturdy old warrior of a hundred politi- |
cal campaigns-for he has been at it |
ever since he was a personal friend of
Lincoln's, way back in the late sos
Is downright peeved with the slams
that his brother Senators are giving to
the voters of the great State of ILL
nois. Senator Bailey, of Texas, a few
days ago saw fit to criticise upon the
floor of the Senate the election of Sem
ator Cullom to the U. s. Senate by the
Legislature of Illinois. OF course, II
Is well known that Senator Bailey is
always at his best when attacking some
body or something, but he ought to
confine his attacks to people of his own