Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-28

ality, he will occupy a stateroom on
an outgoing liner bound for Europe.
where he will spend the summer. on
his return, he promises ito settle
down" in New York, but his intimate
friends who are familiar with the
boyish capers Of this 75-year-old SEN
ator, and especially those who have
been the butt of some of his best
jokes, still refuse to believe that he
ever will settle down." Senator De-
pew has his serious minded moments.
however, and he will devote most of
them in the future, as in the past,
to lending wisdom and sage advice
at railroad directors meetings, on
several boards of which he is still a
member Occasionally, he intends to
avail himself of standing invitation
from friends who have country homes
or summer camps in the Adirondack
mountains to visit that region, an
opportunity which he has embraced
many times in previous years. Incl
dentally he has promised to show Up
in Washington and swap" jokes with
his colleagues in the senate at any
time they think they can hold their
own with him.
The Irrepressible keifer
Representative Joseph W. Keifer of
Ohio will retire from congress for
the second time when the present
session expires by constitutional limI-
tation. He is the only former
speaker of the house TO return 70
that body as a private in TIE ranks
since the death of Galrsll. A. Grow
of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Keifer first en-
tered congress in the r'orty-fifth con-
gress, and in 1881 was elected speak.
er of the house. AS a result oi an
unfortunate incident which lncLrred
the displeasure of the Washington
correspondents, he failed of re.eiec-
tion, and it was not until the Fifty
ninth congress, twenty-cour years
later, that he resumed his member
ship in the house. Mr.. KeIfer is going
home intent on breaking the record.
He has good law practice at his
home at Dayton awaiting hi q, but
his main mission will be to 30 re.
elected to the house in 1912. His dis
trict is normally republican by a
goodly majority, but the democratic
landslide of last autumn upset it. De
spite his rs years of age, he is one
of the most vigorous members of the
house, even outshining Speaker Can
non in strenuosity of movement
Therefore, nobody would be surprised
to See General Keifer again in con-
gress at least once more before the
disintegration of the republic.
Edwin DENLY, a representative from
the state of Michigan, and recognized
until his defeat, as one of the com
ing men of the house, entered Wash
ington four years ago as lawyer and
is going home, primarily, as an au
tomobile manufacturer. This fact is
a compliment not only to the growth
of the automobile industry in the
United States, but to Mr. Denby's
acumen as a business man. Detroit,
as is well known, is one of the auto.
mobile manufacturing centers of the
country. Mr.. DENLY caught the fever.
put up $4,000 out of $1,000 of the
total capitalization of new concern
and last year the company made
s., 100000 worth of automobiles. Mr..
DENLY is said to have drawn down
dividends on his original investment
amounting to several times his col.
gressional salary. Everybody in
Washington is glad of it, for he is
extremely popular in congress. The
only criticism that is made of him
there is that Mr. DENLY persists in
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seated automobile which is no bigger
than he is.
Problem of BouteI.
What to do with Representative
Henry Sherman Boutell of Illinois,
who also goes, is one of the real
problems of the Taft administration.
Mr.. Boutell is believed to be wholly
unconscious of the disturbance he is
creating in the presidential mind. AS
matter of fact, his abilities are of
such excellent quality and so diverse
that his friends think that they
should not be lost to the nation. He
is recognized as one of the most
scholarly men in congress and has
been called "the ideal statesman"
The difficulty under which the presi-
dent now labors is due to this en-
barrassment of intellectual riches on
the part of Mr.. Boutell His friends |
have insisted on following whatever
bent of Mr.. Boutells has appealed to