The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-08-25
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Cen
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Washington, August ~, 1911.


Sore spots and bitterness were the
prevailing features in the Senate today.
The upheaval, which extinguished the
Insurgents, divided the Democrats into
armed camps and thus gave the stand
pat Republicans the first good laugh of
the session, will necessarily leave perma-
nent scars. 1t possessed dramatic, comic
and tragic phases in equal proportion.
The Progressives are angry and dis
gruntled. They charge the Democrats
with objectionable treachery. They ex-
pected nothing better from the regular
Republicans.
The temper of the Progressives is
balmy and mild compared with that dis.
played by the Democrats. 1t is alleged
that the reactionaries compelled the
breaking of pledges given by the Insur-
gents. So intense is the feeling on the
Democratic side that there is talk of
refusal on the part of number of DEM
ocrats to longer support Senator BacC
Tor President Pro Tempore of the Sen
ate. 1t was Bacon, Johnston, of Ala
bama, and John Sharp Williams, wi o
were chiefly instrumental yesterday in
forcing the Democrat break with the
insurgents and disregard assurances that
had been given to LaFollette and the
other lnsurgent leaders.
1t was in full expectation that the
Democratic-lnsurgen program would be
carried out, and the LaFollette Cotton
Bill, plus the Cummins steel amendment
passed, that nearly all of the Democrats
asSempled yesterday. They were sur
prised and sdumbfounded, as were the
Insurgents, when it developed that
few OF their number were cooperating
with Senator Penrose to prevent the
arrangement being carried out to break
the Democratic -Insurgent alliance and
to repass bill that they knew President
Taft could veto on much easier grounds
than the Wool Bill; that they knew
probably could not be adopted when it
came out of conference
Senator Martin, the minority leader,
is especially angered over what oc-
cured
Hasten adjournment? OF course it
will, " said Senator Penrose. "What can
we do now but go home? That is the
only thing that we can do and it is the
only thing that we ought to do; this
farce has been played long enough"
The adjournment rests entirely with
the House of Representatives. Chair.
man Underwood, Of the Ways and
Means Committee, today expressed the
opinion that it probably would not be
possible TO close the House business
so as to adjourn tomorrow night, as
suggested by several Senators, but said
that he thought adjournment feasible by
Monday or Tuesday. He said that the
House OF Representatives would accept
the Senate amendments to the Cotton
Bill, thus expediting the final getaway
Although he has prosy tongue that
tires his colleagues by its frequent and
prolonged wagging, Senator Hey burn, OF
Idaho, has basilisk glare when i9lgry
that cowes those on whom it falls. 1t fell
on Senator Penrose and several other
Senators this afternoon, and made the
usually bold chairman of the Finance
Committee look as sheepish as if he
had been caught saying his prayers.
Senator Clapp had made a somewhat
grandiloquent speech on the Statehood
resolution and Senator Hepburn, in
some very bitter and contemptuous
remarks on the same subject undertook
to make fun OF Ciapp's flight Of oratoty.
He said that some of these orators of the
Senate at times flew SO high that no one
could follow them. Now, the big Min
nesota statesman has a considerable gift
of repartee himself, and Heyburn's con-
temptuous fling brought forth the tart
reply that while Hepburn might not fly
as high as other people, no one could
deny that he could fly longer than most
anyone.
This provoked General laugh, in
which Senator Penrose and Senator
Brandegee, who were sitting near Hey
burn, joined with conspiciaus heartiness.
| ANbnrat,,lnn he
turned around and cast that glare ol
his on them with an effect that was so
instantaneously SOLDERING that new
laugh started al their expense Mean
while Senator Dixon, sitting Immediately
behind Hepburn, was continuing his own
laugh at Clapp's rejoinder, oblivious OF
the fate that had undertaken Penrose
and Brandegee. But as soan as the
laughter Of the latter died away Hepburn
detected the noise that Dixon was maxi
ing and turning around glared savagely
at the Montana man. 1t was now Dix
on's turn to freeze up, and he did i so
precipitately and completely that Yen
rose and Brandagee incontnently thawed
out again and gave vent to fresh guf-
flaws at Dixon's expense.
Attorney General Wickersham, former
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon Represen a.
tive Mann, Of Illinois, Republican leader
of the Honse of Representatives, and a
party of Republican members of Con
gress had narrow escape in an accident
on the Great Falls and Old Dominion
Railway recently, when their special
car, travelling at high rate of speed,
ran into a COW.
Others in the party were Representa-
tives Olmstead,. Moore and Dalzell, oI
Pennsylvania; Mccall of Massachusetts;
Modden and Coppley, OF Illinois, anc
Hill. Of Connecticut. No one was in.
jured.
The party went to Great Falls as the
guests of Mr. Olmstead They occupied
special car and on the return trip, whilt
speeding through Virginia, the car came
to stop with bump on trestle, span
ming a deep ravine. Underneath the
forward trucks was wedged the body oI
fine Holstein COW. 1t was miraculous
that the car was not derailed. The off.
cial party assisted the crew in removing
the carcass Of the animal.