The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-02-16
President and Wife Contribute
Literally to the Fund of All
Souls Unitarian.
EDIFICE TO COST 100000
Members of Lower House Know Lords
Prayer-Plans for Making Their
Hall SmaIler-Offcial Report
ers' Troubles in New
Congress.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

WaShlngtOn.-Ihe members of All
Souls Unitarian church, which is at
tended by President Taft, intend to
build a new home for the congrega-
ton. The church structure which
has been planned will cost probably
100000 and it is said that Presi-
dent and Mrs. Taft have made large
contribution toward the purchase Of
the new site.
All Souls church had large mem
bership and was in a prosperous con-
dition before Mr.. Taft, as president
joined the congregation. OF course
his presence every Sunday in a pew
in the church brings many strangers
to the service, and 1t is a hard matter
to find seats for all who come because
the church was practically filled with
its own worshippers before it had q
chief executive for a member,
House Knew the Lords Prayer.
A story recently was printed in
Washington, and of course elsewhere
in the country, to the effect that the
chaplain of the Kansas state senate
found ;hat only eight senator's in that
body knew the Lords prayer YER
batim. Due allowance must be made
for understatement or overstatement.
whichever 1t was in this case, but the
story had its Washington interest
nevertheless.
Representative In congress recall.
ed the time when a substitute chap.
loin tol Tho ,N1a Of no
lar chaplain. DR. Couden, who was i'll.
1t happened that the substitute clergy.
man was there on a day of two SEES
sions. for an extra session had been
called and there was an opening
prayer for the last session OF one
congress and an opening prayer for
the first session of the new.
This state of affairs was unknown
20 the visiting clergyman who ap-
parently had prepared his PRAYER
thinking he was to offer only one
When he was called upon to offer the
second he was taken by surprise and
could hardly collect his thoughts. The
result was that after hesitating a
moment he started directly into the
lords prayer, asking the representa-
tives to join with him. As far as
could be determined from the press
gallery, all the men in the house were
letter perfect in the petition, and they
Joined audibly in the prayer and with
fervor, the chaplain leading 1t may
be that some state senators do not
know the Lords prayer, but there are
at least one hundred and twenty-five
members OF the present house Of rep
resentatives who were members of
the house when it showed that 4
knew the prayer of prayers verbatim
Chamber of House to Be Smaller.
If President Taft does not call
an extra session to meet in March.
the hall of the house Of repre-.
sentatives will be remodeled. the
work to begin as soon as the present
session of congress adjourns. Elliott
Woods, superintendent of the capitol,
has the plans all made and has his
force Of workmen ready to go ahead
with the work Of dismantling the
present chamber
The chamber of meeting proper will
be made much smaller. The cloak
rooms and lounging rooms for the
members, which are in the rear of the
present hall under the galleries, will
be very much enlarged, while the
house itself will be contracted in di-
menslons The desks will be taken
out and the members will be provided
with STRAIGHTFORWARD chairs with a lit.
tie swinging arrangement in front of
them upon which they can write let
ters. These desks" when they are
not in use can be folded up and stow
ed away out OF sight
Speakers Cannot Be Heard Well.
The change in the house arrange
ments is made necessary by the fact
that now it is very diff for mem
bers to hear the speeches which are
being made, especially if the member
speaking has not carrying voice 1t
happens frequently when representa-
tives are interested in something
which one of their colleagues is say
ing they leave their seats and crowd
about him, thus creating considerable
confusion which interferes with the
work OF the house debate reporters,
and with the speaker, who finds it
difficult to Keep track of things in
the confusion and crowding.
Andrew c. Welcb, who was a senior
member of the corps of official report
ers of debates Of the house of repre-
sentatives, died a day or two ago after