The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-20
SOME NEWS AND GOSSIP
 = FROM NATIONS CAPITAL
BY WALTER HARPER

ed. He claimed that the mass represent
 ed certain amount in gold coin. It was
 redeemed for the full amount less the coinage and alloy
 | Senator Joseph Bristow of Kansas, one | of the most aggressive insurgent republi- cans in the Senate, has purchased an
 $SOO0 home in the fashionable section of | northwest Washington on Connecticut
 avenue. Senator Bristow has made the
 repeated announcement that he is ready
 and determined to keep Congress In ses-
 sion until full revision of all the tariff
 schedules, have been perfected. He had also made the announcement that even | if Congress reaches an early adjourn ment he will remain in Washington
 through the recess. He is serving his
 first term in Congress and Is evidently stuck on the job
 MT. Bristow evidently feels secure in
 his position since he feels safe in provid-
 ing himself with Washington residence. | This Is sometimes a dangerous thing for | a congressman to do. The average con stitutent does not like for his representa- l tive to so far detach himself from tho | local atmosphere as to own a home in Washington. This is especially true of southern constituents.
 report got into the home papers of southern representative a few weeks ago that he had bought a home in Washington and that congressman's office force was quickly put in motion
 to correct the dangerous allegation Stenographers got busy and elaborate reports went out at once to the home papers explaining that the congressman had not purchased a home in Washing ton but had so far forgotten himself as to rent a small flat of two or three
 rooms. more or less, In which he could
 ray his weary head at intervals dur ing his arduous labors in Washington. The representative who dares to buy
 a home in Washington and let the fact
 be known has more than the average courage of the politician
 A very forceful example of the lib- critics that are sometimes taken with the leave to print in the Record was given this week in the House of Rep resentatives.
 Representative Adam Littlepage of West Virginia secured the floor during | the discussion of the Black Warrior river improvement bill for one minute, and simply asked that he be given unanimous consent to publish his re-
 marks in the Record. The consent was given and he did not deliver one sen tence of his speech on the floor of the House. He simply handed his written speech to the printer and it appeared in the Record next morning.
 There was a ripple of indignation among members when they discovered that IA "applauses" and one loud ap- plause" had been distributed through
 the remarks Representative Mann called the attention of the House to this unwarranted liberty, which it ap- pears is not the first offense of the kind perpetrated by the member from West Virginia. MT. Mann moved to correct the Record and Mir. Henry of Texas substituted a motion that the matter he referred to the committee on printing for correction. This mo- tion carried by a record vote and MT. Littlepage was humiliated.
 MT Littlepage is the man who at tracted, considerable notice to himself at the opening of the present session