Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-26
Men Of Maine Interest and
What They Are Doing.
Assistant Postmaster Of Senate
Pressey Coming Home.
Friends Of Reciprocity" Again
Confident Measure VIII Carry.

| Hon. Isaac Stephenson of Marinette,
| Wis The legislature at Madison has
| gone on record in favor of such an
| investigation. because of widespread
charges of the improper use of mon
| ey and it is said that all in all Sem
| ator Stephenson may not be averse
| to the inquiry as it will bring out some
| information he is not averse to the
| public knowing.
Although this multi millionaire SEN
| ator from Wisconsin was born in
Fredericton, York county, New Bruins
wick as young man he lived in
| Eastern Maine and has lot OF
friends still up in that vicinity In
| the days when Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette as struggling with his propa-
ganda as an insurgent Uncle Isaac"
was LaFollette's financial angel and
put up generously for the spread of
the LaFollette gospel. But later on
when LaFollette had won several vic
tories and became more or less Sc
cure he and Uncle Isaac" fell out.
1t is understood however that as re-
Gently as the Republican convention
of 1908 at Chicago Uncle Isaac" sub
scribed $1,000 toward the LaFollette
PRESIDENTIAL DOOIn WHICH H1dOc quite
showing in the galleries.
The wisconsin Senator formerly of
Maine and New Brunswick is a re-
markable old fellow He was SO years
old last Sunday and is still very spry.
With his reelection to the Senate two
years ago. he quit" the insurgent
cause and, as a matter of fact had
parted company with LaFellette be-
fore that time Ever since he has
been voting steadily with the Senate
Republican regulars. He is tall and
we'll preserved and is very largely in
terested in numbering and banking
He is one of the last of the great
lumber barons to serve in the United
States Senate. When he was first
elected to the Senate he took the
place that John C. Spooner. the great
Wisconsin lawyer, vacated
During the last six months Senator
Stephenson had had much notice in
the newspapers for having given
Pauline Wayne" a high blooded mich
cow, to President and Mrs. Taft.
Pauline" grazes on the White House
lot and furnishes fresh milk for the
White House.
There is much regret among Maine
folks at the Capitol to see w. r.
Pressey. of Lewiston. depart from his
position as assistant postmaster of
the Senate. He is one of the old
timers, who has been here long with
Senator Frye and who now retires
when the Senate committee on patron
age revises the list of Senate en-
ployes. Although nominally assist
ant postmaster of the Senate Mr..
Presley has long been stationed al the
main entrance to the marble room of
the Senate and has overlooked the dis
patch of cards of visitors to Senator's
The position has been one of some
responsibility. He knew the whims of
the various senators and issued the
necessary directions to the messen-
very few-wil not receive any cards
from callers till after O'Clock and
others viii not accept any cards at
all and so on through quite a cate
CORY of personal whims.
Mr.. Pressey, now well past 20 years
of age, is a native of Mercer, in Som
erset county. He raised quite large
family of boys, who, in recent years,
have spent much of their time here
at Washington. Most of the Maine
folks at Washington know Mr.. Pres
sey. whom they recognize as a very
admirable man.
Hon. Harold Sewall, of Bath, has
been tarrying in town again for a
few days and, as usual. has been Wis
iting "a little at the Capitol. He was
up there this week to pay his respects
to Representative D. ]. McGillicuddy,
of the Second Maine district. Mr..
McGillicuddy did the honors for his
constituent and the two had some
pleasant conversation about what is
| going on back home Mr.. Sewall was
at Washington for about a week
earlier in the winter it being his Gus
| tom to spend a little time here every
| year.
If Mr.. Sewall has his eye upon the
Republican nomination for Congress
next year in the Second Maine dis
trict he did not discuss it with the
brethren whom he met down here
But there was only one Republican
of the Maine delegation in town, he
being Representative Guernsey. of the
|
| could be little or no comforting about
Maine politics.
| The hard battle against "reciproc'
| ity' at Washington and especially fol
the enactment of the Root amend
ment, in which Maine is much inter
ested, is probably lost. All the north
ern New England senator's, withou
exception. stood firmly by their guns
They have refused to yield the Roo
amendment but it has become appar
ent that the fight is lost. The amend
ment will be taken out of the BIZ
| where it was placed by the Senat
finance committee, and the measur
will apparently be passed without tn
change of letter from the text, en-
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