Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-08
LONGING FOR HOME
SoIons Show Desire to Get
Back to Districts.
HEAR CALL OF BARBECUE
Thousands Of Copies Of Speeches Are
Being Mailed.
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING ALIVE
Rumors as to Time Of Adjournment
Of Congress Show Wide
Variation.
HEAR CALL OF BARBECUE
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING ALIVE

halls Of the House office building that the
chosen legislators of the people are anx-
lous to get back to their districts and be
CHOSEN all over again. There are rumors
running around the halls that Congress
Will adjourn next week, rumors that 1t
will not adjourn until next month. and a
dark, ugly. cadaverous rumor that Con-
gress will stay in session all summer.
No matter what the fates have in store
for Congress, the individual represent
atives are getting busy. The mails are
carrying out huge bales of speeches. some
Of which have been delivered in the full
heat Of forensic ARRAY, while others have
been written under the leave to print
privilege. which covers a multitude of or
atorical efforts.
There Is far-away look in the eyes of
some of the legislators, particularly
noticeable about the eyes of those who
live in the districts where the smoke of
factories has not yet profaned the blue
vault OF heaven. They are seeming the
fields from afar, and in their nostrils Is
the faint odor of the whole roast OK
which precedes the afternoon of speech
making at the time-honored barbecue.
Northern representatives are listening to
q faint echo of memory which sounds
much like the signing Of the swaying
New England clam bake could be trans
ferred to the asphalt shores Of the Capitol
grounds With any hope Of success.
Reports on Hearings.
Speeches are being ranked and mailed
with sweat shop frenzy The 'steen
thousand reports Of investigation COM
mittees are being wrapped In huge bun
dies and sent to all sorts Of constituents
Swedes In the lumber regions OF the
northwest. where the English language is
just getting slight hold. are beginning
to get great packages of reports OF hear
ings In the investigations Of half a dozen
much-maligned government bureaus, and
the Swedes don't like it half SO much as
they liked the bales Of free turnip seeds
they got early In the year
The suffraEette movement has increased
the postal business. for in many Of the
omces you can find huge packages being
addressed to feminine constituents Not
tnat all OF them vote for representatives
put tney belong to leagues and clubs and
CIVIC centers. and new thought and eth
ical culture clubs. mix up politics and
bridge. and cause a lot Of noise, IL moth
ing else. In one Ohio statesman's office
they are wrapping up packages Of reports
OF hearings, which comprise q dozen vol
umes of the dryest stun ever printed, and
are sending them out to some woman's
voting league.
This country used to be a success till
they rung the sufrragettes In on u.s."
said man who was wrapping the books
today.
Casting Oh Mornings.
So no matter what happens to Con-
gress, the individual members are begin
ming to cast OF their moorings and pre-
pare to leave. Representative Henrys
rules committee may have ground out
enough bills to keep Congress going for
ten days at a stretch. but what of It?
In the maple groves of the north, in the
palmetto groves of the south, in the blue
grass fields OF Kentucky and in the
rolling, golden prairies Of the middle
ness to clasp the hands Of great men.
and sweat and argue meath the shade of
the bunting-draped grandstand.
In the middle west the call Of the bar
with it's al,-day fun and freedom. Is
waiting for the Illinois delegation to
come home. The village bands are prac-
ticing Hail the Conquering Hero
Comes and the cooks are getting ready
to stir the burgoo.
"Burgoo?"
Yes. burgoo A cross between a soup.
a stew and a chowder. and better than all
three. They put veal. mutton, beef.
young rabbits, chickens and a whole pas
SELL of other things into 1t, and at the
proper moment in the procedure pour in
a lot of milk. 1t is cooked in the open
in huge kettle. and when 1t is done is
of about the consistency of a mighty
good chowder. They stand around and
eat it out of bright clean tin cups, talk
ing about the speeches to come in the
meantime and having no doubt but that
all politician has to do is to lead a
life modelled after his fellow citizens
speech.
"Burpoo,' ON Native Heath