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Presidents Reception AMI
lonlatic Breakfast |
EVERYBODY At WHITE HOO,
Calling on Members Of the cabins
Senators Who Were Representatives
and Governors-Mann's Garden Made
Him Eight Hour Advoeats-Ho~.
Cummias Remembers Faces.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

By Az HOH w. DUNN.
Washington. Jan. Especial. THE
first of every year is pretty much the
same in Washington. There are GER
tain fixed functions, and they must
some important parsonage does not
drop dead. There Is the reception at
| the White House attended by every
government official in the federal sery-
| ice, including the army, navy, marine
corps and other officers in uniform
and such senators and representatives
as feel disposed to pay their respects
| to the president
Then there is a breakfast by the sec
rotary of state TO the diplomatic corps
It's really luncheon, but we in
| Washington call 1t breakfast. In
| the late afternoon calls are made at
al the cal inet houses. the speakers
| home and perhaps upon few other
| officials. There are a few would be So
ciety people who try to make some
| thing out of New Years calls, but out
| side of official life there are no real
| New Years receptions, as was the Gus
| tom twenty years ago.
| Promoted From the House.
| Thirty-one senators. or fraction
| more than third of the senate. for
| fnerly served In the house. They are:
| Bankhaad Alabama, Brandegee. Con-
neeticut; Cuilom and Lorimer, Illinois;
Shively. Indiana: Curtis, Kansas;
Paynter. Kentucky; Rayner. Maryland;
Lodge, Massachusetts; Smith and
/ Townsend, Michigan; Nelson, Mime
sofa: Williams, Mississippi: Stone, Mis-
souri,: Dixon, Montana; Hitchcock. Ne
| braska. Newlands, Nevada: Gallinger.
| New Hampshire; Gronna, North Dako-
ta: Burton. Ohio, Gamble. South Da-
kota: Simmons, North Carolina; Bailey.
! Texas: Sutherland, Utah; Swanson,
| Virginia: Jones and Poindexter. Wash
ington; La Toilette and Stephenson.
Wisconsin: Clark. Wyoming: Taylor,
| Tennessee. When New Mexico sends
| Andrews and Arizona sends Mark
| Smith to the senate there will be two
| additional members of this list
| TWerty- one Governors.
| There are twenty one senators who
were former governors Of their states.
/ They are Clarke and Davis, Arkansas:
Perkins, California: Smith. Georgia.
Cuilom, Illinois; Cummins. Iowa: Brad
ley. Kentucky Foster, Louisiana:
/ Crane Massachusetts: Nelson. Mime
/ sofa; Stone, Missouri Wetmcre, Rhode
| Island: TilIman, South Carolina. Craw
/ ford, South Dakota; Taylor. Tennessee:
| Culberson, Texas. Dillingham; and
Page. Vermont: Swanson. Virginia. la
Toilette. Wisconsin; Warren, Wyo.
ming. 1t viii be noticed that Cullom.
Nelson, Stone. Taylor, Swanson and
La Toilette are in both lists.
What Convinced Mann.
i During the discussion of the eight
/ hour law In the house Minority Leader
| Mann explained how he bad changed
his mind. There was time he said.
when did not think eight hours was
long enough for mea to work. but !
have changed my mind have gar
den at home that | use for exercise,
| and the use of spade or hoe there
j for an hour or two convinced me of
| the Justice Of the eight hour law
i Senate Office Building.
i Luxuries are said to exist In the SEN
j ate office building. and / rather think
they have things pretty nice over there.
They have two finely appointed kitch-
ems. and one OF them was recently put
In use. Senator Burton having lunch
con cooked there and entertaining the
/ Ohio delegation when 1t declared for
| President Taft.
They point to the Office building as
i an extravaganza, remarked Senator
McCumber of North Dakota Why,
that building will stand for hundred
years and be useful al the time, Four
! like it could be built for the cost of
one battleship not lasting ten years"
Places For College Men.
The department OF agriculture en-
ploys more college men than any other
In the government The forestry bu-
reau ID this department and the bu-
i Teau OF SLauQdFQs III sIuE EUIauitItG uE-
parfment have the largest proportion
OF college men. The library Of con-
gress elso has large number of col
lege men, about 80 per cent, it Is said
OF the employees.
cur.1-ains Know Him.
Senator Cumnins of Iowa makes a
great effort to remember the names
and faces of every one he has met.
Not long ago he entered the clerks
office of ffs supreme court and greet
ed the clerk and assistants by name.
Now. that's. a remarkable thing,
remarked tie clerk. James Mckinney
Senator Cumnins never saw me but
once that know Of ard that WIS tW1
years ago Yet he called me by name
when hs sd IS me z
senator Cummins knows me. too.r
i said the enIored man at the door, who
overheard clerks remark. He
done had me tell him who you all was
md point you q out At the doh bezo
be come u