Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-18
UP ON CAPITOL HILL

On the hottest day that ever was. James
Courts. clerk TO the House committee on
appropriations, was working his arms off
trying TO get a big bill ready for the
House the next day And. by the way. it
was Sunday. The office of the appropria-
tons committee Is noted. among other
things for crystal chandelier that ap-
pears TO weigh about one ton. and is the
size of a coal cart. Ii is about the big
gest thing in chandeliers that can be
found
Somehow or other the policeman at the
door let in few visitors that Sunday,
and they had drifted around TO the ap-
preparations committee. Two of the party
were chorus ladies' and they had lot
of their makeup on at that moment a
perspring person who was trying to make
q hit led them into the appropriation
committee room He went on at a great
rate. telling them how much money Con-
gress approprates. what it appropriates
for. how many million people depend on
the committee, ETC. The chorus ladies
seemed bored. Finally, when the lecture
was over, one of them said:
These congressman must be bunch of
sports. Irene. Did you hear him say they
spent sixty million dollars for whatever
IL was?
Sure they're sports" said Irene Look
at that chandelier. Say. that things the
SWEETEST piece o glassware I've seen since
/ left Broadway.
Two cows broke out of the Leavenworth
penitentiary a few months ago. They
were not prisoners, but were confined to
that gloomy reservation for the express
purpose of furnishing milk for the benefit
of some of the prison officials. The cows
wandered over into the farmyard of some
opportunity to charge 81 for the damage
the animals had done.
From such small beginnings do such
great debates in Congress grow. The
other day when the House was doing its
best to get through with the long sundry
civil appropriation bill up jumped young
Mr. Howard OF Georgia. He wanted to
take away the limitations on certain
prison expenditures down there in Leaven-
worth, ana cited among other things that
the warden of the prison had been made
10 pay that 81 out of his own pocket. 1t
seems that after volumlnous red tape and
correspondence with the controller of the
Treasury tndt official held that the United
States IS lot required by law TO pay for
tn iapOunding OF escaped penitentiary
oos4leS.
Representative Howard wasn't the only
person who got into that debate Not
at all. for the 81 damage done by the
COWS IN their innocent browsing on that
Kansas farmyard was affecting an appro-
pTIdtlon OF $1,000. Representative
Anthony of Kansas hoped into the fray:
so did Mr.. Foster of Illinois, and James
r. Mann. minority leader. ana. last of
all. Swager Sheriey of Kentucky led the
defense al the appropriations committee.
III grew acrimonious and the mixture of
cows and parliamentary terms was most
ASTOUNDING
Finally, Representative Howard told
Mr. Snerley that the warden of the peni
Tertiary, who had paid the 81, had been
q "a list n ha
enlightening debate.
Ihen l suggest 10 the warden, IL he is
SUI In the gallery, that ne read the law,
said Mr.. Sherley
And / suggest 10 him." retorted How
ara, that the next time the governments
cows break out, no should leave them
where they are"
OF such stuff Is the Congressional Rec
ord made.
Representative Gibson Gardner says
that Theodore Roosevelt is tone blind"
He can't distinguish Aud Lang
Syne' from Every oody's Dom 1t Now"
said Mr.. Gardner.
out at Chicago he was criticised Sc
verey Tor waving a red bandanna hand
kerchief and eVincing other violent signs
OF enthusiasm during the singing of On
ward. Christian Soldiers Ii wasn't dis
respect. He thought they were singing
America.
The nation may expect a new form of
taxation If Harry. the genial messenger
VITO sits outside of Oscar Underwood's
once Is correct. Harry has a broad
smile AT ali times but he is never pleas
anter than when he is asked question
by member of the press gallery. one
day last week Serene Payne Chamn
clark, Uncle Joe Cannon, Swager Sherley
and half dozen other leaders were
hnOWn 10 De on the inside OF Mr. Under
woods closed door
What are they doing in there?" asked
John kirby, redoubtable correspondent
don know exactly" replied the
smiling Harry. but 'spects thew IL
talking about the exercise tax
Augustus Stanley, representative from
Kentucky and chairman OF the steel in
vestiSating committee OF the .4ouse. was
az one time a school teacher in a back
woods section of the state. He tired of
that monotonous existence and made his
way to some town along the Ohio river
When he boarded a steamer he gave the
captain about All the money he had
Take this. he said. and run me as
far Ii will CO.
After the boat had made innumera BILE
stops the captain Went 10 Stanley and
told him tie money had been used up
AL right said the young man. let