The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-20
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J I e1f!z Busy
I PIqy Long
WHEN NOT ON FLOOR HE IS AT.
TENDING 10 COMMITTEE
OR OTHER WORK, IS
MEMBER AT LARGE LIKE sUTH.
! ERLAND HAS WHOLE STATE.
CONSTITUENCY.
Charles Brooks Smith j

To tear leaf from the diary Of n
busy congressman's4day's doings for
the purpose of printing it in news
paper would demand more space from
the publisher than he would likely
grant. Such congressman'sy waking
hours are crowded with work. When
he isn't on the floor, it is. no sign
that no isn't on the job. Not a bit Of
1t. He may, be in his office grinding
away, or In committee hard at work,
or chasing, around to the various de-
partments, coat tails a-flapping be.
hind him, On business for his con-
;tituents. Every time | think 1t over
my admiration for that wise but .un-
known party who vocalized to the ef-
fleet that a congressman is mostly an
errand boy for those aforesaid con
stituents rises to the admiring ardot
of about 100 in the shade.
BusyeMember.
Now, ,Congresslisn Sutherland is
one@of yoHr busy members, aud he
has a secretary just as bilsy and'serl.
Gus about it, and Just qs loyal in fur
-tnefing tire suceess q Hs effief. W
name. ]. Byron Ni6Sna. suther$
land has the system bfs bic trained
business man. HI sRa Sstiekler,, fqG,
system. and he ha# IDS, secretary
trained right up TO It, with the result
that the volume OF business done in
that office every day is greater, |
firmly believe, than any other con-
CHEESEMAN'S office in the house build
ing. You must remember that sulh-
erland i9a congressman-at-largc; he
has Whole state full of constitu-
ents, while his colleagues have only
district, and guess they are glad
OF it, too, when they see what Sutherr
land has to do.
Besides being on the floor for roll
calls, attending committee meeting,
receiving callers, and keeping engage
ments, directing the despatch Of doc.
uments, debating some ninety to one
hundred letters, calling on bureau
chiefs in various parts, of the city.
here are just a. few.items on the rou-
tine Of yesterday in the Sutherland
office, which will give you an idea
that d congressman-at-large who is
a rirst-rate congressman-at-large has
nd flowery bed Of ease, but has to get
up and hustle to beat the very cards;
Slaughtered Out Pension.
Secured money due on pension Tor
many months, but not paid because
Of governments mistake, for Lysan-
der j. Ayers, of West Milford; also
Ian order Tor an advertisement for
carrying the mails from die depot to
the postoffice at Greenfield, Logan
county; also an order detailing a
third postofrice inspector to inves'
tigatc with the aim of getting rural
mail service from Harding Crossing
to Classy Run in Randolph county
took up with the department the So
| curing Of pension increase for Levi
Morris, of Pennington; requested
the change of the name of the post
office at Muses. Bottom to Polk; in
ltroduced bill to grant an increase
of pension to VIM. B. Reynolds, OF
Lumberport; also a bill to grant an
original pension to Foster Ryan, Of
N1oundsville; on his personal visit to
the postofficc department also urged
an bcsPased service on a star route
l-fGom-piCkeas> to Hcker's Valley to
six deliveries d we'd in the place Of
three as now: also urged a new star
route out of Wolf Summit; called on
| General Leonard Wood in an ,seiEprt y
have Charles Liddle, of Eckman. and
Howard White. discharged from tn
army; secured a substantial increast
in pension for Samuel Wheeler. o.
Huntington: conferred with Other Ct
hcials in an effort to get the govern
mcnt to join In with Greenbricr ccuN'
ty and help to builda post-rOad iron
the top OF Allegheny through thai
county. this at the request OF tiarr'
Frazier Of Greenbrier, and a. D
Williams, chief road engineer FOL
| West Virginia; conferred with thy
| librarian of congress about securing
duplicate of the same valuable coz
lection Of Historical books which NJ
secured and presented the new Blue
field library, for the se'of state hts
torian, Prof. Henry g. Green; and
Well, this is enough to show villa
we started out to show, that 1t ISL
case Of up-and-doing every minute Il
the day for any congressman witt
the purpose to give the best that
in him to doing the work that is pu
up to him to do when he Is electc'
by 1.-THE humfolks" and comes dow
TO Washington to get on the 1ol
Sutherland is an AL example Of you
busy congressman.