Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-07
THEY BOTH HAVE CANCELLED
THEIR DATES IN HURRY
Find That it Is Impossible to Look AT.
ter Their Other Work and Enter
tain Crowds.
By Burton K. Standish.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE

not live on the $4,000 yearly salary
he receives as head member of the
president Us cabinet and that he was
compelled to augment his salary with
receipts from his Chautauqua talks
calls to mind the fact that there are
quite number of 'chautauquateers y
held involutarily in Washington this
summer. And worse still for these
erstwhile platform charmers, 1t is gen.
orally conceded here now that the ex.
ira session of congress will continue
right on through the chautauqua sea.
son until the latter part of September
if not later-thereby putting a dis.
concerting and jagged dent into the
planned incomes Of goodly many pub
lie men.
While all of the men of official life
in Washington who every summer add
considerably to their incomes via the
chautauqua route, do not command the
big prices Secretary Bryan does, they
manage to make enough by their lee
lures to pay lot of bills and still
have quite a nestegg left over. Secre-
tary Bryan is said to be the highest
priced lecturer on the circuit. He is
reported to get between 5000 and $500
every time he raises his voice in sill
very toned oratory before chautauqua
audience. Other chautauquateers of
the congressional and statesman set,
it is declared, command on the average
of from 500 to 5000 per lecture.
Senator Bob La Toilette and Speaker
Champ Clark are close on Secretary
Bryan's heels in the matter of popu.
lar esteem as lecturers. Both these gen.
tlemen are among the marOoned in
Washington. Both, when it was seen
that congress would drag along, can
celled their dates and stopped thinking
what they would do with the money.
Senator La Toilette has found time to
keep a few of his lecture dates, but
they were mighty few.
Representative Victor Murdock, the
fiery haired Progressive house leader
from Kansas is also a great drawing
card on the platform and he said today
that he hates to think bout the money
he isn't mixing con the side" this
summer. Senator Ollie James used ia
40 quite bit of lecturing during the
summer months but Of late years, since
he rose from the house to the senate
he has done very little on the chautau
qua circuit. Still, he admits having
arranged to exchange three or foul
talks this summer for "spare change,
as he put it, and he is another one
whose "side money" has been sadly
dented.
Marshall Also Lectures.
Vice.President Marshall hoped, wher
| 6,29l,776 citizens voted him into the
vice.presidency that he would be able
to add to a rather thin purse by rak
ing in few shekels which some OF
those citizens might pay to hear hin
lecture. He has made several briei
excursions into the chautauqua circuit
but he doesn Z dare leave for any eX
tended period while congress is in ses
sion. Marshall has to sit tight on the
job because at any moment that scan
Democratic majority in the senate
might get to running wild and make il
tie vote on some administration meas
ure.
Not only does this summer legislat
ing hit the Legislators hard in the re
gion of the pocketbook, but it has alst
played havoc with innumerable vaca
tion plans. Mighty few Democrats
will be permitted to leave Washington
from now on, and some of them ar,
acting Just like the office boy doe
when the boss tells him he can y go of
on that cruise or camping party he hat
looked forward to with such pleasurabl,
anticipation.
Whip j. Ham Lewis and majority
leader Mann are the Simon Legrees o.
this summer session of the national leg
islature. Hardly a day passes tina
some Democratic senator doesn't wan
to 20 to one Of them with a long tai,
Of woe about breaking down and need
ing just a week or just a few days o.
rest and relaxation. But Senators Rer
and Lewis were well chosen for thei
task. They can rip into an excuse o
a plea, tear IL to pieces and cast !
smashed and mutilated to the floo
without the flicker Of an eyelash Will
some beseeching fellow member stand
pleading for a slight recess almost wit
tears in his eyes. Not senator Il
Washington today who has suggeste
brief vacation only to be sternly re
buked but believes that somewher
back in the past, Kern and Levi
could find an ancestor apiece who wa
either a slave driver or commander o
cne Of the ancient slave gallies.
Nearly score Of senators, clingin
to the hope that congress would &C
through in time, made bookings fC