Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-20
Nc 'ARTHUR'S JOB
IS NO SINECURE
Speaker Has Hard Work in
Controlling the
House.
HOLMAN BEATS CALLI0PE
Barton, of Coos, However, Is Not So
NOlsy-COIOnel Bush's War
Record.
HOLMAN BEATS CALLIOPE

Record.
Speaker Macarthur is working like
Trojan these days in trying to keep
the house up TO high tension in per-
forming business The speakers job
is no sinecure. Members are restless
and nervous, and prone to wander
away from their desks, visit and lob
by with each other, visit with friends
out in the lobby or go over to the SEN
ate to see how their bills are faring
there.
BY iron-handed methods only is
Macarthur able to keep continuous
quorum at work. For the last two
days, at times, he has had to have the
sergeantNat-arms bring in truant
members. Then he would order the
doors locked and command the door
keepers to permit no member to leave
the senate chamber without permis-
sion.
1t is amusing to hear grown up
men, like children in school, rise and
ask McArthur's permission to leave
the chamber for a moment or two,
Macarthur, by the way, has been
working such long hours for two
weeks, that he has only slept about
five hours a night on the average. His
voice is growing very husky.
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Glen o, Holman though going on
G2 years old, has made quite vocal
record in serving as reading clerk of
the house the past three days. The
house was in session Monday from II
a. m. until about a. m., and on Tues
day from 10 a. m. to 2:30 a. M, and
during this time he read many thou
sands of words and hundreds of roll
calls.
Yet, yesterday morning Mr.. Hol-
man appeared for duty fresh as a
daisy and with voice strong as ever.
When the house adjourned late last
night his voice was still unaffected.
This morning he reported for duty,
feeling kittenish.
Mr.. Holman Is substituting for
Reading Clerk Dudley Clark, who is
entertaining a boil on his chin.
A visitor to the legislative halls to-
day is Arthur V. Swift of Baker,
state president of the Farmers Co
operative and Educational Union Of
America, who has just come from
Washington, D. c., where he worked
for some time before congress in the
interest Of legislation for farmers.
Mr.. Swift will aid here in helping per-
suade the legislature to pass bills Of
rural Importance,
BY those who know him Mr.. Swift
is regarded as a mind marvel. He
knows all the chief facts about every
county in the United States and its
politics,
The quietest member Of the house
is ]. s. Barton, Of Coos county. He
has not made speech or motion this
session. But he is fine listener, and
his vote counts as much as that Of
the nolsiest member
Speaker Macarthur is resourceful.
Several times this session he has
been seen to swing his gavel over his
left shoulder and scratch his back
Representative Batons wife and two
little daughters are here from Eugene
to visit him. It Is an unusual and
pretty sight to see a legislator with
two children on his knees.
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Representative Gustav Schnoerr, Of
Clackamas, was delighted today while
converslng with Colonel b. s. Busch
of Bull Run, Ore, to learn that he
and the colonel we're very distantly
related The. colonels ancestors
spelled the name Busch" lie is close
ly connected with the Anheiser-Bush
family Of the East.
Colonel Bush won his title during
the Civil War by beating a Confeder.
ate sergeant in n foot race at the bat
tie Of Bull Run. The colonel kept on
running until he reached Oregon,
whore he settled down and founded
Bull Run, Of which he is the heaviest
taxpayer.
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