The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-21
STA TESMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

The correspondent for a New Orleans
paper found that Representative Dupre
was scheduled TO make tariff speech
that would be of much interest down his
way. This was a few days before the
tariff bill passed the House. Dupre said
he expected to speak late that after
noon.
But I want you to make the speech
early in the afternoon. for y certain
reason said the correspondent.
| Couldn't you do IL little sooner
| No. I'm afraid not" said Dupre. Vic
OF his time and l must suit his con-
venience."
Go and ask him To give You time
right away" urged the correspondent.
mo. I don't like to bother him any
more about it,
So the correspondent took things into
his own hands. He went to Murdoch
and said
See. here, I want to take notes on
, Dupre's speech. wire 1t to my paper. and
get away for the rest OF the afternoon.
Can't you give him the time you prom
ised right away instead OF late In the
afternoon"
Well, you wouldn't expect me 10
change legislative programme just to
SUIT your personal convenience would
YOU asked Murdoch
Not ordinarily" replied the CORES
pendent but this is a matter of con-
siderable importance. The ball teams
playing here this afternoon. and I want
to get through in time to go TO the
game"
oh well. in that case of course we
can fix it up" said Victor. ..Whv
toll
place.
So it was all arranged nicely and N.
correspondent got to the ball mark in
Tune to see EN- warming up
Vice President Marshall is chafng un
der hotel life like a creature of the
forest suddenly brought into a zoo
When he came here to take I'D his new
job. he engaged a suite at a good ho,sI
and thought he might stay there DER
manently. but he will not He may stick |
1t out the rest of this session OF Con-
gress' but next winter will find Thomas |
Riley Marshall living in private
dwelling house
Hotel life has a lot Of objections among
them the fact that hotel meals and meals |
at home are entirely dissimilar: but that |
Is not the thing that bOthers Marshall |
II
ly on the fact that he cannot sit on the
veranda in his shirt sleeves and sprinkle
the lawn evenings after he gets home
from the Office. When a man yearns to
lounge about in ones old clothes on an
openwork piazza, and to take a trusty
garden hose and squirt water at various
forms of plant life, hotel is no place
for him. And that is why Marshall is
going to move his effects into, house
vt1NA I
a garden hose in the winter season. but
pending the coming of spring there are
other things that Marshall likes to do
One of these is to saunter down into
the basement once in a while and see
how many clinkers have been removed
from the furnace.
Representative Augustus Gardner of
has gradually been TAX
ing on flesh during the last few years,
and while he has been good natured
bout 1t. the situation has preyed on
mis- mind
One afternoon recently as Re was
walking from his office over to the Capt.
ol with a colleague, Gardner stopped
suddenly and stared at something a
couple of rods away. The colleague
'tared. too. but could see nothing ex- ;
,ept a young newspaperman perched
ttOp OF little stone renee
Isn't that great" exclaimed Gardner,
With enthusiasm. WONDERFUL And he
vhistled with admiration.
1T may be great and wonderful, Just 7
ike you say" observed his friend, but
What is it you're talking about"
why. that chap sitting on the stone :
ence yonder,' said Gardner. You See
lis legs are nice and thin, and he not
My can sit up there on that ridge, but =.
an get his feet up also, one on each
ide of him. I'd forsake all political /,
mbitions, and give almost anything I .
ossess II could do that"
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia Is one .
T the best offhand sleepers that State q
as produced. He is a man who seldom :,
slaxes when he is awake, but when 1, q
omes to sleeping he can get under way =
n short notice. II he has a little spare =
me, on a train, or street car, he'll look ;,
! his watch, snap it shut, and say to :,
mself: Il might as well sleep a while" !,
minute and half later he will be n
Jund asleep.
And he is equally keen at getting ,r
wake. II his nap takes place on NJ
rect car and he wishes. to wake up n
venty minutes later, In time to get on d,
certain corner, he simply sets . ",