The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-09
SENATOR WILLIAMS.
Offered $1,000
To Lecture
BRILLIANT SENATOR FROM MISS.
OFFERED SMALL FORTUNE FOR
TEN WEEKS LECTURES.
PAT HARRISON OFFICIALLY LOST
Three Mississippi Congressman Are
Absent From Washington, One OF
Them on Briday Trip-Difficult to
Get Quorum in The House.
PAT HARRISON OFFICIALLY LOST
(By F. d. Lander, Jr.)

Washington, d. C. Oct 9.-Senator
John Sharp Williams has received an
offer from one of the best known lee g
ture bureaus in the country of $1,000
and all expenses for ten weeks en-
gagement in the northwest.
While the senator has refused hun
dreds of flattering offers to lecture and
write for magazines, it is not denied
that the exceeding attractiveness of
this offer, both financially, and in that
it will afford him an opportunity to
come in contact with the people of
great section of the country, have |
caused him to give serious considera-
ton to it, and 1t is not at all improb- |
able that he will accept 1t.
The bureaus offer does not specify
any definite time during which the
lectures are to be delivered, and 1t
is certain that If Senator Williams
| accepts it at all, he will make the
time when congress is not in session.
Absent From Their Post Of Duty.
| Jim Mann, minority leader in the
House, did not spring surprise when
he raised the point of no quorum and
refused to allow the emergency defici-
ency bill to be considered. Such ac-
ton was expected by practically all
the members on both sides of the
House and many of them, although
anxious to get home and repair their
political fences, stayed here and were
present when the roll was called
Three Mississippians were absent
Representatives Quin, Harrison and
Witherspoon, and the indications are
that the sergeant-at-arms will have a
hard time serving the speakers war
rant for arrest on any of them. Rep
resentative Quin is somewhere in the
far West with is bride and will, OF
course, be excused. Representative
Witherspoon is temporarily in bad
health and will be excused, it is under
stood.
Representative Harrison is officially
lost He has gone to his district, but
he has not gone to his headquarters
in Gulfport, and none save few close
friends know where he is. The tele
gram ordering him to return to the
House was sent to Gulfport and there
fore did not reach him. At this writing
there is no telling when a quorum can
be gotten together.
After the emergency deficiency bill
has passed, the House will have dis
posed of the last important Democratic
measure until the Senate returns to IL
the Glass-Owen Currency bill, and il
is probable that all the members Of the
Mississippi delegation will get away
early next week. Representative Col
lier may remain longer, but the rest
of the members are planning to leave
Immediately after the House acts or
1 the emergency deficiency bill. AS
member of the Appropriations commit
3 tee Representative Sisson may take {
: hand in opposing the Senate's amend
ments to this bill.
If the Mississippians get away thu
last of this week or the first of next
they will have at least a montl
In which to greet home folks
for unless President Wilson take
radical steps to hasten tn
currency bill through the Senate CON
mittee, 1t will not be returned to tn
u House until the middle of Noven
Der. The committee has voted thre
more weeks Of hearings and will spen
week or two wrangling about
after the hearings have been conclut
ed. Then 1t will go to the Senate an
there is no telling how long it wi
stay there. At any rate, the bill wi
certainly not come back to the Hous
before the middle of November, an
until then, there is little that the low
10 House can do.