The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-12

OF a WIND. 1t Is not known how the
fire started. When discovered, it was
beyond control.
Visits in Washington s.
s. 4 IS = * s. x s.
BY Herbert Corey.
Washington. April l2.-Eight men
IN the G senate are apt to attract
national attention before the present
session is ended. Jim Ham Lewis
ne of the tiorescent whiskers-will get
the center of the stage unless the up
per mouse has lost all interest in art
n manly beauty and flowing. sooth-
ing. signing speech. John F. Shafroth
Of Colorado comes from "A beet 2
country. and John +. is a prey to con-
Nictions In the matter of reducing the
sugar tariff. His convictions and those
of President Wilson are running to-
ward collision. There seems to be a
theory n a as secretary Of state Will
liam Jennings Bryan's hands are tied,
But If he ever works one hand loose
and wants some M to unite the
other-tha sturdy but bald democrat.
otiie James of Kentucky, Is sure to
pound forward with a pen-knifc.
II Bryan Is the peerless leader, MFR.
James is o man peerless himself.
James X. Vardaman of Mississippi will
undertake to reform the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the con-
stitution n restore Jim Crow cars.
Jails. schools. and churches to that
wide popularity they have long enjoy
ed with Vardaman himself. If a neat
DIT OF underground work is needed
Edwin Chick Burleigh of Maine will
step forward with his digging tools.
BY comparison with Burleigh a mole
constitution is attacked depend on
Goff of West Virginia. LIE Baron Colt
OF Rhode Island and John K. Shields
OF tennessee to have a share, on one
side or the other. Golf and Colt gave
up life positions on the federal bench
to come to the senate. Shields was
chief justice of the supreme court of
his state. The three make a speciality
Of our constitution. Some folks say
they act as though they own it.
Hamilton LeWiS's brush any more, Ev-
cry one has remarked that it was
dyed in the sunset and flares to either
! of Jim Hams chin like the twin
tail Of a comet. Because the first con
ment on Lewis is always based upon
his hairy adornments. his sonata like
spats. his chromatic clothes, the sum.
merry charm of his talk. people forget
that he is a big man in everything but
inches and strong at all but the weight
lifting device. *
Those unfortunates who get a lick
from the rough side of Mr.. Lewis's
tongue go away with long red weals
their sensibilities. When Lewis
was a member of the house from the
state Of Washington he almost reduced
that vttuperative hero, General Gros-
Nenor of Ohio. to bubbling tears one
day. He might we'll have based his
fame on that. rather than on the fleet
Ing glory Of a handful Of fox-tinted
hair. Lewis began as a dishwasher.
the proverb that sit is bet
ter to buy three suits with $40 than
only one" left his home in Savannah.
credit had practically destroyed him,
after being admitted to the bar
became a Seattle boomer. Then he
rent back to Savannah and paid his
debts. He went to the Washington
legislature. to congress, was a candi-
date for many things. including tht
office Of governor and Of United States
senator. and for a nomination as a
vice president. and during the Spanish
war served on General Fred Grants
staff. In 1S05-1a07 he was corpora
democratic candidate for governor of
Illinois. and TO- he is a United States
senator. 1t will be his first duty to live
down his whiskers and his beauty,
without sacrificing one jot or title Of
the spottiest part Of the spotlight.
John F. Shafroth is of a different
sort. He's known to the old timers in
because Of his resignation
as a member of the Fifty-eighth ION.
eress. 1t was alleged hat in the worse
of Denver cheating al the
one suggested that he had any knowl-
edge Of 1t. and Shafroth Indignantly
defended his supporters. The sealed
ballot boxes were brought here from
Denver, and Shafroth made a personal
investigation. When he got through
he threw up his hands.
They cheated me in," said he. II
my eat"
There Is little doubt that he could
won the case II he had cared to
make Use of the weapons in his hand.
The house adopted iaudatory resoIm.
tons and he went back to Colorado,
where he was later elected governor.
There are bigger men Intellectual
~ or more vigorous men physically in
h new senate than Is Judge Nathan
Goff OF West Virginia, seventy years
old. sir; sound as hickory timber, able.
eloquent. and scholarly. He was once
to die as a hostage in Lib
by prison.
IF the federals shoot another con-.
fedcrate officer. we'll hang you." said
the confederate commander.
IF it is right that he should be shot.
they'll shoot him." said Goff. II don't
to die. But ] won't beg"
When he was released, his repre-
sentations as to the in which
prisoners were treated in Lib
by led to President Lincoln's threat
OF retaliation II conditions were not
He was a member OF the
house a dozen years back. was sccre-
tary Of the navy under Hayes. n was
counted ont as governor Of West
Virginia. When the tariff trouble has
worked through and the senate
to consider constitutional uucs-
tons. Golf will take a leading part. He
is a millionaire by inheritance. mar
and acquisition. and WAS elected
In a contest with three other
milliOnaireS. West SVirRinia always