Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-21
HUGHES SHOWS
HIS FRIENDSHIP
SIaps MARITIME on the Back and
Latter Reciprocates With
a Formal Bow.
Especial to the Newark start

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Public
demonstration was given on the floor
of Congress showing that no ill feel
ing exists between the senior and
junior senators of New Jersey. This
exhibition was given Immediately
after the reading of the Presidents
message yesterday afternoon. Sen
ator MARITIME was marching out, bow
ing right and left to members of the
House. Senator Hughes was few
senators behind his senior colleague,
but he brushed aside the intervening
toga wearers and slapped him on the
shoulder. Senator MARITIME turned,
and made formal bow. So there you
are. Who can say in the face of a
demonstration of this kind that hard
feeling exists between the New Jersey
senator's? If there is any frigidity
1t is not on the part of Senator
Hughes; the exhibition should sat
isfy anyone of that
Senator Hughes left last night for
Fort Smith, Ark. It was given out
in his office this morning that he had
gone there as the guest of former
Congressman Craven, who was col
league of the Junior senator before he
was promoted to the Senate. The
secretary was not certain whether
Mr.. Hughes had gone to hunt pos
sum or to play. The official informa-
ton was to the effect that he had
gone away for rest. The senator
has been practically without vaca-
ton since the President was inaugu-
rated.
Prior to his going away Senator
Hughes was asked by the Star cor
respondent If he and the President
had arrived at q solution of the New
Jersey internal revenue collectorship
proposition. He declined to commit
himself in any way beyond saying
that there was, nothing new on the
subject. Asked If the matter was
likely to be settled while he was away
he abruptly refused to have more to
say and returned to the Senate cham
Der.
Being United States senator isn't
undefiled JOY for Senator MARITIME
these days. When 1t comes to legis-
lating for the people of this land he
is in full panoply of happiness, but
when 1t happens that he takes time
off from legislating to snare a few
Jobs for the loyal patriots of his ma
tive State, then carking care ensues.
1t more than ensues, it pursues, and
the statesman from Plainfield is be-
ing pursued quite some these jocund
days. He has one great consolation
at this moment, however, and that is
there are several years to come and
go ere he or his successor is to be
elected. With the exception of one
lonely representative, the members of
the House are arrayed and arraigned
against Mr. MARITIME and all over a
pesky revenue office job.
To get right down to tacks there is
no Balm of Gilead or joy among the
Congressional delegation of New Jer-
sey because of the seven appoint
ed out without consult ton with the
men who thought that they at least
might have a look in, even If they
couldn't get in. One or two of the
representatives are letting on that
the appointments made from their
districts, while not exactly the ones
they fought and bled for, are not so
very unsatisfactory. One representa-
tive, in confidence, admitted that he
did not even know the man appointed
from his district and credited to him.
Can one imagine a member of Con-
greSs not knowing an office-seeker of
his own district? Worse still can
one in the widest fight imagine the
feelings of representative when an
office-seeker he does not know lands
the prize?
The name of Thomas G. Haight,
announced for the federal iudgeship,
was to have been forwarded to the
Senate last Saturday 1t is said that
it's delay was due to a terse, curt,
but emphatic, telephone communica-
ton sent from the vicinity of tele-
phone booth in which Senator Hughes
was seen to enter. Whether the invi-
tation from the President to Senators
Hughes and MARITIME to come and
see him for five minutes on Monday
was a case of cause and effect OF
is not-known.
What is known is part of the
White House history. The time
schedule worked out to the fraction
of second so far as the Presidents
conference with Senator MARITIME was
concerned. What each had to say to
the other was squeezed into the sec
retary's schedule. But when it came
to Senator Hughes the timetable
went to smash for that day. Five
minutes succeeded five minutes until
q good half hour was eaten up. Sen
ator Hughes came out smiling, but
communicative. Those familiar
with the Patersonian's brand Of
smiles asserted that the one he wore