South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-05-26
STA TESMEN
REAL AND NEAR
BY FIRED c. KELLY.
BY FRED c. KELLY.

By FRED c. KELLY.
WAS HINGTON, May 20. - When
Lawren>e Y. Sherman, member of
the pc: urssQue team of senatorial
contrasts from Illinois, stepped st
IF LAW scnCt he had only $3.50 TO
MS anne. He had lot yet E.d1s up
his mind what town be was going
practice in, and he feared that by
the tine Et got all settled AMI l. *
office equipped his $50 might be al
most entirely used up. Rather tnan
run the risk Of finding himself with
CIT capital, he lent an attentive 7
to the talk Ct a man who offered
Emt a job teaching school lie said
he ". u;d think about it over u.ght
aui lcl the mar know the next morn
ing.
Sherman then went at once into a
caucus with himself and before he
slept had determined that he would
not teach. His reasoning leading up
to that decision was noteworthy.
eff l start in teaching school,"
thought he, III probably find the
work rather easy and the pay more
certain than if 1 practice law and
I'll be apt to keep right on teaching
school. | don't want to be a school
teacher permanently because start
ed out to be a lawyer. Tn .refOre /
must get some less desirable line of
work that I'll be sure to Iuit at the
earliest opportunity"
So he picked out his town-Ma-
comb, Ill-hung out his sign and
went TO work at a line of endeavor
entirely different from teaching. He
drove a transfer wagon. When not
hauling freight up from the depot he
sat in his office blinking wisely and
waited for clients. Just as he had
figured out. as soon as his law prac-
tice was large enough to provide him
with regular meals, he reconciled
himself 10 giving up his place on the
delivery wagon forever.
The day after Senator La Toilette
delivered his almost two pounds of
speech in the senate-One pound and
II ounces to be exact Representa-
tive Barnhart OF Indiana, chairman
of the house committee on printing.
got up to offer a few figures about the
cost of La FOllette's extension of re-
marks. Barnhart was prepared to
show that the expense of printing
the speech in the Congressional Rec
ord was nearly $4,000. and that the
final cost when the speech is put into
the bound records, Will reach about
SIS, 1000. If every congressman went
in for such heavy speeches all the
same day, an issue of the Congress
siOnal Record, said Barnhart, would
cost more than S7.0O0OOO.
In giving these figures, however,
Barnhart qualified by saying IF
my multiplication is correct" And
/ that brought a laugh from the house
| for on a previous occasion he read
| off lot of figures that he had ac-
cepted from a clerk and somebody
detected an error in multiplication OF
about $4,000. The error mortified
Barnhart more than anything that
has happened 10 him since he en-
| tered congress. for he insists that in
his school days he stood at the head
of the class in multiplication and long
/ division and even in fractions Not
until the other day was he able 10
refer TO the incident in a jocular vein.
/ But whether Barnharts figures are
/ correct or rot. la Follette's 36S
I pages. or approximately two pounds
7 Of speech. viii probably remain the
4 professional indoor speech-put record
+ for many seasons yet TO come
Senators Bristow. Of Kansas. and
Smith OF Georgia. started TO mix il no
4 verbally one day in the senate cham
/ Der
Mr.. President" SAYS Bristow in a
veXed tone. 1T seems 10 me that the
/ senator from Georgia thinks he i
I running the United States senate"
) "Tho chair IS not informed or what
/ the senator from GEORGIA has in his
+ mind, remarked Vice President Mar
/ shall tapping politely with his near
/ little EaveI The chair unfortunate
/ IS Is not q mind reader"
! II understand that cCch congress
. man is entitled 10 one buffalo. Of
! writes constituent to ReDresertative
( Wilson Of Florida. KINDLY ship the
! buffalo 10 me 10 reach here. II pos