Omaha daily bee., 1914-03-22

Shillworhy that neither | nor anyone else guessed
At any rate | knew well enough what was required
of me. Consequently my secretary drew a check
for $780, and | enclosed it in a letter to Shworthy,
telling him how delighted | was to aid such highly
moral movement. My tongue was in my cheek
| signed the letter.
a few days later came another letter from Shll-
worthy. He asked if | would act as counsel for the
Association He explained that the Association
would be incorporated by Congress so as to give it
greater standing than if it incorporated in
New York. He sent me list of the incOrpoTatOTS
which read like combination of the Directory Of
Directors and the Social Register. Shillworhy must
have gone up and down Wall Street raking i'll the
biggest men in New York, and his wife must have
travelled up and down Fifth Avenue getting the
women What between high finance and high society
| felt | in pretty good company and nothing
helps man more than to be connected with great
public movement that is purely unselfish. | saw
that my hundred dollars had been well invested and
| wrote to Shillworthy that | would act the legal
adviser of the Association without remuneration as,
like himself, | was deeply interested in the mental
and spiritual improvement Of the Indian.
That was the middle of November, and on the first
Monday in December Congress met as usual. Shortly
afterwards ShillwOrthy came to Washington. He
explained that he had decided to spend the winter
there, partly because of the interest he took in the
Indian Association and he wanted to see it start off
with big boom, and because his wife was being
treated by famous Washington nerve specialist.
Shllworthy took a large house, he brought down
corps of well trained servants and his carriages and
horses He not man who splurged with his
money or made a show, but he did everything well,
and Washington tradesmen welcomed him as an
other good thing, and Washington society saw an
other place to gable, gobbe and git.
AS COUNSEL for the Association l supposed
a Shillworthy would want me to draft the bill
for their interpretations but several days went by
and he said nothing ! thought he had overlooked
that important detail. If | had known him as well
then | came to know him later, | should have
known he not the man to forget anything when
his interests were concerned, no matter how trivial
suggested to him that the bill ought to be introduced,
but he told me there no hurry and ! need not
concern myself about it. Senator Bartman, he said,
had agreed to stand sponsor in the Senate, but that,
Of course, was merely matter of routine, as there
would be no opposition to such meritorous scheme.
Barman the Senator who had sat in poker
game with n few of us at Chambern's night,
a few months previously, when ShillwOrthy had lost
$4,000 to the Senator lightly ] might flip
dime to street beggar. Well, it was of my
affair." but when Shillworthy gave his time to i'm
also a convert to the cause, il struck me that it
would be well for hardworkng but trusting lobby
ist to be careful he wasn't asked to buy gold brick
| felt that Shllworthy and Bartman in partnership
moral uplifteTS and dealers i'm all kinds of philan-
thrOpic goods meant job somewhere, but | couldn't
what they driving at The day before Con-
gress adjourned for the Christmas recess hartman