Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-05-24
NEWSPAPERS HAVE
ONE FRIEND With
THE MED|ATORS
Ambassador da Cana Was
Once a Scribe Himself
Secretary Bryan Is a Man
of Moods.
BY Burton X. Standlsh.
Written for the United Press)

(Written for the United Press)
Washington, May 23.-Ambassador
Da Cana of Brazil was once a news
paper man. Hence he has sympa-
thetic spot in his heart for the small
newspaper army which besieged him
from the time the A B mediation
started. He will talk a little now and
then, although he maintains the usual
diplomatic silence on the big ques-
tons. Da Cana is democratic. One
afternoon a group of newspapermen,
hats in hand, were trying to interview
him outside Secretary of State Bryan's
office.
please" he said, with Spanish
ehrug of his shoulders and motion
that indicated he wanted the news
paper1nen to put their hats back on.
you needn't do that Please put your
hats on" He himself followed his re-
quest by replacing his own hat.
Some other diplomats would feel as
much insulted If man addressed them
with head uncovered, as a woman
would.
Secretary of State Bryan is a man
of moods. One day he will greet news
papermen with an unusual degree OF
affability; the next he may reprimand
them for asking what he terms i'm
proper questions. These improper
questions as rule touch on subjects
which ARE in the works and likely to
develop in day or two. But take him
all in all, he likes newspapermen.
We've missed you today" re-
porter told the premier one afternoon
1t
ing conference Gentleman, your sor-
row cannot be more than mine," he re-
piled There has been whole group
to miss one man, but I have had to bear
the sorrow of missing the whole group"
Another day he remarked. There Is
nothing l like more than to give out
news-and nothing 1 do less"
HE showed the real man though
when the entire newspaper corps was
bottled up" on mediation news. The
mediators had said they would give
their announcements to one man, a
personal friend. The corps besought
the secretary to lift this ban and have
the announcements come through the
state department.
Bryan promptly agreed to make the
suggestions to the mediators. He did.
For one hour he was on the phone
calling the A C group and explain
ing that many newspapers would not
get a. bit of news IL they followed their
original intention. The next day he
announced that he had made the ar
raneenent the reporters desired-but
he didn't tell them that It had taken a
whole hour out of a busy day.
Is congress a vaudeville perform
ance? A leading Washington news
paperman remarked to me that he
doesn't have time to 60 to shows but
that every afternoon he deyotes a little
time to laughing at the house. A short
time after this. Representative Rucker
of Missouri. pidued by a series of roll
calls and fltbuster1ng tactics against a
measure he wanted to get UP, berated
his oollea e,,es for carving on what he
termed a farce" Turning to the gal
1eries. he remarked. II hope the visitors
here won't think this sort of thing goes
on every day-sometimes we have SER
tous work and debate here"
Here are some of the amusing things
that make the newspaperrnan some
times prefer a session of congress to a
vaudeville performance.
one southern congressnan-a little
man scarcely more than five feet tall
and so thin that a gust of wind would
blow him away-always appears to be
on the verge of an apoplectic stroke