Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-12
Pen Picture of the Closing of the
Sirty-third American Congress

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phrase els there any objection? The
chair hears none
Not that | would accuse ChamI
Clark of railruuding through amy sin.
lister bill / only say that the speaker
has "a marvellous power when time be-
comes of the essence of the contract
and his keenness to visualize som,
members and become oblivious OF
other members may be at such d
period ,he difference between a
great victory or a disastrous defeat foI
the private member
But the speaker has gotten through
his job for the present lie departs
lie shoulders his way through the
crowd, unsceng and dmmcd to the
curious chances Of the hero worship
pers who throng to the floor
Hero Nofelippcrs Take Floor.
Why not Isn't it their floor and
haven thcy right to il? Right on
wrong they crowd ana feast their eyes
on the heroes
Underwood. pleasant faced boy
who, a Few years earlier, might have
sat Tor the portrait oI a chcrub. Mr..
Underwood, the man who made the
Wriit, the man who taxed as $780,
100000 more, the man who throw
himself in vain against the tolls bill,
Mr.. Underwood VINO did all this with
a smile that is childlike ana bland.
MI wood, who never had Il per
sonal quWlel ia hls life and who
never overlooked "A point while he APP
peared TO be- giving his opponent all
the best of IT. surely Nh. Underwood
is worth luo&ing at lie is worth
studying. The sources of his power
over mem What are they Not those
of q Gladstone, lie is not a financial
genius lie is not a tariff expert His
tariff contains many mistakes
Measured 10y some standards, Mr..
Underwood would not last over night.
But he does last lie has just been
promoted 10 the senate Ale may yet
be president, study him, then, ana
what do you fiudt a man who is
neither stited nor opiniouated. A
student Willng II not quick. an hon
est man, IL Frank and engaging per-
sonality. Republican on democrat,
either would rest on promise
from Underwood as he would ON his
own self-mterest. Started In politics
with every opportunity to become
time~serVer, "a cad or Il loater, he has
become none of them In addition,
might add that Mr. Underwood is the
best dresser and the best set up man
in either branch of congress.
sinking MCrrimaCs Across Rum
IIcrbor.
There are other heroes and deputy
heroes, Who is the baldheaded old
young man, whose features look like
"A miniature of those of Bryan Hob
son. Who is Hohson2 The boy who
sunk the Merrimac in Santiago har-
Dor ana swan ashore amid "A hail of
spanish bullets To give himself up,
prisoner of war. What is he doing
now sinking one Merrimac year
across the harhor of rum. lie has
dedicated his life 60 aholishing the
traffic He speaks with "A scorpion
tongue when aroused Rum, don't
rouse him amy more than you can
help
James r. Mann minority leader A
leader is the most important
man in ,he house. because on him
deyolves the duty of suhjecting ma
lority bills to destructive criticism
James r.. Mann has knocked more
padding out of bills than any minor
lty leader that ever existed. He stands
there, not singing-Mr Mann is not
a songhird-but telling what the next
viii do. He viii be there TO
see it does H. When the house was in
the throes Of the last night and mem
bers fluttered hither and thither, like