Evening star., 1915-01-16
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THEIR
Bv Earl Goodwin.

"The Senate is in executive session"
solemnly announced the solemn-faceo
doorkeeper as a party OF nutterihs
sightseers timidly attempted to enter
the gallery. The announcement hao an
awe-inspiring sound; parchment-an ana
seals sound; a regular senatorial froch
coat and grandeur sound, because IN
side those closed doors where eniteo
States history lies entombed some
thing dire and foreboding might pe
gestating.
But what was the real situation?
A certain senator, who shall be name
less at the request Of Senator Stone,
had declared his unwillingness to re-
main any longer in the Senate cham
Der. He said he was weary and wanted
to go home. He had been there all day
and wanted breath Of fresh air.
Go outside and move to go into ex-
ecutive session. he suggested to SEN
ator Stone, as they sat in the big leath-
er-cushioned armchairs OF the CLOAK
room.
"Why, it's only o'clock" said Sem
Il don't care. I'm tired Of this speech
making and l must go home"
They had little colloquy along this
line for a moment or two, and then
the nameless senator delivered his ulti-
matum:
'1f you don't move to go into execu-
tive session and quit this days work l
promise, you I'll go out there and make
Senator Stone thought over the pos.
sibilities of this threat and concluded
that any alternative would be better
than a speech from this senator. who
is not equipped with terminal facilities
once he embarks upon an oratortcal ex-
petition. The Missouri veteran there
upon stalked into the Senate chamber
and moved that the greatest delibera-
tive body on earth should close it's pub
lie proceedings and GO into executive
session:
II cannot say in public what urgent
matter prompts me to make this mo-
ton, but 1 will say that it is of the
greatest Importance to the Senate that
we should go into executive session"
His motion carried, the galleries were
cleared, and when the doors were lock-
ed senators who had visions of war,
pestilence, treason and every other ca
lamity rushed to Senator Stone and de-
manded to know Immediately what the
crushing reasons for executive session
We're:
"I moved to go into executive session
because otherwise Senator Blank had
ator stones reply.
And the majority of senators ac-
quiesced in the view that a calamity
had been averted.
Such wonderful retorts come to mind
yesterday what you are thinking of to-
day you would have crumbled your ad-
versary under your heel! Thus spoke
Representative J. Hampton Moore of
A.
car the day after he and Representa-
tive Prouty of Iowa had "clashed," as
Theodore Tiller says. on the floor of
the House.
Judge Prouty, it may be remembered,
took Mr.. Moore to task for having re-
ferred to some of the members of the
House as farmers while speaking be-
fore the Columbia Heights Citizens AS
sociation.
Representative Moore retaliated by
variety of counter attacks, and includ-
ed in his remarks was the description
of a shipment of 2SS.000 eggs from
Iowa, which had been held up by Phila-
delphia health authorities because the
eggs were two years old.
Representative Prouty. with broad
Iowa smile. asked Mr.. Moore:
Surely you're not throwing bad eggs
at me-"
And the next day. says J. Hampton
Moore, the proper retort came to mind:
"Oh. II I had only thought of 1t then
and there" bemoaned Mr.. Moore. "I
could have squelched him. When he
asked me If I was throwing eggs at
him I should have replied: No; eggs
are not thrown at good actors"
Mark L. Goodwin, who halls from the
state of Texas. says his father was a
Union soldier who got as far south as
number of Goodwfns of southern birth
and sympathy already there. One day
the young Goodwin was shopping about
spied p an I elderly % sentIeman eno' wai1ins aH me-
down the road. The brave young SOL
dier pulled a revolver from his holster.
as he was prepared for trouble:
ery gg sun with sanssesase saa sss s
suavity 'T am a peaceable citizen"
The two fell to talking, and the man
on the horse asked the stranger his
name:
my name, sir, is John Wesley Good
win," replied the southerner.
The Union cavalryman was extremely
interested:
'"rhe strangest thing I ever heard"
How is that?" asked the elderly
man.
Because that's exactly my name"
With that the elder John Wesley's
You lie, SIR" he roared. That's too
good name for tho best Yankee
alive"
And with that he stalked of.
Wherever the words woman suf-
frage" are heard there also is present
the negative proposition in the form
of the adamant opposition of Repre-
sentative Thomas Hefin of Alabama.
Hefiin is the antithesis of votes for
women. the other end of the road, the
counterbalance. the south pole-any-
thing you may choose to think of in
the way of an opposite. He is proba-
bly, the best known anti-suffragist in
the United States of America and has
borne the brunt of the fight in debate
until his name is wormwood to the
hosts of suffragists the country over.
Therefore when one Is mentioning
anti-suffragists one always starts with
Representative Hefiin Of Alabama, just
as one would start with Hobson OF the
same state in mentioning congressional
prohibitionists. One is as strong an