The Washington herald., 1916-03-12

, the proper channels, and Senator Lane
does not find out until days later that
the hat clerk was one OF the most pow
erful figures in Congress.
Young Sydney E. Mudd, only 81 years
old, Congressman from Maryland, is more
comedy than Congressman Jimmy GALL
van, of Massachusetts,. 1t may be that
Mudd Is for that reason more easily re-
Numbered than Gallivan. whose pulchri-
tudinous entitlements are scarcely equal
to those of John Paul Swan, the dan
| GER, who has himself billed as the
most beautiful man in America BE
all that as IL may. this occurred;
Gallivan walked up to young Mudd just
outside one of the House entrances ana
introduced himself.
MY names GaIlivan," said he, and
I'm from Boston. happen to know BIZ
So-and-So, who, believe, was In college
with you. He wants to be remembered 10
you"
well, WE'LL" replied Mudd, I'm glad
to hear from Bill You're from Boston.
you say? And what brings you TO Wash
ington. Mr. Gallivan? Are you visiting
in the city?"
II the truth were known. Oscar I'm
derwood, former House leader reels
uncomfortable and i'll at ease over In
the United States Senate, which Is
much less human body than the
House.
| I'm the House." lamented Underwood
one day, at the close of tiresome'
futile Senate session, I'VE would de-
bate a thing and then put It to a vote.
Here we debate a question, then lay II
aside, and do not vote on 1t until the
ice goes out the following spring
when everything said in the debate has
been thoroughly forgot"
Here, by the way. may be the expla-
nation for the fact that Senator I'm
derwood is our most calm and most
elf-contained statesmen, never once
raising his voice in the heat of debate
or exhibiting the slightest indication
of temper:
He has a pulse beat Of only IS.
II anything occurs to make him mad
and quicken his pulse, he has thai
margin of four beats below normal be-
fore the blood begins to rush to his
brain.
| You remember when you were young
ster and played school. and how ever
body wanted his or her turn at beins
the teacher? And how vexed you be
ruler in his hand and kept on playing
the teacher after somebody else wa
Ientitled to his turn?
!. That is precisely the way a lot of Re
publican members OF Congress are get
ting to feel toward Mr.. Jim Mann. tn,
minority leader. They are certain tina
when he was a boy and played schoo
he wanted to be the teacher all tn,
time.
Mann takes personal charge of prac
tically every bill that comes up. On thu
Democratic side each bill is ordinaril!
in charge of the chairman Of the com
mittee that prepared II.
Republican committee chairnen stand
around glazing at Mann, as much as t
say:
when are you going to let us play
But Mann tells them substantially +
go soak their heads.
And so there is a growing sense o
lpeevishness among Manns followers.
Sam Blythe had the occasion a Will,
ago to obtain an audience with John d
Rockefeller.
Mr.. Rockefeller" he began, after h,
had been ushered into the office of TIL
Richest Man, I'm representing the Sat
urday Evening Post"
"Ah, yes" observed Rockefeller, benev
olently. I've heard of that magazl
think. Yes, I'm sure I've heard of It.
WELL" suggested Blythe. III tell yoI
what I'll do; I'll make 1t fifty-fifty witt
you and say that I've heard tell of tn
Rockefeller family"