New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
A Hot Weather
View of Congress

lam Marion Reedy, editor ,of
u "Reedy's Mirror" (St. Loua),
slipped down TO Washington during the
hot days of August for "a look.in At me
Caritol." His reaction to the experience
is worth noting. This is the way he enrn-
ciates it in his paper: f
Being Senator OF the United States lssbs
20 me like a nice, clean, easy job, even in
weather that wouldn't be deemed mild IN
Tophet. ! guess it is, except when the papers
are jumping on the Senator, either for being
a cuckoo, for supporting the Administrator
or a traitor for opposing II.
Looking the Senators over during three or
| four sweltering days, ! get the impression
they are cool bunch Senator Reed. In his
| Palm Beach suit, talking against the food
! BILL clean-cut az 20 feature, his hair . little
gray, looks like Monte Cristo. Warren, of
| Wyoming in Immaculate duck, the create st
/ shepherd since Abraham, father-in-law Of
! General Pershing, In command OF our army
in France, is positively hyperborean IN APP
pearance. Underwood, of Alabama, looks Ike
a Gibson man just ready TO take tea ct his
/ country club.
! collie James, Of Kentucky, and John Sharp
williams, Of Mississippi, have caloric sl,-,,
pearance. and J. X. Vardsman, gigantic
looking person in white, with his long hair
might be = millennial exhorter in his asceii- ID
! sion clothes La Toilette is the most pugn ~
! cious person present, and he Is pacihst.
/ Weeks is banker in pongee Shafroth q
| Morse viking, j. Hamilton Lewis an exquisite.
/ iewelry salesman: Stone, Of Missouri, in dark
gray clothes, retired keeper Of county
/ store: Hoke Smith the prosperous ehsirmta
Of county committee; Sherman. Of illinpi ="
rural Judge; CUberson, Of Texas, veLcr
able. trembling vestryman Of an Episcopalis n
/ church. None of these men or others az
peared to have the weight Of the world on
their shoulders. Mostly they seemed bits
bored. Now and then they beckoned to
rage who fastened to the beckoner and then
darted away. ;
ST LIKED the pages in their linen knee
Il pants and vGri-coored shirtwaists 20
more especially when before the opening of
/ the session they sat and jostled each other
! in play upon the steps of the presiding OIL :
GERS dais / recalled that Marse Henry Wat
:erson used 70 be one of those boys whel
! Henry Clay was heroically vivid heresbout
and rejoioed that he hasn't yet lost the boys
high and happy heart. He (Watterson) is
the last Of the great editorial personalities ="
great Of soul, mean; not great because Of
financial success.
THAT word great doesn't mean as muct
ne it did. T. is shop.worn with use. | cor
fess it made me tired when John Shpr
! Williams used il so freely in describing
President Wilson. There's surfeit 81
greatness in Washington Every job-holdei
you meet will tell you that the Senator &c
whom he owes his job IS r 'grea-a-ate man.
Every Cabinet officer is 'grea-a-ate' nah
L IL L..,1 L..
'grea-a-a.e' men on the various war boards
and commissions. You sit in the lobby Of the
fine old homey-s lately Shoreham with an oit
inhabitart and he mods 10 men passing by
Who's thAt' you ask. It's always Mr.. So acc
So. one of the strongest men in the Senate,
or the House. They are all giants. Maybe
history will prove many of them so. Their
was time when many an American inmorta
in the books looked just as ordinary to theft
contemporaries as these men of to-day loof
10 ne. -
/ GIFTS HARD to think that the small retir
l. ing, almost apologize person wh'
heads the Senate Committee on Finance
I Simmons, Of North Carolina, is to be a,
immortal, but he may be. for he is a maste -
in his meter He looks like Southern poe
of about 1850, but he talks like Frank Van
| derlip or George II. Baker. Not millions only
but billions roll trppingiy from his tongue
Curiously, the head of the Ways and Mean
F., Committee Of the House is from the sam
state as Simmons That's Claude Kitchr
( And thinking of that and viewing the nn
! joritv side OF the Senate, you realize whs
powerful bloc the South is in our poht;cs
/ You can't blame Cabot Lodge and som
! others for saying the South is in the saddle,
J Most impressive Of all things one ma.
see in the Senate is Gore, of Oklahoma, blind
! led by his secretary. or standing and address
/ ing his associates. The way his face is lifte'
UP to the light he may not see is striking
J The face has a set calm in its upward i'm
/ ploratiou. When he speaks and quotes word
| or figures. of course with never a note o
memorandum, always as if he were address
/ ing the sky, the effect is uncanny and pa
thetic, too