New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
ii. corridors Of the Capitol for years

the corridors Of the Capitol for years
can appreciate the love Of the average
Congressman for tunket. A trip on
which everything from carfare to
cigars, from wine to theatre tickets,
from the very poker chips themselves
to the fat Of the land in the way Of
provender-that rouses the schoolboy
love for holiday in nearly every one
of them. The love for junkets at the
Federal governments expense in the
past has been matter of scandal.
And here is nice, rich gentlemen who
is eager to give them a junket to a
town at least repeatedly wide open
under Tammany Administration.
incidentally, the weakest resistance
to the Hearst Establishments seems to
have been in dry middle Western
states.
Hark to the programme, as dangled
before the eyes of dubious members,
dreading long holiday in crowded.
dry Washington, by the glib agents of
Mr.. Hearst, who have been haunting
the Capitol corridors for several days
past.
Day Programme Arranged
A special train, exclusively for mem
bers accepting the Hearst invitation
and their wives, will leave here on the
night of the third. Mr.. Hearst's
guests will be quartered at the Hotels
Waldorf Astoria and the McAlpin.
There will be a luncheon at Sherrvs, a
banquet at the Waldorf. There will be
free tickets to the Winter Garden and
There will be unlimited" automobiles
to drive the guests of Mr.. Hearst any
where and everywhere they may choose,
alone, with their wives, or with whom
they may select.
Then there will be seats of honor on
the special reviewing stand Of the
Mayors committee, where they will
probably be photographed-and how
many of them do love that!
These same photographs will prob
ably be displayed, showing them as
guests of Mr.. Hearst, and as fellow
worshippcrs at the shrine of patriot
they pay for the junket.
Green Is Very Frank
The attitude of many of those ac-
cepting the invitation was summed up
in the terse words of William Green,
Of Iowa: "I haven't any place else to
60, and l thought 1 would help Hearst
spend some of his surplus funds"
Most of them, of course, were not so
frank for publication.
In the Senate there seemed to be a
greater aversion to being used by
Hearst than in the House. Even the
two California Senators had other en-
gagemcnts. Senator johnson had q
when asked, merely said he twas not
going"
Senator Curtis, of Kansas, the Re-
publican whip. was asked if he was 60
ing to New York as Mr.. Hearst's guest.
81 don't know whose guest am 60
ing to be-" he replied, "but accepted
the invitation"
Senator Calder cautiously promised
to "look in" on the reviewing stand
and banquet if possible
Senator Wadsworth declined the in
vitation
King Was Misinformed
Senator King, of Utah, whose work
against the German-American Alliance
! and the German press last winter at
tracted much attention, accepted the
invitation under the impression it was
! Tammany Hall affair. The invita-
tions, so far as the Senator'S were con
cerned, seemed to have all been given
by. word of mouth from personally lik-
able Hearst representatives, who seem
also to have conveyed different ideas
| of what it all was about to Senators
holding different views. The Tammany
| Hall idea was not mentioned to Repub.
licans. for instance, while Senator King
known to feel bitterly against anything
smacking of proc -Germanism, but
stanch Democrat, did not know of the
connection of Hearst with the affair.
In the House the invitations were
handled by the chairman of the Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma, wht
is personally very popular.
Mr.. Ferris had two clerks doing little
else but call up members and invite
them to attend. Strange as it may
seem, he overlooked some Democratic
Charles B. Smith, Of Buffalo, but h,
invited great many Republicans
especially when he found that accept
| snces were only running about one j,
five.
Mr.. Ferris left for New York today
whether to lay further plans for tn,
junket or not could not be ascertained d
Many members accepted the invita-
ton without giving a thought to an,
other question but that junke
This idea was perhaps the more nat
ural in that this is not the first tim
that Hearst has given members O
Congress a junket He has even take
them to New York before, when he ha
another purpose-to steal the credi
for the preparedness parade.
Representative William A. Waldov
. of Buffalo, was one of the few mem
bers who fatty declined the invitatio
, without any intimation that anothe
engagement was the reason.
II don't care to take q junketin
trip at the expense of Hearst" he sal,
"Not Me- Says Stephens
Representative Dan v. Stephens.
Democrat, of Nebraska, whose distrie
has been hotbed of sympathizers fo
Germany and adherents Of the Hears
peace programme, declined to be
: Hearst guest, because he has been
utter disagreement with Hearst's wa
!. policy. ~
"No, sir. have not accepted tn
Hearst invitation" he said "I do nc
l accept invitations Of this characte
:, from any source. l would certainly nc
i feel like breaking that rule in accent
> ing an invitation from the Hears
0 papers, with which have been in utte
3 8 disagreement as to their war policy.
have supported the government wa
programme from the beginning. hay
not voted one way and talked 'anothe
am opposed to talk about peae
through negotiation or otherwise unit
the Kaiser and his war lords 81
$ brought to their knees and banishe
: from Europe or hanged for the GRIN