Evening star., 1921-02-24

! Twenty years ago Representative
Charles b. Ward left his native city
of Newark. N. j.. and went west. He
started raising angora goats in New
Mexico. a few years later he came
east with 900 goats and started a
goat ranch in Livingston Manor. n. Y.
He found the climate was not suitable
for the venture and went into gem
eral farming. which he has since fol-
lowed.
! The mace is the symbol of author
!ity in the House and confronted with
1t even the most iratc and obstrep-
erous of the members subside. the
mace is really the emblem of au-
thority and the weapon of the ser
eeant-at-arms cat present. Joseph Ii
/ Rodgers). but is in the custody OF and
handled by MIR. Rodgers assistant, A
! {. Jordan Of Kansas. who was for
more than twenty years scrseant-at-
arms of the state legislature.
The mace was first used i'll the no
man senate. The sergeant-at-arhS ol
the House carries it i'll preserving or
der. II is never without Il Sudro'
/ day or night II has been in use since
! 1893. 1t is kept in the sergeant AZ
! ~ i'iN 'liiNt. ~ iu.il tSl u .'''
/ fore the House meets each day the
! mace is carried by Mr.. Jordan TO 'he
chamber and placed on a low peoes
/ tai. When Speaker Gillett raises ti'e
gavel TO call the House to order MI
! Jordan raises the mace TO hiSh
! pedestal Ii remains there whlle the
! House is in session. Should the House
so into the committee of the Who,e'
the mace is again lowered 10 the
; small pedestal.
Should 81 message from the senate
or from the President of the United
States be received while the House
| is in the committee of the whole the
speaker resumes the chair temporarl-
ly and the mace is placed on the hlSh
PEDESTAL.
In case any disorderly member
orders the sergeant -at-arns to pre-
sent the mace. The sergeant-at-
arms then takes the mace and asks
the intruder to be in order. IL ne
does not obey the order the sergeant
alarms then reports to the Speaker.
Then warrant is issued for his
arrest. and he is brought before the
House for the House to take action.
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas,
who used to be a Washington cor
respondent, and who is a newspaper
publisher. is telling an Interesting
tale of a sweater, apropos of the stu
alton in which the wool growers find
themselves:
farmer. shipped 155 pounds of wool
to a commission broker in Kansas
City a couple of weeks ago he asked
the broker to send him a sweater
and buy and pay for it out of the
wool money. After the freight, war
tax. commission, storage and insur-
ance were paid by Farmer Haskins
he had s11.40 coming for his wool.
came to $15.15. And it takes only
pound of wool to make a sweater.
AS the account stands Haskins owes
the commission broker 1915, and has
81 more to pay for shearing. IT
isn't only the lambs that get sheared
nowadays" says Senator Capper.
Because Representative Allen T.
Treadway of Massachusetts, a prom
inent republican member of the ways
and means committee, who has been
wrestling with problems of taxation
and revenue to produce enough
money for Uncle Sam TO pay his bills.
has become thoroughly convinced
that there must be retrenchment all
to his "old home town" for town
meeting. For many years Repre-
sentative Treadway has presided as |
moderator at those town meetings
in Stockbridge. Mass. This year he
reports that they cut down their
budget considerably-as an example
to Uncle Sam.
Take a close look at the desk in
the Senate chosen for use by Senator
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi.
He selected that particular desk be-