The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-14
BY K. T. '. 1922 by The Agc-HcraId

topyriEht iD<& Dy Iuc hEc-htFstth 1 Washington, May 13.--lt IS said of
 Marshal Joffre that when he first
 came to this country in 1917, he was greeted at one of his receptions by an American who had once had known
 some French and who had polished 1 up the remnants of that all but-for- l gotten tongue with the idea of knock l ing the Marshal for goal when Ee l greeted him in the line, the poor l Marshal, of course, being unable to speak any English at all.
 The American, all primed with 1 pretty little French phrases, was
 ready for the linguistic ordeal as he stood number 10 in the line, but when | he reached number 1 stage fright 1 overlook him, and he suddenly found 1 himself facing the gruff old soldier with every French word in his limit l ed vocabulary frozen to the mast.
 The American gulped, but nothing came forth. There was an embarrass- ing pause and then with prodigious effort the American exclaimed:
 "A Ia carte, general, la carto."
 Joffre was not abashed.
 Table d'hote, Monsieur. table d'hote." he replied without a smile, and reached for the next eager hand.
 And that is what the Senators are
 saying to each other these dreSfy days of prolonged tariff debate, Table d'hote, Senator Sorghum, table d'hote."
 And two roasts to choose from actually exclaimed Senator Medill
 Mccormick of Illinois.
 "As if" drawIed Senator Pat Har-
 rison. of Mississippi, the senate
 is not getting roasts enough these
 days and times.'
 But senators, you can have the choice of these two roasts for ninety
 cents. with all the trimmings be- sides" explains Senator Mccormick. All of which conversation has en-
 sued since the senate went on
 schedule of night sessions to speed 1 the tariff-the poor old tariff which | ha4 been kicking around since away | last spring.
 l At first it was proposed that there should be a recess from six to eight l o'clock each evening, so that sena- tors might go home for dinner, and return refreshed for the night de-
 bate. Objection was made to this on
 the ground that once some senators got home 1t would take the sergeant ,at-arms to roust them out again.
 So it was decided to sit right through into the night without re- cess of any sort or character. Then up jumped the question of the expense of eating dinner in the senate res taurant. It was figured that if one could spend any where from ono to two dollars for q light luncheon thero was no telling what the dinner bill | might be, despite all the efforts of
 the restaurant committee to keep ex- l penscs down.
 1 But here the gordian knot was cut 1 by having the caterer prepare a table l d'hote dinner for 90 cents. It was fig ured that 90 cents would leave a dime ! out of every dollar for tip to the waiter though the bill of fare always | tells you that tipping is verboten, or
 map pooh" as the British Tommies used to say in France.
 i And so it happens that table | d'hote" is the pass word these nights
 at the capitol and 90 cents is the open sesame.
 The proposal of Senator Phipps, l Colorado, to remove the regular Dis- | trict of Columbia policemen stationed
 at the White House and to replace l them with special police who would
 be under the supervision of the super
 intendent of public buildings and