Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-29
New Congressman Arriving.


have sat in the seats of supposed pow
er, and who never before have walked
| the streets of the capital. The new
members usually are the first to ar
rive, and this year has proved to be
no exception, as a rule.
New congressman quickly are dis
| illusioned. They have preconceived
thought that instantly they may take
places of prominence in one or the 9TH
er of the legislative bodies. Almost
invariably they are disappointed. 1t
takes member of either house a
long while to come through" There
have been only one or two exceptions
to this rule
! The new members come here not
only to get acquainted with their sur
roundings, but to find places to live.
Many of them take houses and bring
their families and install them therein.
There are families living in this town
today in the same houses which were
| leased for their occupancy years ago
by men who then came to Washington
for the first time as congressman, and
who may or may not have had visions
of passing the rest of their existence
in the capital.
The new members for the most part
have been assigned to their rooms in
the house building. Some OF them
have Jared well, and some of them not
so well, but, take it all in all, there is
little to choose between quarters in
the building given over to the bust
ness uses of members Of the house.
Senators Have Better Offices.
Senators of the United States fare
much better than their house brethren
in the matter of office quarters. There
are only 90 senator's, while there are
several times that number of repre-
sentatives. The two office buildings
virtually are of the same size, and so
it readily can be understood why the
senators have suites while the repre-
sentatives must content themselves
with rooms.
Old timers in Washington, in the
house and out of it, always watch with
interest the actions of such incoming
members of either house as already
have attained prominence in the public
eye either because of their freak ac-
lions, or because of their known con-
structive ability. There will be several
such members in congress to take their
seats in a short time. The galleries
will watch them to see if in some
cases they live up to their bellicose
pronouncements, or in other cases II
the well known ones of hitherto retir-
ing disposition shall attempt to as
sert their personality and make effort
to force their will in certain things
upon the old stagers.
The older members of the senate
are not inclined to look with pleasure
upon obstreperous incomers. The OBJ
streperous one may be Democrat or
Republican, an Independent, a Farm
er-Laborite, Socialist, or anything
else, but whatever he is he will find
that any forWardness on his part will
be met with the scowls of the old
timers irrespective of any sympathies
which they may have with the incom-
ers economic or political views.
Beveridge Was Not SqueIched.
Years ago the senate showed dis
approval of the announcement of
newly arrived senator from Indiana
that he intended to make a speech
upon certain subject on which the
old timers thought he ought to be
silent ''for awhile" When this In
dianan arose to make his speech vir-
tually every old-time senator left the
chamber to retire to the smoking
rooms or to the restaurant. The gal
leries were fairly well filed and the
auditors remained largely out of Curl
osity to hear what the new one would
say. They heard speech that has
been declared to be one of the great
senate speeches of all time. The
speaker was Senator Beyeridge of In
diana, and his subject, in effect, was
the policy Of the United States toward
it's newly acquired insular possessions
Years ago one new member of the
house, whose name shall not be given
here, for he died some-years ago, full
filed his reputation as an orator the
first time that he spoke in the house
Of representatives The members
staid to listen to him and they APP
plauded him zealously and without
jealousy. He was so inspired by his
first success that he delivered another
speech only a short time after the
first one and, either because he was
lazy or because he thought nobody
would know it, he took an old-time
grafton delivered by another man on
another occasion, and gave no credit.
Some of the members recognized the
text of the matter before the new
member had gone far along his speak
ing way. The speech which he had
cribbed was one which many years be-
fore appeared as a sample of high
oratorical effort in school reader
with which several of the old timers
were familiar The offending member
never was quite able to live down the
incident, although thereafter he stuck
70 material Of his own making.