Evening star., 1923-03-04

sentation of the District on this floor.
and with this I am personally in full
accord. Even those who are acquaint-
ed with the historical aspect of the
proposition are frankly concerned
about the practical working of such
an agreement. but this is a question
that causes Mr.. Cannon no concern,
because when he first came to Con-
gress he served here with Gen. Norton
P. Chapman, the delegate from the
District Of Columbia. The city Of
Washington, or rather the District of
Columbia, was at that time represent
ed on this floor by a delegate. just as
were nine of the territories that have
since taken their places in the sister
hood of the states"
Representative Burton E. Sweet of
Iowa and Uncle joe Cannon, the
sage of Danville. ILL.,, often play
dominoes together at the National
Press Club, just as though they were
back home. playing at the four
corners store.
When Uncle Joe" Cannon starts on
his permanent vacation he proposes
to spend considerable of his time with
Charles Dickens, and to have another
session with David Copperfield, which
he thinks is the best book Dickens
wrote.
If there is one man in the entire
American Congress whose picture is
familiar to every one in the country
1t ought to be Uncle Joe" Cannon,
because he always ran a close second
to the late Col. Roosevelt as the most
photographed and most written about
man on this continent. And yet when
the former Speaker established a new
record for longevity in Congress one
of the big newspapers printed a cut
of former Senator Frank Cannon, a
Mormon, with captain under it
which read Uncle Joe" Cannon.
When such things happen to Uncle
Joe" his friends make sure that he
does not miss seeing them. For ex-
ample, a much-read newspaper in up
per Michigan on January s printed
a picture of an attractive young wom-
an in lingerie and boudoir robe, un-
der which the amazed reader found
this caption: "Still wears 'em-Uncle
Joe Cannon, the grand old man of the
republican party, and one Of Illinois
representatives in the House, rising
to speak at a dinner in Chicago"
The mystery was explained when
elsewhere in the paper was found a
picture of Mr.. Cannon. with vest
doffed. standing forth in suspenders,
under which was the comment:
"Boudoir robe with oriental touch
from the east comes the imagination
for this wonderful boudoir robe Of
panne velvet and silver metal cloth"
Some one had switched the captions.
y X X
ssT INCLE JOE" paused in the House
~ proceedings the other day to
pay tribute to the men who as
clerks helped him in the duties Of his
high positions.
There was a boy brought up from
Tennessee by the name of James c.
that passed from that time up to the
| time of his death, there was no man
who ever occupied such q position
who was so we'll equipped from the
standpoint Of all legislation requir-
ing experience, as James c. Courts"
Mr.. Cannon interrupted himself
with a little anecdote about the late
Representative De Almond from Mis-
souri,, of whom he said: aside from
the gentleman from North Carolina
(former Floor Leader Kitchin), /
think there never was a man so able
with his tongue as De Almond. It
was like q knife and a dagger" He
said that De Almond once wound up
with a sentence attack on himself as
chairman of the committee. to the ef-
feet that "the clerks had made the
reputation of every chairman of that