Evening star., 1925-03-04

] remember meeting Gen. Grant several
times walking down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. alone. Gen. Grant was an expert
horsemsn. He was not only at home
! I'm the saddle but he was a double team
driver the only President from Wash
| ington down to Roosevelt. who knew
how to drive a pair of trotters at speed.
Members OF Congress were salaried
| at SIS. 900 u year. We were allowed no
secretary--we had to rent our off1ces
out of our salary and we had to take
our pen In hand to anEwer kicking
letters from constituents. There were
no typewriting machines. The Speake er
had no parliamentary expert. He de-
ded every contention without ex-
PLANTATION or parltamentar..- pAlaver.
We had no Kinds Preccdents. We
| had no rures committee. We had no
steering committee invading the
White House to find out what legis-
lation the President favored. The first
| article OF the Federal Constitution
| fixes that duty solely with Congress.
We had no tariff experts 20 confuse
the rud .mentary Congressman and no
calendar Wedne eSday. We had no Sec
retary OF Agriculture, hence the farm
ers were contented and reasonably
prosperous.
The country had no automobiles
no wireless. no airpianes, no canned
| music. Prize fighting was not then
| our popular entertainment. We had
no moving pictures. Tainted actresses
| were not then our popular stars of
i, the stage. We had no jazz music. The
glorious old war songs of heroic
memory and patriotic inspiration had
not been supplanted by Captain
Jinks of the Horse Marines Hail.
Hail. the Gangs All Here and SIM
liar jarsons, and the grand plays OF
shakespeare and plays of high moral
import had not been suppianted by
the vulgar and smutty vaudeville.
We had no electric cars. Edison
the wizard of the electrical world, had
not yet appeared. We had no pre-
parcdne ss-for-war talk on this floor
Those two crime breeders, the boot
Legsers' league and the Anti Saloon
League had not yet appeared. Utah
was then Territory represented by
the distinguished Mormon Elder
cannon. His four wives, sitting side
oy SIDE in the members gallery, with
out cosmetic adornment, were the OBJ
served or all observers. as quiet and
as uncompisining as four planted oys.
ters in Lynnhsven Bay. This was 40
years before DR.. Cook discovered the
North Pole and IS years before Rev
Siliy sunday drove the devil out OF
Washington"
His Retirement Voluntary.
Representative Sydney Anderson,
tarily retiring after IL years of con-
.inuous service, especially In the in.
terest or the farmers He came. TO
oohkress nrst as a raw younk coun-
Wy lawyer, who amazed the country
oy oefeating the veteran James A.
Aa"hey. who was chairman of the
appropriations committee. Reure-
sentative Anderson is q Spanish War
veteran. He was the youngest mem.
yer ever appointed to the ways and
.a.'a .no committee, but soon again as
toiiished the country by asl,inr "a n.
relieved from that asslrnnen+ "a
pIaceo on the agricultural COMMITTEES
ms most notable work was as chair
man or the joint conference on aari-
cultural relief, which made the most
exhaustive survey OF agriculture Aver
attempted in this country.
nePresentatfve James F. Byrnes Of
1911 carolina, Democrat, has served
Soh.ihuoosiy for Il years and has
oeeh conspicuous figure on the mas
rtar. touse committee on appropria-
ne fost his place In CONGRESS
oy oeing a candidate for the SenstA
representative John c. Mckenzie
u iiiinois Is voluntarily retiring att
years OF continuous seryfcs
lihs the present session he has
Oeen chairman Of the military affsirs
rUhmittee, and during the world
took conspicuous part In sun
ppoItihs representative Kahn Of Cali.
' rot ma the ranking Republican, On
whom the late President IUiisan ~, ~,
10 depend for legislation becans. IT,
democratic chairman was not IN svn,
pathy with the administra,jon nrn-
gram. plo
"tnsiow's Service ynlunAt,.
In the departure of Sanue, T. w.t.;
slow Uncle Sam loses rsp,s ~ I.
pubic servant and the Nationai C. ~
tai q sincere and consistent fri.pd
VINO mas served for I2 years. Thoss
VINO nave served with him say: "rht.
man work, consistently constructivs
mas touched and affected neariv ev.r,,
phase OF the Federal Qoyernment;.
sctiVlties, and this means that II hs .
mao some effect, however indirect.
upon most OF us. His colleagues. re,
sdroiess OF party, ASSAY him &c a. a
OF the most valuable members ~ c,on
sress IN a generation. a brflltan, and
apie man, a man of his word: one
VINO runs his Office like a big business
executive; a leader who has pot
through Congress more constructjvs
Legislation than any cotemporary and
"itnal a popular man. a good fellow
VINO has never played to the grand.
sIaho or TO the press galleries"
one OF Col. Winslow's first ASSIGN
ments was appropriately To m. ua,,
committee on weights and measures
Ihis has served for many a laugh
ever since because of the co,orsT.
stoutness, but q more important
sishment was to the House DistrIct
committee, which passes upon ali
matters affecting the District ~ r..
iumofa. Representative Ben johnson
merry Kentucky Democrat was
chairman OF the committee. AT the
.ime thefe was a very strong aRita-
tlon Tor public ownership Of ALI nun
lie utilities, but particularly th, trnI
ley lines in Washington. Tn. sues.
ton was big one and Mr.. Johnso
turned 1T over to subcommittee for
EXTENDED study, and made Col. Wins-
low chairman, although u Republicsn
as his business training and srasn ~
questions involved had Impressed m .
kentuckian. 'Ne
"fnslow conducted an investira.
ton running a. good many weeks !"
eia.eo Mr. Johnson. AT the con-
clusion he went home, shut himseif
UP and wrote his report. with which
ne returned. His report showed con-
ciusfVeiy that municipal ownership
OF tnese utilities would be wholly ur-
SOUND extravagant and that no feas-
ipie way could be found to meet the
cost. The report was unanswershle
IL showed not only a great deal of
painstaktng work, but the strairht
thinking of a sensible business man.
1t was adopted without dissent by
the committee and made such a IA
vorable impression not only. upon the
committee, but upon Congress-, that
the subject Of municipal ownership
of these utilities has not been seri-
ouSiy thought OF since I nnAsrsts a