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OSSIP OF 1 I OIL ipif v lAsW will involve much llWi -T' "'J' ' U I ) disappearance of old xWA . -- A . :7'I, " J&y' (Vj 7? 7 faces and the ap- I t- . ftX' .sKr's' iVST Pearance of new k- 7 .ones. It often has fey ' f f::W' fFgg"w GiWc- EH4 senate of the United f&fi ' ' g-T-l, States is a law unto Itselt in matters of procedure, and so Eft ? "'' itl It !s. The senate does things as no lS&l vXV4? Wr - ' " " . V '? , Other legislative body in the world J tdoes them. The senators pride them- M -tW fet kO- Vnj l 7 feelves upon the dignity of their body AVX- J&Sfcy TNC bnd they take no little pride appar- h?J) Vlvi cntly in the uniqueness of the rules - O; , vf gM X tohlch govern them and in the ac- '-Uf,T V'l fS7 tSZZl Icepted method of doing things with- vil'i T fj'-Jr& J but absolute governing regulation. ' rtflpy ? 1 TV llslw Ifr t C 'lllcirsp- 27 i te afiU: tile IHrCf -:ii? ! ltesSsr2?r f. I 1 ip!i5ei VW'si iiMl 1 1 Over in the house members draw for eeata. A pan Just elected is as likely to get a first-class Eeat as a man who has been in the service of the ouse for years. The leader of the majority and lie leader of the minority and the oldest mem ber in point of service in the hall are allowed to sleet their own seats. After they have made ieir choice all is a lottery. In the senate the insr in different. A newly elected member of (the upper house takes such a seat as he can find kacant, and his first duty to himself is to "file" jon the seat of some other member so that he may (get it when the other member dies or retires. At times there are five or six "filings" for the pame seat. For instance, if some senator has a Choice seat and he is aged and in the ordinary course of things may be expected to die soon, his Beat is certain to be in request by several sena tors provided that those lower on the list of ap plicants think that those above them like the bolder of the seat himself, are likely to die, or to be retired quickly from the service by their constituents. L1 Some of the old senators do not like the way which the younger members file for their Beats. Then there are some senators who are 'oot old who do not like to feel that others think (that their seats soon are to be vacated. When a senator in the prime of life finds that his seat has been "filed" on he takes it as an intimation that the senator who does the filing thinks that jthe seat's occupant is nearing the end of his tether because his state has disapproved of his services, or that the political party opposing the one of which he is a member is likely soon to : become in the ascendant. Senator Dolliver, who died recently, had one of the best seats in the senate chamber, a com manding place from which he could always catch fthe eye of the presiding officer. The Iowan's Successor in the senate will not get his predeces sor's seat, for notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Dolliver was apparently in good health and was only fifty-two years old, there were three appli cations on file for his seat when he should va cate it. Of course it must be understood that Ahe seats of the Republicans and those of the Democrats are separated and that no man of one arty ever files an application for the seat of a inan of the other party. . ' Senator Beveridge of Indiana was in the upper bouse for years before he succeeded in getting a eat to his liking. Early in his service he had jflled an application for the seat occupied by Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, a vigorous man with apparently a long lease of earthly and sena torial life ahead of him. Unexpectedly Senator pooner resigned, and Beveridge moved to what Is perhaps the best seat in the house, one on the pmiddle aisle midway between the front and rear of the chamber. i Ellhu Root, who is accounted one of the fore Wost men in the upper house in point of ability, Is obliged to sit in what is known as the "Chero kee Strip." There are so many Republicans in ithe present senate that they more than fill the eats allotted to the majority on the left side of ithe center aisle. There are not enough. Demo crats to fill the seats allotted to them. The va cant Democratic seats are away around near the wall to the extreme right of the vice-president, who has to turn his head to see the seats of the occupants. In this "Cherokee Strip" sits the "overflow" Republicans and one of them is Elibu Root. , Before the new senate office building was -completed it was the effort of the senate to pro vide a separate room in the Capitol for each sen ;tor. All of these rooms were called committee rooms, but in order to dignify them as such it was neces sary to create sev eral committees which really were nothing more than committees in name, for they seldom held meetings and it is said that in one or two cases no meet lngs ever have been held. The sen ators as they were assigned to rooms were made chair men of the commit tees which were sup- " posed to meet in the assigned chambers. This gave the minority sena tors chairmanships, but it can be taken for grant ed that the majority always saw to it that the committees presided over by minority men were not of a kind to have any great Influence on legis lation. Now that the senate office building is occupied and each senator has a general office, a private office, a reception room and a bath, It is not nec essary to provide separate rooms in the Capitol for all . the upper house members. So it Js that before long it may be that the farce of naming committees which never have anything to do may be done away with. Here is a list of some of the practically use less committees of the senate: "Transportation and sale of meat products;" "Revolutionary claims;" "Transportation rates to the seaboard;" "Investigate trespass upon Indian lands;" and last, "Disposition . of useless papers in the execu tive departments." There are to be many changes In committee chairmanships in March next and in fact there will have to be a general shaking up in the committee memberships as a result of changes in the senate's roll call. Senator Dolliver who died was the chairman of the committee on ag riculture and forestry, one of the most Im portant subsidiary bodies of the United States senate. Senator Frances E. Warren of Wyoming is the ranking member of the committee now that Senator Dolliver Is dead, but Warren is the chairman of the committee on miliary affairs, a position which he would prefer to hold to that of the chairmanship of the agricultural body. No member holds two important chairs and so some one besides Senator Warren must be selected to take Mr. Dplllver's place at the head of the com mittee which looks after the bills in which the farmers of the country and the forest enthusiasts are particularly interested. Eugene Hale of Maine will retire in March. He is at the head of the committee on appropria tions,, a position which next to the chieftainship of the committee on finance is the most impor tant chairmanship in the gift of the senate. No body knows yet who will succeed Mr. Hale as committee chief, but it can be taken for granted that If the Republicans hold control of the sen ate and the so-called regulars hold control of the Republicans, Mr. Hale will be succeeded by a man of what in these days the country Is given to call the old school of Republican thought. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the Republican leader in the senate, is the chairman of the committee on finance, which corresponds to the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives. It was the committee on finance which considered the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill and which reported it to the senate. Every bill which has to do with the raising of revenue goes to Mr. Aldrlch's committee. Under the constitution all such revenue measures must originate in the house of representatives, but frequently the United States senate takes house bills and strikes out everything In them except the enacting clause, thus gets around the con stitutional question, and frames revenue bills much as it wishes to. Of course these bills have y to go back to the house for agreement, but the Benate despite constitutional Inhibitiondoea Just about as much original work In revenue meas ures as the house Itself. Who is going to succeed Nelson W. Aldrich as chairman of the most powerful committee In the senate of the United States? Nobody knows. Senator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan ranks next to Mr. Aldrich on the finance committee and in the natural order of things he would succeed to Mr. Aldrlch's place as finance chair man. The difficulty Is that Mr. Bur rows 'has been defeated in the pri maries for re-election to the senate and like Mr. Aldrich he is to retire in March. Boles Penrose of Pennsyl vania comes next on this all power ful body, but It is more than whis pered that chairmanship preferment is not to be given to Mr. Penrose. Next in order comes Eugene Hale of Maine, who is to retire in March, and thus is out of consideration. Then comes Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois, who will not accept the chairmanship under any circumstances, v for his age precludes his undertaking tne hard work connected with It No one knows yet who will succeed the powerful Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island as the chief of the finance committee, a position which carries with It ordinarily the Re publican leadership of the senate of the United States. A good deal of historic interest centers in some of the committee rooms of the senate. The pres ent senate wing of the Capitol was not completed un til the year 1859, but there are several committee rooms still located In the old part of the great build ing. Even in the new section there are two or three rooms which have witnessed stirring scenes. In the room of the committee on territories for in stance, a body of which Senator Beveridge of In diana is the chairman, there were held the hearings on the Kansas-Nebraska bill and on other "free or slave soil state" matters. In the roomsof the' com mittee on privileges and elections, of which Sena tor Burrows of Michigan Is the chairman, many, senators have had ' what might be called grand Jury healings on the question of their right to their seats. The Utah cases have been heard here, and it was here that Senator W. A. Clark of Montana ap- peared through his counsel to try to prove that he did not use wrongful means to secure his seat in the senate. . J , In the room of the committee on- military af fairs hundreds upon hundreds of problems were worked out during the days of the civil war. Since the United States has become a world power Sena tor Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the commit tee on the Philippines, has had many puzzling questions on his hands, and the hearings which have been held in this room at times have at tracted crowds and nearly always have been of deep Interest. In the Philippines room the "anti Imperialists" have argued on behalf of indepen dence for the Plllppino, and there have been met in debate by men who have maintained that the day of liberty for the "little brown brother" must be postponed until he is qualified for Its privi leges. Memories of men pass quickly. While the United States government as a government is only II I I I 4 1 ! I H MAD KING OTTO'S LIFE Some remarkable details relating to the mad King Otto of Bavaria are published from a dip lomatic source by the Giornale d'ltalia, the London Chronicle says. Though shut up for forty years in castles, now at the Castle Furstenrled, and though sixty-two years of age. Otto is Btill a fine, handsome figure, with a magnificent beard and flowing gray locks. . The stories about his periodical fits of fury are quite untrue. His court is presided over by Mar shal Baron Redwis and consists of a few trusty gentry belonging to the most ancient families of the Bavarian aristocracy. King Otto suffers terrlby from insomnia and oft en sits up in bed half the night staring toward the door, as if expecting somebody to enter. He, how ever, rises punctually every morning at 8 and mute ly allows himself to be dressed by his valet. He has a holy horror of soap and water, and of hav ing his hair and nails cut, so that servants have to await patiently a favorable day for these opera tions, when the poor patient is in a state of com plete apathy. King Otto smokes Incredible quan tities of cigarettes and is always puffing away save when he Is absorbed in bis favorite pastime of studying the operatic music of his pet composer, Verdi. Often he causes the castle to resound all day long with the melodies of "Rigoletto." The diplomat relates that the first symptom of brain decay in the young prince, till then so . bright, forceful and courageous, was manifested during the Franco-German war. Just before the seige of Paris Kaiser William summoned him to the headquarters of the general staff and kept him un der observation, in compacy with Bismarck and Moltke, the reason being that King Otto had called out a squad of cavalry and ordered them to charge straight at a stone wall, which, he insisted, was a body of the enemy's Infantry. He began preaching everywhere the stern neces sity of concluding peace with France at any price. Boca after intercepted letters were brought to the Emperor William which the Bavarian prince had -' been dispatching secretly to the enemy. It was then that the old kaiser sadly sent for the demented prince, decorated him with the order of the iron cross for service rendered in the campaign and packed him off under a medical escort for a pleas ure trip in Spain and Italy. about 121 years old, few men can be found today to identify without look ing at the names, the pictures and the" busts of men high In official gov ernment position or of great fame in their time In contemporary history, In the senate chamber placed In niches about the gallery walls are busts of the t vice-presidents of the United States' Only the guides of the Capitol who have their lessons letters proof, an tell the names of these men without reference to the printed listri or the printed Inscriptions. When the house cleaning days were over only a season ago two pictures were replaced on the walls of the corridor of the senate. One of them was a picture of Patrick Henry and the other was that of Thomas Jef ferson. For weeks the fact that Jef ferson's picture has been labeled Patrick Henry and Patrick Henry's had been labeled Thomas Jefferson went undetected. Finally a visitor noticed the error, called attention to it and had the change made. Perhaps the most striking picture in the senate corridors is that which shows Commodore Perry standing in the row boat to which he went from his sinking flag ship Lawrence to the ship Niagara at the battle of Lake Erie. Perry, is pictured erect in the boat while a small boy evidently "midship-mite," also standing trying to pull the Commodore down to seat so that he will be less exposed to the furious rain of the shot of the enemy. The boy who is trying to in duce the commodore to take the nee essary precaution to save his life was a nephew of the great sailor, and it was he who later opened the ports of Japan to the commerce of the world. So it Is that In the painting are the portraits of two Perrys, both of whom are famous in the naval an nals of the United States. Curari a Queer Poison Curari, the vegetable poison with which the Indians of the upper Ama zon tip their hunting arrows, remains a mystery in its composition after a hundred years of Investigation by eci entlsts. The Indians will sell It for its weight In silver, but will not reveal the 'plants from which It is derived. Not long ago a professor In a German university was sent to the Amazon wilderness for the express purpose of discovering the secret, for curari, or urarl, as It Is otherwise called, Is now thought to be of great value In medi clne.; The professor lived two years in Indian villages, and while he was permitted to witness the boiling of the "witches' broth," which lasted sev eral days, he could not tell what plants went Into the brew. Returning from his baffled quest down the Ama zon with a quantity of the poison, the professor vr&i met by another traveler, Dewey Austin Cobb, vho had got pos session of a native olowgun. The lat ter tells In the National Geographic Magazine how. he put some of the pro fessor's curari on some of hi3 blowgun arrows, which are like toothpicks feathered with cotton, and tried it on h buck deer In the forest. "After a deliberate aim our hunter fired," says Mr. Cobb, "if I may use such a word for the little puff, scarce ly heard by us, and entirely inaudible above the rustling corn leaves at the distance of the deer. The animal gave a slight start as it felt the prick of the arrow on its flank and turned part ly around, sniffing the air for a scent, and looking about as if searching for the Insect that had bitten or stung it. Detecting nothing, It stood still and unalarmed. At the end of a minute, or a minute and a half at most, its head dropped a little, as if it was Bleepy. "When the hunter saw this he arose and stepped out in plain sight. The deer turned his head and looked at him, and moved forward, not away from him, a few steps, and stopped. It showed no fear, but simply curiosity. After another minute the professor and I arose, and all three walked quietly to within reach of it. It made no movement to run away, but watch ed us intently, and shifted its position a little. Its movements seemed per fectly easy and natural. Absence of fear was the only observable change, until at the end of three minutes more; then it lay down, not falling, but as naturally as a cow or Bheep when ready for sleep. "We all approached its side, and the hunter laid a hand on its shoulder. It lookl up at him, but showed no re sentment or fear. Even its breathing seemed easy and natural, which sur prised me, as I had heard that death resulted from paralysis of the lungs when caused by urari." Gaunt House of "Vanity Fair." Writing on the original of Gaunt House in Thackeray's first novel, "Vanity Fair," C. Van Noorden con cludes that this was Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, and not, as most commentators incline to believe, eith er Hertford House, Manchester Square, or Lansdowne House, Berke ley Square. Harcourt House, says Mr. Van Noorden, corresponds almost ex actly with the novelist's description in "Vanity Fair." "The vast hall, the great gateway, etc., all are here, while the equestrian statue resolves itself Into that of the Duke of Cumberland, the 'Butcher' of Culloden, which was removed in 1868, ostensibly to be recast, but has never reappeared. This figure appears in Thackeray's own illustration of the arrest of Capt. Crawley when leaving Gaunt House, affording another proof of the correctness of this localization. Harcourt House has now given way to a block of res!dentkl Cats." London Graphic GAVE UP BUSINESS. So Weak He Could Not Work. Philip Huber, 351 Cummunipaw St. Jersey City, N. J., says: "Three year ago I was compelled to sell my busi ness. Kidney trouble had made me so sick that for eight months I was too weak to work and al most too miserable to live. I began using Doan's Kidney Pills at that critical pe riod and the results were beyond my ex pectations. I have bought back my, business and . occa sionally work 18 hours a day without ill effect. Doan's Kidney Pills have made this possible and I cannot rec ommend them too highly." Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents 9 box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. VERY DECEIVING. The Preacher We tried a phono graph choir. The Sexton What success? The- Preacher Fine. Nobody knew the difference till a deacon went to the loft to take up the collection. 16 YEARS OF SKIN DISEASE 'For sixteen long years I have been suffering with a bad case of skin dis ease. While a child there broke out a red sore on the legs Just in back of my knees. It waxed from bad to worse, and at last I saw I had a bad skin disease. I tried many widely known doctors in different cities but to no satisfactory result. The plague both- sred me more in warm weather than in winter and being on my leg Joints it made it impossible for me to walk. and I was forced to stay indoors In the warmest weather. My hopes of recov ery were by this time spent Sleepless nights and restless days made life an unbearable burden. At last I was advised to try the Cuticura remedies Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills) and I did not need more than a trial to convince me that I was on the road of success this v time. I bought two sets of the Cuticura Remedies and after these were gone I was a differ ent man entirely. I am now the hap piest man that there is at least one true care for skin diseases. Leonard Hawtof, 11 Nostrand Ave., Brook lyn, N ,Y., July 30 and Aug. 8, '09." 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