Good-Natured End

Unlike "that body at the other end of the Capitol,"* the House brought its 69th session to a good-natured end. Everybody was happy. Senator Nicholas Longworth was made to blush. On the day before adjournment, a Democrat, Representative Edward W Pou of North Carolina, sounded the name of Nicholas Longworth, said: A great many of us feel that our old enemy, the Republican Party, might do itself proud if in time it shall put him [Mr Longworth] forth as a candidate for the greatest office in the gift the American people and the entire world. He has been tried in the political fire. He stands forth today without a mark against his fair name. He stands forth as a rugged, typical American. We all on our side and on both sides wish him well. He presides over an American home. About his hearthstone is gathered rugged graceful refined, intellectual womanhood and innocent and guileless childhood, lofty integrity and robust manhood." The entire House rose in prolonged and mighty applause.

To return the compliment, Mr. Longworth called upon Mr. Pou to take the Speaker's chair on the last day while Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democrat floor leader, presented a resolution lauding the Speaker.

Representative William S. Vare, slush-tainted Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, made his swan song and was roundly cheered by the Republican side.

Finally, at the stroke of noon, the Speaker's gavel fell; the Navy Band struck up The Star Spangled Banner, followed by A Perfect Day, My Old Kentucky Home, The Sidewalks of New York Slowly, the House chamber emptied. . . . The janitors went to work.

*Quoted from the farewell address of Representative J. Napoleon Tincher of Medicine Lodge, Kan., famed 250-pound fisticuffer who left Congress last week to plunge into the oil business.