. Review of reviews and world's work. ction. There havebeen tidal years, like1840 and 1890, whenless than a third re-turned. By conse-quence, a very smallgroup does all the realwork of national legis-lation, a smaller groupthan in any other na-tional legislature in theworld, for in none dodistricts make such asweep at every three-score men,about the number ofmen who cluster around the two front benches on either side of the maceand dispatch boxes in the House at St. Stephens,do all the work of the House of rest are moving shadows that come and goand but make u
. Review of reviews and world's work. ction. There havebeen tidal years, like1840 and 1890, whenless than a third re-turned. By conse-quence, a very smallgroup does all the realwork of national legis-lation, a smaller groupthan in any other na-tional legislature in theworld, for in none dodistricts make such asweep at every three-score men,about the number ofmen who cluster around the two front benches on either side of the maceand dispatch boxes in the House at St. Stephens,do all the work of the House of rest are moving shadows that come and goand but make up the list of aye and no. In theSenate, with a longer term, a larger proportionmust be reckoned with, but there some twentyare the Senate chamber. Senator Edmundsonce said six did the work of the Senate. Alltold, about seventy-five to eighty men in botlichambers run Congress and are the real nationallegislature, a body so small and so concealedthat only the political expert knows their ask any man who for years together has. Copyright, 1904. by Ciinedinst, WashingTHE LATE SENATOR GEORGE F. watched sessions from the seat of a correspond-ent—more permanent and often of more influ-ence than any but these few in the chamberbelow—to check the men who do the work ofCongress, and he willstop about twenty orthirty short of a hun-dred. When a man is forthirty-five years in Con-gress, or half his life,as was George FrisbieHoar, he is not only oneof this group, but at theclose of his life one ofits ruling elders,weighty for seniority,for deference, for pub-lic reputation, and forpersonal influence. Inthis group, in which menmaintain an uncertainfooting depending on adistant district or achanging State legisla-ture, itself renewed com-plete every four or sixyears, men are men, littleheard by the generalpublic, so powerful inthe close quarters andpatient toil of the com-mittee room that theform of legislation andthe distribution of ap-propriations are almostwh
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