Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1902 — Washington Personals. [ARTICLE]

Washington Personals.

'Senator Masou of Illinois is tke only man in the Senate who can write shorthand.

Ileprcsentativc Eddy of Minnesota has invited President lloosevelt to accompany him on a jnoose hunt. Julius Kahn, a member of the House of Representatives, was for ten years an actor, nnd played with Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Salvini, Mr. and Mrs. AV. J. Florence and other well-knowii stars.

James P. McCreary, who has been selected United States Senator by Kentucky Democrats, w'as appointed by the President in 18112 one of the five commissioners to represent the United States in the international monetary conference. t

l>on Luis F. Corea, the minister plenipotentiary froqi Nicaragua, who may figure prominently in the great isthuiinii canal, ia the youngest minister in AA'aaliington. Jatlies C.' Needham, a member of the House of Representatives, was bom at Garson City. Nev., in an emigrant wagon, his parents being en route acrows the plains to California. 1

Congressman Frank M. Eddy of Minnesota says that not a dozen Congressmen, if working for a salary for any other corporation, would be capable •>! earning the money Uncle Sam paya them