THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



master, and I think at one time a Harvard professor— a retiring 

 man of much culture and rather out of place in Congress, though 

 quite at home at the Club. Later WiUiam E. Chandler, a brilliant 

 man who had been United States Senator and a member of the 

 Cabinet, was proposed for membership but was blackballed by 

 some of the Survey men on the ground that he had successfully 

 opposed one of their appropriations when he was in the Senate. 

 Of course it was a disgraceful thing to do and was a blot on the 

 fair record of the Club. Senator Chandler was a brilliant man 

 and one of the most interesting individuals I have ever met. 

 He used to come to the Club very often as a visitor before this 

 incident, and it was a liberal education to hear him talk to a 

 group of men. 



Later, as the Club became rather broader, blackballing by 

 members was done away with, and a number of Congressmen 

 passed the Committee— William Kent of California, later a mem- 

 ber of the Tariff Board; John J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn, at that 

 time Chairman of the Appropriations Committee; Townsend 

 of New Jersey, an old newspaper man and author of the "Chim- 

 mie Fadden" stories; Senator Owen of Oklahoma, a man of very 

 broad culture; Small of North Carolina, a quiet, retiring indi- 

 vidual but a delightful man when you drew him out; Redfield 

 of Brooklyn, later Secretary of Commerce, a wonderfully able 

 man of commercial training and one of the most eloquent speak- 

 ers I ever heard; Dr. H. W. Temple of Pennsylvania, a cultured 

 man who had been a college professor; and perhaps a dozen or 

 more others who need not be mentioned. 



Since the William E. Chandler incident, I believe that there 

 have been no unpleasantnesses connected with such memberships. 

 I remember to have heard, however, that Uncle Joe Cannon, 

 who was a frequent visitor at the Club, once said in a speech, 

 "I know of a certain club in Washington where more schemes 



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