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the question of the introduction of Bills and the 

 subsequent procedure did crop up, with which, 

 of course, the Chief was famiHar down to the 

 smallest detail. The reporter eventually took his 

 departure, and the next day the Post had two columns 

 about our personal attributes, which is sufficiently 

 ^musing and characteristic of the American press- 

 man to warrant the reproduction of an extract. 



TO SEE MR. CHAMBERLAIN 



THE CORDON OF DETECTIVES THAT MUST FIRST 

 BE PASSED 



The English Statesman unable to say how soon the 

 Commission will adjourn — English Views on 

 American Subjects 



Mr. Chamberlain does not always insist upon the 

 principle that newspaper reporters are not worth 

 seeing unless there are forty or fifty of them to- 

 gether. A single Post reporter was permitted 

 yesterday afternoon to invade the apartments of the 

 distinguished English statesman at the Arlington 

 Hotel, and to engage his attention and that of his 

 assistants, Messrs. Bergne and Maycock, of the 

 ^ English Foreign Office, for the greater part of an 

 hour. Of course, the inner circle was not reached 

 without some preliminary skirmishing. When in 

 response to the reporter's card the servant returned 

 with the message '' Come up," the servant himself 

 looked surprised, and the hotel clerk stared with 



