filibuster, and more than any other prevented a measure that was meant
for his party's destruction. In the lists of that filibuster he met the
champion of the opposition--a Senator of pouter-pigeon characteristics,
more formidable to look upon than to face--and, forensically speaking,
beat him like a carpet.

On another day when one of his party associates was to be unseated by so
close a vote that a single member of the Committee on Privileges and
Elections would determine the business either way, it was Senator
Hanway, no one knew how, who in manner secret captured that member from
the enemy. The captured one voted sheepishly in committee and continued
thus sheepish on the open Senate floor, although a beautiful woman
smiled and beamed upon him from the gallery as women smile and beam when
granted favors.

It was during Senator Hanway's second term, however, that he
accomplished the work which placed him at his party's fore and confirmed
him as its chief. The Senate, following a certain national election,
fell to be a tie. The party of Senator Hanway still had control of the
committees and generally of the Senate organization; but that election
had sent to be the Senate's presiding officer a Vice-President who
belonged with the opposition. On a tie, Senator Hanway's party would
find defeat by the vote of that new Vice-President.

It was then the pouter-pigeon chieftain moved that the Senate
organization be given over to him and his fellows. The motion would seem
to settle it. The vote on the floor would be equal, and the sagacious
pouter-pigeon reckoned on the new Vice-President to decide for him and
his. The party colleagues of Senator Hanway, many of them four terms old
in Senate mysteries, were eaten of despair; they saw no gateway of