The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-09-20
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A bright, intelligent page OF
the United States Senate is a
pleasant subject to interview. n
reporter of The Pioneer-Pres fell
in with one the other day, who
was making a trip to the yellow
stone country, and found him a
regular daisy. Turning to the
reporter, the page said
IL can give yOn little incl
dent of some historical Interest,"
.What il it ?" 81 was in charge
of the Presidents room at the
Capitol when Grants last term OF
Office expired. just at II O'Clock
meridian time, acting Vice Pres!-
dent Ferry brought down the gay
Il, and Capt. Bass.:tt, s"perinten
dent of the pages :, watching him,
sang out, Gone and |, holding
the Presidents door half open,
exclaimed, Its up sir Presi
dent Grant raised his hand the
instant | spoke and turned to Mr..
Fish and asked, Iiave l Il right
to finish it = He had signed u.
S. CIR IL II bill. The whole
Cabinet was present AMI a gener
al consultation lasting five min
utes followed. | don't remember
what was said, but it was decid
ed that be had right to finish
his signature. l got tue bill
granting a pension for Gen. Frank
Blai,'s widow signed. A member
of the House came to me aud
said, Tie Presidents time will
be out in IA half hour. | will give
you anything you want if you
will go in and run over the bills
and put the Widow Blair's bill
on top. Frank Blair had done
my father a service once. and [
was glad to comply with the mem
ber's request. There was Il great
pile of bills before the President
far more than he could sign in
the short time left him. | went
through the pile and picked out
the bill, asking the President to
sign it,
Did he do it
Like a little man. He is not
half rs big "a fellow rs some of
your second lieutenants.'
'Didnt somebody's bill get left
on account of your irregular
movement p
Yes, but | couldn't help that.
] took advantage Of my position
to help a friend and Gen. Grant
is always too much Of gentle
man to snub a poor page, even if
he is Il democrat, as | am. | like
Grant. He was good to us boys.'
you were around when the
electoral count fight was in pro
grrss.
yes. sir, you probably remem
Der that there were two sets of
electoral returns from Vermont,
and that one of them was stolen
aud found III Secretary GeFham,s
room. | and another page were
in the room when it was deter
mined to send them back. We
had dropped on the gentlemen
who had them in custody. 1t was
not known whether they were the
returns or the false
ones, but the thieves weakened
and hired us to take them back.
Before We left the Secretary's
room we both were sworn never
to divnlge the names of the men
We saw present. We were each
presented with 5000 and covered
with promises that we would new
Fl want for ii position while they
had any influence at court or else
where. | was offered $500 for
that same envelope and its con
tents, but we had contracted to
deliver then on Representative
Hewi,t'> desk in the House, and
we carried out the contract. We
both wrnl to the hall tusethe,,
aud my friend passed ZIP to Hew
tits desk and laid down the ell
velope. He was ST. nervous that
he deposited the envelope with
the written side w. Hewitt's
eagle e.;e fell on the inscription
80 quickly that my partner had
not time to run before the New
York dyspeptic was OIL his feet,
MIR. Speaker, the last
Vermont returns have just been
laid on my table by a page.' 'Who
WAS he ] Where is hep | Skedad |
died back to the Senate chamber,
Vx.,% MR. trUthor in sin Sto,>,ol |