Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-01-23

the back of the hall and opposite ths
Speaker, facing him. Ii is very pret
ty clock, and is fine work of art. Il
is the bete aoir of long-winded speak
ers, and cuts off many u blowhard be-
fore his time for ending has come.
AT the sides of the hall door over
which this clock stands there are two
| cloak rooms, and at the left hand cor.
ner of the back there is barber shop
where the members may be shaved
while a stormy or dull debate is going
on. AT times members are in this bar,
ber's chair when some legislation which
| Interests them comes up, and | hav.
| seen statesman rush from the bar,
ber's office with half his beard off, the
iatlief ever the rest of his face, and a
barber's sheet around his neck, and OBJ
| jcct to n certain ruling, Such speeches
are more food for laughter than for
good.
Half way up the walls of the House
hall the galleries begin, and rise by
graded seats almost to the roof. These
galleries will seat twenty-five hundred
people The most important is the
press gallery to both the speakers and
the people, for it is through this that
they hear of all the doings below. This
is directly back of the Speakers desk
and above it. 1t Is gilded and Better
arranged than the other galleries and
has desks with little ink standa .et in
to them for the use of the press Each
paper of note has right to one seal
here, and about one hundred and
ftuant,+ hX,o
pants, Just back of this gallery there
is telegraph Office and writing
room. A speech is delivered in Con.
grcss at two D. m. and the words are
III the offices of the newspapers al
over the country almost rs fast as they
fall from the speakers lips. The gal
lery opposite the press gallery is the
diplomatic gallery, the seats of which
are painted blue. 1t is often filed witt
foreigners, and none but the diplomatic
representatives of foreign countric.
have the right to enterit.
At the desl, in front of the Speaker
the Clerk stands with his assistants be.
hind him. He reads generally in
voice which is cross between the
rasping of buzz saw and the sharpen
ing of slate pencil. He gets 81, 600
year for doing it. Below him at II
shorter desk are the shorthand report
ers of the House, who take down the
matter Of debate for the Record. These
men each get $4,000 year.
Running about through the House at
all times are the pages, who are paid |
about two and one-half dollars per day
These are lively little boys, generally
of about twelve or fourteen years of |
age. When a member wants them he |
claps his hands and they run to his |
desk. In addition TO these, there are |
scores of other employees about the
House OF Representatives who do all |
kinds OF work, from the cleaning Of the
be adm aa% &c saFFA4f sTaAARef Il ana Ct if
of committees in their work. These
get from $500 to ~, 800 year. Door
keepers are paid from 81 200 to 81 600
or mercy opening and shutting door
lbout six hours "a day, and when the
numerous servants are considered ii is
10 wonder that the expenses of a Con-
rressional session run up so high. Tho
lveraGe cost of session is about S3,-
100, 900, and the congressman receive
Mileage in addition TO their salaries OF
70, 900 each, amounting to u total OF
s143, Cpl. The newspapers and station
ny consumed by n Congress runs as
Ugh as $50, 900 yearly, and the salaries
# the Senators amount to $3.50, 600 and |
hat of the Representatives to 81, &c.,
100 every year. The Speaker of TIE
House and the President pro tenn. of
he Senate each receives $4,000 year,
nd one of the poorest paid men in the
senate is the Chaplain, who gets but
800 year.-"Cdrp," in Ctereland
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