Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-09-27

other one who needs a great deal OF
waiting on.
"He's good enough man." said one
little fellow, "but he's awful on US"
What kind of a man is Senator In
galls?" asked.
"Oh! he never notices u.s." answered
one
mo" piped a wee chap, che amt So
ciable."
Senator Hiscock is not very popular
among the pages. They say he seems
''sort O. tired of every thing and every
body"
Some time ago the pages formed o
senate of their swn. For some reason
they excluded Masters Moody, Long and
Harris, whereupon these three organized
themselves into reportorial corps and
broke into so many secret sessions that
the judiciary officer of the body con.
cluded it was time to adjourn sine die:
so he decamped with the twenty five
cents in the treasury and six sheets q
paper belonging to the organization.
The pages senate then collapsed.
These boys get SIS month in salary
and numerous small sums from generous
Senators. They also have a trick of
picking up all the printed speeches OF
certain Senators, and, after having them
nicely bound, sell the volume to the
Senators.
docs anybody but the Senators buy
these speeches." asked.
"Oh! no: only the Senator who has
made the speeches" was the innocent
answer.
One little fellow-Harry Long-told
me he had made S75 in the last year nv
selling speeches to the Senators WHO
made them.
"What would you do If you were q
SENATOR" asked one of the small boys
l was rather set back by his answer.
'Fdcall up the Blair education bill
and have it passed" he said.
Eyes, street" chimed in half doze n
more; ''we all wanted that bill to pass y
/ learned afterwards, however, that
they did not care fig for the merits OF
the bill. They had seen Senator Blaira
earnestness in the matter and his re-
and they were sincerely sorry for him.
When asked whether they would
rather be pages or Senators, all but one
agreed that generally they would pre-.
fer to be pages, because we pages have
a heap more fun than the Senators do
Little flaxen-haired, blue-eyed Warne1
Moody, however, looked mp and spoke
/ xxy;th INT Ii~nifu 80 ,,l
deliberations:
81 would rather be a Senator, Of
course"
Page etiquette demands that each lad
shall be permitted to wait on his own
patron Senator-that is, the Senator
who procured his place for him; and il
is inexcusable rudeness for one page tc
respond to the call of another's Senator
unless the other is so engaged that he
can not attend to it
The pages are ostensibly Republicans,
but they do not mind saying that there
are good many things about the Dem
ocratic side that are attractive to them,
prominent among which is the fact that
most of the motions to adjourn come
from the Democratic side; and since
the boys report for duty at 9 o'clock in
the morning and remain until adjourn
ment, this is no unimportant matter Il
them.
The Democratic side of the chambe
however, is what the boys call ''the
penitentiary," since whenever one OF
them is refractory Captain Bassett rele.
gates him to duty on that side This
is an old-time custom, and pages soon
| learn that it is in the nature of reward
of merit to be permitted to serve on the
majority side of the chamber. There
are seven boys for each side, but those
on the majority side always feel little
more favored.
81 got to larking the other day." said
Master Long, land Captain Bassett sent
me over on the Democratic side"
AS l turned to leave the group one
little fellow followed me, saying:
Don't forget to put in something
about Noddy Bofin master George
Mann, of Michigan and Rev. Dr. Ed
ward Bailey, of Georgia, the boy who
says 'fo'teen' and deed | did, and tote
for carry; and don't forget Hadji Hasseiu
Ghooly Khan master Will Aulick, oil
Illinois) and Ike Bassett, Jr., the grand.
son of Captain Bassett, the boy that ate
the shoe-blacking when he was told il
was pate de t0s gras."
"And say" he added, you ain't
goin' to interview the House pages, are
your
"Why not?"
well, they amt in our class, you
know"
There is as much distinction among
boys between a Senate page and q
House page as there is among men be-
tween a Senator and a member of the
lower House. WILLIS B. HAWKINS.