The Colfax chronicle., 1890-10-11

pronounced. instead of declaring war,
however, Senator Vest at once began to
manifest decided interest in young
Cochrane, and sometime afterward.
when the youngster fell into fight
with one of his colleagues-an offense
which is punishable by two months sus-
peusion-Senator Vest pleaded for him
and procured reduction of the suspen-
sion to two weeks.
/ Young Harry Long never tires OF tell
ing what a kindly man Senator Farwel2
is The Senator entertained the boy ae
his elegant home in Chicago during the
Republican National convention in 1888
and opened the eyes of the youthful
Pennsylvania to the glories of the
Western metropolis, and procured for
him seat in the convention to boot.
'.Wby," said the boy, all aglow with
gratitude, s'he not only invited me to
his house, but he paid all my expenses.
Senator Vance is voted the jolliest of
!, all the Senators, and Senator Reagan
has gained the eternal friendship OF the
boys by making paper caps and giving
them around.
Senator Cockrell is more dreaded than
, any other member of the body. HE is
always wanting something" said one OF
the lads.
Eyes; and it's always something out
side of the chamber" said another.
''Pve worn path running to the docu-
ment room for him."
s.You bet, when Senator Cockrell claps
his hands," said third, "wc all try to
find something else to do. He ought to
have page all to himself"
, | Senator Jones, of Arkansas, is an
other one who needs great deal Of
, waiting on.
"He's good enough man." said one
, little fellow, .'but he's awful on u.s."
{ ssWhat kind of man is Senator In
! galls?" I asked.
t "Oh! he never notices u.s." answered
, one.
} 'sNo," piped wee chap, "he amt So
1 ciable."
. Senator Hiscock is not very popular
3 among the pages. They say he seems
' ssort O. tired of every thing and every
? body"
, Some time ago the pages formed q
' senate of their own. For some reason
i they excluded Masters Moody, Long and
q 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 Of
paper belonging to the organization.
The pages senate then collapsed.
These boys get SIS month in salary
and numerous small sums from generous
Senator'S They also have trick of
picking up all the printed speeches Of
certain Senator'S. and, after having them
nicely bound, sell the volume to the
Senators.
ssDoes anybody but the Senators buy
these speeches." asked.
''Oh! no; only the Senator who has
made the speeches, J" was the innocent
answer.
One little fellow-Harry Long-told
me he had made SIS in the last year by
selling speeches to the Senators who
made them.
"What would you do if you were a
SENATOR" i asked one of the small boys.
l was rather set back by his answer.
h "Fd call up the Blair education bill
q and have it passed. he said.
A eyes, sireew chimed in half dozen
a more; 1--WE all wanted that bill to pass. "
al l learned afterwards, however, that
4 they did not care fig for the merits OF
= the bill. They had seen Senator Blair's
h earnestness in the matter and his re-
i peated disappoin tments over its failure,
4 and thoy were sincerely sorry for him.
When asked whether they would
4 rather he pages or Senators, all but one
+ agreed that generally they would pre-
q fer to be pages, because we pages have
: heap more fun than the Senators do.
"a Little fiaxen-haired, blue-eyed Warner
n Moody, however, looked up and spoke
: with quaint dignity and thoughtful
Il deliberations:
= 81 would rather be Senator, Of
n 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 to
= respond to the call of another's Senator
J, unless the other is SO engaged that he
q can not attend to 1t.
n 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 o'clock In
IL the morning and remain until adjourn
II ment, this is no unimportant matter tt
20 them.
4 The Democratic side of the chamber
70 however, is what the boys call ''ths
" penitentiary," since whenever one o
II them is refractory Captain Bassett rele
=. gates him to duty on that side. Thi.