Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09

when the youngster fell into lght
| with one of his colleagues--a, ,ssfense
which is punishable by two months sus-
pension-Senator Vest pleaded for him
and procured a reduction of the suspen-
sion to two weeks.
Young Harry Long never tires of tell
ing what kindly man Senator Farwell
Is Tho Senator entertained the boy Mt
his elegant homo in Chicago during the
Republican National convention in 1883
and opened the eyes of the youthful
Pennsylvania to the glories of the
! Western metropolis, and procured for
him scat in tho convention to boot.
why" said the boy, all aglow with
gratitude, "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 some thing" said one of
the lads. r'..r.
''Yes; and it's always something out.
side of the chamber" said another.
I've worn path running to the docu-
mont room for him."
"You bet, when Senator Cockrell claps
his hands," said third, "we 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.
Hes good enough man." said ono
little fellow, "but he's awful on u.s."
"What kind of man is Senator In
galls?" asked. ..... ..
"Oh! he never notices u.s." answered
one.
"No," piped wee chap, she 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 a
senate of their own. For some reason
they excluded Masters Moody, Long and
Harris, whereupon these three organized
themselves into a 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
Senators. They also have a trick of
tn1- n11 +l1 49, a
certain Senator'S and, after having them
nicely bound, sell the volume to the
Senators.
Does anybody but the Senator'S buy
these speeches?" I 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 SIS in the last year by
selling speeches to the Senators who
made them. ..
"What would you do If you were
Senator?" / asked one of the small boys.
was rather set back by his answer.
''I'd call up the Blair education bill
and have it passed." he said.
"Yes, sireew chimed in half dozen
more; ''we all wanted that bill to pass"
I learned afterwards, however, that
they did not care fig for the merits of
the bill. They had seen Senator Blair's
earnestness in the matter and his re-
peated disappoin tments over its failure,
and they were sincerely sorry for him.
When asked whether they would
rather be pages or Senators, all but one
or hat
fer to be pages, ''because we pages have
a heap more fun than the Senators do"
Little flaxen-haired, blue-eyed Warner
Moody, however, looked mp and spoke
with quaint dignity and thoughtful
deliberations:
81 would rather be Senator, of
.,t
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 it
is inexcusable rudeness for one page to
respond to the call of anothers Senator
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 0 o'clock in
the morning and remain until adjourn
ment, this is no unimportant matter to
them.
The Democratic side of the chamber,
however, is what the boys call 1.-THE
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 he permitted to serve on the |
side of the chamber. There
are seven boys for each side, but those
On the majority side always feel a little
more favored. r
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 ono
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