Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-03

little fellow, "but he's awful on u.s.
what kind Of man is Senator In
gaiisss' asked.
oh be never notices Us, " answered
one.
NO piped wee chap. ..he AMT 50.
ciabIe.n
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 {
senate OF their swn. For some reason
they excluded Masters Moody, Long and
Harris, waereupon these three organized
themselves into reportorial corps and
broke into 80 many secret sessions that
the Judiciary officer OF the BODY con-
eluded IL was time TO adjourn sine die:
50 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 a 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 ths
! Senators.
Does anybody but the Senators buy
these speecaes?v asked.
"Ohl no; only the Senator who has
made the speeches" was the innocent
answer.
One little fellow Harry Long-toId
me he had made SIS in the last year ty
selling speeches to the Senators wfo
made them.
''What would you do If you were
Senator" I 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.
Eyes, sireer' chimed In half doze n
more; 1--WE all wanted that bill to pass. :.
] learned afterwards. however. that
they did not care a fig for the merits Of
! the bill They had seen Senator Blairs
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
| agreed that generally they would pre-
heap more fun than the Senators do +"
! Little fiaxen-haired, blue-eyed Warner
Moody, however, looked mp and spoke
with quaint dignity and thoughtful
deiiberation:
II would rather be . 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 it
is inexeusable rudeness for one page 10
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 thai 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 70
them.
TIE Democratic side of the chamber
however, is what the boys call '-ths
penitentiary,n since whenever one Of
them is refractory Captain Bassett rele-
gates him to duty on that side. Thi:
is an old-time custom, and pages soor
learn that it is in the nature of reward
of merit to be permitted to serve on ths
majority side of the chamber. There
are seven boys for each side. but those
on the majority side always feel Little
more favored
II got to 1arkin9 the other day" said
Master Long. and Captain Bassett sen
me over on the Democratic side"
AS / turned to leave the group on'
, little fellow followed me, saying:
Don't forget to put in somethin!
I about Noddy Bofin master Georg'
: Mann. of Michigan) and Rev. DIR. FL
: ward Bailey, of Georgia, the boy VIII
, saws 'fo'teen' and deed did, and tote
for carry; and don't forget Hadii Hasseii
a Ghooly Khan Master Will Aulick. o
Iliinoisl and TX Bassett, Jr.. the grand
, son of Captain Bassett, the hoy that at
the shoe backing when he was tod
i was pate de f. sras.s
And say he added, you ain
goin' to interview the House pages, ar
). your
"Why not?'
..well, they amt in our class, 70
! know
There is as much distinction anon
:. boys between a Senate page and
House page as there IS among men b
tween a Senator and a member of tn
, lower House. WILLIS b HAWKINS.