St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-16


neDt that they may read 10 their adj
vantage. The green reporter hereupOn
gives his card. and the next day he gets
by mail copy Of the rules of the SEN
ale. With a blue pencil mark around the
following paragraph:
ANY senator or officer of the senate
who shall disclose the secret or conf
Dental business or proceedings OF the
senate shall be liable. if a senator. to
suffer expulsion from the body. and if
an officer. 10 dismissal from the service
OF the senate and TO punishment Tor
contempt"
Senator Edmunds seldom submits to
an Interview upon any subject, though
he sometimes dictates his views upon
certain questions before the senate, and
when he does the talk is always worth
reading. He often gives information
with the prOviSO that the matter shall
not he used i'm Interview shape. and he
is in this respect much like number of
his brother senators. ingalls, often
talks IN this way. and his con-
versations sparkle with IDEAS gra-
phieally expressed. He is lull of in
formation. is up to the times on every
subject. and if one can escape his pro-
hibiIion 20 publish he is good for
column any hour of the day. Senator
Sherman. though he is said to he cold.
is always really to talk to a newspaper
man. lie answers all questions put to
him and gives interviews whenever he
can. He will not say what he does not
want to, and he is perfectly frank
and open in his expressions. He
some times dictates his replies
to the interviewer. and he is
accessible both at the senate and al his
home. Leland stanford is another very
accessible man, and he has us many
ideas 10 the square inch as any other
statesman in the country. His head is
packed full of information of all sUrtS,
and have never heard subject men
toned in his presence upon which he
had not something new 10 say. He is
not afraid to say what he thinks. and
his talks are always readable. Senator
Allison talks readily, but he hedges so
much III his statements as 70 take the
life out of them. He is too much of a
diplomat, and he rOoStS on thee fnCe.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts. never
submits TO an interview. remember
my first experience with him. | was
correspondent for the Cleveland Leader.
and told him that | had been sent by
its editor to ask him certain questions.
He was sitting. III his dressing gown and
slippers, i'll his library when | maze this
remark, and he Strengthened himself up
like shot and shut his mouth like a
clam as he chopped out the words:
"Well. young man, you may put your
questions, but ! warn you that l will
not answer one word"
then told him that | did not expect
to interview him by force, ana that if
he has nothing to say there was no use
in my asking questions. He then told
ME that he had made a resolution 10
publish everything that went from him
into the papers over his own signature.
and begged my pardon for his seeming
grutfnesS. He wanted me to stay and
look over the cartoons in Puck with
him, but thanked him and left.
find that the New England senators
are, as a rule. afraid to call their souls
their own, and the most snoDbiSh man
on the supreme court bench is Justice
Horace Gray. He never submits TO an
interview, ana he told me once when |
asked him some question about supreme
court business that he thought the
country would be better served by
his attending 10 the business of
the court than by saying what ought
to be done as to its Improvement
Not long ago lady correspondent of
Washington was preparing an article on
the private libraries of the capital. She
wrote to the leading statesmen who
were known to have collections of books
and asked permission to call and see
them. From every man of prominence
with the exception OF Justice Gray
she got polite answer. Gray'S re-
al, i
it stated that Justice Gray'S library
had been gathered together for other
purposes, and that the public would be
just as well served by not hearing any
thing about it. This is from the Justice
of the supreme court who went down
the river with the president in an
English hunting costume month or so
ago, and who, when | called upon him,
received me IN a silk velvet coat, patent
leather pumps, a velvet vest and light
pantal0OnS.
Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, Is
not averSe to an interview, and he talks
well. Speaker Reed now and then gives
q sentence or two to the correspondents,
and Mckinley is a good friend Of the
newspaper men. Joe Cannon is full of
ideas, and he can grind out a column in
an hour. Senator HaWley is very busy,
but he is newspaper man himself, and
he will talk freely if you catch him
at leisure. Wade Hampton never
interviews, and the reporter
who gets anything out of Joe
Brown is a genius. Cushman
X. Davis, of Minnesota, is always ready
to give away good thing when lie has
it. l remember once calling upon him
about O'clock in the evening. I was
told to walk up TO his bedroom and
found him with his head on the pillow
and the bedclothes well up to the neck
of his frillcd nightgown. He told me
that he had had a hard days work
and that he had gone to bed early to
sleep himself fresh. He said he could
sleep at any time and that he was
good for twelve hours or could
get along with four as neceS-
Sity demanded and he gave me tile IN
formation desired while he lay in bed.
Frank HiscOck, of New York. is poser.
He seems to swell when he is asked for
an interview, and if he has not some
axe Of his own to grind, he will say that
he is very busy just now. but that if
you will call upon him tomorrow ne
will be able to tell you whether he can