The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-09


pension-Senator Vest pleaded for hin
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. The Senator entertained the boy al
his elegant home in Chicago during the
Republican National convention in 1885
and opened the eyes Of the youthful
Pennsylvania to the glories of the
Western metropolis, and procured fol
him seat in the convention to boot.
why" said the boy, all aglow with
gratitude, "he not only invited me tc
his house, but he paid all my expenses.
Senator Vance is voted the iolliest 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 tho body. "He is
always wanting something" said one OF
the lads.
Eyes; and it's always something out
side of the chamber" said another.
"I've worn a path running 30 the docu-
ment room for him."
"You bet, when Senator Cocsrell 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.
"He's good enough man." said one
little fellow, "but he's awful on us"
"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
senate of their own. 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 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 trick of
picking up all the printed speeches of
certain Senators, and, after having them
nicely bound, sell the volume to tho
Senators.
"Does anybody but the Senators buy
these speeches." 1 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 a
Senator?" l 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, street." chimed in half dozen |
more; ''we all wanted that bill to pass"
/ learned afterwards. however, that |
they did not care fig for the merits Of
the bill. They had seen Senator Blair's
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-
Ter to be pages, "because we pages have
l heap more fun than the Senators do"
Little iaxen-haired, blue-eyed Warner
Moody, however, looked up and spoke
With quaint dignity and thoughtful
81 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
s inexcusable rudeness for one page to
'espond to the call of another's Senator
inless the other is SO engaged that he
,an not attend to it.
The pages are ostensibly Republicans,
,ut they do not mind saying that there
Ire good many things about the DEM
'cratic side that are attractive to them,
prominent among which is the fact that
most of the motions to adjourn come
rom the Democratic side; and since
he boys report for duty at o o'clock in
he morning and remain until adjourn
nent, this is no unimportant matter to
hem.
The Democratic side of the chamber,
,owever, is what the boys call "the
since whenever one
hem is refractory Captain Bassett rele
.ates him to duty on that side. Thi'
5 an old-time custom, and pages soon
earn that it is in the nature of reward
# merit to be permitted to serve on the
majority side of the chamber. There
re seven boys for each side. hut those
N the majority side always feel little ,
more favored.
81 got to larking the other day." said I,
faster Long. land Captain Bassett sent |
ne over on the Democratic side" !
AS ! turned to leave the group one 9
title fellow followed me, saying:
Don't forget to put in something I
bout Noddy Bofiin master George {
lam, of Michigan) and Rev. Dr. Ed 9
,ard Bailey, of Georgia, the boy who
ays 'fo'teen' and deed did, and 'tole' /
Or carry; and don't forget Iladji Hassein t
hooly Khan Master Will Aulick. OF q
llinois) and Ike Bnssett, Jr., the grand. c
On of Captain Bassett the boy that ate t
no -blaclsing when he was told II r
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