Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

SDOnOe0IS. 1OuuS TepOTlSTS Hoh anu Iutu
attempt to interview him, and he treats
them politely,
TELLING THEM THEIR MISTAKE
and asking FOR their address. saying that if
they will give it he will send them a docu-
ment that they may read TO their advantage.
The green reporter hereupon gives his card,
aud the next day he gets by mail copy of
the rules of the Senate with blue pencil
mark around the following paragraph:
"Any Senator or officer of the Senate who
shall disclose the secret or confidential busi-
ness or proceedings OF the Senate shall be
liable, ii a Senator, to suffer expulsion from
the body, il an officer, to dismissal from the
service of the Senate and to punishment tor
contempt"
Senator Edmunds seldom submits to an
interview upon any subject, though he some
times dictates his views upon certain ques-
tions 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 be used in interview shape,
and he is in this respect much like a num-
Der Of his brother Senators. ingalls, often
talks in this way, and his conversations
sparkle with ideas graphically expressed.
He is full of information, is up to the times
on every subject, and if one can escape his
prohibition to publish he is good for
column any hour of the day.
SHERMAN Is ACCESSIBLE.
Senator Sherman, though he is said to be
'tcold," is always ready to talk to a news
paper man. He 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 sometimes dictates his re-
plies to the interviewer, and he is accessible
both at the Senate and at his home.
Leland Stanford is another very accessible
man, and ne has as many ideas to the square
inch as any other statesman in the country.
His head is packed full of information of
all sorts, and have never heard a subject
mentioned in his presence upon which he
had not something new to 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 in his state
ments as TO take the life out OF them. He
is too much of diplomat, and he roosts on
the fence.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, never
submits to an interview. 1 remember my
first experience with him. 1 was CORE
spondent for the Cleveland Leader, and 1
told him that had been sent bv its editor
to ask him certain questions. He was sit
ting in his dressing gown and slippers in
his library when l made this remark, and he
Strengthened himself up like a shot and shut
his mouth like clam as he chopped out the
words:
NO MINCING OF WORDS.
swell, young man, you may put
your questions, but l warn you will not
answer one word"
1 then told him that I did not expect to
interview him bv force and that if he had
nothing to say there was no use in nv asking
questions. He then told me that he had
made resolution to publish everything
that went from him into the papers over mis-
own signature and begged my pardon Tor his
seeming grufness. He wanted me to stay
and look over the cartoons in Puck with
him, but l thanked him and left
l find that the New England Senators are
as Il rule afraid to call their souls their own
and the most snobbish man on the Supreme
Court bench is Justice Horace GRAY. He
never submits TO an interview and he told
me once when l asked him some question
about Supreme Court business that he
Thought the country would be better served
by his attending to the business of the
court, than by saying what ought to be
done as to its improvement. Not long ago
a 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 collec-
tions of books and asked permission to call
and see them
JUSTICE GRAY'S REFUSAL.
From every man of prominence with the
exception OF Justice Gray she got polite
answer. Gray's reply was formal, almost to
rudeness, and 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 anything
about it. This is from the Justice of the