Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-23
SENATORIAL GOSSIP.
How Sanders, of Montana, Got in the
Senate Chamber Years Ago.
POSED ASA SOUTHERN DIGNITARY.
Henderson Once Walked Washington Streets
in His Stocking Feet.
TELLERs MISTAKE COST A FORTUNE
rwRITTEN FOR THE pIspATCH.l

Senator Wilbur Fiske Sanders has lust
taken his seat as one of the new United
States Senators from Montana. He had a
seat in the same body just 20 years ago this
month and he told the other night the story
of how he got it. 1t was on the Sd of March,
1861. Young Wilbur Sanders and young
Charlie Manderson, now Senator Mander-
son, were both Ohio boys just out of their
teens and they had come on here to attend
President Lincoln's Inauguration. During
their wanderings about Washington they
came to the Capitol and took seat together
in the Senate gallery.
Washington was Fl lied with strangers and
the galleries were packed with Illinois men
who had come on to celebrate the occasion.
Andrew johnson was on the floor and John
c. Breckenridge was in the chair johnson
was making his famous Union speech and
he was constantly interrupted by boisterous
applause from the gallery. Breckenridge
requested the galleries to be quiet, but be-
tore the noise got at its height he left the
chair and Senator Polk, of Missouri, took
his place. Polk did not like Johnson's
speech and he liked the cries of the gallery
gods still less.
CLEARED THE GALLERIES.
He finally ordered the galleries to be
cleared, whereupon Stephen A. Douglas,
who was expected TO make the next speech,
and who did not want to talk without lis
teners, objected. Charles Sumner, though
the speech was in favor of the Union, sup
ported the order for clearing the galleries,
and Manderson and Sanders watched and
trembled. At last Andrew johnson said
that he knew that his friends in the galleries
would be more quiet, that he would engage
that there should be no further outburst,
and he asked as personal favor of the Sen
ate that the people be allowed to remain.
He then went on and finished his speech.
As he closed it there was great applause,
and one Illinois man yelled out "Three
cheers for Johnson" These were given with
q will and the man then yelled; 'Three
cheers for Abe Lincoln" These made the
roof of the Senate ring, and then came three
cheers for the Union and tiger, while the
Senators sat powerless and could do moth
ing. AS soon as the cheers were over the
galleries were cleared and Manderson and
Sanders were ousted. They hung around
the doors for few moments and at last
Sanders said: "Well. Mandeison, I'm going
in on that floor and sit down with the Sena-
tors"
"But you can't get in," said Manderson.
"They won't let you"
Eyes they will," said Sanders. "Now
see."
He BLUFFED THE GUARD.
With that he tried one door, and was
pushed violently back. He then went
around to the ladies' reception room, and
started to go in. The guard pulled him
back, and he said: 81 would like to know
if Senator of a Confederate State cannot
enter this chamber when be has business.
The guard did not know what to make of
it. The Government was unsettled, and he
did not know but what Sanders might be
Peace Commissioner, and be let him 60 in.
Sanders entered and took his fret seat in the
Senate. Presently Ben Wade saw him, and
slipped around and asked: .Sanders, my
boy, how did you get in he1e?''H
"Oh, got in, said Sanders, and Sena-
tor Wade said: "Well, keep quiet and no
one will notice vou." SO
He sat there throughout the evening. In
the meantime the galleries had been re-
opened and Manderson worked his way into
them. He had been tramping around i'll
the wet and his stockings were saturated.
His bouts were tight and his feet felt very
sore, and as the night session wore on he
took them off and sat in his stocking feet
The air OF the Senate was very warm and
the tight boots shrunk. At the adjourn.
ment he ound to his horror that he could
not get his boots on and he had to walk down
to his hotel on Pennsylvania avenue In his
stocking feet carrying his boots He
thanked fortune, doubt not, that the acci
dent happened at night, and as look at his
costume in the Senate to-day I
wonder if it would not hurt his self-respect
to be caught in a similar tx.
LOST NEARLY A MILLION.
Senator Teller told me last night how he
lost 5000, 900. The story made my eyes bulge
out, but the Senator related it in the same
cool, metallic tones in which he talks about
the weather. Said he: at was some years |
ago in Leadville that met one dav upon
the street friend of mine, who asked me to |
go in with him and his partner and buy the |
Robert E. Lee mine. The mine had been in |
the courts, but the question of its title had !
been settled, and it was only necessary to
have $4,000 to pay off its indebtedness. I |
asked how much it would take for me to |
come IN. He replied that it would take
S45, 900, and this would give me one-third |
interest. But said. 1 raising my hands in
holy horror, 1 haven't got the money, and |
would hate to risk it if I had
"'Oh, said he, you run no risk. We have |
30 days in which to pay this $780, 900, and we |
will work it out of the mine in that time.
You need not put up cent, and we will pay |
your S45, 900 out OF the mine, and in case
the mine doesn't pan out at once Ben, my
and I will put up the money for
YOU
81 said would consider the matter, but |
lid not think I wanted it. For the next
.wo days that man hung around me and
begged me to take the third interest in the
ua fo1l ha etE
)0O cash to another man, but he would rather
AXE me in for nothing.
HOW he FELT AFrERwARD.
IT held out and at the end of two days he
old the interest to the other party. Shortly
Ifter this heard that the mine was paving
md about two years later 1 met Ben, nv
riend's partner, in the Windsor Hotel at
Denver and we got to talking about mining
property. :.
aid he, in not going into the Robert E. Lee
With US.
"sYes, I know it. said I, 'and wonder
ust how much of a mistake 1 did make?
suppose you tell me-
"'Well, said he again, we got your $45,
90 out OF the mine in less than three months,
nd you would not have had to pay cent
n it. The man who took your place stuck
o US, and he cleared within two years lust
9O0 000.'
Il must have looked little surprised, for
he man said: We'll, Mr.. Teller, you wish
ou had gone in
"I don't know, replied I, Providence
uns these things His own way. I have two
oys, and they had better make their own
'ay through the world than be pampered
nth the inheritance of millionaire Per-
APPS on the whole it is as we'll as it is.'''
FRANK G. CARPENTER.