The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-08

however, Senator Vest at once began to
manifest a decided interest in young
Cochrane, and sometime afterward,
when the youngster fell into fight
with one of his colleagues--al. ,esfense
which is punishable by two months sus-
pension-Senator Vest pleaded for him
and procured reduction of the suspen-
sion to two weeks.
Young Harry long never tires of tell
ing what a kindly man Senator Farwell
is The Senator entertained the boy at
his elegant home in Chicago during the
Republican National convention in 1888
and opened the eyes of the youthful
Pennsylvania to the glories of the
Western metropolis, and procured for
him seat in the convention to boot.
why" said the boy, all aglow with
gratitude, she not only invited me to
his house, but he paid all my expenses"
Senator Vance is voted the jolliest Of
all the Senators, and Senator Reagan
has gained the eternal friendship of the
boys by making paper caps and giving
them around.
Senator Coclzrell is more dreaded than
any other member of the body. ''He is
always wanting mething," said one Of
the lads.
Eyes; and it's always something out
side of the chamber" said another
1--WE worn path running to the docu.
ment room for him"
"You bet, when Senator Cockrell claps
his hands," said third, 1--WE all try "a
find something else to do. He ought u
have page all to himself"
| Senator Jones, of Arkansas, is an
other one who needs great deal of
waiting on.
Hes good enough man." sad one
little fellow, "but he's awful on IS.
"What kind of a man is Senaor In
galls?" l asked.
"Oh! he never notices U.S." answered
one.
NO" piped wee chap, "he.in't So
cable"
Senator Hiscock is not verypopular
among the pages. They say ,e seems
sort O tired of every thing an every
body"
Some time ago the pages .ormed
|
they excluded Masters Moody, long and
Harris, whereupon these three,rganized
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 sly sheets of
| NO hllD IT1rr m {hn 1ignf IfT1
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 the
Senators.
docs anybody but the Senator's buy
these speeches." l 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?" 1 asked one of the small boys.
l was rather set bacl, by his ana,vNr.
"fd call up the Blair education bill
and have it passed" he said.
Eyes, siree!' chimed in half dozen
more; 1--WE all wanted that bill to pass
| l learned afterwards, however, thai
they did not care fig for the merits Of
the bill. They had seen Senator Blair's
earneStness in the matter and his re
peated disappoin tments over it's 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-.
fer to be pages, because we pages have
a heap more fun than the Senators do >
Little flaXenhaired, blue-eyed Warner
| Moody, however, looked up and spoke
with a quaint dignity and thoughtful
deliberation:
Il 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 ineXcusable rudeness for one page to
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 that 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 to
them.
The Democratic side of the chamber,
, however, is what the boys call 1.-THE
penitentiary," since whenever one of
them is refractory Captain Bassett rele-
gates him to duty on that side. This
is an old-time custom, and pages soon
learn that it is in the nature of reward
of merit to be permitted to serve on the
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 larking the other day." said
Master Long. land Captain Bassett sent
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