The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-06
FORGET-ME-NOTS.

In looking over the payroll Of the United
States Senate it is interesting to note the num-
ber Of cases in which the family name OF the
Senator, whether chairman of committee or
not is the family name of the clerk. Here are
a few such instances: c. II. Harris, clerk to
Committee on Epidemic Diseases; G. n. Vance,
Woman Suffrage; j. P. VOORHEES,, Additional
Accommodations for Library of Congress-; II.
p. Blair, Education and Labor; George w.
Morgan, Nicaraguan Claims; Private Land
Claims, Thomas r. Ransom; r. r. Quay, Trans
portation Routes, ETC.; Charles N vance,
woman suffrage; Z. L. Berry, clerk to Senator
Berry; H. T. Blodgett, Senator Blodgett /. w.
George, Senator George; j. X. Jones, Jr., Sen
ator Jones, of Arkansas; H. L. Pugh, Senator
Pugh: NJ. T. Reagan, Senator Reagan. This
list includes brothers, sons, and wives, but it
does not touch the brothers-in-law, sons-in-
law, sisters cousins, and aunts, who do not
bear the same family name.
Among the rules governing the Press Gal
leries of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives is this one: 'Rule g. Clerks engaged in
the Executive Departments of the Government
or persons engaged in other occupations whose
chief support is not derived from newspaper
correspondence are not entitled to admission y
That rule should be changed, The employees Of
the Senate and the House should be placed on
an equal footing with the clerks in the Execu-
tive Departments. 1t is ungenerous for the
Speaker, who makes the rules of the Press Gal
Iery in the House, and for the Committee on
Rules of the Senate, who make the rules for the
Press Gallery Of the Senate, to deprive tae EX-
ecutive Departments of the Government of the
privileges retained at the Capitol of forming
alliances with the newspaper correspond
ents. I am unable to see why clerk
excluded from the Press Gallery II
the clerks Of Senate and House committees are
admitted. The number Of newspaper cor
respondents whose names are on the pay-rolls
of the Senate and House is something far from
gratifying 10 ones professional PRIDE. IL Is
wrong for the President of the United States to
accept the present of cottage or TO sanction
the acceptance OF such present by his wife,
and it seems TO me that il is barely less wrong
for newspaper correspondent to compromise
his journalistic independence by accepting a
salaried appointment from those who should be
subject to free journalistic criticism. As a
matter Of fact, believe that the rule which
would exclude from the Press Galleries per
sons engaged in other occupations, whose chief
support is not derived from newspaper cor
respOndence,' is being violated every day by
the admission of Senate and House employees
X X X
The Red Nan is the name of journal pub
lished monthly at the Indian Industrial School
Carlisle, Pa in the interest Of Indian education
and civilization. The society column Of the
Red Nan is picturesque and interesting, Here
are few specimen paragraphs which are o.
more than local interest;
"Jenne Lawrence, of the SissetOn Agency
who was with US four years when she was very
small gir is now sixteen, and has been going
70 the Agency Mission or Government Schoo