The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-28

| MILLIONAIRE SENATOR'S LOOKING FOR A
NICKEL
| yer or Senator Stanford, it was not clear
which, had dropped nickel under the
desk of the latter, and both were searching
for it with all the zest of two schoolboys,n
danger of being cheated of their nicke's
worth of gum drops. Senator Sawyer, who
is very large and fat, with much difficulty
got down on his knees, while Senator Stan
ford, who is also heavy man. without
much suppleness in his limbs, nearly broke
his back bending forward in quest of the
, elusive excl.
Finally the missing coin was rescued
from under the desk, and as the two many
time millonaires Strengthened up young
man in the press gallery. whose salary is
$40 a week, remarked: ''T'hey might have
saved themselves the trouble. If they had
sent page up here would have given
them nickel apiece" 1t is needless to add
that this cynical young man wholly mis-
understood the situation. The senators
had taken so much trouble to find the coin
not through penuriousness, for both are
generous with their dollars, but on account
of the habit, strong in most men of wealth,
of taking care of the pennies and nickels,
knowing that the dollars will take care of
themselves.
Senator Sawyer is one of the incest old
fellows in the world A few days ago he
left the senate chamber and walked out to
the elevator, on his way to his committee
rOom which is in the basement The ele-
vator was going up at that moment with
a number of newspaper men aboard. But
the conductor, in obedience to instructions,
stopped the car, took the senator on, and
was about to return to the basement, when
the senator remarked: Take these boys
on up to the gallery. guess they are in 2
hurry. / am not"
Visitors to the Capitol are often much
puzzled by the cratic and seemingly i'm
pudent conduct of the elevator conductors
in the senate wing. Step into the car at
the basement tell the man you want to go
to the gallery, and he will carry you
straight up, providing no senator appears
at the chamber floor and indicates desire
to go down. If a senator does come aboard,
going down. you may get out and walk mp
to the gallery or enjoy the sport Of riding
down and back again. On the return
Journey another senator may appear, and
down to the basement you go once more,
unless you prefer to walk. Or if you want
10 Sct OH dG the senate uOoi, anu luctc
chances to be in the car senator who
wants to go TO the gallery, the elevator
will shoot by your destination IN order to
get to the.great mans stopping place the
more quickly. If then another senator
steps aboard from the gallery and eIacu-
lates basement" TO the conductor. down
you drop to the bottom floor. past your
destination again, like shuttiecock
that never stops midway OF Its orbit.
After one has been thus shuf'ied to and
fro for ten or fifteen minutes ne be-
gins 20 realize the Importance and the
dignity of the United States senate II Is
only IN the. northern end of the Capitol
that elevators are made limited express
trains for the benefit Of statesmen no mat
ter at how much inconvenience TO comm
way passengers. Members Of the house OF
REPRESENTATIVES take their chances with tns
rect of us. ROBERT GRAVES.