The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03

smoked IN his elegantly methodical fashion
mas been reckoned good enough for his long
Whlskered successor and the big leather
coucnes that suited Senators Pierce and
MOODY only too well, are not to be changed
Tor the DEVILS Lake victor and the religio-
political Kyle from the two Dakotas. From
now until next December, the sacred pre-
clncts will be entirely deserted, except
when Captain Bassett who has served as
nrst-asslstant door-keeper for fifty years,
goes In to rest on one of the soft couches.
or when Alonzo Stewart, the first messen-
ger OF the floor, permits some curious per-
son to walk through.
sLovENLY AND EXTRAvAGANT MASCULINE
HoUsEKEEPERs.
The Fifty first Congress being adjourned,
there reigns throughout that vast building
delclous quiet, a splendid silence, and
unlimited dirt. Under the feather-headed.
I4,9OO pound Chickasaw goddess that
perches on the apex of the great white
dome, there are tons and tons of unneces-
sary dirt. House-cleaning at the capitol
Will not begin until July, but the perma-
nent force OF scrubbers have given it what
an Old housekeeper would call, click and
PROMISE" that is, the entire building
LOOKS as II 1t had been given premonitory
1lrt OF busting maids broom, for from
basement, to dome, dust is king. The
late mob Of statesmen, with their
attendant army of clerks, mes
sengers and pages, have melted
into history. The visitors are reduced
from hundreds to dozens, and indefatig-
able reporters and numerous LOBBYISTS are
no more. The great editce is In the hands of
the capitol police, the guides and a few
under officers, all Of whom are holding
high carnival of inaction. Nobody is do
ing anything. The clerks and listless Of
ficers have plenty of time for visitors, and
the police loll about the rotunda in the
fullness of relief ssThis has been the
worst session l ever saw said Captain
Albaugh, chief of the police. 81 never re-
member being so tired of those people,
and this is the general sentiment of the
capitol employees.
Whatever may be argued against states
women in national council, it cannot be de-
MED that one competent woman house.
keeper, with brigade of trained kitchen
maids and scrub women would soon have
the interior of the capitol in harmony with
the stately exterior. If q woman did the
capitol house cleaning, one would not feel
like comparing the inside and outside of
that great structure to before and after
taking advertisement of patent medicine.
Tine regular cleaning forcen of the CAPT
toll, lot OF sipShod darkies, have about as
much eldea of dirt as Adam had of the
fifteenth amendment, and the daily per-
1unctory swish and swipe of their mops and
brooms cause woman to iEstinctively
yearn for soap, water and scrub
brush. These masculine housekeepers have
no idea that the capitol is not as clean as
parsons pantry after a donation party.
nor have any of the hundreds of Congress-,
men any notion that these inlaid floors are
dim with dust, and that it has collected and
drifted into all the corners, and over cor
nices and ornamental panels and
about the carved caps and into
the f1uted bodies of the massive
pillars. Men do not realize dust
and 'small dirt" Beings who can
walk all day over that Isl feet of tobacco
stained marble, and sit alongside Capitol
cuspidore for five or six hours in comfort.
cannot be expected to know that mere clean
dust is besprinkled over every object they
touch or look upon.
DUSTY DIGNITY.
The marble dignitaries who perch in the
inches of the Senate galleries have little
crowns OF dust on their marble pates. and
it is safe to say that not one of the lately
escaped four hundred have the remotest
idea that big flake of dust has settled
upon the tip-tilted nose of Mr.. T. Kos
ciuszko, who occupies a pedestal in Statu-
airy hall, nor that the creases in Ethan