The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-08

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 in
danger of being cheated of their nickel'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 nickel
Finally the missing coin was rescued
from under the desk, and as the two many
time millionaires Strengthened up a Young
man in the press gallery, whose salary is
$40 week, remarked: ''They might have
saved themselves the trouble. If they had
sent page up here l would have given
them a nickel apiece" It 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
hurry. / am not"
Visitors to the Capitol are often much
puzzled by the erratic 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 90
TO the gallery, and he wiiI carry you
straight up, providing no seEstor appears
at the chamber floor and indicates desire
to 80 down. If senator does come aboard,
going down, you may get out and walk ND
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
to get off at the senate floor, and there
chances to be in the car a 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 ejacu-
lates basement" to the conductor, down
you drop to the bottom floor, past your
destination again, like shuttlecock
that never stops midway of its orbit
After one has been thus shuffled to and
fro for ten or fifteen minutes he be-
gins to realize the Importance and the
dignity of the United States senate. 1t 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 common
way passengers. Members of the house Of
representatives take their chances with the
rest OF us. ROBERT GRAVES.