Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-04-02
FROM PAGE TO SENATOR.

SenatoE'G or4ap stellsS how he rcee.
from the position Of page in the u. 8.
Senate tothat Of Senator -irop the
State Of Maryland.
was tb5fte add;y ySc o&pfnaect Ito b3sstBSatesstnii
your pagehood in the Senate and your
full S~enatorship, "a VS. How's4eit?"''
Yes; Don after I became page. or
when I was about half grown, the
Government went into surveys for
routes 10 California. They were in
fact theJ &remopt surveying .e1pedi-
lions Because l knew Col. Benton
and Vermont and men OF Influence
there I was offered a place in the 'ex-'
petition l told Judge, Douglas was
going to go. 1 wanted TO see the
world, and was filled with the passion
TO Gross the mountains and hook at
the wonders Of the interior Of this
country. Ny father did not like to
SEQ me go.oft4hAt w&y;,he thought it,
would make me rover. Unable to
hold me back he had Mr.. Douglas
talk to me, and Douglas said: Arthur,
that is 90 way for. you to do. 1 tell
you how you cttn amount to more,
than much wandering promises. Stay
here, grow up in the Senate, acquainG
yourself with men and, measures and
the law, and then go back to Mary
land, where you came from, and you
can return to this body rs a Senator
'nf the United States. 1t is not hatd
thing for you to do it you make it
the purpose of your ffe.' The idea
that / should be a Senator il I took
that advice influenced me, no doubt,
20 I did not go to the West, and hav-
ing left the Senate as its ernploye at
the age Of q. 1 returned a Senator in
fifteen years.
"You came in here coinciSsntally
with Franklin Plerce?"
II was made a page just as Pierce
was elected! I saw all the contests
over Kansas and Nebraska 10 his
term, and was with Mr.. Douglas
when he aud Pierce and Buchanan.
were com petitors for the Presidency,
and When Mr.. Douglas was, apparent-
ly, the inevitable SUCCESSOR OF Mr..
Buchanan, stayed in the Senate as
an employees, moved uo from grade to
grade through Lincoln's administra-
tion and ia part of Johnson's, and I
returned a Seeator when Garfield was
inaugurateS. When l left the Sem
ate l was in effect the ser9eaHt- at
arms, although Mr.. Brown, u friend
Of Senator TTutnbull, of Illinois, held
the Office. He intrusted most Of. it's
functions tx me. You know that in
Those days, 10 Fact down to about 1877,
q place in the Senate was considered
life position. When I was forced
out OF my position politics intruded
into the old methods OF the Senate
aHd it finally destroyed the civii SER
vice in tho only place where it had q
strong foothold."
"What was your oGenseH"
"Although nay father was a strong
Union man, and was put in prison at
Richmond for his Unionism, he was a
Democrat; and after the wal Was ovor
the Legislation Of the Republicans CON
earning the negroes Acknowledgement,
ETC., aroused my Democratic blood
Two Senstors-Morgan, Of New Yor' ,
and Di6kinson, Of Conneoticut--were
sick whom "A vote was taken ON the
freedman's bureau bin, or something
OF that sort, and / exerted myself to
bring those men, who were for the
non-conservstiyss, to the Capitol that
they might vote. That was noticed,
apd Pomeroy, Of Karsas, who is still
iieing, and one or two others made it
Il subject Of complaint against Mr..
Brown, sergeant-at-srms. Brown said
shat he would take tho responsibility
on himself, but I s&id No, sahd that 1