Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1892-04-10
IRON rAon TO SENATOR.

10 tho following e1tr,ct nom Al
Interview pnblishsd in tho N. Y, Sur
Senator German tells bow no rose
from tho position OF page in thr US
Senate TO that oi Senator from tn,
State OF Maryland.
"Was therp any connection between
your pagei,ood in the Senate and yout
full Sens,rrship. az We Eow $40 IL"
"Y.s; soon after J | oaaue pnge. or,
when / wae ubout hn!t grown, thr
0oyurnmsnt went into surveys toL
rnutes 70 California. They Mere ii
fact the Fremont surveying expedi'
NonB. Because knew Col. Benton
,ud fremont and men Of influence
there / was offered q place in the ex.
leditiun. l told Judge Douglas l wha
going TO go. l wanted to soc the
world, md was filled with tho passion
10 rruss the mountains and o AT
III. wonders Of the interior OF this
country. Ny father did not like to
80 mo 20 oil that way; he thought IL
would make mo r rover. Unable to
hold me back he had Mr.. Douglas
talk tn mo, and Douglas said: Arthur,
tau. is l.o M.y iofyoa 10 do / tell
you how you Gun amount to
than much wandering promises. Stay
here grow up 10 the Senate, irnunin.
yourself with men and mnasu.Ss m.G
the law, and then 60 back To Mary.
laad, where you came from, and you
eau return TO this body ne q Senator
of the Uui,ed Stntns. " ia nota hnrd
thirs FOR you " do II you mike IL
the purpose OF your lits.' The idea
that | should be n Senator II ! took
that advice influenced the, no doubt,
p, | did not % to tho Vast, and hav-
ing leftthe Senate ms its smploye at
t.. :.:a q. 81, ! returned n Senator IN
6ttsen years."
"You cana in here coincidentally
with franklin c'crce?"
81 was made q page just MS Pierce
was elected. saw Hll the contests
over Kansas rad Nebraska in his
term, ami WAS with Mr.. Douglas
WHOM no aud Pierce and Buchanan
were competitors Tor the Presidency,
and whom Mir. Douglas WIS, n%ppnrent-
". tho inevitable SUCCESSOR OF Mr..
buchanan, IRtayed IN the Senate us
an employer. moved up from grade TO
grade through Lincoln's adminislra-
ton and il part Of Johnson's, and ]
returned a Senator when Garfield was
inanguratad. Wuen | left the Sem
ate. I was IN effect the sergeant ut
arm, although Mr.. Brown, "A friend
Of Senator rrutnbull, Of Illinois, held
tho office. Ho Entrusted most OF its
functions to mo. Sou know that in
thoec days, in fact down TO about 1877,
n plaza in tho senate was considered
q lifu position. Whom | was forced
out Of my position politics intruded
into the old methods OF the Senate
nnd il finally destroyed tho civil scr-
Woo in tho only place whefe it had a
strong toothold."
"Whnt was your offense?"
ALTHOUGH my father wac n strong
Union mlu, and was pnt in prison at
Richmond for his Unionism. he was n
Democrat, snd after tho war vas over
the Legislation Of the Republicans con.
corning the observation-disclosures
etc, aroused my Democratic blood
Two Seuators-Morgan, OF Now York,
and Dickinson, Of C,nncotIcut-wers
sick when a vote was taken on tho
freodnans burolu bill, or something
nj that sort, and I c1erted myself to
brlug those men, who were for the
un".coGsrrvat,ves, 10 the Capitol that
they might vote. That was noticed.
snd PomerSy, Of Kitsts, who is still
living, and ~ Or two others made il
Il subi~ct u complaint ssainst Mr..
Brown, serSeaut.at-armS. Brown said
that he would take the responsibility
on himself, bu, l said No and that
would % follow Judge Douglas
voice and 10 hotns to my district and
see IL l ,ould not enter the Senate by
u:other than the servants door. I
sctussd the nomination for Congress
tn.Ss IN district I wanted To- go
10 the Legislature aud from the LeSis-
ls:urs 10 the Senate"