The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-01

small for the greedy demands of the
Senate. The Senate has absorbed all
the rooms in its wing and encroached
on every bit of space there, till it has
crowded out or cramped the working
clerks, though no Senator has allowed
his committee room or::his private par
lor to be narrowed or trespassed upon.
At last, the Senators have gone to the
extreme of buying the celebrated Malt
by building, a great brick pile, al
most like one of our downtown Office
buildings. It stands just beyond the
grounds north Of the Capitol. The
Senators paid $l3S,OO0 for the building
every Senator has private lounging
room, personal parlor equipped with
servants. The enormous Capitol, never
designed for such extravsgant demands
upon its space, las proved far too
alone. It will illustrate the extent Of
their defiance of decency to make it
known that there is not committee
room in that building. The whole Of
the great structure is made up Of pri-
vate rooms for the Senators. The mem
bers of the minority all have such par
lors now, though when the luxurious
wedge was first inserted only the men,
bers of the majority were so pampered.
The Maltby building is managed like
great club house. It has its retinue
of doorkeepers, messengers, and ser
wants, its system of telephones aud
call bells, its elevator, and, in short,
the equipment of a great social club.
This disregard of republican SIM
plicity is seen not alonein great things.
It extends to the very littlest things ;
for. instance, the Senators keep car
penter shop, and part of its business
is to make for each Senator what are
calling packing boxes for moving their
lares and pecates from place to place.
The theory is that those are pine
wood crates, bat the Senators have a
way of going without pine boxes until
they are credited with the cost of fine
cedar ones, in which their wives after
ward keep their lace and linen and
defy the moths.
And in the summer time, when the
Senators 60 away, not few Of these
great men have Senate attendants to
take care Of their houses, to air the
rooms, to water the lawns, and to
preserve and guard their property. In
at least one case a Senator had the
public servants bring the Senate
wagons 10 cart his household goods to
the Capitol and store them in its base
ment. There are plenty Of men about
the Capitol who will swear that they
have seen dozen baby carriages in the
storeroom at one time. The Senate
keeps stable and a lot Of wagons.
ostensibly for carrying the mails to the
Senator's houses. Those Senators who
stay in Washington ali summer, when
there is no session, have their mai!
carried to their houses in these wagons,
and the drivers do not fail to execute
any other commissions which the
Senators ask of them. In the winter,
during the social season, visitors will
often find the Senatorial attaches act
ing as buffers, "bottons," ushers and
in such other capacities as men are
required for in the Senators houses at
dinners, dances and receptions.
In spite of the usurpation of all the
room above ground and under ground,
and far out under the terraces that
look so park-like and beautiful to an
observer, the Senators have left their
gaudily printed corridors and COLDER
Iobbies free and clear, to give an air Of
roominess to eirsurroundings. These
little arcades of stone and marble and:
gilt are among the celebrated sights Of
America.
Over on the House of Representatives
side of the Capitol ali is hustle. and
hustle. The rush and haste sum them
selves up into confusion like. tina.
which one notices at the stock ex-
changes of the worlds great cities.
The very air is instinct with business.
The Representatives rush about like
men who have not time enough for
their work. The little pages, sharp
and typical children Of the people,
rush through the halls with the
rapidity of kingbirds or Of the mes
sengers that brokers employ.
One gets into very different atmos-
phere who crosses the building and
enters the Senate wing. There never
is any hustle there. No toys propel
themselves like bullets through the
slow-moving crowds. There is no con-
fusion. The spirit Of every scene is one
of calm repose and elegant leisure. Over
in the House of Representatives the
clerks and attaches are respectful to the
members, but in the Senate no man
caon stay day without seeing that
the employees almost PROSTATE them
selves to the Senators. They bend
and bow and kowtow to the great men
like lot of East Indian fan bearers
in the presence of a rajah. Many Sena-
tors demand this, others are used to it,
and all Of them get it. The spirit Of
these employees is offensive to an
American. It leads to such absured
orders and such preposterous incidents
as that which led to a refusal to allow
The Sun correspondent to. enter a pub
lie room because a Senator happened
to be in there.
Someting of this is due to the South
ern Senators. They are probably
never the leaders in wasteful extrava.
gance, but they are the great sticklers