The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-06-03
SENATE EXCLUSIVE.
Some Queer Eules Which Are
Imposed on the Public.
OPPRESSIVE DIGNITY REIGNS.
The An,s ricau House Of Lords Will Not
Allow smoking In uts End Of the Capt.
toI-The Senatorial Elevator ermany's
Rise ~ - Manufacturing Nation.

Allow smoking In tts End Of the Capt.
toI-The Senatorial Elevator-Gormany'
Rise AZ - Manufacturing Nation.
WASHINGTON, June 8. - special. -
Visitors tn the United States capitol find
themselves confronted by some queer rules,
especially at the senate end OF the big
building. Almost hourly some man is ask
ed to stop smoking a Cigar as he walks
from that half of the capitol controlled by
the house of representatives into the sacred
precincts which are under the domination
of the senate. The American house of lords
has shut down upon tobacco smoking In
its half of the capitol save In committee
rooms and the senator's Hobbies. 1t is Of
ten comical to watch the American citizen,
the independent sovereign of this land of
ours, as no Is requested by member OF
the capitol police to remove his cigar from
his mouth. Now and then one meekly
complies, but the average American citi-
zen knows his rights and dares maintain
them He resents this interference with
his rights and does it rather vigorously
If there is anything in the world the
smoker hates to do, IL Is to throw away an
unfinished cigar and not one man in 100
can do it with good grace. The average SOW
ereign of this republic of ours looks with
disdain upon the policeman. He is awed
neither by the gorgeousness OF the marble
palace nor by the number of buttons on
the coat of the officer. He grunts out some
commentary upon this highfaluting and
fnicky way of doing business, holds his
cigar between his fingers for few mo-
ments and then goes to putting at 1t again
in triumph.
But this is not the only queer rule which
the high and mighty senate has imposed
upon the public. One elevator is reserved
exclusively for the use of senators, en-
ployees of the senate and newspaper cor
respondents. The visiting sovereign who
wants to go to the gallery cannot under
stand why he Is denied admission to this
elevator He thinks himself quite as good
as any senator to say nothing of senatorial
employees and newspaper writers.
Visitors Must Not Laugh.
Once in the gallery, the visitor finds
himself bound round and round by rules
of conduct He must not speak above IA
whisper under penalty of being repri
manded by the ever vigilant doorkeepers
He must not laugh. He must not applaud,
for If he does the presiding officer solemn
ly warns him, and in case of repetition OF
the awful offense against the dignity of the
senate he threatens to have the galleries
cleared. This threat Is often made, but
history fails to record an instance in which
1t was executed. The stranger does not
know this, however, and he generally sub
sides. Above all things the occupant of
the galleries must not point with his fin
ger to any senator on the floor. This is
highly offensive to the dignity of the body
and only day or two ago l saw "a gentle
man who was pointing out senators to the
ladies of his party called down" by an
employee, greatly to his modification.
There are many other rules of conduct
about the senate chamber. In the cafe
room is set apart sacred to the use of SEN
ators. No one is admitted TO the senate
lobby without the authority Of a senator.
There are guards at the committee room
doors, and If you want to see the senator
within you must send in your card.
England's New Competitor.
For some time past the commercial
world has been giving close study to the
rise of Germany as a manufacturing and
trading nation. 1t is now "a subject of fire.
quent comment that the Germans have be-
come the keenest traders in the world.
Their international commerce Is probably
growing faster than that of any other ma
ton. The English especially have felt Ger
man competition very keenly In the United
States in South America, in Africa, and
now they are beginning to feel it in the
east. The reason for this Is discussed quite
interestingly in report which Consul
Monaghan Of ChemnitZ, Germany, has
just sent to the state department Ger
many's capacity To compete with Eng
land he says lis not due, as all along
supposed 60 cheaper labor, but, as watch
full observers have believed, TO superior
technical training. This England has had
to admit. She saw Germany and Belgium
beating her, not only in foreign parts, but
inside her own gates. Under these condi-
tions the British Iron Trade association
felt itself called upon TO get at the causes
OF this seeming anomaly. 1t sent out ex-
pert agents. equipped with passports, let
tiers of recommendation ETC.. to examine
ostensibly the labor question, but really to
examine the iron industries of Belgium
and Germany. This investigation revealed
the fact that German success was due, not
to cheap labor, but to superiority in skill
and technical training"
Consul Monaghan goes on to explain
why this Is so, and offers a hint which
American manufacturers and exporters
might proftably take advantage Of. Ger
man workmen," he says, ARE so trained
as to know not only what TO do, how to do
1t, but why 1t Is done. The schoolmaster
has been abroad. The technical schools
have neglected nothing. Manufacturers
here and in England have been compelled
to admit the advantages Of q system such
as has compelled the employers of labor In
the empire to see to it that their appren
tices attend the Fortbilding further de-
veloping) schools at least twice In each
week. England Is waking up to the need
of introducing such schools into her sys-
tenn"
Germany Extending It's Trade.
The Germans are just now making spe-
cial efforts to extend their trade in Japan
They are actually advertising German
wares In Japan In a paper printed for that
purpose in the Japanese language. Ger
man consuls in Japan have been very 40.
tive In promoting trade with their own
country, and the idea of a newspaper to ad.
vertise among the japanese, who arc ON
nivorous readers, originated with the CON-
suls. The first number Of similar paper
N the Chinese language is to appear short
~. The cost IL enormous, for both Ian
guages are made up, not as is our own or
the German language, from alphabets, but