The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-09
STORIES FROM HAsHIHaTON.
An Exchange OF Courtesies Between David
Davis and Senator voorhees,.

An Exchange or Courtesies Between David
Davis ana Senator Voorhees,.
WASHINGTON. Jan. ga stranger walked up
to the main doorkeeper of the House of Repre-
sen. atives the other day and said with an air of
confidence:
Il would like to see the President for a few
minutes"
He is at the White House, a mile and a half
down Pennsylvania avenue" was the reply.
What took him away down there and how
long will he be goneI' asked tho stranger. and
when the official informed him that the Ex-
ecutive lived and had his office at the White
House and not at the Capitol he remarked as he
'a 5%eli rT f'So learned something to-day if that's
That seems q funny thing. doesn't IT." said
the doorkoeper. but it is an old question with
me- me: There There seems Manv to O, be a very ,n1yE w tSst m 9hs !, prsi in
offices in tho Capitol. I've been here twenty
passed without some such incident. The mis-
takes are not all made by the country people.
an tn Emission fee charged Sa to the floor OF both
houses while they arc In session. and, seeing
me here in uniform. they think thin In Ihs selling tick,
worth and the other day q man wanted TO see
his Congressman and when ! asked. for his
send 1t in"
IL dCOubLlCb VI CtOluoly u ~ q
of wonder to every tourist. and some guido is
busily engaged pointing out the wonderful
echoes all the time. The other day a youth en-.
ployed in q department was visited by his
father and he played a trick on the old gentle
man. There is q block about the centre of the
circular hall where. II one stands and faces the
north, q sound uttered rpm the doorway, forty
feet in the rear, seems to BIO Immediately in
front of this block. The youth managed to get
his father on the block. and, attracting his at
ssar and sGw saia. +" s sISiSs IN sim alS" ha sepp soui 70 Ny Ny
watch has stopped"
The father drew w. out H. his watch, and Nv was 1asIhnalf
around and saw that he. was standing alone
and that tho son was nowhere to BIO seen. He
was bewildered and looked Ike the man from
beneath whose coat collar the magician has
Just extracted. u 1.-Two goose.
pillar where he hadbeen in. hiding. but 1t required
many explanations to restore the old gentle
mans serenity.
Col. Diok Bright has been Scrgeant-at-Arms
OF the Senate for many years, and has known
many famouE men. II think the funniest thing
that ever happened in the Senate" said he the
other day. was when David Davis was Presi-
dent pro tenn. Davis was Of enormous build, and
weighed over 800 pounds. but he had a remark
ably small head. Now. the late Senator voor-
bees of Indiana had a very large head. He had
to get his hats made to order. and wore q IN
size. Ono day Voorhees, entered the Senate in q
hurry to write a letter. He went to his desk.
which was next to the corridor. He put a new
silk hat on the floor By the desk, and some ono
passed. and installing tho hat for q ,cuspidor
it he was enraged. The story went over the
chamber, ami everybody but Voorhees, laughed
about IL for a long Time: one morning MIR;
the Senate. and every one saw that he was rut-
fled up, the weather being very disa2recablc,
/ was sitting ut my place, and he called to mo
and said: There seems TO De u great amount or
noise in here. l wish you would restore quiet
l looked AT the galleries, and saw that every.
thing was orderly up there, and told him that
tho noise was made by the senators themselves.
Mr. Davis said: Yes. l guess that Is So, Then,
and some others were talking, he said; 1t does
seem queer that men who arc elected to such
high office have not enough manners e DO
down and tell Voorhees, that ! am glad that
that Yellow spit in his hat went down and
dew into a rage. His eyes looked like balls OF
iirc. Ibid heI Did Davis say thatt' he OK;
claimed, 80 loudly u that even sad the ns, galleries lsri could
wish a wet dog would make a nest In his hat,
but that y would take a mighty small pup to
get into IT,
An old soldier who favors the publication OF
the names OF pensioners In the districts In which
they live. and the cause Of the pension. says tho
suggestion was first made by Commissioner
Bentley OF Wisconsin. He also urged tho send
ing Of commissioners who should be strangers
10 each district to take tho evidence OF neigh
bors as 10 II mans ply sioal condition and his
tory. Yet there are some queer Eases hat
can't be touched very easily: ror Instance, 4
was detailed for. guartermastcrd nty a. a NORTH,
ern post is drawing q pension OF SSS a month
LOT ~aer SU s.eiDS = gun when the soldiers
marched home. Tor he never saw one while he
was ~ the army. He RSkea = good Living as