The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-02
SEEN AND HEARD AT THE CAPITOL

SEEN AND HEARD AT THE CAPITOL
Senator Davis and Sergeant-at-Arms
Ransdell did a graceful thing yesterday.
In the poLh end of the Senate wing there
is quasi private elevator, which. dur
/ ing the sessions of the Senate, is reserved
for members of that branch of Congress,
newspaper men. and certain privileged per-
sons at tbe Capitol. During the Montana
Senatorial enquiry counsel, witnesses. and
| spectators have used this elevator in
/ travelling between the ground floor and the
| gallery floor on which the Elections Com
mittee room is. The cage starts upward
| from the. Senate floor with dozen men
| and women, bound for the third floor. At
! the second, or Senate floor. the cage Is
| halted by Senator who enters. The con-
| ductor aaks, Which way, Senator? ard
the gentleman addressed. nine times out
| of ten, says down." because about nine
| times more Senators go to the committee
| rooms in the basement than to those on
! the gallery floor, and in the matter OF
| elevator transit, Senators have the right
| of way. Thus the upward bound crowd
| will go down to the basement: This thing
may be repeated a number Of times before
the cage and its passengers get past the
Senate floor. The elevator was crowded
yesterday when Senator Davis and Mr..
Ransdeil got in at the second floor. which
way. SENATOR? said the conductor. on.
said Mr.. Davis, Il guess | will ride up
| with the boys and then go back to the
basement. An old-timer in the press gal
lery in narrating the incident, said: Il
almost dropped dead from heart disease
Would Willie Beverage have done that?
Well, l guess not
The members of the Senate who appear
to do more work at the desks in the cham
Der than in their committee rooms are
Senators Cockrell, McComas. and Vest
! They attend to mass of correspondence
while other business is in progress, Though
Messrs. Cockrell and Vest are always con-
scious of all that is passing
Representative Richardson and several
Democratic colleagues yesterday created
some fun at the expense of Mr.. Lands of
Indiana. and incidentally gave a sly dig
at the gold standard, of which the Indiana
statesman is an ardent advocate.
Mr.. Lands had reported favora5ly from
the Committee on Foreign Relations a bill
to permit c. l.. Mari and E. II. Pierce.
Keepers of the CuckolGs. Maine, Jog signal
STATEN, to accept each a watch awarded 10
them by the Government of the Dominion
of Canada, in recognition of their services
in rescuing the captain and crew of the
schooner Aurora, of Harboursville Nova
Scotia. on January T. 1896.
Mr.. Richardson asked fer more partic-
uiars. which Mr.. Lands gave in detail.
The tall Tennesseean, however, was ap-
parently not satisfied and propounded the
query:
What kind of watches are they. gold or
silver"
Mr.. Lands smilingly admitted that the
watches were silver.
That is all right" said Mr. Richardson
as he tesurned his seat.
Senator Clay's speech on the Philippines
yesterday was listened to closely by sew
eral Senators On the Democratic side of
the chamber, among them being Messrs
Martin, Harris. Culberson Bate. Talia- |
ferro, Turkey. Butler McLaurin. Kenney
and Pbttus. Those on the Republican side /
10 paid strict attention to the words of |
the Georgia Senator were Messrs. Hoar. |
Teller, Perkins, and Hanna. Mr.. BeY- !
eridge moved around a good deal on the !
Democratic side. changing his seat several |
times
Representative Lacey of Iowa vas on /
the floor of the Senate yesterday curing |
the presentation and discussion of amend |
ments to the Hawaiian bill. He wore, as |
usual, red blossom in the lapel of his |
coat.
One of the most devoted attendants upon
the sessions of the Montana Senatorial |
hearing is a blind man, whose name is
Campbell. He has never missed one ses-
sion. and he has never once left the COM
mittee room until the time of adjourn
ment. He moves around among the chairs
and tables with almost as much certainty
as though he could see.
Quite a number of young women drop
into the committee room of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections. One Of the
first questions they ask is, Which is Mr.. |
Clark" Sometimes they mean Senator
Clark, but more often they mean his son,
Charles W. Clark.
Representative Bellamy of North Caro-
lima in speaking of the report that he de-
ciined to vote on the Porto Rican tariff
bill Wednesday because he represented a
State in which it is alleged the Tobacco
Trust is very strong. said yesterday: Il
was not only against the bill, but made a
speech against ii. | was paired with Mr. |
Bailey of Kansas. After the vote on the
substitute of Mr.. Mccall l arose and stated
that was paired with Mr. Bailey and that
il ] were not | would vote yea and On |
the Payne bill providing for the tariff |
again stated that respected my pair with |
Mr. Bailey. and If not paired would vote
nay. / believe the bill is entirely rncon-
stitutional and that the Supreme Court
will hold il to be unconstitutional not only
in the feature that imposes tariff on the
islard different from that of the rest of
the United States, but also in that other
feature which devotes the entire revenue
to that island alone