The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-20
Legislative Sidelights.

A most estimable member of the Senate.
one who is known for untiring labors in
committee room and for general indus
triousness, possesses as a distinguishing
mark a very bald head. OF him it is said
that once upon time he went into a bar
Der shop and carelessly running his fingers
through the fringe around his ears, re-
marked to the black man behind the chair:
You may give me a hair cut.
"A what, sah?' inquired the barber
"A hair cut" repeated the senator. en-
phatically.
IVY you don't need a hair cut" replied
the Indfana-avenue artist; What You need
is a shine"
Senator Lindley, whose poetic speech in
defense Of the birds brought tears to many
an eye in the Senate yesterday morning.
lays claim to being the only real farmer in
the Legislature. 1.-THE others may be far
mers" he says, "but they are not working
at it very hard" Senator Lindley is ac-
customed, as many farmers are, to very
early rising. and doorkeeper of the Sen
ate said of him the other day that during
the first day or two of the Senate he came
so early to the StatehouSe that he had to
camp out on the front steps until Major
Krietenstein got ready to open up. AS the
the story may be doubted. The fact remains
that the senator from Noblesville is up
with the birds and is walking the streets
briskly in search of exercise before many
of his colleagues have come out of dream
land.
Senator Thralls, whose piratical black
whiskers add to the decorative complete
ness of the left side of the chamber, and
whose soft Italian name of Raphael is an
unusual one for a statesman to bear, is
another of those that cannot keep his eye
lids closed after o'clock in the morning.
hn hc IN md a. hot
hour and a brisk constitutional puts him
in shape for breakfast.
DR.. John n. Hurry, who did little lobby
ing in the Senate chamber in favor of the
bill for a State laboratory of hygiene seized
the opportunity to gallop his hobby up and
down before the senators to show off it's
good points.
Have you been vaccnated?" he asked
Senator Eban III. Wolcott.
mot guilty. replied the senator from
Jasper, Newton and White.
"Come down and let me fix YOU" said the
secretary of the State Board of Health
1T won't cost you a cent and 1 will give
you the time of your life
But after" asked the senator.
There will be no after, answered the
doctor. you will never know that any,
thing had been done to you except, perhaps,
a fever, tinge of nausea and a general
gone feeling for while"
the doctor had poor success with the sena-
tors.
Alva o. Reser, of Lafayette, who was a
familiar figure in the House during the ses-
sions of 80 and 01 and one of the ac-
tive members of the majority side, was a
visitor in the House yesterday. He an
nounced that he had been promoted from
the floor to the press table and that he
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the representative of the Lafayette
Journal. Mr.. Reser was one of the men,
bers on whom the newspaper men always
counted to enliven a dull session. He
has the happy faculty of seeing the hu-
morous side of a proposition little bit
quicker than the average mortal and the
additional gift of being able to present his
views in an entertaining manner, conse-
Quently when he arose to speak the re-
porters always took a fresh interest in life
and sharpened their pencils.
Reading Clerk Rossiter, of the House, got
his tongue tied in a new knot yesterday
when he essayed the word ''metaphorical-
ly" in a report submitted by Chairman
Stechhan. of the committee public NOR
ais. The different ways he pronounced the
word before he finally gave IL up as bad
job convulsed the House and brought the
deep scarlet of embarrassment to his
cheeks.
Representative Sayre. OF Wabash, is due
for joke about every often. and yes
terday was one of his days. Speaker Mar
shall announced the vote on a bill and had
declared 1t passed by vote of Sc to o. and
Sayre rose and strolled over to the press
table.
Did il strike you.'' he asked. what kind
Of monstrosty that was that the speaker
just described-an animal with Sc eyes and
nose?''
| Mr.. Sayre, by the way. welded the speak
er's gave yesterday for the first time fol
| eighteen years Mr.. Marshall was
| called away for few moments and he haC
| the member from Wabash take the chair
Away back in the eighties Mr.. Sayre wa.
| speaker of the House and he showed yes
| terday that he had not forgotten how q
| preside.
| Mr.. Denbo. of Floyd. Is after the lotter,
| sharks that were driven from Louisvill,
and took UP refuge on the Indiana side