Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-07

and the member of even that close corpora
ton bold enough to intimate that private
SUITE clerk, stenographer, messenger
or TWO. marble bath tub, an electric nerve
calmer, a massaging machine and other
paraphernala of latter-day luxury were
absolutely necessary to his senatorial dig
nifty would probably have found himself set
down as many years ahead of his time. But
the Senate gradually swung into line and
its title of the American house of lords
has been we'll deserved these many years.
And now the House has swinging, or has
swung, for the hastily conceived and more
hastily executed plan of an appropriation
of $3,O0O.O0O for IAN office building for men,
bers" took even the Senate by surprise, and
forced that BODY for the first time in its
existence to fall in behind the lower house
and provide for another trio of millions for
an identical and equally worthy purpose.
At the Senate End.
t But the Senate has always been away
ahead of the House in dealing with its food
problem. The "for members only" signs
are old and worn at the Senate end of the
big building, and eXclusiveness has reigned
there at meal time these many days For a
long time the members of the House looked on
with awe, with envy and with deep respect
Outwardly they sneered and called on high
heaven to make comparisons between the
two ends of the Capitol-between the SEN
ate, with its privileges and perquisites, it's
long pay roll of variously titled EMPLOYEES
and its for members only restaurant
Perhaps of all the list of the double ''Ps''
nothing stuck harder in the craw of the
average representative than those for
members only signs.
Messrs. Page and Coffin, two thrifty New
Englanders, run the House and Senate
restaurants, and despite the fact. that rent
hight heat, power and a few other things
that are usually considered in the light of
fixed charges are free, they insist that
their so-ca1led gold mine doesn't pay for
working, half the time Only last session
two restaurants and reported that the
profits were not worth talking about This
has been especially true since the privilege
of selling liquors was taken from the man
ayers And the difference in the atmos-
phere of the House restaurant since this
change went into effect has been remark
able. On some days before the liuuor
privilege was knocked out that pleasing
diversion known as opening wine' was
practically a continuous performance and
the cork extracting process reached its
limit of efficiency and was reminiscent of
the firing line. Nowadays if the ''whop''
of a champagne cork were heard in the
House restaurant it's a moral certainty
that the manager would fall in a fit, and
there's no telling what else would happen
Messrs. Page and Coffin wore broad and
ample smiles in those old and bye-gone
days. OF course, there were certain in
cidental' expenses then, and are now but
they are inevitable. Some years ago it
took four pnts of champagne a half a
dozen imported cigars, and a mighty swell
lunch every day of the session to keep a
certain speaker of the House convinced
that the restaurant was conducted in the
proper manner.
Not High Livers.
And, of course, it will appear to even
the unthinking that long as Senator
Cockrell lunches sumptuously on five cents
worth of Ben Davis apples and Senator
Burrows gets up from the lunch table
breathin hard, after consuming 10 cents
worth of hulled corn and milk, that there is
mighty little chance for the poor restaurant
man. And Senators Cockrell and Burrows
are not by any means the exception in this
regard. Many other members of the House
and Senate eat mighty plain fare and very