The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

buster in the statehood matter, were ar
rested by the assistant sergeants-at-
arms and presented at the bar of the
house. The resentful ones complained
ENORMOUSLY of their arrest to the
speaker. Uncle Joe's eyes, however,
did not become believed with sympathy
over their lamentations He is old
fashioned enough TO believe that leg
islator ought to be willing to do some
work for his pay. perQuisites and pre-
negatives. He didn't advise the COM
planning ones to tell their troubles to the
captain of the capitol watch, but he
brought his gavei down right in the
middle of the sad stories of several.
These fellows haven't been here long
enough to remember E5uck Kilgore,
was B1r. Cannon's private comment on
the complaints of some Of those brought
before the bar of the house. Buck
not only didn't want TO stay off the
floor. but he kicked his way in"
He referred to the occasion, ten or a
dozen years ago, when Buck Kilgore,
THE Texas representative, Kicked TO film
ders the main door leading to the house
floor. At that time Speaker Reed had
in operation his simple but great
scheme of just locking 'em in TO main
tain a quorum.
Whenever "a sufficient number of rep
lresentatiVes To constitute a quorum fill
tered in. Car Tom, wi tn nod, direct
ed the door1eepers TO close and lock
THE doors. and the entreatieS and
iprayers of members who wanted to get
off the floor for any purp Ose whatsoever
were alike unaVailing. MIR. Reed need
led them there for voting purposes. and
there they stayed.
The main door to the floor was thus
locked and bolted one afternoon when
= no hra L xKrh
llayed in arriving at the house, swung
along.
Buck pushed at the door and found it
unyielding.
Hey, what's coming off hel.e?' Kill
gore demanded of the doorkeeper on
duty. why can't 1 get in? House ad-
Speakers got quorum" replied the
doorkeeper.
well. femme in and I'll add to it,"
said Buck to the 6OOrkeeper.
Cant open any doors, sir-speak
ers orders" said the doOriheepcr.
That SOP" said KHgOre, and he
promptly kicked the swinging leather
covered wooden doors to kindling wood
entering the house ike a roaring, ramp
ing lion.
Most speakers would have sought thu
punishment of a representative for pull
ing off trick like that. That how
Reed thought of. The audacity of Kill
cores act appealed to Reeds magma
lion. and if was all right for the Texan
The most picturesque of the recent
arrests was that i'm which one of the
mouse pages brought Cy SIlloway to
the bar of the house.
When a call for a quorum was made
the chief paga delegated one of the
tniest of his youngsters TO go forth
and bring Mr.. SIlloway. Cy SullOWay
is the most remarkable piece of verti-
cal workmanship in the house of repre-
sentatives- Nobody knows just how
high Cy is. but his elongatedness can't
he much inferior to that of the late
Chang. the Chinese giant.
The mite of a page, a boy something
over three feet IL stature, prOwled
around the committee rooms for quite
bit before he came upon the ianguid
Cy, who. with en- aniable breeze blow
ing upon him from the open windows
looking on the terrace, was cooked back
in a chair. with his legs wrapped around
each other two or three times and the
feet resting on table, reading a news
paper.
Mr. Sulloway." the tI:ree-foot page
solemnly squeaked, you're under ar
rest and am 10 conduct you to the ban
of the house"
The monolithic Sulloway unraveled
his legs grinned, stretched his arms
and rose to his vast height
Lead the way mister" said he to the
boy, and the page led him to the main
door of the house.
Entering the door, the boy, with fine
sense Of the dramatic, grabbed hold of
the upon and down giants hand To en-
phasize the fact that he had captured
his man. Thus the thTee-foot kid led
the towering Cy down the main aisle,
amid the laughter of the house.
q r.fr- 80 Il -1- l..
Cy suddenly reached down and taking
the boy in his arms. lifted him up and
deposited him Squareiy on the speak
er's desk. saying 10 the amused Can
non. Il give you my captOr,' and the
arrest was complete.
The most irritating incident of the ar
resting business was when some TWEEN
ty-two members of the lower house
were inoontinently yanked away from
the Washington baseball grounds right
at the critical point in the game.
1t was a very beautiful day and the
game was a fine one. The representa-
lives ali of them most reSOlute fans
were scandalously interested in the
contest. and several of them were root
ing right out loud. They hadn't attend
ed the game in a body, but were scat
tered all over the grand stand and in
The boxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
were up dDONC III llt pIGSlUtul > UdSc-
ball boX-they attended most of The
games while the Washington club was
playing at hOms. Mrs. Longworth was
keeping score, and keeping it in genu-
Inc baseball reporters style-a couple
of her baseball score cards were sold
Tor a tidy figure at a recent Masonic
festival here.
The Washington club had the St.
Louis outfit as opponents. The score
was ) TO in favor of the Nationals at
The end of the sixth inning. When the
seventh inning began the St. Louis
bunch Immediately filled the sacks and
stone, The slugger, was next man up
Tor the st. Louis team. 1t was a fine
looking situation and, with all the rest.
The representatives leaned forward
eagerly TO see how the thing was 60
ing 10 work out. Then there was a sud
den chugging of automobiles pulling up