El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-03

lery, executive clerk to the standing
committee of correspondents, or as
s1stant secretary of the -,Ional Press
club Jim" Preston finds way to be
or service to every newspaper reader
N America
SENATE Employees Better Paid
The employees of the senate are bet
ter paid, as a rule, than those of the
house. Only in the case of the appro-
priations committee of the house does
clerk get as good pay as the clerk
or the corresponding committee of the
senate. OF course the highest paid of
ficial of the senate Is it's secretary
whose salary is 1896. Charles G. Ben
nett has held this position for a num-
Der of years He was formerly a mem
Der of the house from Brooklyn. N
Y, and was elected secretary of the
senate after his defeat for reelection.
The bulk of the business of the senate
Is transacted through the clerks under
his Jurisdiction. His principal assist
ant is assistant secretary Henry NJ
Rose Rose is one of the finest read
ers in the country, and the senator's on
the floor are always glad when he acts
as reading clerk A few years ago he
had an offer to engage in private bust
ness, but the senate, IN order to hold
him, created the position of assistant
secretary and placed him In it at a
salary of $4,000 a year The offices of
the financial clerk, the superintend-
ent of the document room, the keeper
of the stationery, and the librarian are
under the general direction of the sec
rotary.
Nixon's Long Service.
Few officers in the government
service have had such a long connec-
ton with it as financial clerk Nixon,
who has been with the senate since
1887 He has disbursed over $4,000
900. When he began his period of
service there were So senator's: today
there are 90. He has served longer
than any other disbursing officer of
the government, and next to judge
Mills, is the notary public of longest
service in Washington.
Two important employees of the SEN
ate are the floor messengers, Tom Kel-
charge of all pairs when votes are
taken, and many time the result Of
senate vote has hinged on their being
wide awake and having their wits
about them. Senators of opposite
views arrange general pairs with one
another, so that their absence does not
affect the vote of the senate But Oh
specific questions are often switched
and rearranged on the spot, and in
depends on the ability of the messen-
gers to arrange the pairs so that ev-
cry vote on their respective sides of
the chamber may be made to count.
Senate Pages Alert.
The pages of the senate are a wide
awake set Of youngsters. There is
provision which permits them to be
employed only until they are 10. But
in the years they are there, they &C.
quire such sangfroid in the presence
of greatness that nothing in after life
is too awesome 10 discomfort them
They usually go out into the world and
late senator German started in life
az a senate page. The records are full
of instances where these boys have
profitted by the political training of
their youth and have risen to positions
of dignity in the legislative halls of
the country.
The reporters of the proceedings and
debates of the senate are employed on
a different basis than those of the
house. Theodore F. Shuey and Ed
ward V Murphy have the contract for
doing this work in the senate and are
paid $4,000 a year. Out Of this they
must employ their own assistants. al
though the senate buys such equip
ment as graphophones and wax cyl
irders. The work they have to do is
not quite so exacting as. that of the
house stenographeTs, since the pro-
penSity of everybody to talk at the
same time is held in check by that in