Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11

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applaud nor boot nor
hiss make
demonstration whatever in that quiet and august
blage All is subdued. The sunlight fltering from
huge roof of exquisite stained glass makes at the
brightest noon dim spendor, yelled radiance, in
great cathedral. The Vice President sitting in his
tall carved armchair high dais, has easy Job to
keep ORDER the gave is seldom touched except in the
ordinary transaction of business, and the Sergeant at
Arms has snap
That amusing performance, being brought before the
bar for sharp reprimands and inquiries, which always
delights the House galleries, is extremely in the
Senate and does not mean the same thing. Repre-
sentatves brought before the Speaker for any old
thing especially for absence from the House when is
sitting. When the thing in the Senate, it
terrible rebuke and no Senator once before the
bar of the Senate, forget that painful expert
The decorum of the Senate is seldom infringed
Even the pages keep quiet, although body OF quiet
boys is elsewhere not than once IN blue
THE pages are a picturesque feature in the Senate
Chamber These lads selected for their brightness
and willingness well dressed, well paid, and trained
quiet observation and rapid and silent movement
They are in general fatherless boys of good birth and
breeding, who obliged to to work at an early age
As the Senate does not usually meet until twelve clock,
these lads have chance to 60 to school for some hours
every day. and they position to see the necessity
of education Many of them in after life rise to dis
tncton and there have been number OF Senators who
began life as pages Among the most notable was the
late Senator German of Maryland. They permitted
the steps OF the da1S Which the OfC1aS OF
the Senate have their desks, and are summoned by
light clapping of the hands by the Senators.
In long and wearing night sessions it is not uncommon
to little fellow drop off to sleep on the steps OF the
das directly under the Vice Presidents In these
times Senator always moves that the pages be eX
cused and they sent home to their mothers They
are autograph ends and of their regular of
revenue are little books in which they the auto
graph of every Senator in the chamber and sell at good
price. At Christmas and other holiday times
kindly Senator always provides them with treat OF one
kind or another.
DELAWARE, with its three counties, may be called
- the mother of the United States Senate. At the
organization of the Government little Delaware held up
all the other States by standing stiy the right of
every State have equal representations in the Senate
one of the wses provisions that made by the
builders of State. The smaller States, headed by
Delaware secured that clause the Constitution OF the
United States which provides that no State shall be
deprived without its consent OF equal representation
in the Senate. 1t is said to be the only provision
of the Constitution that cannot be amended. The
State of Delaware therefore, with population about
big good sized ward in New York or Chicago, has
the power in the Senate as New York or Texas,
and give Just much trouble when 1t gets ready.
In the Senate, however it has always been the case
that the and not the State counts 1t IS within our
own time when MIR. Blaine in the Senate from
Maine which has only four representatives in the lower
House, and Senator Bayard of Delaware led the Demo
cratic cohorts backed up by solitary member of the
House. At that time, however,
and until about fifteen years 49,
ago, the Senate contained NM
aggregate of greatness that has HNSS|SM
seldom been reached by any SN%
legislative body. This high ZT[(N
standard of ability has generally