Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-01-22
Some Things
Outside of
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II" W MuAAnS
One Of the most amusing things
that happened during the session of
any legislature occurred in the House
yesterday noon during the proceed.
ings of formally electing DR.. Harry
Lane as United States senator. The
ceremony started with a call of the
House, Every member answered to
his name except Representative Ea-
ton.
Speaker Macarthur ordered the SER
geant-at-arms and other House em-
ployes to make a hurried search
for Eaton, throughout the state
house. Seven minutes passed and
still no Eaton. Then Macarthur be-
gan reading the Oregon law govern
ing the election of United States
senator. He was still reading when
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Joe Sing
er of Portland bustled into tn House
with Eaton in tow. Then in u rich
Yiddish brogue Singer called out and
interrupted Speaker McArthur
"Mr, Speaker, Mr.. Eaton is pres
ent."
The entire House burst into laugh
ter. The interruption was so ex-
plosive and undignified and yet so
sincere. Joe thought he was really
acting dignified.
And no one yet knows where Eaton
was. He will not tell and all that
Joe knows about it is that he found
the Lane county member staring at
one Of the cannon from the battleship
Oregon in the Capitol basement.
However that may be, the fact re-
mains that Eaton got a haircut in
the forenoon--a trim rather, for he
still has a thick mop that the aver
age man would be proud of. His Lane
county colleagues, Parsons and Hurd,
assert that the losing of so much
hair made Eaton light-headed and
that he was wandering around in
a daze when found by Joe Singer.
The hearing of Speaker Macarthur,
familiarly known as Pat" is ap-
parently defective, During Tuesday
afternoons session, w. F. McAdams,
of Independence, mailing clerk of the
House, came stamping down the east
aisle in his new No. II heavy leather,
knee-high boots, such as miners,
ranchers and hunters are won't to
wear, He bought them as soon as the
recent sloppy weather set in.
Hearing the stomping noise, Speak.
er Macarthur interrupted the debate
going on by pounding with his gavel.
"Will the sergeant-at-arms see at
once that that noise overhead is
stopped?" shouted the speaker.
A few minutes later McAdanls
started down the aisle to go for an
other mail at the postoffice Same
old stomp, Bang! went McArthur's
gavel.
"Sergeant-at-Arms," that noise up
stairs must be stopped at once" an
grily shouted Macarthur.
And on the floor above the only
noise was the respiration OF two old
maids in the state library breathless-
ly reading a treatise on "why wood
burns faster in winter than summer"
A communication was read in the
House from Governors Secretary
Watson yesterday afternoon inviting
the House members and clerks to a
dance given by an organization at
the Armory last night and closing
with the announcement that tickets
were 81 each. Silence, deep silence.
An hour later a second communi-
cation was read by the Speaker an
that a mistake had been
made, that the House members and
clerks would be admitted free of
charge.
Then the House burst into uproar-
ious applause.
The biggest man in the House is
j. A. Wosterlund Of Medford. He
tips the scales at 265 pounds. But
the biggest man in the Legislature is
Senator l, N. Day Of Portland who
weighs three pounds more than
Westerlund. Both are very tall men
also, and each is unusually active.
But one of the oldest sights of the
state house is to see huge man like
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