The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-04-03

til the day of Judgment there would
not be a minute that he could call
his own.
A Senator's mail averages about
a hundred letters day. They
cover every imaginable request
Sometimes single letter will re-
quire an hour of Senator's time AMI
in the office in which | have a part
it takes the entire force all day ard
into the night practically every day
in the year to keep up with the mail
and other work
Just before twelve O'Clock Sena-
tor Brown would start for the Capi-
toll. He would walk down a CORR
dor to one of the numerous elevators
and when he pressed the button three
times the elevator man would quit
every thing else and come after him.
That is a Senator's ring and no mat
ter who is on board nor where he is
going he will have to wait until the
Senator is transported to his destin-
alton.
Subway" the Senator would say
and the elevator would go down TO
tunnel that extends from the Of
flee Building to the Capitol. The
distance is about two hundred yards
and the Senator would have his
choice of two vehicles of Transports
ton, an electric automobile and an
electric monorail car. This little
one-rail railroad cost about SIS, 900
and | understand broke the contraC-
tor who put it in. 1t makes 50
much fuss that l have named it
Roosevelt.
This subway is a great conven-
fence in bad weather There is one
over on the House side, the Senate
Office Building being at one corner
of the Capitol and the House Office
Building being at the other. A per-
son passing from the extreme end of
the building through the subways
and the Capitol to the other office
building could walk about half a
mile protected from the weather.
The work of Congress could not be
carried on without these subways.
The new Senator would find in
the Capitol an elevator exclusively
for Senators to take him from the
subway to the Senate floor. When
he got off on the Senate floor he
would be pretty near to the Sanctur
Sanctorum-the Holy of Holes Of
the American Government.
You have heard of Senatorial dig
nifty. You can see it now if You
keep your eyes open. You can feel
it. The air seems to be different.
You see numbers of men in uniform,
you see guards, doorkeepers, and
others who stand between the
stream of visitors and Senators,
some of them so conscious of their
Senatorial dignity that they seem
to be almost suffering pain.
You send in your card to a Sena-
tor and if he can see you he comes
out and receives you in the Marble
Room, very large and beautiful
room across a private corridor from
the Senate Chamber.
At one end of this room is the
other the room of the President
Senator Hoke Smith has five rooms,
three in the Senate Office Building
and two in the Capitol. His Capt
tol offices are just under the Marble
Room and are reached by stairs ex-
tending down almost Immediately
from the Senate Chamber.
The new Senator would take his
seat at twelve o'clock and he would
be in the Chamber until six That
would be an hour and a half after
all the Government clerks in Wash
ington had quit work,
You can figure it out for your
self. A Senator has barely time
to glance at his mail in the morning
before he is called to a committee
meeting, usually at half past ten.
He is in the Senate from twelve I'M
til six. He frequently works at
home until late bed time and the
strain is incessant. Such a thing
as rest is impossible. There is not
a working man in Marietta who does
not have more time with his family
than is possible with a Senator.
And sometimes they are nagged aft