Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-09-08
COMMONWEALTH
OF MASSACHUSETTS
Boston, August Il, 1916.

Suffolk, S.,
Then personally appeared before
me, the undersigned, Frederick A.
Crafts, Notary Public within and
for the County and Commonwealth
aforesaid, Arthur NJ. Rich, who de-
poses and says;
That he lived in the State of Yer
mont from the time he was eleven
years old, except for a few months
when he was in Washington, ID. c"
until about two years ago when he
came to Massachusetts; that he grad.
uated from st, Johnsbury Academy,
ST. Johnsbury, Vermont.
That he went to work in a law office
at Newport, Vermont, and continued
to work in law offices for a number
of years: that he was very anxious to
study law and become a lawyer;
That he was unable to go to college
or work his way through profess
sional school because of lack of funds
and because he had a dependant
mother; that William S. Bean, of said
Newport, who was clerk of the Com.
mittee on Standards, Weights and
Measures, of which Senator c, S. Page
of Vermont was chairman, informed
him that Senator Page at that time
had another appointment on said Com
mittee, that this would be an oppor'
tunity for said Rich to work and earn
a living and at the same time attend
law school nights in Washington,
d. c.;
That the salary paid was S125 a
month; that at this time said Bean
informed him that Senator Page
would like to see him in Hyde Park,
Vermont; that he Immediately went
to Hyde Park and told Senator Page
of his ambitions;
That Senator Page told him that
Mr.. Bean was his Secretary and also
Clerk of the Committee on Standards,
Weights and Measures, and that he
had one more appointment on said
Committee, that of Assistant Clerk or
Messenger, and promised him the
positions;
That Senator Page told him to re-
lOI NOIh III Ne ~
on January /, 1910, which he did;
That he was enrolled and placed on
the pay roll at the Senate Disbursing
Office as Assistant Clerk or Messenger
of the Committee on Standards,
Weights and Measures, the salary be-
ing Sl20 month, payable twice a
month when the Senate was in SEES
sion, and once a month when not in
session;
That the first time he was to receive
his pay, the Committee Clerk, Bean,
told him to get his pay at the Senate
Disbursing Office and take the money
to Senator Page: that he received that
day $50, being two weeks pay, for
which he receipted as said Assistant
Clerk or Messenger;
That Senator Page then told him for
the first time, that he was to receive
only one-haIf of said salary, that from
that time on he only received e.half
Of said salary, or $50 month, the
other half going to Senator Page.
That he demonstrated with Senator
Page, but found that it was useless
and that he would have to take that
amount or go home. and he therefore
gave up all hopes of law school that
he found that he was obliged to pay
$50 month for small room and two
meals day, that his lunches at the
United States Capitol where he was
obliged to eat at noon cost him APP
proximately Sl2 month, leaving SlS
a month to pay for laundry, car fares,
clothes and incidentals;
That when he went down there he
had to pay his carfare and also upon
his return;
That the latter part of May, 1911,
Senator Page informed him that he
would have no further work for him
during the Summer, that it was ex-
pected the session of Congress would