Arizona republican., 1920-04-10
The Sacred Senate
By FREDERIC J. HAsKIN

WASHINGTON, D. C.-If the senate chamber contains the seats of the mighty. the senate galleries are cer- tainly the seats of the motionless.
 You can travel pretty generally around the United States and not have your liberties seriously interferred with You may go wading in Niagara Falls or climb the outside of the Washington Monument without a per init, but aside from a few restrictions of this sort you can be your natural self almost anywhere
 In the galleries of the senate. how ever. the American for once ceases to be the nearest human approximate to perpetual motion, and becomes a rival of the cigar store Indian.
 While listening to a senator make speech you may not laugh, eat any thing, talk (except in unintelllib1e whispers), use your index finger to point out your favorite celebrity, put anything on the rail, use opera glasses take snapshots, read. write, address your handkerchief, This is only a partial list, made up from the writer's personal observation and experience. of how far a ga1leryite can go without being stopped by a guard. So far, we have rarely found anybody who got anywhere.
 One young man recently arose to make a speech to the senate. He had just opened his mouth, and put his hand in his vest, when a guard leaped down three steps at a time, and shut him off. In another second the young man was out in the corridor with four doorkeepers holding him. He was then permitted to make his speech in gentle whisper. It turned out that he thought the ghost of Jefferson had picked him out to show the world the way to peace He had an American flag in his breast pocket to wave at the climax of his address. and he was quite broken hearted that the guards would not let him go back and show the senate how to be peaceful.
 The list of gallery shall notS'' has gradually accumulated to its present size. There is no complete printed copy in existence. None is needed Every guard knows intuitively that the minute visitor begiDs to. liyen up II is time to squelch him.
 The present man in charge of the galleries, J. B. Dufault, has been in office only since last Juno. but already he has added a lot of new restrictions to supposedly complete assortment. For instance. guides conducting par ties of visitors through the capitol used to trail them down the. corridors outside the senate galleries. Some times it took 10 mnutes for a big party to pass a given point. and while it ciattered by, the people inside would miss 10 minutes or senatorial proceed ure. MT. Dufauit achieved perpetual quietude simply by having the guides go around another way during senate sessions.
 Another institution of Mir. Dufault's is a series of cards informing visitors in polite language that the gallery rails are not coat racks or elbow rests It used to keep two guards busy rushing up5and down the aisies to tell people about this unwritteu law Even then. a hat or powderruff would occasional- fv Sail down and hit some porylv and s7fS1ified lawuaker on tho nose. Some of the senators became quite nervous about it. But now. with an abundance of printed notices. the danger is mini nlized.
 rhe senate MT. Dufauit says. is much more jealous of its traditions