The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-26
POSE Of THE SENATE
IS NOW FAR UPSTACE
CONSTITUENTS WHO VISIT
CAPITOL NO LONGER HOB
MOB WITH THE SOLONS.
MIR. COMMON PEOPLE SNUBB'D
Accessibility of Men Who Wear the
Toga Only a Memory Since Screen
Of Secrecy Shuts OFF Famous Mar
BILE Room from View.

1Ogd Only d MCA1OAJ GAA1SS SNAS~
OF Secrecy Shuts OFF Famous Mar
BILE Room from View.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-While the
president and every other agency OF
the government istrying to popularize
the federal government and is throw
ing open every door to the public the
senate seems to be lodging the COM
mon people. Those who wear the to-
gas of this government have suddenly
developed a touch-me-not disposition.
Up until November 2 they were avail
able in every sense of the word to the
humblest of their constituents and
gave broadcast invitations to the vO-
| tiers OF their states to honor them with
calls when they came to Washington,
But now there is vast difference and
affabiity has given way to the SOM
berness of self-sustained statesman
ship.
Since the opening of the extra ses-
sion a new veil of secrecy has been
thrown about the movement Of the
senators. For time immemorial the
lobby back of the senate chamber and
the room adjoining known as the Mar
| bic room have been accessible to call
ers on all senators and here the SEN
ators have visited with the men who
sent them to the senate and patched
many a political fence.
Goal of Constituency.
Every constituent of senator felt
that his cup of happiness was filled to
Overlooking when he came to Wash
| ington and had a chat with his sena-
Itor in the Marble room, and when he
| got home he told his friends about the
gracious reception and the courtesies
extended by the man they had sent to
Washington to be their senator: This
year the constituents are coming in
droves. The white house, for many
years closed to the people, is again
theirs and the executive departments
present a human attitude once more
to the men and women who make the
imajorities OF election day. More peo-
pie are coming to Washington than
in any administration for twenty years
and most OF them want to see their
senators.
When they go to the senate now
they find huge screens across the lobby
between the senate chamber and the
marble room. One cannot see over
these screens, for they are too tall,
and Oh neither side is anything visible
to the naked eye There is a two-inch
crack between the bottom and the
floor and one can, by STOPPING low,
see various and assorted shoes NOV
ing back and forth across the tiled
floor. But who can identify the shoes
OF his favOrite senator!
Chase an Endless Ramble.
The constituents card comes back
from the page with the remark, Sen
ator Upstage is out" Then begins a
merry-go-round for the constituent if
he is persistent. He goes to the sena-
tors office in the $4,000,000 white
marble Office building built by con-
stituents' hard earned taxes and seeks
| him there. If the senator is old in the
game and close to the committee on
rules he may also have another Office
| in the capitol building itself, and the
constituent tries there. If the visitor
can prolong his stay in Washington a
few days, and is willing to hotfoot it
around, he may one day catch up with
his senator and get the warm welcome
SO long denied him.
Old-timers in Washington predict
that the aloofness of the senate will
not last, and that the screens will come
down and the private stairways to the
street and the subway connecting the
capitol with the senate office building
will be used little more than hereto
fore after some of the exclusive mem
bers of the upper house begin to hear
from the homefolks, for, after all,
toga doesn't prevent its temporary
wearer from being human when he
wants to be.