Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-01

treasures an autograph dlpuHh. 1Hese
contain nearly. il not all, OF the sig
natures OF the great men of the pres
eng day in official life.
The favorite pastinle is a mock
session OF the senate, when the pages
are allowed the use of the senate
chamber on days when the senate
is not meeting, and sometimes in the
mornings OF meeting days. The most
important legislation ever brought
before this body of junior solons is
a bill to write into the statutes pro-
vision for increasing the salaries of
the senate pages MANIFOLD. one
page presides in the vice presidents
! chair, and the session is carried on
in a serious way. Visitors who drift
into the galleries during these SEES
sions invariably are so interested
that they will stay to the close. as
tonished at the oratorical gifts dis
| played by some of the lads. While
this is only amusement TO the boys.
they are gathering n presence and
address certain to serve them well in
the future.
There are in all twenty-thrce SEN
ate pages-sixteen regulars" five
"temporaries," and two for the tele-
rphones. Their duties in the morn
ing before the senate meets, consist
of tasks that + light, varied and
divided. Some boys are assigned to
duties at the beginning of the ses-
sion and do not change their tasks.
There must be a copy of every bill,
report and document on each desk
| daily, q file of the Congressional
Record and of all bills and reports
| nf np,poiffao Onn nc Oo affandc RI
the pens, holders, and ink; one sees
to it that the desk of the vice presi-
dent is in order and that his gavel
is ready to call the senators to or
der. Another has the curious duty
Of seeing to it that the sand bottles
are flled-for the senate in it's Of
fcial capacity has not progressed to
the modern blotter. This same boy
fills the ancient snuff boxes at each
side of the chamber-a curious old
lcustom still adhered to by the upper
body of>cougress.
CustOdians of Electoral Votes
To two of these boys is given the
honor and duty of carrying the two
boxes which contain the electoral
votes from the senate chamber to
the House of Representatives,
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south wing of the Capitol. Other
duties the distribution OF
supplies in the chamber and the
cloak rooms.
When the senate meets, the pages
sit in a row on the rostrum steps
half on the Republican side and hall
on the Democratic side, ready to
serve the statesmen. who call them
I Ixp oN1 vaf,n. kI.Asa drr.- nNE1.x Il
bills to the desk announce visitors
and run the errands for the sena-
tors
The pages come from all over the
country and from various stations OF
life. Some are already acquainted
with official life. Others come di.
rect from the farm. They come
from the North, the South. the West
Many of them help to support wild.
owed mothers and younger brothers
and sisters.
The Future of the Page
These pages go from the senate tc
West Point, to Annapolis, into banks
mercantile houses, politics. medicine
law, letters and art. They have be-
come successes in every walk of life
One little boy who sat eager-eyed
on the rostrum steps many years
ago returned to the chamber as Sen
ator A. ". German. Another lad be.
came Chief Engineer of the Army
Stanton Kalk, credited with being
the first American naval officer tc
lose his life in the World War. was
once a senate page. Latly a vesse'
was named in his honor. David
Barry. now sergeant-at-arms of the
senate, formerly the Washington
correspondent of the New York Sur
and the Providence Journal, and
Assistant Doorkeeper Carl ID. Leof-
fier. who has charge of the pages
each served his term on errands fol
the nation. So did Stuart Robson
the actor. On one occasion wher
Mr.. Robson was playing in Washing
ton, the pages, learning that he ha6
ONCE been a page himself, sent 8
testimonial to Mr.. Robson. He re-
pended with an invitation to the
play and box seats for all of Tho
boys.
These boys are a happy and for
tpnate lot. owing much to the COM
retent men in charge who watch