February 8. 1906.
TFIE OMAHA' ILLU8TRATED REE.
Glimpses Behind the Scenes at the Nebraska State Legislature
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Secretary of the Senate.
B. TT. Gotildtnjr, Thlra Ajltstant Secre
tary of the Senate.
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R. L. White, Doorkeeper of the Senate Gallery. Janitor Senate. ant Janitor 8enate. Jerrjr wuneim. Night Watchman, Senate.
BOMB OP THE EMPLOYES OF THE LEGISLATURE WHOSE WORK IS IMPORTANT TO THE OPERATION OF THE LAW-MA KINO MACHINERY. From Photos by a Bee Staff Artlat.
Jfrnrni Enler. Acflt
ant Janitor Senate.
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HE third houae that treat army eyes like eagles; they must detect the good
or . worKing men ana wonting from the bad and If you Dlease thev munt
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women that has been recognised
for ko many yean as the army of
"ncversweats," deeerves a better
place In history, and right here Is where
that army is going to gat It. From R. L.
White, who stands guard at the door of
ine gauery ot ine senate, ana wno majesti
cally paces his beat and prevents the en
trance or departure of thone who come un
der the ban, clear down the line to old Sam
rGant, who, as "custodian of the cuspidors,"
In lieu of a better title, doxrs by the hot air
pipes In the basement, all have certain po
sitions to fill, and all are cogs or wheel in
the great lawmaking machine of the state.
Not a single solitary one could be spared
from cither the house or the senate with
out a loin to someone. It takes them all to
do the business. In fact the members of
this nrmy of employes, this third house. Is
'jsf to the members of the legiulature whut the
Salvation Army is to the poor In the con-
B-Bi-u rrniuiiB wiry IWK liner ine mem
ber: they do the work: they are the men
distinguish between "the "trammelled" and
the "untrammelled" counselor. All day
long, day In and day out, they must sit be
side the Iron gate and open and shut It for
those they allow to enter or to depart. They
are compelled to listen to the freniled flow
of oratory without leaving their post of
duty. Why? Because should a wolf be al
lowed to enter and mix with the tender
lumh that comiiose the legislature, unwise
legislation might result In another loud be
ing added to the burdens of the people.
That Is why his position is responsible. It
Is he to say "Enter," for he it Is who can
open the gnte.
Where the Dignity nests.
More responsible and more hasardous Is
the duty of the sergeant-at-arms. There
Is Buek Taylor In the house and H. D.
Weller In the sennte. They must preserve
order, if not dignity, during the proceed
ings attendant upon the making, of, laws.
Then should Secretary Allen, he who trans-
behind the guns. Thek are the boys who mlts messages from his excellency, Governor his record book and B
do the bu&lnesx for $3 per without recogni
tion from the oulslrle world. They are sat
islled with their portion of the lurre and It
Is a f.ici thut tnnny of tliem do harder work
for that fcl per than they would for any
other $3 per under the sun.
'With the l)or Keepers.
For iitstanei', the doorkeepers. They must
be Johnny-on-the-Spot. They must have
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and then Into each other, Buck Taylor in
the house or Weller in the senate must
ru.'h In and do the separating. No mutter
If Douglas of Rock and Kittle of Douglas
should fly together. Buck would have to
rush In, even If Doulo pulled his bowle
knife and Fittle tried to kick. It's a
hazardous busiiws .his being ergc.nit-ut-arnis.
taring for the mils.
The clerks, llu- sleimgraplierx and all
hold responsible ponitlons that not only
require careful attention to business and
to the most minute details of the business,
but should one of them be Inclined to
swerve from his duty and go wrung at
the behest of a lobbyist a good bill could
easily be killed or so mnnglcd as to destroy
its usefulness. When a bill Is Introduced,
in the senate, for Instance. It goes Into the
hands of Secretary Wheeler. He or one
of hia nsaiftants, Greevey or Abrahttmson,
takes the bill and carefully locks it in
the senate safe. Before this In done Clyde
McGlnltle, bookkeeper, copies the title lu
11. Gouldlug haa
Mickey, come to the legislature. Buck the title copied for use In- the journal.
. Taylor or Weller must with all the dignity The next d:iy tlie bill Is read a second
he can command march to the front of the tlma and referred to a committee. The
presiding ofllcer and In a loud voice ex- secretary then sends the hill to the printer
rlnl!".: nd eoiles of it are made. He then turns
"Sir, the secretary to the governor." ' the original bill over to the chairman of
They must do the same when a clerk or the committee to which It has been re
secretary from one house delivers it! mes- -ferfel. The chairman of the cemmittee
sage or a bill to the other. .Then, If two gives his receipt for the bill to the sei re
bellgerent members should fly Into a rag - tary, and a check is kept on the bjll and
any bill can be located by the secretury
at any time. What does the chairman of
the committee do with the bill?
Well, he turns It over to the clerk of
his commute- and that poor, overworked
person Is responsible for it. And it Is a
great responsibility, too, for there may be
a doren interests after that bill to kill It.
If the clerk l susceptible he may lose the
bill, and it may be after the time for
Introducing bills haa passed. Consequently
the clerk of the committee must has-e a
clear y head and a good understanding of
the ways of the wicked to keep his feet
out of the sand.
Cirttlna; a Bill Back.
Should the committee act favorably on
the bill Its chairmen so reports to the sen
ate, and the bill again conies in possession
of the secretary, who checks off the chair
man's receipt for It. Then the bill goes
to the general file and is discussed in the
committee of the whole. Should it be re
ported favorably It is sent to the engross
ing room, where every word of It Is copied,
together with the amendments to It, . And
this engrossing room Is one of the busiest
places in the world. The young men and
women who compose the force scrutch
away constantly, many times until way In
tliti night, in order to get a certain bill
rendy for passage the next day. A com
mittee then compares the original bill and
amendments with the engrossed bill and in
that way a check Is kept on the employes
who do the copying.
Should the bill pass the senate it is sent
to the house, where it goes through the
same process, all the time some employe
having possession of it and being respon
sible for it. Should it pass in the house
it is sent back to the sennte, enrolled,
signed by tlie president of the senate or
lieutenant governor, thin l;- the speuker
of the house, and sent to Hie governor.
Still a clerk Is responsible for It.
In the Bill Koum.
The bill room, a likeness of which ap
pears here, lit another place where the
clerks earn their pay. They must keep
the bill files of every member of the legis
lature right up to date with every amend
ment that Is printed. They can keep busy
sorting amendments that arrive from the
printers and In placing bills that come
from the printer all the day and half the
night. The bill flies must be In shape and ,
back on the desks of the members when
the session begins. Each branch of the
legislature has Its own bill room.
Ho does this with the assistance of pages,
who attend to everything that the other
employes do not, from carrying notes up
Into the gallery to passing the tobacco.
One Really Important Office.
The really necessary employe of the leg
islature in both houses Is the timekeeper.
Hugo Glasgow does the act In the house
and may be theie are some of the old
timers who can remember when he Wasn't
a member of the third house, but the old
timer hasn't been found. 1'ntll two years
ago Glasgow worked a side line, In that he
carried the Burlington pass book and wrote
transportation checks for members and em-
rticlr Taylor, Serppenr-at-Arms ! th
House.
They see that no one runs off with an ovrrV
coat or overshoe of a member and keep a
protecting eye on the property or wearing
apparel of tho members. The so mo wny
with the night watchman. He hn to look
after things at night and art In the ca
pacity of guardian of tho legislative holls.
He prevents pilfering of bills and other
property and Is necessary.
Hoot They Get There.
The facts are the employes of the legisla
ture are the most maligned lot of workeis
anywhere. As soon as the advance guard
of the legislators gets to Lincoln the first
thing on the program Is to hold a caucus
ployes. It was a mighty nice arrangement a,i determine to hold the number of em-
4'onilng for the Mall.
Each branch of the legislature has a post
master and If ever there was a mall man
who kept busy and who has lots of kicks
It Is the postmaster. Every member of the
legislature gets a gallon or so of letters and
papers every day, and It Is the business of
this postmaster to hustle that mail out onto
the desks every time occasion demands.
for all concerned, but with the advance of
civilization Glasgow cut It out. A whole
lot hHS been written about this" man Glas
gow, but from the fact he has held his Job
so long and Is still as fresh In the hearts
of the members as a young college graduate
there Is certainly something to him. Any
how, he never complains. In the senate C. .
H. Moore presides over the timetable.
Wlint the Janitors Doi
When one rends of so many Janitors on
the pay roll during .legislative days the sus
picion might arlso'that they are not neces
sary. They aro necesniry, or at least they
manage to keep busy, and when ono keeps
busy -around the legislature he Is certainly
earning his pay. Even the custodians of
the cloak, rooms are absolutely necossary.'
ployes down to a certain limit, even lower
than the law allowa Then a oommlttre on
employes is named as soon as the organiza
tion Is announced that in In the senates the
speaker attends to this little detail In the
house, and this committee uses the pruning
knife. Then comes the effort always to pa
the employes only for tho time the leglnla
ture Is actually In session, even though tha
employe has to work straight through tha
adjournment. About three or four full days
are spent In discussing employes In the In
terest of economy and enough of the state's
finance go up In hot air to have paid tha
bill unci left considerable in the sinking
fund. To make a long story short, tha em
ployes of tin; legislature hiivo hard sledding
and the money with them only in few in
stances comes easy.
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ENGROSSLNO rTva AND COPYISTS OF THE) SENATE AND THE ROOM WHERE THEY WORK Photo by a Staff Artist.
BILL FILE) ROOM OF THO HOUSE- AND TILE) MSN WHO WORK THERE Photo by a Staff Artist.
Kokomg Goes Too Far in Matter of Claims
VIE latest news from Kokomo, Ind.,
should ba taken with some reser
vation. No so tnucA because it
comes from Kokomo as because
it haa to do with a matter which
la Just s trifle out of Kokomo's province.
When Kokomo tells us of a lien that lays
hand-painted Easter eggs during Lent
every year, of a cow that gives the finest
quality or koumiss, or of a horse that talks
in his sleep, we know that these matters
tome within toe legitimate province of the
place, and there is no disposition mani
fested snywhere to question the authentic
ity or accuracy of the reporta
Likewise when Kokomo discovers that a
man In the southeastern part of the county,
who never went to school a day In his life,
la astonishing everybody by the wonderful
rr.pldlty with which he solves the most
complex mathematical problems; of a
woman,", four miles north of the town, who
haa acQ)Hiv.l. In addition to Indiana Eng
lish. FreaKh. German. Russian. Follbh. Ital-
partur. Recently, aays a Kokomo dispatch,
Mr. Tarklngton reached In the cupboard
for his eye wash and by mistake got hold
of a vial of carbolic acid and bathed hia
eyes with It. For forty-eight hours ha was
In agony before the pain could be alle
viated. It was supposed that tha eyeballs
were burned out, but, to the surprise of all.
the bath had cured his malady. The acid
had left his eyes in perfect condition and
the vision clear and sharp. .
The danger la that Warsaw, Ind., desir
ous of holding its own against its great
rival, will tell us directly how Henry Wal
lace, a realdeut of that place, reached in
the cupboard for his stomach tonic, and
taking down a pint bottle of aqua tortis
drank most of Its contents before he dis
covered hia mistake, and that, strange to
say. Instead of dying a horrible death, as
his neighbors predicted, he was relieved
completely of dyspepsia, from which hs had
suffered for twenty-five years, snd Is now
a new man.
Then, again, Dublin, Ind., will not be con
tent until it tells us how William Lew
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Stern Parent Tackles Tough Problem
Inn. Scandinavian. Gaulle, Latin, Greek
Hebrew and Jianskrlt without taking a les- Thompson, a resident of the place, went to
son, or of a boy of i out on the McGe place the cupboard the other dar io get a spoon-
who haa constructed a piano upon which
he performs with astonishing skill the most
difficult Compositions of Beethoven. Mosart
and Reginald d Koven. we accept the In
telligence as a matter of course.
But when Kokomo, even though It In
troduces a name Indelibly associated with
the literary revival In Indiana to give
strength to the story, tells us ihM James
TarkhaVton. a wall known resident, has
cured his sore eyea by w soiling them by
mistake in catbollc acid, we cannot help
feeling that It Is taking a hazardous de-
Iyel Hair In Court. ,
NE of the New York magistrates
gave an exhibition pf great cour
age In the matter of public adorn
ment of his person. He dyed his
hslr in court. Ha 'did it for the
benefit of s young woman who claimed
that her hair had been turned a brilliant
green by a dye that was warranted to pro
duce a classical shade of red.
"It's her own fault," argued the defend
ant. "She didn't mix the stuff right."
."Wo' It soon see about that." said the
Judge. "Bring the lotion here. I'll apply It
to my own hair and sea what effect It
will have."
The young woman grew hysterical. "Oh,
my dear sir," she Implored, "please don't.
You will ruin your beautiful hlark locks."
"Nonsense," said the Judge, but he
blushed a little and began to look doubtful.
"Don't, please don't," pleaded the young
woman. "See what II did to me."
The Judge aaw and conceded: a point.
"Well," snld he, "since you Insist, I won't
souse my whole head at the first trltil.
I'll cut off a lock of hair and try the fluid
on that."
The lawyer for the prosecution severed
the sacrificial lock and dipped it into the
dyeing solution. In less than ten minutes
it had assumed a grassy hue. The Judge
and the young woman shook hands.
"Yoir are entitled to damuges ami to my
sympathy und my everlasting gratitude."
said the Judge, and wound up the case.
Am Extensive Jurisdiction.
In Chief Justice Marshall's lime the au-
ful of baking soda to relieve a haavineas
In hia chest, how he dipped the spoon In a
package of powdered arsenlu Instead, and
how, instead of falling fa convulsions, tie
was healed Inatautly of Inflammatory rheu
matism, from which ha had suffered sines
boyhood, and la now entered to sprint at
the Dublin Athletic club's spring meeting.
It Is the bad example of this form of in
telligence that we object to. When a resi
dent of Kokomo cures his sore ryes by
bathing them In carbolio acid the news preme court of the United States lived apart
should be suppressed. Chicago Inter Ocean, from' the rest of the world and dined to
gether at a sort of mess, only once a year
dining In public at tlie Wl)lle House. Jus
tice Story once rallied on this aloofness,
and explained It drolly:
"The fact Is we Justices take no part in
the society of the place. We dine once a
year with the president, and that Is ail.
On other days we dine together and dis
cuss at the table questions that are argued
before us. We are great ascetics, and
even deny ourselves wine, except In wet
weather."
Hera the Justice paused, as If thinking
this last statement placed too great a tax
on human credulity, and then he added,
slyly:
"What I say about wine, sir, gives you
our rule, but It does sometimes happen that
the chief Justice Willi say to me when the
cloth Is removed: 'Brother Story, step to
the window snd see tf it does not look liku
rain.' And If I tell him that the sun Is
shining, tilef Justice Marshall will some
times reply; 'All the better, for our Juris
diction extends over so large a territory
that the dottilne of chances makes It cer
tain that it must be raining somewhere.' "
I'ersonnlly Conducted Tests.
One of the West Side courts lit New
York City has produced a magistrate who
alsj knows what to tuke for his stomach's
suko and how to prepare it. It Is well
for the retailer of a certain brand ot
whisky thut he does. The retailer had
been haled to court oi the plaint of a
chance customer, who declared that he
had been laid up for three days by an In
ferior brand of whisky used in the prepa
ration of a mixed drink, fit Judge, being
a man of broad culture, at once perceived
the seriousness of the charge.
"Iet a pint of that same whisky ba
brougiit into the court room," he com
manded. The liquor was hastily procured, and,
being tasted by the plaintiff, was pro
nounced tho same quality as that dencrllicd
in the complaint.
"Very well," said the Judge, "we'll soon
see what Is t.he niatter with It."
All the magistrate's experiment with the
suspicious whlskv were personally con
ducted. He tried It straight and he tried
It iiilxtd. No matter how he took It, it
stood tha test.
"Gentlemen," said the Judge at Inst, "I'm
happy to announce that tills is good stuff,
all right A baby could drink it without
injury to the system, hence for an able
bodied man to claim that he haa been
phi sically disabled by it Is rank nonaeiise.
The case Is dismissed."
K.liliu Root's Landmark.
Kllhu Root, lawyer, man of affaire snd
cabinet officer, was born In Cabinet hall,
one of the buildings of Hamilton college,
New York, where his father was a profes
sor. In his boyhood days he snd his father
took long walks together, often passing a
splendid hemlock tree which stood on the
Klrkland farm. More than onoe Prof.
U nit said: "I wl.iii I owned thut tree " In
the )ears since then there have been many
chunges at lUnilltou und In the country
ound about, b'.i' the old hemlock has re
journed untouched, s.id the other day Elllni
Root boisjht Klrkland farm and the tree
which, he de lares, las long beun a land
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LIFFORD," said the stern parent.
"go over and sit In that chair."
"Yes, sir."
"Now keep still. I've put up
with your noise Just as long as
1 intend to."
"Can I talk?"
"No, you can't talk."
"But, papa, I "
"Keep still."
There was silence for aoout two minutes,
during which time the stern parent be
came Interested in his paper.
"There was a runaway out here today,
pa pa."
Still silence.
"Willie Palmer was run over."
"Eh? What's tliHtt" inquired the stern
parent, looking up from his paper. "Home
body run over?"
"Ves. A gna-riy wagon ran 4lght over
Willie Palmer's toes, an' you oughter heard
him yell. The horse ran away, you know,
an' "
"llreuk anything?"
"Nope. Driver came out of a house an'
cajigl It 'fore it had gone tnore'n across
the street." ,
"Well, I guess It wasn't much of a
Look here! I told you to keep still. I
don't want to be bothered."
"I don't see why I can't talk Just a
little."
"Well, you can't."
Again silence fur about two minutes.
"You know those boys that have been
breaking windows around here, pupa?"
No answer.
"Mr. Johnson caught one of them' today."
Still no answer. "
"Oh, you ought to have seen the way ha
licked him."
The stern parent's head came over tha
top of bis paper again.
"What's that?" tio exclaimed. "Caught
one of , the boys and trounced him, did he?
He ought to have used a buggy whip.
Whose boy was It?"
"I don't know his name. He lives about
three squares away from here. Hub the
one who came down ht-r and hud a fight
with ms, you know."
"Oho! Thut one? I wish I'd cuught him."
"1 wish you had. He threw mud all over
my clothes once, and he's llKhtiu' most of
the time. He most always carries a club
or a stick of some sort, but I guess
maybe you could lick him anyway."
"Oh, you think I could, do you? You
think I might-Hee here, young man! I
told you to keep still."
"How ran 1 when you keep talkln' "
''it .1.1. Not another word!"
Silence for perhaps three nUnutes.
1,1 .iraiiinitic today."
No reply.
"Teacher kept me after school, though."
"Tried to whip me with a ruler."
"What! Teacher tried to Inflict corporal
punishment on you? That settles ,1 hat 1 I
know one teacher who will m looking for
a Jnh or I'll know the rwMin why. What
had you le n doing? Come over here and
tell me sbout It."
And thus the attempt of a stern psrent
to discipline a boy of Just ordinary clever
ness ended as such attempts almost la
Variably do.-1'hlladelphla Ledgar.
