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Special Correspondence.
Washington, Dec. 3. The Republic
an Bide of tbe senate chamber is now
thickly populated when all the senators
are in thoir seats. So many new states
have been admitted in the northwest,
and so many senators have come here to
represent them, that the senate chamber
is gradually coming to look more like
the house of representatives and less like
the small, select and genteel senate of a
half century ago. Fifty years ago the
senate was only a little more than half
as large as it is now. 1 nen there were
fifty-two senators, now there are eighty
six. Fifty years ago Michigan, now re
garded as one of tho old states, was the
youngest sister represented on the floor
of congress. With the advent of these
new senators from the far west and the
increase of the number of senators has
come a Treat deal of disorder on the floor,
so much that Senator Ingalln, who is the
senatorial mentor in matters of order
and decorum, felt it necessary the other
day to rise and appeal to the senate and
to the presiding officer not to permit the
traditional good order and quiet of the
ancient body to be destroyed.
But the character of the senate is grad
ually changing, and will no doubt con
tinue to change. It is becoming less
dignified, less aristocratic, less formal,
and tho standard of ability and charac
ter of its membership is not as high as
it was years ago.
It is a singular fact, which .1 discov
ered the other day by accident, that the
chair m which Ilenry Clay used to sit in
the senate chamber is now occupied by
one of the young and inexperienced sen
ators from the WPit. Old Capt. Bassett,
the veteran se-mte employe who hits
chargo of the furniture and pages on the
floor, keeps as his own secret the iden
tity of the chairs and desks which were
once used by such famous men as Web
ster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Cass and
othera. These old chairs and disks have
been carefully preserved, and once they
were pointed out to visitors, but as relic
hunters began to mutilate them it was
found necessary to conceal their identity.
Senators Morrill and Edmunds are the
only other persons about the senate
chamber who could point out these fa
mous desks, but I am able to state, with
out any violation of confidence, that Mr.
Morrill himself uses the chair and desk
which once belonged to Daniel Webster.
Senator EJmnnds, by the way, has one
ambition which is not generally known.
He hopes to live long enough aud re
mnin long enough in the senate to
eclipse the record mado by Toa
for longest continuous selvii
known in the United States
Benton wan a member of the f
twenty-nine years and seven months
continuously. Henry B. Anthony, of
Rhode Lsland, served twenty-live years
continuously, and April 5. next, if he
lives. Mr. Edmunds will complete his
quarter of a century of continuous serv
ice. Senator Sherman has served long
er than Mr. Edmunds, but not continu
ously. It is quite probable Mr. Edmunds
will live to eclipse Benton's record. He
is still hale and hearty, not so very old,
and about his re-election as many times
as ho likes there is not a particle of
doubt.
It is enough to startle one to look at
this venerable old man, Capt. Bassett,
and to think that he was here in this
body thirty-live years before Mr. Ed
munds came. Yet such is the fact. It
was Dec. 5, 1831, when Bassett, then a
mere lad, took his place as one of the
two pages employed by the senate. He
was appointed by Daniel Webster, who
was very fond of him, and here he has
been, as boy and man, ever since. He
told mo the other day that when he was
a page the boys were required to wear
uniforms, but finally the blue cloth and
gilt buttons were abolished on the de
mand of a senator from one of the far
western states (probably Ohio or Indiana),
who thought a uniform inconsistent
with our simple democratic notions.
Capt. Bassett says he was the second
page employed by the senate, and that
the first is still living and employed in
one of tho departments. Next Decem
ber, on completing his sixty years of
service in the senate, Capt. Bassett will
give to the world a book of his experi
ences and recollections. It will proba
bly be a very interesting recital. The
good captain vant3 it understood, how
ever, that ho does not intend to tell all
he knows about tho senators with whom
ho has been thrown in contact. If he
were to unburden himself without re
serve his book would create a sensation.
Capt. Bassett is the only man about
the Capitol who can remember the time
when it was customary for representa
tives to wear their hats in the hall dur
ing sessions. It was not till 1808 that
this custom, borrowed from the English
house of commons, was discontinued.
For a time iu the early history of tho
house Luliea wero not admitted to the
gallery, but finally gallantry and justice
prevailed, and after a serious discussion
of tho question, which at that time was
described as "momentous," tho ladies
were not only admitted but a gallery
was provided for their especial use.
The venerubla Capt. Bassett, who is
one of the most interesting links be
tween past and present wo have in the
capital city, never ceases to deplore the
decadonce of the snuff box. He remem
bers the day when the snuff box was in
its glory .in tha eenat3 chamber, and alsoj
in tue other iious9. It is still innintair id
in the senate, but, alas, Capt. BasveVt is
the only habitual snuffer. In ie old
days nrns lilic.l with the best "old Icotch"
wore kept in both house and s'fiatoby
order of the oiiiehls,- but the! custom
lorsr since became obsolete in tim; house.
and the hist senator to join CuptB;wsett
in an oecasioual bat quite regnlAr pinch
was Allen Q. Ihnrman, and oS course.
In Mr. Bassetts opinion, which I 'r all
1 rosonje weight, tlwold Tl"c;aa
orerlest atatsofuan of his titrie.
Ussett has in tbe Ut;lo ro-.mi
. call. Uif 'own, and where ho
1 op ia Pii i 'r" ""f'li'iernoiT.nda
,'un i i' ii-'.iy ir lo.j fujuoas
amldttki, ;-r the ii'.rrm;itf'.m
who cow." alter birr:, a collec-
iiuuf was and muff lK.re
which hundreds of statesmen.
tion of
out of
famous in their day and generation, but
now almost forgotten, have taken the
titillating powder.
There, also, he has many relics of his
senatorial career, such as a piece of the
cane with which Preston Brooks assault
ed Charles Sumner, inkstands which
have been thrown by angry statesmen
at the heads of other statesmen, ien
holders and pens which have been used
in signing great bills, and a fine lot of
old fashioned quills. It was in Capt.
Bassett's time that each house of con
gress employed an official penmaker,
whose duty it was to juend the goxse
qnills used by senators and representa
tives. Many cf tin legislators were ex
ceedingly particular as to the degree of
flexibility and breadth of point" of their
quills. While some would use nothing
but "broad nibs," others required tho
finest of "fine points," aud the penmak
ers had no easy task in trying to suit the
different writers. There were also, as
Capt. Bassett jointed out to me the
other day, official sealers, who were in
trusted with the sealing of letters and
packages with red wax. The "station
ery" used in both houses included pen
knives, scissors, razors, pocketbooks,
kid gloves, bottled perfumery and bear's
grease, besides numerous other little
articjfs which tho officials would pur
chaso "by request" whenever they went
to New York to get their supplies.
To the present day all of these articles,
the bear's grease alone excepted, are
used by members of congress, and
charged to tho government in thoir sta
tionery accounts, the only man now in
congress using bear's grease on his hair
being the venerable Mr. Vaux, of Penn
sylvania. Mr. Vaux is also noted as be
ing the only man in congress who ad
heres to the old quill pen, which he cuts
for himself with neatness and skill. For
a numlier of sessions in the old days an
"innocent beverage called swichell, com
posed of molasses, ginger and water,"
was largely consumed by the representa
tives, and it was popularly supposed that
among 'its innocent ingredients were
good French brandy and Jamaica rum. It
was always charged in the appropriation
for stationery under the head of "sirup."
Nowadays the statesmen manage to
get their lemonade at the public expense,
the beverage being provided by the om-
cers of the two houses, but they do not
dare indulge in intoxicating liquors pur
chased out of government funds. It is
not so many years, however, since the
famous "hole in the wall," a small room
near the senate chamber, and much fre
quented by the bibulous statesmen of
that day, was running full blast, well
.ipplied with all sorts of liquors, paid
r in the appropriation bills as
lunches." Capt. Bassett remembers
tnose old days, and likes to talk about
them in private conversation, but he
would not like to have some of the stories
which he tells of putting intoxicated sen
ators to bed printed in the newspapers,
even at this late day.
Thomas B. Reed will be lonesome in
the uext congress in more senses than
one. Not only will most of his lieuten
ants of tho present house be conspicuous
by their absence, but he will be the only
ex-speaker on tho floor. In the present
house there were three ex-speakers
Randall, Carlisle and Banks. Randall
is dead. Carlisle has gone to the senate
and Banks will retire from public lifo at
the end of his present term. Mr. Reed
will also be tho only man in the next
house who has been talked of for the
presidency. Carlisle has in a quiet way
long been a presidential quantity, but
he is gone. Randall was also a candi
date for the nomination of his party.
McKinley might have been nominated
for president two years ago but for his
manly loyalty to John Sherman.
Nathaniel P. Banks, some peoplo may
remember, was nominated for the presi
dency thirty-four years ago. He was at
that time speaker of the house, a Native
American by election, a Whig by ante
cedents and a Republican by affiliation.
The regular American convention mot
at Philadelphia in February, 1833. and
nominated Millard Fillmore for presi
dent. Some of the northern delegates
bolted the convention, and called another
convention to meet at New York in
June. After a billor contention between
those who wanted to indorse Fremont,
the candidate of the new Republican
party, and tho;;e who wanted a straight
out ticket, tho latter carried the day
and put up Banks as their candidate. As
he had been a delegate to the conven
tion which nominated Fremont he
promptly telegraphed his declination of
the honor.
At tho senate end of the Capitol we
find many presidential possibilities of
the past, and no one is wise enough to
say how many of tho future. The most
distinguished of these, of course, is John
Sherman, who kas been a conspicuous
candidate & few national conventions.
Senator Allisca has also teen a promi
nent presidential aspirant for eight
years. Senator Edmunds was voted for
by the civil service reformers and later
mugwumps ia the Republican national
convention of 19e4, and Senator Payne,
of Ohio, who also is about to retire to pri
vate life at an advanced age, was a con
spicuous candidate for president m 1880.
The new senate is bringing us many
new and younger men. New blood
means new methods, and it is not iin
poFsible that in the near future one of
thp most ancient traditions of the body,
jthat which coutinues debate as long as
any senator wishes to take the floor, ren
dering it impossible for the senate itself
to limit discussion, will be discarded.
There are men who predict that in an
other half century the senate will be
much more of a representative body than
it is today, for then, say these prophets,
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