PAGE-BOY SENATORS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 6

PAGE-BOY SENATORS.

! Visitors to the Senate in Washington were amused one day recently to find that august body composed of a score of boys in knee-breeches and white shirts, which were passing resolutions with lightning speed (relates the New York correspondent of the Daily Mail). They were pages em- • ployed to attend upon the Senate. I What punishment will be inflicted on {them for. their violation of the dignity of the Upper Chamber is still undecided. The mock session' was constituted 5 minutes after the adjournment of the Senate, when the head page sprang into the Vice-Pre--1 sident's chair and vigorously wielded j the Speaker's gavel. With portentous solemnity another page, diating- ! uished by blue knickerbockers, introduced a Bill to raise the wages of all the pages from £ls to £4O a month. An amendment raising the wages to £4OO a month was unanimously adopted. A; Bill to prohibit/senators from using "fire-water or any other kind of. water" was passed. The "Chamber" was discussing a Bill for placing a Maxim silencer on the Sergeant at Arms when that official appeared in the doorway. The affrighted pages promptly hid under the Presidential rostrum, whence they were ignomlniously hauled forth by the Sergeant's assistants.