Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-20 | Page 10 | Washington

Senate Dignified Visitors Obey Rules Heckler Pulls Faces Face t tL L Heflin Brings Laugh J I IBy By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON V SH ll's INGTON-ll's Its It's to look at a a. representative taUve through opera glasses but youre you're certainly courting trouble 13 If It you OU try such Ucb i peck peek at It a n. United States Stales senator j Time sighted near-sighted woman ViSitor to the tue senate gallery recently who wanted a of ot the senator ab siu had read so ISO much about out wa was soon soon- told by a IL doorkeeper to put Jut her op era glasses back in her I purse urse an and keep them there Had sho she been In is the tho house gallery sho she could hays have brought out a spyglass In Iii safet safety I The senate Is la that thata way a It u take takei i It Ita dignity a a. great deal heal more moreo seriously seri Pen than docs does tho the house Rules Rulea governing o the conduct of or those wh who pa pay senators a visit although u unwrItten un written are aro rigidly enforced with enforced out respect to person or position One of the more moro prominent men mem bers ber of the tho house for o example stopped b by the other day to hear ft speech Something was said paid id that he wanted to remember Ho Mo 4 out an envelope and started t to tomake make a a. memorandum on the bad backS Ho lie hadn't gone far wa vai spotted by a 3 doorkeeper and ordered ordered or- or dered to put away pencil and I pa i. i per her His Ills explanation of ot who and what he lie was doing doln availed him little And when ho hue went storming storm fn ing to the office of genial Dave e Barry Bar Bar- T. T ry tho the senates senate's at arrn ho ito was 35 politely but firmly told that thal senate rules aro are senate rules and a apply ply equally to all There are aro curious things on on cannot do In tho the galleries of ot con n. n gross eys s. s Especially Is this true truo in ho the senate There Thore the visitor is forbidden t to Is write an anything thinS at all Parcels of or all sorts must be bo left teet outside for fOl fear that someone will sneak meak In a a. camera pistol or bomb Reading Reading- of newspapers books or cr or magazines Is prohibited on the theory the ory that what is going on down below be be- low how should be he of oC sufficient interest to hold ones one's attention At Intervals of Cf two feet around the thc rail aro are little signs enclosed in glass warning vl visitors that they must not lean or put their their- hands hand ther there Banners and placards of all sorts are taboo And there are many others But despite tho the many little r regu rogn regulations gu lations it i Is rare that trouble Is had with the In almost e fn instance tanco a simple warning of or yb 10 lation n I is sufficient The late Jato Senator Warren of at ono one time in his career t haLl hail incurred the enmity of or a n. man malt who d delighted lIEh to come to the thc gallery gal gal- lery and mako faces aces at him On day a ahe he lie became so obnoxious that that a a co colleague of or the V Wyoming senator urged that the heckler be bo J. But Eul Warren 1 Intervened and he lie was WM permitted to stay itay When tho the last special sei session was brought to a close Senator HeWn of or Alabama J requested that thai tho the press gallery bo be cleared Om Ont of or tho the newspapermen laughed ou out LIt loud at the tho Alabama senator when a parliamentary ruling went ent agal t. t r I him m and he lc wi wa was greatly angered I But his request t was refused