Salt Lake Democrat | 1885-05-20 | Page 2 | He Wasn't Seventeen Feet High

He Wasnt Seventeen Feet High Spooner the new Republican Senator from Wisconsin is considerably below medium stature His physical appearance appear-ance does not impress a stranger with a sense of greatness Naturally he is a little sensitive on this point The other day while sitting in a newspaper office in Washington he was introduced to a gentleman gen-tleman as Senator Spooner of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin The gentleman looked at Spooner in a halfincredulous sort of way as if sizing him up and judging him by the standard of a tapeline He at the same time begged his pardon in a tone that poorly concealed his surprise The newly fledged statesman could stand it nu longer and exclaimed with some petu ulance Great Scott Do you suppose a man has got to be seventeen feet high I in Senator order to be qualified as a United States