Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1893, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1893-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. SENATE ISHMAELITES | Hew Blood and Brains Are Rev- olutionizing Congress. ‘WITH CHIPS ON THEIR SHOULDERS. Senators Wolcott and Catey and a Possible Prize Fight. ICH MEN OF THE SENATE. (Britten for The Evening Star. UMPTY DUMPTY sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had @ great fall, And all the king's horses And ail the King’s men Can't set Humpty Dumpty up again. Humpty Dumpty is senatorial courtesy. It has sat on the wall of congressional leg- bs islation for years and @oesed the Capitol. It has made new Sena- ‘tors tremble in their boots, and has not al-} Yowed them to speak until they have sat at feast two years in the chamber. It has made them get down and lick the feet of the graybeards of our house of lords, and it thas turned the United States Senate into e gentlemen’s club. It was the silver debate that knocked Humpty Dumpty down, and the United States Senate of today is a new Benate, modeled upon new lines and filled ‘with new, wide-awake men. That debate as set the blood to jumping in the slug- gish veins of the old stagers and has made ‘the babies of the Senate a set of iconoclas- fic Ishmaelites. The new Senate will call a spade a spade. The varnish and veneering which Edmunds, Conkling, Don Cameron, (arthur P. Gorman, Thomas A. Bayard and ‘others put on to the etiquette of legislation thas been torn off, and we are coming back to a healthy state of nature. The fights of} this session are to be with naked fists. There | ‘will be more eye-gouging than kissing, and the young men from the west have already | ebarpened their teeth and oiled their tongues ith vinegar for the fray. I sit in the press gallery and look down them. There sits Carey of Wyoming, hom Senator Wolcott charged with wear- dirty linen, and concerning whom he ted the Spanish proverb— “It's a waste of lather to shave an ass.” Wolcott may find that Carey has the kick- Be _o of an ass before he gets through, ior is a fighter from the wilds of the Rockies. He stands over six feet in his Stockings. His fist is like a piece of beef, and his broad shoulders are topped off with @ half-bald head, which looks for ali the ‘world like that of James A. Garfield. His are a sharp blue. His manner is posi- See. and his muscles and feelings have been toughened by his having been the chief cowe ‘oy of the state of Wyoming for a decade nd more. He is a man of brains and com- fon sense. Wolcott overdrew it when he! @aid that he did not wear clean linen, for he | fs in fact as well dressed as any business | an in the Senate. He is an eastern man | @nd bis native state is Delaware. He is weil @fucated and well read, and he was in Con- @ress six years before he came to the Sen- ate. He has a good memory, and he will | ix. forget Wolcott, and I doubt whether | ‘olcott ever forgets him. I would like to see the two Senators fight @ out in the ring. Wolcott is shorter than | The Wolcott-Carey Fight. @arey, but he has the frame of a prize fighter, and he could knock down an ox with his fist. He weighs two hundred uunds, and as he walks about the Senate seems to be carrying an invisible chip on | is shoulder. He is an iconoclast as to the te, and he feels himself the equal of ny man, in the chamber. He is a good- Icoking man. His big round head is set weil | own upon u pair of broad shoulders. His | Strong jaw is well shaven. His mustache | Dbristles with courage, and his blue eyes Jook fiercely out from under white brows. He has more nerve than any other man in the chamber, and he delights in high stakes, | whether his game be polities or poker. You Bave heard how he lost $15,000 at Phil Da-| ley’s club house at Long Branch about five ears ago. He staked this amount on one at faro, and when he had lost it his | face did not change, and he left the room as | ough he had been playing for copper: Ycicott is known in the west as a plunger. He bas never cared for money, and his ge- Bius is such that he has been able to make | and spend fortunes. He is not a man of coarse instincts. The blue blood which ows in his veins has come down from the Most famous families of our colonial his- tory, and he {s one of the best bred men fi @he United States Senate. One of his ance: @ors signed the Declaration of Indepen- @ence and another succesded Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. ; ‘Wolcott went to college at Yale. He has al- ‘ways been a great reader, and he has more Fare books in his Whrary than George Fris- Die Hoar of Massachusetts. He is one of the Best types of well-elucated New Englanders who have gone out to the Rockies and foveht their way up to feme and fortune. The same may be sald of Dubots, the Ishmaelite Senator from Idaho. He sits Rear Wolcott. He fs a straight, tall, broad- shouldered giant. with hair as black as Wol- cott’s well-polished boots, and with eyes which fair!y jump in their brightness and Uife. He has a strairht, belligerent nose, and he keeps his mouth shut as he sits in Bis seat in the Senate. He is a graduate of Yale and his nerve {s known from the fact at he was once United States marshal of fAaho, and had to keep all the roughs of the territory in check. He has no respect traditions and he will probably be heard before this session is over. Hill as a Game Cock. ‘The queerest gamecock in the senatorial it, however, is David B. Hill. He has ped to the front during the first few weeks of his term, and he jumps up and crows fiercely at his own brother! democrats and at the fighting cocks on | the other side of the chamber. He wears s of steel and he cuts to kill. He loodied the combs of those old roosters, Morgan and Gray, during the last silver fight and they now p: heir heads under | their wings when his bill. Senator | Hill is a typical fighter. His eyes are so Geep set that his forehead cuts them in half as they peep out from under his brows. He is as ambitious as Lucifer, and, while he is mot he sits in his seat and plots, | now and then gripping his chair with his hand as a bright thought strikes him, and now figuring away on long slips of paper. He reads the newspapers and spends a great dea: of time doing nothing. Senator Hil! has some ways which make me think of that other Ishmaelite who sits beside him as I write. I mean Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, whom Senator Proctor says he likes, but it is an acquired taste. Chandler reminds you of a snappy Scotch terrier, while Hill has the aspect of a bull- dog. Chandler annoys you, but Hill bites to kill and hangs on to the death. Senator Chandler is the most nervous man in the Senate. He is as straight as a walking stick, and not ‘much bigger. His head does not weigh more than Grover Cleveland's fist, and it is covered with peppery-gray hair, which covers the crown in the back and comes out into a full beard on the face. He has a dark complexion, nervous, snap- ping eyes, and a vitriolic tongue. He does not weigh over 125 pounds, and had Senator Blackburn tried to break his neck instead of puliing his ear when he had that fuss with him not long ago, he could, I venture, have snapped it in two with a jerk. Senator Chandler has had a wide acquaintance with publie men and measures, but he ts no re- Spector of traditions nor of persons. He is not bad looking and he makes me think of one of those ripe red peppers. They are pretty enough, but when you bite into them you wish you hadn't. ing of Chandler, just in front of him sits Eugene Hale, whose father-in-law was Zach Chandler. I don’t think these two Chandlers were related, and Zach Chandler had more of the bulldog about his nature than the terrler. He was more of an Ishmaelite than Eugene Hale, who is a stickler for senatorial reverence, and who has evidently forgotten the days when he came to Congress and was nicknamed by his enemies “Jim Blaine’s Little Bub.” He has made a name for himself since then and his wife has brought him a fortune. She inherited one-half of her father’s estate, and Hale is probably a rich man today, because Zach Chandler thought a thousand dollars was a bigger thing than a college education. His father had sent him to the common schools, and one day told him that he would give him $1,000 cash to start him in busi- ness, or, if he preferred, he could have in- stead f this a collegiate education. Young Zach chose the money, and he invested it in dry goods, and this formed the founda- tion of the millions he left. His daughter has now one of the finest houses in Wash- ingtcn, which was built with a part of the money, and Senator Hale lives there with her and her mother. Rich Men in Congress. As to rich men in Congress, the indica- tions are that there will be less money spent during the coming social season than at any similar time for years. The gold bugs of the Senate are having their hard times and the investments of many of them are turning out badly. Congressional wealth is always overestimated, and some of the men on that floor below me who are supposed to be worth millions have, in fact, but little more than their salaries. Who would have thought that Charley Foster, when he was Secretary of the Treasury and was living within a stone’s throw of the White House, was, in fact, on the verge of bankruptcy. He sup- posed that he was worth a fortune and he had overdrawn his own bank account many times ten thousand. He had a way of giv- ing blank checks to members of his family and they filled these out to suit themselves. This, of course, made no difference in his aggregate losses, but it showed a loose way of doing business which no one but a mil- Honaire could stand. Secretary Rusk, who died the other day, was supposed here to be worth several hundred thousand dollars, but his estate footed up about fifty thousand, and you can’t tell anything as to what a man is worth here in Washington. In the rear of the Senate chamber, as I write, 1 see the son of Alexander T. Mitchell, the Milwaukee rai!road king, who died worth, it was said, something like $50,000,000. When his son first came to Washington he was un- known to the real estate men and when he wanted to rent a house costimg several! thous- and dollars a year, one of them called upon Rusk and asked him if “this man Mitchell was good.” Uncle Jerry replied, “If John L. Mitchell makes a deal with you to the ex- tent of one million dollars and you bring the check here I will indorse it, but my indorse- ment won't make the check any better, for, Mitchell is worth many times that amount.” Since then Mitchel! has had suits concern- ing his property in Milwaukee, and though he Is probably still rich, one would have to go to Bradstreet to find out just how much or how little he is worth. Take the case of Cal Brice. He lives in one of the finest houses of Washington and he gives single dinners which cost $12,000 apiece. He may be worth millione. He may be a very rich man, and he probably ts. But in talking with one of his old friends, Gen. Gibson of Ohio, a short time ago, he said to me: “No one on earth can tell what Cal Brice is worth. He has the nerve of a great specu- lator, but he is always as cool as the center seed of a cucumber. He can lose a million and and bat hiseye. His face is like an tron mask. It never changes. His life has been filled with ups and downs. Today he may be worth millions and tomorrow he may be feeling around in all his pockets for cop- pers, but from his actions you would not know the difference. He is one of the big- gest plungers in the country and has enough shrewd business ability to generally come out on top. Seu rm Capitalists. Rich men, in fact, are dropping out of the Senate. You can now count the millionaires on your fingers and the great majority of the body will not run over the $100,000 mark. Most of the southerners have noth- ing to speak of, though Vance has a big es- tate through his wife. Senator Morgan owns a plantation. Pugh has a big farm, which he works with negroes in Alabama, and as Senator Walthall was making $10,000 a year at the time he was elected he has proba- bly saved something. George Vest is not a rich man. Roger Q. Mills cannot afford to keep a carriage, and Senator Joe Black- burn lives at a hotel. [I don’t know what Isham G. Harris is worth and I never look- ed upon him as having the money-making instinct, but I learned the other day that he lost $150,000 by the war and that he had made all this money himself. His father was a poor farmer of Tennessee. He had a piece of clay land and ten negroes to work it and young Isham had to fight his own way. He began as a clerk and soon had a store of his own. When he was quite a young man he had amassed $7,000, when the bank failed and he lost it all. He took a rich partner and in two years had regained all that he had lost, and he went on from this point until he made the fortune which he had at the time of the war. He is proba- bly well to do today, but he lives very sim- ply in an unfashionable quarter of the city near the Capitol. Pefier as a Stump Grubber. The Serate grows smaller the closer you get to It. It has shown its humanity to the people and its divinity is fast going to the dogs. Look at the careers of these men low me and exclaim: “Now in the name of all the Gods at once, a meat have these our Caesars That they have grown so great?” They are fat and famous now, but they had to hustle in the days gone by and they may yet have to hustle in the days to come. Senator Perkins of California had to shin up the masts of sailing vessels in all kinds of weather, and he scrubbed the decks with the fear of a rope’s end in his eye. Senator Peffer grubbed stumps out of the soil be- fore he got a chance to stand upon the stump and farm with his mouth. He had to hustle for the victuals which made the Jean meat which covers his bones, and he was making $25 a week as editor of a farm- ers’ paper when he got from the ture of Kansas this Senate job, which pays him $5,000 a year. Hansborough lives at the Cochran Hotel now, but he was half starv- ed when he cleaned type and turned the press ass printer's devil. and his colleague, tor Roach, was a quartermaster’s clerk. John Sherman carried a surveyor’s chain for daily wages. Cal Brice had to count the coppers while he was teaching school, and the first year of his law practice hardly paid for his salt. Pettigrew worked as a common laborer when he first went to Da- kota, and when Kyle was preaching, up to the time of his election, a silver dollar was ten times as big as it is now. Don Cameron, though his father was rich, began his life as a bank clerk and he soon became a bank president, John Mitchell of Oregon asked @ carpenter to trust him for a pine table which he wanted to use for his office when he first hung out his shingle in Portland and was refused on account of his poverty. Palmer of Illinois worked his way through college, and Wilson of Iowa made his first money by working at harness making and studying between the stitches. Men who graduate from such schools are usually umble, but the Senate would corrupt an angel. A Sherman Trick. These old Senators like to put on airs now, but they had to get down and root for their living in the days of their youth. Nearly every one of them has had to trot about and ask for votes at some time in his life, and not a few have risen stage by stage from being justices of peace and Prosecut- ing attorneys up to the Senate. They have | been just as tricky in their ways as other men, and their boyhood has been as full of queer pranks. 1 was in Mount Vernen, | Ohio, last month and they pointed out to me there an old building in which John Sherman lived with his uncle when he was @ boy. It was at Mount Vernon that Sher- man got a part of his education, and one of the old stagers of the town told me a story | concerning him. Said he: “John was a tall, | bony, black-haired youth, who was full of or fun and was always ready to play a trick upon his teacher. He had a set of school- mates who were as bad as himself, and some of their doings created decided sensations. One I remember was out of the ordinary. The teacher was named 5 | Son of West Virginia, Clifton R. Breckin- | ridge of Arkansas and Justin R. Whiting THE NEW TARIFF. Men Who Framed the Much Dis- cussed Wilson Bill, ‘ SKETCHES OF DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS. How the Different Sections of the Country Are Represented BRAINY AND ABLE MEN. HE BREEZE Is laden with complaints about the new tariff bill. There are shouts of approval and cries of dissatisfaction, Whether it-is in line with the national democratic platform or not is immaterial to the interests in- volved in the strug- gle. They elther-want it. or they don’t want it. The new web was woven in an apartment beneath the marble esplanade of the House wing of the Capitol, formerly occupied by the committee on the eleventh census. There are eleven demo- cratic members of the committee on ways and means. The tariff schedule was 11 trusted to three of the weavers of this com- mittee. These three were William L. Wil- of Michigan. After patient hearings they worked night and day to perfect the new schedule. How well they have performed their duty the schedule itself must deter- mine. | Mr. Wilson was chairman of the last Gemocratic national convention. He suc- ceeded William M. Springer as chairman of the committee on ways and means. In the final break in the canvas for the speaker- | ship of the Fitty-second Congress Mr. Springer voted for Mr. Crisp. Mr. Wilson remained steadfast to Mr. Mills and went down with him. Mr. Springer was made! Tennessee was its chairman. It was this committee that revived the agitation for an income tax. In service, Mr. McMillin is the oldest, if not the ablest democratic member of the ways and means. This is his eighth term in Congress. Mr. McMillin was @ prominent candidate for Speaker of the Fifty-second Congress. When he with- drew his name he cast his vote for Roger g Mills. Speaker Crisp retained him upon the ways and means, and also on the com- mittee on rules. These are the two most important committees in the House. in this Congress the Tennesseean was dropped from the committee on rules. The Speak- er’s action gave rise to considerable com- ment, but his motive was easily fathomed, W. Bourke Cockran. | There are five members on the rules—three | democrats and two republicans. 1t was | hardly fair that the three democrats should | come from the south. When it came to a choice between Gen. Catchings of Missis- sippi and Mr. McMillin, the Speaker stood by the man who had been in charge of his canvass, and supplanted McMillin with Joseph H. Outhwaite of Ohio. The Speaker himself is chairman of the committee. Mr. Mc’ is probably the best equipped man for all-around work in the House. He has crossed swords many a time with the republican leaders, and always with honor and credit. His supporters for the fe erewersd Were as loyal as Napoleon's = guard, and he is destined for higher onors. William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska was an associate of Mr. McMillin on the subcommittee. Bryan is a picture of Sam it in his younger days. He enjoys the same distinction of winning a place on the ways and means in his first term of service. Nor was the Speaker's favor misplaced. ‘'an’s fame as an orator be- came national, and was won in the tariff in the last Congress. He is an ardent silver advocate—so ardent that some of his friends fear that he may land in the camp of the populists. The agitation for an income tax is undoubtedly due to his efforts. Nebraska may well be proud of him, for no Congressman ever won more fame and reputation in so snort a time. The third member of McMillin’s subcom- mittee was Judge Alexander B. Montgom- ery of Kentucky. He has the true Ken- tucky face, clean shaven and intelligent. To his efforts, as much as any other man's, was due the election of Mr. Crisp as Speaker. He went upon the ways and means at the beginning of his third term and one day thé boys went out in the coun- try and picked up a sheep that had been killed by the dogs and brought it into town with them. They did this after dark. Tak- ing the sheep to the school room they put it in through the window and crawled in after it. They then tied it in the teacher's chair so that its front feet just rested on the desk and its face looked soberly out over the school room. Upon Its nose they fastened the teacher's spectacles which he had forgotten and upon a blackboard over its head John wrote in Latin a phrase which translated read. “‘& fit sacrifice to the Lord.’ “The schoolmaster, Prof. Lord, was very angry when he found it, but the boys were good students and he forgave them.” FRANK G. CARPENTER. colette a HINTS FOR THE NOVICE. Some Points That Should Be Followed ‘hoosing a Horse. To those caring for the sport, but who at the same time know little of the details so Necessary to the equestrian and the horse owner, it is well to give a few hints. A very bad plan is to buy a horse before you are able to see for yourself that the animal has all the points requisite to the use for which it is purchased, and this is especially to be observed in regard to saddle horses. In these days, when the trot seems to have reached the highest point of cultivation, and has even found favor under the saddle, it would be useless to bring forward the old- fashioned saddle gaits; but all who regard their safety as well as the enjoyment must acknowledge the necessity of some few A Good Baild. points indispensable in a saddle horse. In the first instance, for the same reason that a horse is preferable to a mare, the horse should be high in the shoulder, with @ perceptible slope to the tall; if a horse has not @ good shoulder he has not that power that gives a good front action; if the great- est power be from behind the body will be forced forward very often to the disad- vantage of the forelegs, causing a loss of balance, which will result in stumbling, the worst failing of a riding horse; if the great- est power is in front the propelling power cannot encroach. But there must be suf- ficient breadth across the loins to cause a good balance between the two—the shoulder, though well developed, should not be too straight; the withers should not be too high- ly developed; the chest should be broad, for freedom and lung power. Next our horse should carry an easy, natural head, well up, with the mouth so bitted as to be kept in hand and susceptible to the slightest pres- sure on the rein. If you are conscious of your horse being @ stumbler your hold on the rein becomes too strong; then his de- pendence on you will make him careless in adapting himself to the road, will make you ' i The Proper Angle. lose confidence in him and will spoil your seat, which should be thoroughly independ- ent of the rein. No one rides well who de- | sesong on the rein for his or seat, as no orse is fit for the saddle who depends on the rein for his footing. The next thing for consideration ts the shape of the forefeet. The hoof should be on an incline of about 50 degrees with the ground, the toe then strikes the ground nn imperceptible part of a second before the rest of the hoof, so the jar is broken, giving that spring so necessary in a riding horse. The toe of the long flat foot could not touch the ground first, not being on a line with the lower pastern; the loss of strength would be too great. Therefore the flat hoof is obliged to strike the ground flat, which causes a jar. Of course, a saddle horse should be of the highest intelligence, quick and amenable. Then the breaking and gaiting would be a pleasant task for any intelligent owner. 20s A Sure Cure. From the Detroit Free Press, The merchant was rather blue and his wife noticing it asked what the matter was. “Matter enough,” he sighed. “I've been looking over my books and I find I've lost money every month for the last year.” “How did you lose it?’ she inquired. “Oh, I don’t know,” shaking his head. a ween “Nor where?” Then she thought a minute and remem- bered what she did when she lost her pock- etbook and her face brightened. “Why don’t you advertise for it?” she asked innocently. “By George,” he exclaimed, “I never thought of that,” and the next day he had a big display ad. in the paper and the next and the next, and in three months’ time he was in clover up to his chin. ——s0e— Misdirected Zeal. President of the Kiteflyers’ National Bank —"What's this item in our statement of assets—ninety-five thousand dollars and twenty-seven cents?” Cashier—“Yes, sir. I thought those odd cents would look mighty well.” chairman of the ways and means and Mr, Wilson was placed fourth on the same com- mittee. In the Fifty-third Congress Mr. Wilson appears at the head of the commit- tee, and Mr. Springer has disappeared en- tirely. The Speaker, however, made him chairman of the important committee on banking and currency. It is fair to assume that Mr. Wilson was made chairman of the committee on ways and means because of his intimate rela- tions with the administration. No man is closer in the councils of President Cleve- land. This being so, it {s also fair to as- sume that his tariff bill reflects the rev- enue policy of the administration. At all events the new tariff bill is not only before the House, but before the people. The House will pass upon it as promptly as the leaders desire, and the people will either indorse or spurn it next fall. In view of these facts a sketch of members responsible for the bill will not prove uninteresting. Mr. Wilson is about the size of Napoleon when he landed in Egypt. Here the re- semblance ends. There is nothing Corsican about him. He has straight, sandy hair, @ clear complexion, a light mustache, and a Roscee Conkling nose and chin. This is his fifth term in Congress. He was brought into prominence in the House by a telling speech against the arbitrary action of Speaker Reed in the Fifty-first Congress. It was so exquisite in satire and so parlia- mentary and direct in terms that it at- tracted the attention of the whole country. It ran the rounds of the press and excited much editorial comment. It was by no means, however, the best speech made by the gentleman from West Virginia. The Mills and the McKinley bills aroused him into intellectual activity. No tariff ad- dresses in either House have attracted more attention or been more widely distributed. They showed deep research, analytical power, and invincible logic. As chairman of the ways and means, Mr. Wilson is leader of the democratic forces on the floor. Perfect in equipoise, courteous to the last degree, and governed by rare judgment, he is a match for the ablest republican gen- erals. He has personality enough to ani- mate and consolidate his following. These are qualities that will tell in the coming struggle. Equally influential on the ways and means is Clifton R. Breckinridge. This gentleman is no taller than Mr. Wilson, although carrying more flesh. He is the son of John C. Breckfhridge, once Vice President of the United States. His face is fashioned after the type of the old Knickerbockers of New York. His sharp gray eyes appear behind spectacles. He is knightly in manner, and William D. Bynum. exceedingly able in discussion. He has made the tariff the study of his life, and is probably the best read man in the House on the puzzle of national revenue. Mr. Breckinridge was dropped from the ways and means when Speaker Crisp first took the gavel. His return to the committee in the Speaker’s second term gave universal satisfaction to the democratic members. Breckinridge has made so many fine speeches in the House that it is difficult to particularize. Like his father, he has never made a poor speech. His voice, though clear, is not powerful, but his argument is both. This ts his sixth term in Congress. Tom Reed’s Congress drove him back to Arkansas by declaring his seat vacant. His constituents returned him to the same Con- gress by a largely increased plurality. Mr. Breckinridge is the ninth member on the roster of the ways and means, but he ranks among the first. Justin R. Whiting, the associate of Messrs. Wilson and Breckinridge in drawing up the schedule, has the head and face of a Lor- enzo de Medici. They would not be out of place in the Italian parliament. This is his fourth term in the House. When Mr. Crisp was elected Speaker he became a member of the ways and means. Whiting, like his associates on the subcommittee, is modest and undemonstrative. An untiring worker, he has devoted much of his time to the study of political economy, and he thorough- ly understands revenue matters. His tariff speeches are concise and able. He repre- sents the St. Clair district, north of De- troit, and was mayor of St. Clair and state senator before his election to Congress. So much for the subcommittee having the tariff schedule in charge. An equally important committee was the one intrusted with internal revenue matters. It also con- sisted of two southern democrats and one President—‘Well, they would look better if the item wasn’t ‘gold coin on hand.’” of service. Montgomery is one of the few men of quiet influence in the House. A good speaker, excellent worker, and a close attendant upon the sessions, the judge is n honor to his constituents and @ credit ep state. on the ways and means is Judge Henry G. Turner of Georgia. The judge ranks with Daniel B. Culberson of Texas in the estimation of the House. He is a star in the legislative tirmament trom which men take observations. This ts his seventh term. He has been a member of the ways and means for many years, and one who carries great weight. His speeches are classic and almost unrivaled by his associates. When thoroughly aroused they are delivered with terrific effect. No sane member would ever wantonly prick this Representative from la. Like the boy that stoned the wasp's nest, he would Tue it as soon as done. William Bourke Cockran is the sixth member on the ways and means. His per- sonality and eloquence are so well known that a description is unnecessary. He fought the income tax with his usual songs and pertinacity. Unfortunately for im and his constituents, he has been a sufferer from a malarial attack and has not been able to attend many of the ses- sions of the committee. The seventh on the list is Moses ‘r. Stevens of husetts. This is his Gunite = in the — He @ tall, gentlemanly man, wit a close-cro; gray head and beard, and a clear ane ag While president of a national kK, he is also @ manufacturer of woolen goods. It is not out of place to say that he fitly represents an element of the northern democracy in the ways and means. Mr. MeMiI1 Stevens is a hard worker and an effective speaker. In the democratic caucus at the beginning of the Fifty-second Congress Joseph H. O'Neil of Boston raised Mr. Stevens to prominence by voting persistent- ly for him for Speaker until the end of the contest. The question, “Who in thunder is Stevens?" was quickly answered, for he appeared upon the ways and means com- mittee and has taken an active part in the legislation ever sin Tall William D. Bynum of Indiana 1s the tenth member of the committee. A man of impressive personality, he can never be forgotten by those who saw his terrific attack upon Speaker Reed in the Fifty-first Congress. It fairly magnetized | the House, and almost led to violence. Indeed, a Texas member was on the point of mounting the steps to the Speaker's tribune, when restrained by his fellow members. It is said that Bynum’s days in Congress are numbered. If so, Indiana will lose the most striking figure in the House. In_politics, however, Bynum is a veritable Stonewall Jackson—apt to reap- Pear in full fighting trim after widespread rts of his death. i ‘he last ocratic member of the ways and means is John C. Tarsney of Missouri. ee was chairman of the committee on bor in the last Congress, and a promi- nent member of the committee on public buildings and grounds. A soulful speaker, Tarsney is one of the most popular men on the floor. He believes in a strict construc- tion of the pension law. An uncompromis- ing opponent of the prisoners-of-war pen- sion bill, he drew upon himself the fire of several G. A. R. newspapers. Tarsney, however, was impervious to any such as- saults, He himself spent thirteen months in Andersonville prison, and was fully competent to act when such legisia- tion was pi sed. Such are the democratic members of the committee on ways and means. It has been asserted that the south dominates the committee. It has six of the eleven democratic members. All the republican members, however, come from the north, so that the committee really stands six southern and eleven northern men. AMOS J. CUMMINGS. oe Hel Keller at t' Fair. Helen Keller's vistt to the world’s fair was full of interest. Every door in the white city was opened to the helpless child, who can neither see, hear nor speak. The Cape of Good Hope unlocked its safe and allowed her to inspect its diamonds. Show cases filled with the most delicate wares were thrown open that they might be ex- Dlered by her delicate fingers. Even in the forei bazars, with their warning sign, “For sake don't handle,” addressed to the personally investigating American, ave invitation to her touch. She climbed all over the great Krupp gun, and its work- were described for her by the German cers. What delighted her most was the French bronzes, which her eager fingers traced, catching the artist's thought and tting ideas of loveliness as her sensitive face expressed it. Her companion was deavoring to describe to her the effect the electric light in the lagoons and her well-trained imagination quickly responded: “Does it look as if a shower of golden fish had been caught in an invisible net?” Her friend adds: “Is it any wonder that Dr. Holmes says of her, ‘She is a poet whose eyes were taken from her in early days, but whose soul ts full of music.’ ” aia aS After the Ceremony. Groom—“I say, will you see the minister for me. I—I—quite forgot the wedding fee.” Father-in-law—“Young man, you are be- en- of A FEW STORIES. Incidents in the Lives of Well-Known Statesmen, SENATOR JONES NARROW Few Men Who Helped to Nomi- nate Lincoln Now Survive. SENATORIAL LUNCHES. Written for The Evening Star. One of the most en! story tellers in the Senate is Senator John P. Jones of Nevada. His life is full of dramatic, heroic and comic incidents. One of the most thrill- ing of his personal experiences, as related by himself, is an accidental occurrence whereby he came near losing his life at the hands of one of his best friends He says: “I was a friend of Gen. Irvin McDowell, and often entertained him and his wife in San Francisco, and I was also a very fre- quent visitor at their house. I owned a valuable copper mine in California, and about five miles away there was a ranch with a very fair hotel, kept by a man named Mooney. One summer, when I was personally looking after the development of the mine, I occupied the best suite of rooms at Mooney’s place, consisting of @ parlor, a bed room and a bath room. The bath room not only connected with my bed room, but had a door leading upon @ Veranda. “One day, while I was at the mine Gen. McDowell and his wife stopped for a day at Mooney’s ranch, and the So, of the hotel did exactly what I wot have done if been presesnt. He gave him ments which were retained by “When I returned from eranda, bath room through the out very warm, covered with dust ceeded to take a bath. After sloshing around in the water for a time I stepped out of the bath tub, picked up a towl, and, instead of drying my body narrow bath room, I stepped out in! bed room for that purpose. “Mrs. McDowell was sitting there, and back toward the did not ———— me. You may imagine my surprise when she set up a tremendous screaming and howling, and threw a weter pitcher at me, while she called stentoriously for help. I un- derstood immediately that she took me for a vile villain, who appeared before her with criminal intent. “Gen. McDowell heard the commotion, and hastily returned to the hotel. His wife told him how she had been insulted by villain, who had evidently intended to as- sault her, and in her excitement she stirred the general up to a high pitch of wrath. I could hear him declare that he intended to shoot through the door and kill the in- truder, while he called upon others to guard the outside door to prevent his escape. Then I heard the voice of Mr. Mooney ex- cape to the general the exact situation, y telling him that he was in my apart- ments by courtesy, and that the intruder, who was su} to be such a villain, was undoubtedly Senator Jones, who had no idea that anybody was in his apartments. “Gen. McDowell said that he knew Sen- ator Jones very well, and that if it was Senator Jones it would be all right, but called upon the villain inside to step forth, in order that he might be seen. If it had been any other than myself I have no doubt that the general would have killed him there without asking further ques- tions. “As soon as I was thoroughly dressed, however, I s' out into the room, bowed and smiled to Gen. McDowell and his wife, and we considered the incident closed. Ever after that, however, when- ever Gen. McDowell and myself met, allu- sion was made to the incident as one of the greatest jokes of a life-time.” “That man evidently likes titles and dec- orations,” said ex-Senator William Pitt pho! els uniform, with his breast covered with dec- orations. “I wish that fellow had a number of my titles, from squire to governor and Senator. I do not like to be called by my titles. I would rather have my friends call me Pitt, as they used to do in earlier days. I never enjoyed any period of my life ter than that when I associated with John Logan, Conkling, Jim Blaine, and we called each other by our given names. “Speaking of the number of ti! which I have had,” continued Senator Kellogg Teflectively, “reminds me of the fact that I have been on this earth for a iy ears. I was thinking today that ofall the incoln electors for the state of Tilinois, in 1860, very few remain alive. I am_ still here, Senator Palmer of Iilinols, now in his seventy-seventh year, is still on earth, and 80 also is Gov. Ferry of the state of Wash- ington. They are all passing away grad- lly. I preseume that it is almost time for me to meet the inevitable also. In spite of the facts of the Christian religion and the hope of the future which is given us I must say that this world is almost beautiful to leave, . I want to upon it as long as I can.” Shortly after these remarks were made by Senator Kellogg in my office I went to the Capitol and there met Senator Palmer, the almost octogenarian from Illinois.He sat at the end of the long table in the Senate restaurant taking lunch with Senators John Sherman of Ohio and Charles F. Mander- son of Nebraska, while near by sat Sena- tors Davis of Minnesota and Peffer of Kan- bas. Senator Palmer said: “Yes, what Kellogg tells you is true. The are all wing old and passing away. I am sev- Entv-seven years young and do not think I will be any years old when my time comes to pass away. I am feeling as well as felt thirty-three years ago, when I was an enthusiastic supporter of Abraham Lin- coln and was elected to cast a ballot for him in the electoral college. Sherman here is quite a young man and Manderson ts a mere boy. T am the oldest Illinois Lincoln elector living, in point, of years. bat I think T am the youngest in feeling, intend to be the last one to leave this eth." nn am feeling a little olf today,” said Senator Davis of Minnesota. “ en Tam not feeling well or my nerves are in any way affected I always like to get the lunch of my childhood and I have ordered it to- day. If you will remain here a few mo- ments you will see it and some day will enjoy a similar lunch, for it is beneficial. I have ordered some minced codfish, with cream, and some mashed potatoes. Here they come. (The waiter here brought tn the two dishes and set them before the Senjike a meal of this kind, because it ts easily digested and nutritious that it butlas aman up almost instantly,” contin- ued the Senator. “I just lke to take the mashed potatoes and put them on my plate this way, then pour the minced codfish and cream over them this way, and just mix them up like when I was a little boy and eat the entire mess with a fork. You try it some day when you think you are feel- ing old and tired and have no appetite for any solid food. It will make a man of you in less time than ft oid tell it.” “Yes, that is a very said Sonator Peffer. “Senator Davis has no patent on that remedy for nervousness or old age. I very often have the dish myself. It is not exactly so tasteful as ham and eggs, but it is very beneficial.’ I toid Senator Peffer a story which he had never heard before. When Senator Peffer was editor of the Kansas Farmer, six months before the election which resulted in the defeat of Senator I is, a series of questions were printed in the Kansas Farmer and signed, W. A. Peffer. They were addressed to Senator Ingalls and re- lated to the condition of the country at that time, and called upon the Senator for his views upon various pending questions. When George Apperson received a copy of the Kansas Farmer containing these inquiries alled upon Senator Ingalls in his room at the Capitol, and asked him what he had to make to these conundrums. said that he wanted to print a reply in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Senator Ingalls merely glanced at the questions, his eye-giasses, and said in his lordly man- ner, “Who in h—ell ts Peffer?’ He made no other reply _ the inquiry of the news- per correspondent. Pais months later {it was announced in Washington by telegraph that W. A. Peffer had been elected by the legislature of Kan- sas to succeed John James Ingalls in the United States Senate. George A! was a warm personal friend of Sen: Peffer, who had done newepaper work with him at the same desk. He did not like the way in which Senator Ingalls had treated his friend upon their first meeting, when he present- ed the questions of his friend. Mr. Apper- son immediately went to the committee room over which Senator Ingalls was the presiding genius, announced to him the de- ™ Borthern ‘. Benton McMillin of ginning early. I expected you back from your wedding tour re this began.” cision of the legislature of Kansas and said, “Who in h—ell is Peffer?”* _ A Story from the Capital, — How a Life was Saved by a News- Paper Story. A Clerk in the P. W. Has Can Proftt. There is no disease more aggravating in its treatment, nor more painful than rheumatism. For years the brightest minds in the medical world have sought far and wide for some pan- acea, and while in some cases there has been relief afforded, yet it was only temporary, ané the pain came back again. ‘That it is a dangerous disease has never been questioned, and its treatment therefore shoulé. be carried on judiciously, In young persons, the heart is liable to become affected, ané many deaths have been traced to rheumatism. Some months ago the leading newspapers of the country published accounts of many cures ofrheumatism that had been accomplished by ®@new discovery in medical science. It is to one of these newspaper reports that Mr. L. B. ‘Taylor of this city owes his recovery from the Gread disease. Mr. Taylor lives at 821 CO street, southwest, and is @ delivery clerk at the P. W. | & B. Ratlroad office, corner 9th and Maryland Svenue, southwest. For five years Mr. Taylor has been a sufferer from rheumatism. Some tme ago, he read an article in one of the west ern papers tejling of a case of ayoung man who had been aMicted with rheumatism for years nd who had been cured in an almost miracu- ous manner. The case recorded was identical ‘With his,and he determined to try the same remedy. It was with a feeling of grave Goubt, however, that he purchased # box of the medi- cine known to the medical world as Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink Pills, and began taking them ‘According to directions. The first box dia him so much good that he kept ‘on taking them. Every day he mended, until now he has again Tesumed his duties and is walking and working Os well as ever, Mr. Taylor was found by a reporter in the de livery clerks’ office at the Philadelphia, Wi- mington & Baltimore Railroad office, at the corner of 9th street and Maryland avenue south- West. Mr. Taylor volunteered to tell his own story, and this is what he said: “ About five years ago, 1 was taken with se vere pains in my heels. At first 1 thought | Was cold, and treated it with niments. The | pain increased, however, and the joints became | So sore and swollen that I could not walk. For | Six weeks I was confined to my bed. 1 called in several of our local physicians, but they | could not relieve the pain which they ding- nosed as the result of rheumatism. At times the pain was unbearable, and 1 would ery aloud. Some friends suggested that I send for ® Philadelphia physician. One that hed made ; quite @ record in cases like mine. Well, I called in five of them before I got through, and | they all treated me Without avail, Meantime 1 had fallen away in fiesh until 1 was a mere | skeleton My appetite was gone, and I hadnot the energy to lift a hand. One day while lying | in bed 1 was reading an old copy of the Cincin- nati Enquirer, and my eyes fell upon a story telling of a marvelous cure of rheumatism that | bad been effected by a medicine called Dr. Wik | ams’ Pink Pills. I had about concluded that | 1 was the only one in the world who knew any- | thing about that disease, but read the story | through. I concluded to try the medicine. I | Doughta box and took the pills according te irection. The first box did mesome good, and I bought some more; to-day I am well aslever was. The pain has all disappeared, I am re gaining flesh every day, and not losing an op- portunity of telling my friends abow Williams | Pink Pills.” ‘ ‘ Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are an unfailing Specific for such diseases as lg@-omotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vita? dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the "after effects of the grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, that tired | feeling resulting from nervous prostration; all | diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, ete are also a specific for troubles pe- cullar to females, such as suppressions, irrega- larities, and all forms of weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature, ‘These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Wie Nams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and Brockville, Ont, and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrapper, -t 50 cents @ box,or six boxes for $2.50, and are never sold in bulk or by the dozen or hundred. @ B. Ratlroad Office by Which Oubers some. They are made up ip electric seal, estra- khan, egal siin, eable, etc. SKIN COATS and JACKETS. I will sell at the lowest possible prices. Pur Neck Scarfs, Muffs, Caps, Gloves, Robes, dc. NOTICE: All ALTERING and REPAIRING bottom rates @uring this month. nie, thaceis HAY FEVER Bothing like it has ever been known in the histor of medicive. It is the most ‘the age, and the ouly medicine kuowe i { } rl il | | t i ek | i | i |: fF il i p 7 fiat i he ¥F STS, WASHINGTON, BD CG ec8T-Sm,cod