Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1894, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1201 Pennayivazia Avenue, corner 11th St, by ¢ Evening Star Newspaper Company. S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. anlar mw New York Ofice, $8 Potter Building. pach wen Bdotcnmiion ‘Tur Evextxe STAR is served to sub: im the eity by carriers. on their own account, at 10 cents Der week, or 44. per month. Copies at the coun- ter 2 cents each a or Cansda—postage prepaid-—S0 cests per oa SatTurpay QOVINTUPLE SHFET Star $1. 3 p= a A mange (Eare at tl it Office at DoC., ‘as second-class mai: ‘matter. — anua oseriptions must be paid tm ed- GOVERNOR OF OHIO. A Talk With the Napoleon of the Buckeye State. eee ee eee HOW MR. McKINLEY WORKS AND LOCKS. He Advises Young Men to Avoid Public Life, HIS OPINION OF Correspondence of The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, OHIO, Jan. S$, 1894. HAVE COME TO Columbus from Washington to give you a letter about Governor McKinley. He is today one of the most interesting characters in the United States. We are a Ration of hero worshipers, and each of our great parties has to have its demi- god. . McKinley is the demigod of the re- Publican party. He fills the niche where stood Garfield and Blaine, and his worship- ers wope to elevate him to the White House. I have no doubt but that the gray matter under his black hair is permeated with the Presidential itch, but I have looked in vain to find any evidence of the disease in his face or his surroundings. He has the same clear, brunette complexion which he maintained under the influences of Washington. His eyes are just as bright, and there is no austerity or snobbishness in his manner. He leads much the same life that he did while he was in Congress. He lives at a hotel and walks like an ordi- nary citizen every morning to his office. He spends his day in attending to the duties of his position, and walks back to his hotel at sunset. He remains almost the whole time, while he is not in his office, in his rooms at the hotel, and his manners and tastes are of the simplest character. He goes to bed early and sleeps well. He is in good physical condition, and his menta! health seems to be sound. MeKinley in 1894, T went over to the state house this morn- ing to look at his work shop. The Ohio capitol is situated in the middle of the city. | It has a big park about it and a wide stone | walk leads up to its front entrance. On each side of this walk are now big blocks of granite, from the pedestal of the Ohio sta- tue at the exposition, and above these and by the steps of the state house lie the bronze statues which formed that monu- ment. Giant figures of Gen. Sherman,Presi- dent Garfield, Gen. Grant and Chief Jus- tice Chase are laid out on their backs on one side of the walk, and on the other the great bronze matron, supposed to be the mother of the state, lies on her stomach, as though she had the bleed and wanted to let the fluid trickle off into the gutter ever which her bronze nose rests. Passing these you he s apitol and through ne pillars up - steps int filled with i paintings, which you see through a dim he whole state house is solemn and it is built of brown sand stone,and -a prison. It was made by peni- and their sad souls seem rat stor box in; $ come to help in jon. In the rotunda, one wall is given up to a great Hed with the flowers that rested catafaique, and other solemn i there. Passing through to go down a to get to the governor's of- below this, > stands at ra mute. rtmenis consist of two private office is finished | ny, and he does his work behind | | i Where He Works. sted in a mahogany chair ab leather. He has his the opposite side of 2 in the front room, but i > find any Iterary bureau no signs of the activity which wsnaily hangs about the of- fice of a statesman who is pulling his wires for a ident 1 nomination n learn McKinley is not a has faith im his destiny, 1 things come to him t the people lead n in organizz of a fatalist He will not talk \. and he will let the subject. y cautious man ything without matter over well before- us man as regards pub- ~ jests on the stump. while making a i ood story tel- y humorous side to private life he ean laugh he enjoys the com- especially fond in teasing them nm. His tastes are and his creat ob- is that i robbed to Fve. as it were, are stored away. and his books that Gov. Me- to his nature. the infidelity He believes and is a member He never s even in jest ‘o him sae ia ith had been be- carries his e I imagine he rather By mati—auywhere im the United | THINGS.| | man, » said that the | Part 3. Che ET eng, Star. Pages 17-20. ' {despises those who try to make thi notorious by their disbelief. He is, a told, very fond of the Methodist hymns and he often hums them over to himself while he is at work. He is a pure man in thought and a pure man in | His } closest friends tell me that th | heard him tell a story nor utter ld not be repeated devo- been, you know his j tion to his wife } a great invalid, | He has spent every mc | for every ped e him away from her for any length of time. She lives with him here at the Neil House, and the governor courts her as ardently as he did in the days of his honeymoon. When she is sich he nurses her, and she a of great assistance to him in his | work. | Speaking of McKinley's health, he is a man of wonderful staying powers. He can travel from one end of a campaign to the other without tiring, and as a rule he uses up all his associates and comes out fresh. He has naturally a strong constitution. His She ha: and she is not today well. leisure nt of ears by her side, and today Spare hour to her. | Mrs. McKinley. mother is still living, at the age of eighty- two, and she is strong and healthy. His father died only a short time ago at eighty- five, and he kept his strength up to the last. His name was William, and Gov. McKinley | has always signed himself William McKin- ley, jr. From the first of this year he has dropped the “jr."" and now signs himseif plain William McKinley. McKi y's fath- er was of Scotch-Irish descent and his life at the time McKinley was born was made up of hard physical labors. He was one of the chief men in a furnace or rolling mill at Niles, Ohio. Niles is in the mining dis- tricts of northern Ohio. It is a town of about 5,000 people, and during a visit which 1 paid to the town last year I was shown the house in which McKinley was born. It is a two-story frame, and what was prob- ably the parior in young McKinley's day is now used as a grocery store. Over the front door there is a porch covered with vines, and Gov. McKinley comes out upon | this porch and makes his stump speeches whenever he comes to Niles. I found the | people of Niles very proud of him. Some of the older citizens told me that he was a black-haired, dark-faced, chubby little boy, and that he usually went there then, as he does today, by the name of Bill McKinley. 1 called upon Gov. McKinley last night at his reoms in the hotel. He stood up as I entered, and f£ had a good chance to see how he looks in this year of | our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-four. He has grown fleshier since he left Congress and his form is beginning to assume what the French madame would call embonpoiat. He stands about 5 feet 7 in his stockings, and he weighs, I venture, 175 pounds. He is a straight, broad-shouldered, big-chested with a form and face which have often justly been compared to those of poleon Bonaparte. He is taller than was feature and form as he grows older. He does not like the comparison, and he once told me he would kill me if I repeated it concerning him in the newspapers. But the resemblance is so obvious that | can best describe him by using it. Gov. McKinley has a very nandsome face and a very strong one. He looks a trifle older than he did six years ago and his black hair‘is mixed with gray at the temples, and there are a few more serious wrinkles in his face. His blue eyes, however, are still full of life, and when he smiles his face grows younger. He is smooth shaven, and his dress, as usual, black. 1 don’t think | have ever seen ¢ McKinley in anything else than a suit of black clothes, and he always looks clean and well dresse He wears standing collar, a black necktie, and his only jewelry is a gold ring on the third finger of his left hand and a gol watch chain, which runs acro: his yest from one pocket to the other. ‘The governor is a very pleasant man in his man- ners with his guests. He is accustomed to His Birthplace at Niles. meeting men and he puts his callers at their ez est for scientists and the public. During the conversation I asked Goy. | Herr QO. Lilienthal of Steglitz (near Ber- McKinley as to the tendencies of politics. |lin), Germany, has been experimenting in Associated us he has been with all classes | this direction with contrivances that re- of statesmen at Washington during his | semble great wings. In the brief descrip- | the ormaniention of thie ected, with | tion at hand no information 1s imparted Witng today: as he dose, under the ch |concerning the materials employed. But of a legislature which has been acc | the wings had an_ expanse of fifteen several times ing sold its choice of |Sduare meters, or 165 square feet. Herr a United States Senator, it struck me that | Lilienthal’s plam was to find a broad he ought to know something of the purity | T0of, EEiop 96 ofhex. . convenient or impurity of politics, and 1 asked hum if /elevation, ran a few steps against the wind it Was not true that public life was full of corruption. He replied, “No, it is not. The profession of politics is as pure today as | that of any profession in the United States, and our public men ha of honor as any other class of men in the world. Take Comgre I was in the House of Representatives fourteen years, and of the 300 or 400 men with whom I was associated from year to year during that time I do not know one whom I would h: dared to approach with a corrupt prop as high a sense a sition. Had I had the money and the in- clination to have bought Congress I do not see how I could have gone about it, and I | don’t believe there is a body of men lative or otherwise, on the globe which has a higher sense of honor than the ( of the United ates. There may b cor- ruption and corrupt men among them, but 1 do not know where it exists ii it is so. Poli I belie’ grows purer as this coun- try grows older, and our standard of polit- ical honor and political morality is higher today than ever before.” “Th r life h as been spent in “Whi said 1. do you : busine Would You advise a to adopt public lift profe: vas the reply, “I would not. There | is no life more full of disappointment. No matter how successful it may be at the start, it is sur i an end to bring woof no trouble men so much as that of apparent unappreciation and dis- appointed ambition. Take a look at the careers of the most noted men of our hi tory and you will find one of the full of disappointment. Times change. Con- ditions change, and men ch The story of the ablest of our statesmen and the most famous of our public men runs through the of their own di 1 would not man to make politics his prof < point to © of a party of ization in the fu against the replied Gov never be a party ¢ of the in th “there will hand a If the pre a party of the p “What are th « “I think there is not a doubt but that it is the uncertainty as regards the tariff. No one knows what the democratic party | 's going to do, and there will be no chance atures of apoleon, but he grows more like him in | * | T innoce: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers are urgently re- quested to hand in advertisements the day prior to publication, in order that insertion may be as- sured. Want advertisements will be received up to noon of the day °f publication, precedence being given to those first received, or better times until that matter is set- led. The Governor's Mother. going to be. I must say that it does not promise well, and the voice’ which comes from the ways and means committee room |at Washington must be a very unwelcome one to the starving among our people. It is poor comfort to the 7,W0U idle miners on Lake Superior to be told that Con- gress proposes to admit into free competi- tion with them Spanish ir@n under its clause of free raw materials. It does not take much thought to tell how such men would regard this bill, and I might go on as to a dozen of other items. Everyone knows my position on that question. You ask as to the remedy for the hard times, and if you want my answer I will say in the words of Mr. Ingalls, the railroad presi- dent: “Kick the Wilson tari‘ bill under the table and let it stay there.’ "” “I was brought up, as it were, on the protective tariff principle. My boyhood was spent in an iron manufacturing district and among miners, and my youth was spent in the manufacturing district of Stark county, where the questions of the tariff have al- ways been living ones. The first speech 1 made in Congress was made against Fer- nando Wood's tariff bill. I remember that I made the speech at night, and the con- gressional committee thought enough of it to reprint it and circulate it as a cam- | paign document.” | The conversation here turned to speech | making, and I asked Gov. McKinley as to | whether he wrote out and committed his speeches. He replied: “No, 1 do not; 4 | think the matters that I am to talk about well over beforehand, and after 1 have | pretty thoroughly settled in my mind what |I am going to say } sometimes call in a ‘stenographer and dictate the speech to him. It is this speech that always goes to the printer. It is by no means the exact speech that I make or the stump. |may be changed by the occasion, though | usually follow the lines laid down in the speeches I dictate. I find that I change my speeches a great deal during the cam- | paign, and seldom repeat the same speech jin the same words, though, of course, the matter is much the same.” “What is Ohio doing to relieve the unem- | ployed?” McKinley at Twenty-Five. “She is responding nobly to the occa- | sion,’’ replied the governor. “Popular char- litles have been organized in all of our towns and cities. Some of the cities have com- | menced public works In order to give re- lief to the unemployed, and we are doing jall in our power.to allay the suffering and | Want.” FR: G. CARPENTIR. | EXPERIMENTS IN FLYING. A German's Su as in Sliding Down Aerial Slopes. | | From the New York Tribune. A bird's wings, while it is flying, per- form two functions: They sustain its | weight and they propel it. Human beings, lin trying to imitate the bird, have been more successful in the former direction than in the latte Such manipulations of wings as will drive a person forward, either ‘by muscle or power from apparatus strap- ped to the body, may be learned eventually; lor the future Daedalus may rely upon some lentirely separate device for propulsion, and retain the wings merely for support and balancing. In either case, all attempts to find cut what can really be accomplished with these latter appliances possess inter- and then leap into the air. Horizontal im- petus was thus acquired before he left terra firma. He was then able to slide downward at an angle of only ten or fif- teen degrees from « horizontal, although (it was in his power, by shifting ‘the center lof gravity relatively to the center of exist- ence, to change the irclination of the wings and descend more rapidly. made of his success in steering himself lat- erally. As the greater part of his weight ‘uspended below the wings, of course the atmospheric resistance, he drew his legs up somewhat. | » he was about it, one could wish that Herr Lilienthal had made a kite of himself, and tried to see how long the wind would Sustain him at one end of a long |light wire, the other end of which was in the hands of three or four stout men, or anchored securely. how- a | ii Made Him a Beggar. | From the Pittsburg Despaten. “To be tined $10 for trying to earn a liv- | ing in these hard times is enough to set any man begging,” said a man, fully seventy ars of age, in excusing himself for asking me for a night's lodging yesterday. “I had pretty hard work obtaining money to get my meals, having but a few friends who oc- | casionally heiped me. Begging is some- thing I abhor. It goes against the grain with me, and, although I am a pretty seedy looking individual, I have been made so by being knocked about by a merciless world for over three score and ten years. I was not 4 's thus. In my early education, which was thorough, I had learned to draw | odd 's. It occurred to me by using | what little cunning my hand had left that I might make enough signs—such as T had seen the windows—to keep the wolf from the door to bridge over to the time when I knew I would have permanent ance. 1 printed a number of these igns and started to peddle them. Be- fore I had sold one 2 man, who seemed extremely kind and considerate, asked me it 1 peddling, When I answered was » told me he could take me to a ere I could dispose of all my stock. me $10 for peddling without a license. As That took all the ambition that was left in this old body and I began to beg.” ‘rhis | No mention is | nt right side up without difficulty. To | ly went with him and I soon | * | found myself before an alderman, who fined I could not pay the fine he kept my signs. | WALKING OR SITTING Snap Shots at Senators in Character- istic Attitudes. WHEN THEY ARE IN REPOSE How National Legislators Look When Listening. SOME NOTED MEN HE SENATORIAL attitude in portraits, and such like, is !m- posing, the shoulders thrownback, the head high, the chest thrown out and one hand in the breast of a closely buttoned coat. This is a figment of the imagination. Conkling and a few others, perhaps, have stood before the pub- lic in this way, but it is not typical of our upper house statesmen. It is in no sense a characteristic attitude. A snapshot of the Senate at any time when there is a |pretty fair attendance woyld present some jodd figures. | During Mr. Davis’ speech on Hawaii Sen- ator White of Louisiana sat upright in his jchair, with his head lying on his right shoulder, sound asleep. His colleagues wondered how so big a neck could be bent to one side at such a sharp angle. This was hardly a characteristic attitude, but a curious one. There is hardly a man in the Senate who might not be easily recognized by his shadow, if well defined. When Evarts was in the Senate it was his custom when in- terested in the proceedings to twist his legs one about the other, tighter and tight- er, as he became engrossed, until he looked jexactly like a corkscrew. Senator Reagan used to tear paper into long, narrow slips, ‘ke lamp lighters, and then tear these into little squares. The floor about him used | to be covered with bits of paper like a snow drift, and he had to keep his stationery ~— in his desk to avoid destroying all of it. Allison is seldom seen in the Senate that he is not playing with a rubber band acrosi his two thumbs. He sits firmly in his place, observant of ail things about twangs at the little bit of rubber, twisting it about one thumb and then the other, and then weaving it in and out about his fin- gers. The characteristic attitude of Harris of | ‘Tennessee is one of the most striking in the body. It is that of the heavy man in |tragedy, with a modification of Henry Iry- ing, pose and facial expression, He stands (with tightly drawn muscles, slightly bent, head thrust forward, lips compressed and brow contracted, with an expression of blood-curdling determi- nation. There is a suggestion of slow music when he moves about the Sen- ate, or rises to give a dogmatic expression of his views, with one finger drawn threat- jenirgly like a weapon, upon his colleagues. | Coming to and from the Capitol he is usu- jally alone, walking with his head down, and wearing a tragic air. An interruption brings a flash to his eye and a sudden con- traction of his brow. Peffer always cuts an odd figure, but the | | | | | oddest of all is when he mounts the terrace | of the Capitol on a cold day, with his whis- | kers tucked under his vest safe from the wind, his overcoat-collar turne| vp and the coat buttoned out of line and his bundies of | papers hugged up against his chest with both arms, while the vrin of his soft hat drsops about his ears Sherman, while listening to debate in the fenate, has a way ef hol the back of his head in his right hand, his arm twisted | back over his shoulder. | Washburn, who is almost as tall as Sher- man, sits so low down on his spine that his head is below the back of his chair, and, if he is attentive, his hands are clasped across his belt. ffrey has a way of resting his face in his hand so that his nose resis in the fork formed between the thumb and fingers, R | The habitual attitude of Vest is to sit deep down in his chair, with his legs slight- him, and | shoulders | | ly apart and his head so @rawn down that | his ears and shoulders are about on a level. | One might swear that he had neither neck nor chin. One of the most graceful men in the Sen- ate, of the tail, slender Mississippi colonel type is Walthall. He 1s quite as slender and almost as tall as Sherman. He is as straight ¥, with sharp features, long, hair hanging from under his broad-brimmed soft hat. He has the light and springy step of a dancing master. WHY OIL STILLS THE WAVES. The Wind Passes Along the Olly Sur- face With Reduced Power. From the Chicago Herald. A great deal has been written about the influence of oil on waves at sea, and of the practically useful action of oil in many cases there is abundant testimony, but lit- tle has been heard of the reason for the results obtained. W. J. Millar has found, from experiments made in shallow, broken watep on the coast, where the wind and tide conflicted, that little or no advantage can be traced from the use of oil under such conditions; that is to say, the wave motion being disturbed and under forces not wholly those of wind action, the oily film becomes broken up. In deep wa however, where the waves may consid- ered as wholly formed by the wind, their forms are more regular, and it is in such circumstances that the recorded exampies show to the best effect. These effects sug- gest the real action of the oil. According to some theories the oil acts as it does ; When applied to bearings in machinery, and thus the wind glides more easily over the oiled surface than it does over the wa- |ter surface. It is difficult to see, however, | | that the frictiona: resistance between air and oil should be less than between air and water, as the oil is a less mobile fluid than the water. Again, when we consider | the surface tension of fluids, and can often | observe their restraining action on ascend- ing air bubbles or small floating objects in glasses of water, we might suppose that by the addition of the film of oil sufficient resistance was offered to the uprise of the upper part of the wave, and thus the ten- denzy to break would be restrained. Mr. Millar comes to the conclusion that the action of the film of oil is one of separa- toa. His view is that when we consider the tendency of air to become saturated with watery vapor due to evaporation and of water to retain air by absorption, we may readily conceive that the impact of | air on a watery surface will tend to cause! a commingling at the surface of air and water, which will thus offer sufficient re- sistance to the motion of the wind to throw the water and mixture into an undulatory | movement, and, therefore, when this for- ward movement has exceeded the speed due to the periodic motion in the wave it-! self, the upper part in falling forward from | the effects of the push of air from behind snows a foaming rush of broken water; that 1s, the air incorporated with the wa- ter and the water itself. Arguing on this basis Mr. Millar sees no difficulty in ac- cepting the theory that the film of ofl spread over the surface of the water effect- ually prevents the formation of broken wa- ter; as the air and water are kept separate the tendency to mutual absorption at the Members of Congress Who Are Sure to Take a Leading Place, THE HOUSE RECOGNIZES THEIR ABILITY Others Who Have Seen Long Terms of Service. A HIGHLY PRIZED TITLE Written for The Evening Star. HE DEATH OF Charles O'Neill of Philadelphia throws the mantle of the Father of the House upon Willias S. Hol- man of Indiana. Each had entered his fif- teenth term in Con- gress. Judge Holman first took his seat on December 5, 1859. Mr. O'Neill first estered upon his duties on « ss December 7,1863. Wil- liam Pennington of New Jersey was elect- ed Speaker and John W. Forney, clerk when Mr. Holman began his career as a Congressman. Schuyler Coifax was Speak- er and Edward McPherson, clerk, when Mr. O'Neill became a representative. Mr. Holman served three terms and was drop- ped. He was not a member of the Thirty- ninth Coagress. He was elected to the For- eth Congress, served five terms, and was not re-elected to the Forty-fifth or Forty- sixth Congress. Since then he has served continuously. Twice he was beaten by Gen. Tom Brown, a gallant soldier and a hot republican. Mr. O'Neill served four terms and was defeated when a candidate for the Forty-second Congress. He was elected to the Forty-thijrd Congress and served continuously until his death. When Mr. Crisp was first elected Speaker, Judge Holman as Father of the House, ad- ministered the oa When Mr. Crisp was re-elected Mr. O'Neill administered the oath. The lovable Pennsylvaman claimed to be the Father of the House by virtue of the longest continuous term of service, and | his claim was recognized. The new House always called to order by the clerk of the preceding House. Strange to say, Ed- ward McPherson, the republican clerk of the Fifty-first Congress, recognized Judge Holman as the Father of the House, and James Kerr, the démocratic clerk of the Fifty-second Congress, called upon Charles O'Neill as Father of the House to adminis- ter the oath to the Speaker. Mr. O'Neill as very proud of the honor. The words Father of the House” were pl upon his coffin in flowers when he was buried. A Highly Prized Title. The title Father of the House is one ap- parently very highly prized. The breast of William D. Kelley swelled with pride when- ever he was spoken of as the Father of the House. His wife took equal delight in the honor. When in Europe about eight years ago she asked her friends in address- ing her to call her “Mrs. Father of the House Kelley.” They did so with pleasure, to the great astonishment of some for- eigners, who were unable to place the title. There is another singular incident a’ tending the death of Mr. O'Neill. His de- mise wiped out of existence an entire com- mittee of the House. He was the repub- lean member of the committee on library. Col. John R. Fellows was its chairman surface is checked and the wind passes along the oily surface with reduced power of wave making. 1100 A PETRIFIED CAT FOUND. He Was Once the Mascot of a Rexi- ment, but Now He is Stiff and Stony. | From the New York Tribune. A petrified cat has been unearthed in the cellar of the forty-seventh regiment arm- | ory, Marey avenue and Lynch street, and | has caused much interest among scien- tists. The animal was a big gray tomcat, and was seen about the armory until four years ago, when it suddenly disappeared. |Tom sprang through a window of the arm- ory one morning, and was at once adopt- ed as a mascot by the guardsmen. The colored man employed at the armory, how- ever, took a dislike to the cat, and at every opportunity chased him about the building. One day he decided to kill him, and chased him into the cellar with a gun for that purpose. Before he could carry out his plan Tom hid himself, but where the col- ored man could not find. Never again were heard Tom's merry mews. This fact so preyed upon the mind of the colored man that a few weeks later he resigned his place Two weeks ago it was found necessary to mak some repairs to the rear of the rifle range, and while the laborers were at work on Wednesday morning they came upon the long-lost cat. He was petrified and | had become attached to the wall. The cat was standing in a natural position. The ears were erect, and from each side of the cat’s head extended the hairs, which were like wire. There are tive on one side and three on the other. The legs are perfect, with the claws open, while the tail is erect and stiff. It is supposed that the animal, becoming frightened, wedged itself in be- tween the small opening of the sheet iron and stone wall of the rifle range and was unable to extricate its body. The animal is on exhibition in the gun shop. | tee | Duties of Connubial Relations. Selfishness is the bane of all life, and es- pecially of married life. Life is too precious to be thrown away in secret regrets or open differences. There are few women with whom a kind, sensible man may not live happily, if he be | so disposed. A husband and wife have no business to tell one another's faults to anybody but to one another. It is a mulish pride in men, and a sensi- | tive will in women, that make the principal difficulty in all unhappy cases. There is such a thing as a honeymoon, of } longer or shorter duratiot and while the imoonshine lasts the radiance of the sev-! jenth heaven cannot compare with it. At the Museum. From Life. 7 ‘oe The human elephant- ber man got full last night.” ‘The double-headed man—What did they | | | | of |amend the } his effort Judge Holme and Col. Charles T. O'Ferrall of Virginia the additional democratic member. Col O'Ferrall was elected governor ginia, and Col. Fellows district w York county. Their resignations and the death of Mr. O'Neill effaced the committee from the House list, something unprecedented in the annals of Congr Both Holman and 0 young men when th the floor. The beginning of Judge Hol- man’s care-r in the House was marked the long struggle over the speakership, ending in the election of William Penning- y Jersey. December st after the eleventh ballot for the judge obtained the floor. After the withdrawal of Thomas J. Bocock as a candidate, he was about to make a speech when Mr. Winslow suggested that another ballot be taken. He asked Mr. Hoiman to give way to enable him to move that the House proceed to another ballot “With that understanding 1 will yield the floor to the gentleman from North Carolina,” replied Mr. Holrhan. They were the first words he had uttered in the hall of the House. ‘The twelfth bai- lot was taken and Winsiow and others urged another. The judge was so modest first appeared upon | that he did not put in his claim to be heard. On the next first speech. of the Globe. day, however, he made hi It fills two pages and a half It was upon the motion to urnal. The speech analyzed the slavery ‘issue, and wound up with a glowing tribute to Indian: It contained very few facts adorned with western elo- quence. Today the watch dog’s speeches contain more facts and less eloquence. The present House of Representatives has many new members. A majority of tnem are young men. Some will probably serve nearly if not as long as the veterans named above. They have had an opportunity upon stheir entrance to Congress not offered to Holman, O'Neill, Randall and Kelley. it came when the silver debate and the dis- ! cussion over the federal election Will were precipitated upon the House. Most of them availed themselves of the opportunity. The debates elicited the fact that there are men among them who ought to be kept in Con- gress, and if kept there, will be productive of much benefit to the country. Foremost among these young men is Joseph W. Bailey of Gainesville, Texas. Tall, handsome, stu- dious, demonstrative and gifted with a re- markable flow of language, he already com- mands ciose attention when taking the floor, Mr. Baile served throughout the Fifty- second Congress. His experience there has greatly benefited him. He has learned when to oppose a bill and when to advocate one. In the last Congress he might have been termed an individual filibuster; in this Congress he is more prudent. His abilities are no longer wasted in prolonging ind! vidy- al opposition to a measure. It was «due to that the Torrey bankruptcy blil was defeated. Whether its defeat is an in- jury or a blessing to the country :natters not. He led the opposition, and fed it in a masterly manner. His closing speech was a marvel of argument, logic and eloquence. | do to him?” i The human elephant—“Bounced him.” It charmed the House and the orator w: universally congratulated. MEN OF THE FUTURE. 1x, | But the man who destroys is not always able to build. The destroyer frequently rests contented with his work. Mr. Bailey, —4 ever, is not such a man. With the def: ot the Torrey bill he has brought in a bill of his own, providing for involuntary bank- ruptcy. Its fate rests in the cocoon of time. if he displays the energy shown tn assaulting the Torrey bill, and advances arguments as effective as those then advanced, the chances are that his efforts will be crowned with success. Representative Bailey. More than this, Mr. Bailey has presided in committee of the whole with singular ability. The House has fully recognized his talents, and he stands upon a much higher plane than he occupied in the Fifty-second Congress. If no mutation in politics inter- venes he has a brilliant future. Ten years from now he ought to be the leading mem- ber from the largest state in the Union, He is now thirty years old. Judge Holman was thirty-seven, juel J. Randall thirty- six, Charles 0’) forty-two and Wiliam D. Kelley forty years old when they enter- ed Congress. Bailey has long dark hair, is clean shaven and wears conven- tional broadcloth, with a low-cut waistcoat, His hat is the usual Texas sombrero. Another young man evidently destined to be one of mark is John Sharpe Williams of Mississippi. He is thirty-nine years olf and received his education at the Univers- ity of Virginia and the University of Hel- delberg. Like Bailey, he wears a frock coat and is neatly attired. His father was killed at Shiloh while in the confederate army. Mr. Williams has practiced law in Tennessee and Mississippi and is a cotton es His oratory is fervid and attrace tive. He can amplify and abridge with equal facility. He made a remarkable speech in the House on the silver question near midnight. It held those present spell- bound. Some might fancy that he lacked taste in delivery, but time will certainly wear away all imperfections. The material is there and the quality of the man is bound to develop. Representative Williams. A second speech was made before @ Tull House with good effect. Beyond his ability as an orator, Mr. Williams watches closely the proceedings and always attends the meetings of his committees. Mi has sent no more promising man to Con- gress since the days of Sergeant Smith Prentiss. Chastened by experience and toughened by work, he will undoubtedly at- tract national attention. A third man worth noting is Champ Clark of Missouri. This gentleman suc- ceeded Gen. Mansur. Mr. Clark is tall, light complexioned, clean shaven, has reg- ular features and the magnetism of @ true western orator. He has worked on a farm, clerked in a country store, edited a_coun- try newspaper and practiced law. He has been district attorney in the county made famous by Joe Bowers. He graduated at Bethany College, Virginia, and when twen- ty-three years old was it of Mar- shall College, West Virginia. He ranks high in scholarship and has a quaintness in discussion peculiarly attractive and practi- cal. His speeches in the House sustain reputation made by him in Tammany Hall on the Fourth of July last. They force the closest attention. His similes, tropes and metaphors are trite and at times set the House in a roar of laughter. The story of his trouble in a Washington restaurant was grossly exaggerated, and has not dimmed his reputation in Congress. He is ever in his and never shrinks work in committee. Missouri, in time to come, will assuredly be proud of him Joseph L. Rawlins, the delegate from He made a speech in December on providing for the admission of Utah the Union that stirred the members to unusua! pitch of enthusiasm. It ought to send him to the United States There are other young members, equally worthy of mention, whose names may be reserved for a future letter. AMOS. J, CUMMINGS. es! WANTED A CHEAP ROOM, | Bat He Had Bappened Drite Inte the Wrong ince to Get It. From the New York Advertiser. The fact that there are a few hotels in the Bowery with the same names as those of first-class Broadway houses, is dccasion- ally the cause of ridiculous mistakes. Less than a week ogo a countryman, bearing the unmistakable mark of hayseed, walked into the office of the Imperial Hotel He refused the offer of one of the bell boys to carry his carpet bag, and with the air of a man wishing to impress the loungers with his knowledge of New York and all its vagaries, made a bee line for Mr. Rob- ert Dunlop, the good-looking and courteous clerk. “I want a room for the night,” he said. ly, sir,” answered Mr. Dunlop, Here, front, take the gentleman's | bag and show him up 2.” ‘Then turning to the man he added, a room for about $3 “Three nuthins,” responded the country- man promptly. Mr. Dunlop hesitated and gave his new guest a scrutinizing glance. Conid it be possible, he thought, that after all his years of experience in that most trying position of hotel clerk, he had made a mistake and judged wrongly? Was it possible that this | man, bearing upon the cut of his whiskers jand the pattern of his carpet bag the stamp of a hayseed, was after all an eccentric man of wealth? Hastening to rectify what he decided must _— been a stupid error ob is part, he said: z “we have bed rooms with bath attached ‘from $5 up.” “Gee whiliken!” the countryman, |“I didn’t want to stay a month. I want one of them 15-cent rooms you advertise in the papers.” “Fitteen-cent rooms,” ejaculated Mr. Dun- j lop, whose turn it was to gasp, “What do , mean” ‘Ain’t this the Imperial?” demanded the man. “It is,” answered the clerk. “And don’t you advertise rooms for 15 cents a night?” persisted the man, pulling an old newspaper out of his pocket and pointing to an advertisement. “Not on your life,” responded the clerk, with a hearty laugh. “That Imperial hap- pens to be on the Bowery.” “Then I can’t get a room here for 15 cents?” “Not this evening,” answered the clerk, as the disgusted countryman, his ‘1 suppose you want marble corridor and was lost in the on way.