Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11

some comrade, as a period is rounded that
makes some laugh and others scowl.
Farnsworth, tall and graceful, leans back
in his chair, the pictute5of elegant repose.
Paine, petite and distsgue looking, leans
forward in his seat, running his white en-
gers through a profusion of curly blackhair
and sharply eyes the speaker. Julian, sad
and feeble looking, seems engrossed in a
pile of papers and letters, one of which, in
q delicate hand, ne reads, lays down, and
then takes up for another reading. No
wonder he dOesLnot- hear what that hard
faced old man is saying. He is listening
10 the ehlrplngs of a wee young bird in its
cosy nest at home, and a young wife's ten
der prayersfor health, and length ofhappy.
usefuf days TO the absent one, Morrill,,
whose small twinkling eyes 1nd long, in
vestlgatlng nose gives him a marked phys
logamy, leans forward with head resting
in both hands, listening intently. Gar
field, at his left, reads some, writes some.
and looks flushed and not quite certain.
Schenck gets up and sits down, goes off
and comes back, looks severe, whether
from habit OF present emotion, 1 can't tell.
Ashley, whose gooi humereontinualIy BIB
bles over in his faoe, h~asturned around.with
one leg thrown over the arm of his chair,
facing the speaker, looks pleased, nodding
assent, as the periods are rounded. Brooks,
who, with many Others, has come over from
the Democratic side andseated himself near
the speaker, strokes his thin side whis-
kers, caresses his massive chin. now and
then passing a long, bohy hand over his
face, and then resting his pale, well-formed
brow thereon as he listens at~tentivelv,
Senators, coming in, gravely walk down
the alsles, hat in hand, nodding to this
one, shaking hands with that, gain the
front anG become passive, while to the
rear men of various styles and office are
talking Longing or noiselessly promena-
dingover the golden-starred carpet. These
are some ofthe features of the living pic
ture presented to me from the gallery OF
the House while trying in vain to hear
what Mr.. Stevens is saying. The hast leaf
OF the speech is read and he sits down q
moment then a dozen voices, from all
parts Of the House, cry out, "Mr. Speaker
Mr. SpeakerW The @ Speaker in his
Chair says, "The gentleman from
Massachusetts has the foor.P How
he could tell which of the dozen spoke
first was a little mysterious, and ]
half suspected his mind as we'll as his eve
was on the gentleman from Massachusetts,
which gentleman reads something that
we could not hear, and the ayes and noes
gre called. That not being satisfactory,
members were requested to rise in their
seats WILTSHIRE Speaker, standing up, oount-
ed them Somehow this would not do,
and voting by tellers was called, reminding
me of the child's play of letting HKing
George and his army pass BY" and
finally, to make the thing sure, aman with
a loud voice, in front of the Speaker calls
of, in alphabetical order, the name of
each member, to which each member is
expected to reply. Then comes a eonnmo-
ton among the messengersgand pages, who
hurry to andfro. dashing out of doors in all
directions, which soon open again, letting
in a member just in time to say "ayef5
Another and another Genes in and files of
to his seat or stops to consult with his col
leagues before answering After the
names are all called a man, rising in his
seat, says: "Mr. Speaker Aver and
sits down. Another ditto-another "Nori
and so on till nearly a dozen have liter
ally obeyed the injunction, 'Lef your COM
munieations be yea, veal and nay, nav !
They doubtless know what all this is
about, but 1 do not, and, seeing no pros
pect of further enlightenment, depart.
- W7et O. L. r.