New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-02
ana M, even the women, working their hair into bow
% etarded lis desperate overthrow There =

and not the women, WOIhlAb wv hoM-
strings retarded its desperate overthrow mere sno char
acter in the Capitol alone, and CAM eAe hgE as this
senator. He is q bachelors De wear much y the time
an absent poets look past thing, into space H. T-r.oN
e he is the beau tdtai Oh epubcan Senator. IL HABITS
aucrfect alumnus Of NeW-Engand.
His colleague, hf Mllson-thc most popular man ID
Massachusetts IN his associations Is the ANU us oi az
Sumner In temperament; a stout, noIiu lafne M IN,
gentleman strong smooth in debate put lhpucl
with the progressive independence Of his commonwealth
and fun of hard sense and devotion 70 PUBIC u'' Nv
has Dc badly the most genial face IA the senate.
There is one figure IN the Senate, IN the nlocle TOW
the night almost boish with straight black careless nun
gared hin civil gray, and wearing glasses lie Is JIse
6in sbe he'd extreme youth Of Senator and MS
services, wealth promise social stature uake A ot
the extraordinary aud pIecoCous Peope ol ~ w 2 vontb
the only parallel in contemporary legislation OF SUI ,
l heroes as Bavard fitzpatrick, Custer ana naDul.a
Riddle of Delaware IS stout, short eIo.cln6 man. d"
gray curs of medium position and asplratHhs' -,
Garrett Davis OF Kentucky is the successor IN VoiIo
ity Of Henry S. Foote little, WIEN aVeG u'.rtf,
bindsheyed man, of enormous VINO anu N'"4i!, VIZ
taking four or five hours as the Wihd po"e'n "Ao
il listeth. -, l., e..., e-o,rs,
haired gentleman, OF mid expression ana NoI "eS'o"
/ in lis ardor for square, falr era ~,
In obn Sherman we have the nearest approach IN the
Senate TO Mr. Gladstone an indeiatgable business man.
evfmvaeanty tall STOPPING, thin, whose small head Is
covered with black hair, and whose small Ddch ee arc
lightning ealculatOrs. He Is one of the youngest most
studous most prudent men in the country ana a1ds 90
to the great galaxy Of splendid people which ONO has Of
late given 10 freedom and the country: -
Howard of Michigan is man Of hns9ca Pe eoy
negle6 member sitting without neek-ue agcu'uial III
method and quietness. -, ,,o.i.
right Is an aged sad person, Of the most venerable
anon the Senators in services and eebeneSs lie woes
with the unrvving ard unreviyabe school OF Lewis
Cas fair for their day but since that day the volcano mas
had It's grand eruption and another generation lives
b. Gratz Brown of Missouri sits close up to the Speaker
small of nervous temperament abie III nucIl uns
cendenta sometimes full of high thoughts on man ana
destiny and, with Mr. Anthony Of Rhode Island lne
journalist element Of the Senate The latter IS Pheasant
citizen legislator, very kindly and lneorrHpnbe'
The lester of the Senate is Nye Of Nevada, VINO slts
next to Sumner a sledge-hammer man when he trhcs IN
earnest and probably, the first stump speaker IN
America its pioneeTsman James Lane OF Kansas favor
iely known to himself as " jim " Lane-a man OF gQod
USE once upon time TO fight the beasts OF Ephesus put
not always the best match for the man VINO red the
Ephesan dome; Stewart of Nevada is ITS most anxious
spirit man of auburn beard and ever watclful; while
Wade Of Ohio is its Gladiator He Is man OF heAlDle
face above the common hight with sharp features ana
compre. sed mouth saOw Of complexion, his very halr
pagnacous. He is hard man TO have on the SIDE ot
your enemy; he carries his head little down, as II 10
say am horned and tossl Educated IN the spint OF
Northern Ohio, he can bear no mention oil personal ee-
dom imperled and defers little TO conventional things,
SO man. in his Submarines, be indicated.
Cowan of Pennsylvania, the Presidents champion, IS
tall student-hke man, Of much culture, Ill caieu-
lated to work with majority, dealing little with ideas
but vigorous with illustrations despicabe enemy
in any ISSUE and by his present unpopular course rising
naturally TO prominence if not TO power.
Trumbu Of Illinois is compact, small man, square,
headed pointed IN gesture powerful ana exhaustive III az
gument drawing from his gold glasses some shadow Of
scholastcism; Morgan of NewYork has the fine, com
meTcal face Of metropolitan merchants frosted little
with equally turning hairs and Harris, hls colleague IL
broad and parental, both of them atenuyeto the
colossal interests Of this swauning industrial empire
Morrill, is keen, active NewEngland lawyer, with no
melodramatc loves Pomeroy of Kansas is the fac sml-
lie of the sturdy country gentleman, above etng OF mel
ancholy Conness is Of the begerent members tenn
perate sefmade with the Norhlnsh virtues and lndom,
liability. Nesmith suer on the plains, and
comes by hard rounds good place on the ladder and
Buckaew who rated in the Pennsylvania Legislature
AS fluent and seviceable paryman has 30 far been
failure here that the exactng and desperate Democracy,
full Of thirst and hunger, loud in upbraidng him.
The noyitate in Congress who concludes that he is 70
make his mark by oraory alone will suffer assured dis
comfure. The who advance most rapidly are those
with special adaptations, who have mastered single
department of political literature beyond the reach OF all
others On the floor the sensbity TO opinion the
less progress the rule Ii is singular that many men Of
splendid attanments TO Congress 10 lose their repu
tation. The of Horace Binney of Philadelphia is in
pont-a lawyer with few equals. He felt that here he
had not confirmed his renOwn, and declined renomina-
ton 1t was by Overweenng oquacity that Henry ).
Fooe destroyed his influence in the Senate having passed
glib opinions upon all Of things till he became too
tIte 10 be noticeable.