Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-24

ready, fluent speaker, with fine executive
talent and very efficient powers of man
agement. He is not noted in the country
at large, though in Washington he is ad-
mitted to be a ~sagacious thinker and tactl-
tian, thoroughly posted and always capa-
BILE. He is destined to q national popu-
larity with his party, and there are few
of its members more worthy.
James 81. Lane is well known wherever
the struggle in Kansas is remembered.
He was born in 1914, and was a lawyer,
Colonel in the Mexican war, legislator,
Lieutenant Governor and Member of Con-
gress while still a citizen of his native
State of Indiana. In 1855 he went to
Kansas, where reckless courage and
will made him a central figure in the des-
perate conflict then raging there. He
was commander of the Free State troops,
| President of two Constitutional Conven-
tions, several times elected a Senator, and
finally admitted to this body in 1861.
During the war he served q short time as
Brigadier and afterwards as a Commits
| sloner of Enlistment for the West. He is
a peculiar man, inheriting many Of the
noble qualities of his father, who was a
distinguished Indiana lawyer, yet always
intractable and headstrong. He was for
merly a man of fine physical proportions,
but of late is considerably broken down.
His head is very deep, forehead high and
face long, hair iron gray, eye once
fiery now mild, and cheeks fabby
and wrinkled. He dresses in any
fashion that suits his caprice, and usually
looks slipshod and careless. His style Of
speaking is vigorous but coarse, he can
make his points closely, yet a certain IN
couth defamation mars them very much.
Always radically a~nti-slaveIy, 1t seems
queer to see him in company with his old
enemies, yet wherever he is he will always
remain the same cspricious, self-willed,
brave and earnest man.
Another member made famous by his
late political course is Edgar Cowan, OF
Pennsylvania. When he entered the
Senate in 1861, at the age of forty-fve,
he was new to public life, and was intro
duced as one who had grown up from 8
low estate to high legal attsinments and
culture. He has not justified this endorse
ment. Extremely conservative, he has
often outdone his opponents in denounc'
ing his own party, and that in a coarse
vindictive manner as distasteful to cult
waited Democrats as disgusting to his Loyal
constituents. He is a long, bony man,
with dark complexion, roman nose
large chin, and an expression o~fbackwoodi
strength and combativeness. He Is a de-
batter of more than ordinary calibre
though not even q tolerable represents
tive of Pennsylvania statesmen.
There are two Senators of whom 1t Is
almost unworthy to write, yet they are
marked characters here and elsewhere
Willard SALISBURY, of Delaware, and Jo-
seph A. McDougal1, of California. The
former is fully six Geet high, b~road-should-
cred and heavy, erect and somewhai
commanding in mere physique, and al
WAYS deliberate and positive. His hair Is
thick and black, face dark, features large
eve dull, and his whole c~ountenance heavy
and Indifferent. The little time he gives
to the Senate is mainly passed in pacing
the floor. He is forty-fve years old, wa
Attorney General of his State five years
and has been a Senator since 1889 He Il
quite able, though not brilliant or remark
ably clear. McDougal1 is a much brighter
man, quite q genius indeed, and capable
when sober, of holding a tilt with any
member in debate. He is small
but erect and rather lofty, Will
a soldierly air, which he enhances by 6
blue coat and brass buttons. He has 8
fine head, hair short and gray, feature
regular, eye light and clear, and an appear
ance quite progressing. He is a native o
New York, under fifty years of age, wa
once a leading politician and Attorney
General in Illinois, was q pioneer to tn
Pacific Gold Mines, and after serving q
Attorney-G General and Congressman twice
came back a Senator in 1861. These tw
members fail to honor their high office
and, if drunkenness is a crime, the Senat
might we'll apply to them the penalt
of expulsion.
Other Senators are men of talent an
good qualities, such as Governors Morril
and Ramsey, Judge Poland, Wiley, Cor
Cenness, Klrkwood, and Williams. Blu
But the aim of these articles is full
accomplished in hasty sketches Of MOI
prominent members. The present Ser
ate will long be considered n {
transcendent intellectual power. Som
of its members will live among our grea
men, while its collective action will eve
be remembered for loyalty, wisdom an
infexible honor.
WIG.