The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-01-12
A Look Into the senate-Th urman and Brown.
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The Washington correspondent of the New
York World gives the following:
In the Senate "A man is looming to whom
that body has the best reason tO be proud.
Senator Thurman's mere physical presence is
imposing, and his bearing the manifest that
can be supposed. His intellect is "A lantern
which. whenever he speaks, fairly irradiates
the chamber. Az n debater, he is now con-
fessed to stand in the foremost rank. He new
er speaks without having something, nay
much, to say, and that something Is always
driven straight to the point at issue. He in
variably commands the attention of the Sem
nte. Few have yet been bold enough to enter
into battle with him, and such As have ven
tured n skrmish with him have retired worst
ed. His logic. SARCASM and bitter or playful
irony are alike the best weapons OF their
kind. Fearless. resolutc, and scornful yet
often gentle, never discourteous, and very
rarely unj just, this Senator has already made
himself feared and respected as an opponent,
and is spoken OF with great cordiality by those
who have had the pleasure of meeting him in
private life. Mr.. Casserly. Of California,
honors the Senate in degree scarcely less
marked.
There is "a spectacle In the Senate which
ought perhaps, to receive but which oftener
repcs, the commiseraton Of those who look
upon it, This is the palsied, pershng figure
Of Parson Bruwnlow. As regular the noon
sisted tO his seat-a haiT-clnth easy chair ON
the left of the spenker-in which hc rcclnes,
trembling all over. and constantly. like Il shak-
cn Jelly. Seen from the gallery, his swarthy
face looks ike that of \ malignant Indinu
his lips comfort themselves unpleasantly: and
his hands, twitching in every finger, remind
one of a couple OF enormous spiders crawling
over his legs and among the arms of his char
Once in while the right hand makes u treIn.
ulous expedition Ia the desk in front and re.
turns with handkerchief dangling between
thumb and fingers. Sometimes, with great
effort, IL carries a glass of water from the
ridge Of the desk TO the old mans mouth
Part of the time he sits with a leg hoisted or
a corner Of the desk, or crossed over the op-
posite knee. lie is never mOtiOnlcss. Eis
eyes see and his cars attend tO all that trans.
Pires. Whenever the debate is earnest or an in.
teresting question is particularly
IL it concerns the South or his own State oi
Tennessec-~ho listens Ia il rs il were through
every pore; the big dark veins on his temples
grow bigger and darker, the desk shakes with
the shaking of his legs; his hands clutch ven.
omOusly Mt his trowscrs, and the peculiar
writhing of his lips makes it appear ns if he
would give up all his life after that one no
mont, If for the moment he had strength "a
yet on his feet. and pour forth, as OF old, a
flood Of yitupcration upon his enemies, But
he has no strength loft to speak. and was com
PEELED the other day to have the personal ex
plhnatiOn OF his course in regard tn recent po
iitical events in Tennessee, which he had pre-
pared in manuscript, read by the CLERK. Som,
expressions in IL were abusive of Butler nnG
other members Of the House, and the Vic,
President stopped the reading. The emotion
OF the dying man in the easy chair so racket
him at this junctnre that another Senator, pity
ing him, requested that solely on account o
his feeble condition the reading might be suf
fercd TO proceed. This was assontcd to. IIat
1t been otherwise. perhaps the anger Of tn,
old Parson would have consumed him wher
he sat