New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-27
HOME CORRESPONDENCE.
MEN AND FACES.
OUR REPRESENTATIVES, IN CONGREss-PORTRAITS
OF PROMINENT MEMBERS.

WASHINGTON Jan. 16-l1 one canhc to tiliS
country wishing to study the character OF our people no
could never find better opportunity than Few days
spent in the House OF Representatives would afford him
"A sort OF condensed manual OF traits and habits
open before him. For the average American u perccty
delegated In the $50 members there be the same more or
less-aceablc, useful, intelligent men, most OF them
well TODD, q superfne gentleman, there rowdy,
yonder scholar eighth Of the number people OF SUI
pcror capacity, u twohundred-andhfuetn perhaps
really great but who that twohundrodand6fieth may
be- each partisan student must determine Tor himself
The knack which the people have OF putting the nght
man the right place Ia apparent at the hfse gahce'
when the Speaker IL found In his seat-a man OF such
nervous energy and quckness, and OF such Drawn ana
muscle that one thinks Instantly OF Homers dnof dndro
and Is content submit to the rulings OF such KING OF
men, Perhaps the colored member IL sworn In be-
fore with oath terrible the sensation novels
heroes swear that whips the famous Masonic ana
secret society imprecatioDs out OF Hght-thc
Democrats having failed to make their customary
insane objection to the purest democratic movement OF
the oee-whe Mr. Butler stands in the his hands
I'm ha pocLets surveying the work he initiated with the
word contraband. To the latter approaches Gen.
schenck taking farewell Of the scene of many contests
and the two together they had mover fought
"a hundred fights a Poutranoc. Here Is another man In
the right place-for while Gen. schenck, In certain
rather ponderous courtesy, will quite equal the Engsh
gentlemen with whom he will have TO deal In his new
mission and has already diplomatic experience,
there Ia perinacty In the expression OF That jaw OF
his the head slightly but unchangingy thrust for
ward the breast, which assures you that what he
once grasps I've will hold With deatgrip The session
already the battles where he used to fight like
bristing old wild boar in his lair, while Kelley and
Dekey sprang 20 his aid and the three held the whole
pack OF the Free Traders at bay.
| One unacquanted here wOuld look long Tor Judge
Kelley before recognizing him in that slender person i'll
careless cutaway with avocc combining the sohorous-
and the drawi OF a camp-meong parson-so huge
voice that marves what mechanism in that narrow
breast produces tia voice that can make Itself heard
above any din M it did that night In Boston when its
owner young apprentice at his trade laid wager with
his mates that 10 would speak among the great men that
evening at Faneul Hail. and be listened to on the ques-
ton then conyusng the public, and from bis seat IN the
gallery broke out with the words am mechanic
with such fire and rude eoquence that soon
deputation waited upon him to the platform, and there
he commenced his career Not far from Judge Kelley
sits Mr. Habert Paine, the thin ana Eager face under
that shock Of curling dark hair looking Ike that OF aman
10 lie "a hourss We have head OF his doingbetween
armies with his leg shot away while every one VINO
attempted to fetch him canteen OF iwater was picked
off by riemen. Another neghbor OF Judge Keley's is
Cen Banks who last Winter gave touch OF the old
DAYS of oratory speaking to the Cuban resolutions
years, see bleaching his hair, and softenng and
saddenng him. but they will not subdue his fire; he Is
working member, seldom speaking but when speaking
at al speaking to command instant silence III the
pandemonium around him.
Far away across the hall from the eye rests
the conspicuous figure OF Judge Poland who, with his
gray hair and gray whskers his blue dresscoat ana
bra buttons, il simuLc7pn of Lord Pamerston Near
him Il Fitch the dark young Nevada orator, whose
feryd periods pleasant to hear and VINO makes you
wonder what population be left at home in the State
that sends to Washington Fitch, Stewart, and Nye-a
host in Themselves Onlya few seats of Is Mr. Hooper OF
Utah a thn-faced dsrk-eyed with ring OF gray
hair browning yellow skull, and that peculiar smile
upon with which he received the congratulations
OF the members tLrOnging about him after an amusing
speech in defense the vies iniquty the world knows
to,lay-a WORTHY gentleman, however. 1t il said,
claiming In spite Of his theories, but one wife
OF his own. On the same side OF the house.
though remotely yet looms the martial
figure OF Fernando Wood with that Singebreasted coat,
that clerical air. that immense white mustache, to
what shall one compare hm-a military Quaker secular
Jesuit an icce from the North Poei Before him sits
Mr. Brooks very busiy engaged just now in taking care
OF his reputation; and close by sits Sunset Cox, or
rather would be, If he were not always buzzng about
the House like black yready, however at an import
ant question to aligh upon with vigor that brings
dozen opponents TO their feet Not very distant is Mr..
Cavanaugh, who, at various times, has represented
various regons-a special policeman Of the Territories,
who goes about bringing them by one within the
pale OF civilization, retiring himself from one Territory
to another till he has reached the Ultima Thule In
Montana.
Near these WORTHLESS. but not ofthem, sits Mr.. BnG-
ham, his shoulders little bent with the weight OF 1.-THE
gathered wisdom OF thousand years" Meanwhile,
Cen Negley the OF the House. flashes from aisle to
aisle; Godlove ORTIZ good naured but judicial tits his
chair aud cracks jokes with his neghbors; Mr. Dawes
pops up like Jackinthebox ut every opening for his
APPROXIMATION BILL cigBrsmok curs In from the cloak
rooms couple OF hundred men are In ceascless notion
tongues clatcr laughs resound, newspapers cracke,
pages dart the hammer pounds the galleries hum. and
one convinced that after all 1t needs clear eyes to
any design In the pattern woven Of many threads
"Ths" will not be thus" there is work ahead,
IL is runOred The great cloud of the question between
the people and prerogatve the Joint Resolution
in the House and the Treaty making power in the
Senate about Ia break, while mischief makers may
loosen the thunders OF fresh reconstruction at
nrcnt all of which will work well for the lockers In
Venice.
Certainly the dweller In Washington may have liberal
education by simply opening his ear the country lies cpl
tomzed before him in this chamber Perhaps at future
time IL will not he preposterous to expect to men
here whose physical development shall tell their geo
graphical story-the OF Maine erect his pine
trees the sallow Southerner. FURNISHED by tropic
skies the citizen OF Colorado caons hard in feature
the minerals and metals OF his daily contact. This is
a thing impossible now, while there is hardly man Of
the West who dares to at the carpetbag
gers Of the South, he il himself carpetbagger
from the East But without waiting for any such mil
enni,un Of national types. the country is quite well
enough represented In the before us-its buster
and it's brag its promise and performance its teness
its greatness, and that spirit of migration moving
before it-s pillar OF cloud by day, of fire by night.
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