The New York herald., 1871-02-19
THE STATE CAPITAL
The Way Our Law Makers
Dress and Act.
the TAKERS AND THE SILENT ONES.
The Heavy and the Light
Weights.
ALBANY. Feb. II. 1877.

It may be OF interest to the general public, who
cannot crowd itself into the Assembly galleries to
see
WHAT KIND OF STUFF
the members OF the House are made OF, to know
exactly how they look, act and dress. OF
course it would be quite impossible to
give an accurate idea as to what each
one looks like-first, for the reason
that there are too many members; and secondly,
because many OF them are perfectly indescribable.
Now that the Official diagram has fixed each one In
his proper place is not difficult matter to lind out
who is who. The 'dxing,n however, has mixed
things fearlully. For instance,
THE RENOWNED CAREY,
who Is trying to wear side whlskers and smoke
cigars as big as himself, has been doomed by fate
to sit beside Flecke, the eloquent German orator,
who hates lager as he does heavy breakfast
Krack, of Ulster, is heavy weight. He sits al the
extreme end OF the chamber in order to overbalance
the pressure at the other end, where Mr. Fields and
Scrbner sit together. O'Brien and O'Nel, who
dress more gorgeously than any other member in
the House, sit right behind Flanagan and
Irving. ONeill has weakness for brown
velvet and diamonds and Larry affects
Astrakhan facings to a fearful extent.
Flan agan and Irving, they say, have drawn up
written agreement never to lose sight OF one another
during the session. They have fondness for
bHe edlIcS, duu Can bc secu iuJ ulSut III tile ures6
circle when o pathetic play is the programme.
Flanagan Is one OF the non -talka1ve members, and
Is good looking besides. HIS hair is prematurely
gray from overwork OF his brain. Jimmy does all
the Oratortzng for him, and does 1t well for he Is
only one OF the few members who vote just as they
please.
THE DEAF MEMBER
o. the house, Ktlham Is on the same row with Kelly
OF New York. The latter does not speak English,
and kllham don't understand It. so their quarters
are always quiet. Selkreg, the handsomest man in
the house. is sandwiched between Griffin and
factory in Buras, and is consequently obliged to SIT
as stiff as q ramrod from morning TILL night. Sell
kreg tried to buy dozen OF them from him, just
but Alperger asked too high a price. selkreg is
very fluent talker, and gets OF some very good
which is very often The worst feature about his
speaking is his mouth which he opens so widely
place, fearful of disastrous consequences. Denny
Burns, a low-sized, thlck-set man, with no hair on
tne n oyer eSe , ms p vsry Sa active at %s
Der; When he gets up to speak he always snoyes
both hands to the %sna Of ms ample
graceful. Nobody else thinks SO. Being classic
scholar he is always 'slingng Latin, and never In
lingo in it. Campbell and Buck and Brown OF New
YORK, are his side partners. Brown is melancnollo
once in fortnight. Campbell wears diamonds, and
has liking for fat 'Toads'' and bridges. Buck Ia
He is short ana Stout and whea ne gestlcuates vio
lenty about military affairs the effect is magnificent
to the galleries. Right behind Buck Is the
BLONDE YOUTH FROM TIOGA
Blgnall. He dresses neatly for countryman and
is always making speeches. They are always very
Il opect.' Bgnall had The conceit taken out OF
him IN Committee of the Whole the other day.
Flagg, OF Troy, fancy man, with gold eyeglasses
and drawl IN his speech, is separated from the
ysun ms hs own eoy Gy. asT
who, they say. lives entirely, on Sara.
e the great Joy Of wyoming, and is rignt-aansed
by Bennett, country democrat, who is never ON
the House and IS celeerated for the antouated cnt
of his unmenti0nables. Alvord, the Onondaga
Giant is behind Fagg. perfect Rip Van Wlnkle III
appearance, but by no means one in action. He
never sleeps over ten minutes in twentyiour hours
and occupies the remaining twenty-three hours
and ITS eject on stone statues. Loutrel Is .
New Yorker, with heavy brown wniskers,
Teutonic shape thanks to his many Dutch acquaint-
ances. Cook, Hayes and Connolly are in the same
makers (among fnemseivesj Cook being very
eloquent when
is question OF dispute. Frear, Barse and Blair are
together Everybody knows Frear He never gets
up from his seat to do anything more than make
notion, and the Speaker s always sure to
catch Alec's eye before any one ese's. Why this
Is SO Peter B. Sweeny alone can tell Blair Is cele-
brated for the triangle OF diamonds he wears on his
SHIRT front and the eloquence he never makes dis
play OF. In fact Blair is one Of those men who
Know how to o. say AYE" and may" when told to 40
doesn't give nything more than is expected.
Wyman, Murphy and Littlejohn are trio that are
he gets out OF his seat by dint OF hard work. and
believes that silence IS golden. He is fearful on
lions In quiet way than any other three members
put together. Murphy, Of Albany, is a dark-com-
battery Of jet black whiskers and nasas out his ayes
and noes IN way that ts very positive. He used to
Se ren
the other day. Littlelohn Is undoubtedly the
strongest @ man IN the House and the best speaker
waddles instead Of walks. He Is a terrible
BUGBEAR TO TAMMANY,
aud when reused makes the welkin ring with his
yels OF defiance. Madigan, OF the Fifth ward, is
made miserable between tive countrymen Prime
and Burnans. He Is terrible on getting up bills
that he never moves and don't believe speecil-mak-
ing the thing for an Assembyman to know anything
about He Is hard worker, and is down On un.
licensed infamles and dance houses. Prime is q
tall' slim man, who dresses II black and, like
a nvss new n members ,ap with % the EFT Of tho
members dumb. He thinks every bin he has any
Idea Of requires speech ana very, very lsng one
sit together and are well matched IN one thing.
Whenever they get up to speak tney look as II they
their eyebrows ascend and. while speaking, they
shake their shoulders about as though they feared
Coon or Lord behind them wanted to stick pin in
them. ChieI Decker Is silent man. He has an
impeachment OF speech and 80 don't indulge In the
and loves his comfort He often feels Inclined 70
yell out
FIRE, :"
when there Is q lively time In the House
Roche, OF Kings, ls short, stout little fellow who
Is so far away from his congenial spirits In the
front or the house that he spends half his time
away from his own place. He is called the
Jack OF Spades" In fact, he Is young
Tom Fields, but he can't screech as loud as Tom
when he gets into excited debate were 1t to save
his life. Goodrich and Hustled are TO the left or the
Speaker, and one sits In front Of the other Good
rich Is little mite OF man, wears three resplen.
dent diamonds and has been at loss for s0me-
thing TO talk about since Cary got his seat He is
lust after Erie Railway Wi a Shurn afIc
made pointed, they say, by the English bondhold-
ers gold. Hustled is q short, bald.headed man,
quick in movement and ready OF speech. He noted
for the knacS he has OF explaining his vote when
he gets Into
TIGHT CORNER
and feels like voting against his party In tho
widening OF broadway Job discussion he did the
thing splendldly. He has not q very bad idea Of
Tamlnany Hall by long odds. He thinks that West
Chester county Is the QreateSt In the HtAta