Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-01-27
OUa WASHINGTON LETTYR.

skETCIE> oF SOME LEADING SENATOR'S
Which If the States ,u,,aias the high.
e.; character through its representation in
Congress. - a question often asked. OF
the Western State, Ohio claims the first
! position. Jul &c David Carter. Chief Jus
tice Of the Supreme Court OF the District
OF Columbia, said recently that for twenty
years Ohio has kept the best general dele
cation in both houses, and he claimed that
Robert &. Schcnck, for effectiveness in de.
bate, and union of strong and prudent
qualities, stood above all the list.
THURMAN AND SHERMAN.
Ohio's two Senators, named very like
each other, Thurman and Sherman, live
in the central part of the State Sher.
mans origin is wholly English, and Thur
man is believed to be the same. Sherman
is four years the junior, aged 40. Thur.
man was in the Goth Congress, while
Sherman did not appear here till the 3+th.
In temperament the men are very differ
ent. Sherman is courteous and very dill
gent, and careful of his public conduct.
He is one Of the best State politicians on
the Republican side, excclled as manager
only by Morton, Fenton, Hamlin and Cam.
cron. He is a good dcbater, but not quick
nor brilliant in repartce, and he declines
nero " bouts" and passages at arms lie is
comfortably wealthy, possesses an agree.
able residence at Mansfield, and town
house at Washington, and is surrounded
by an affectionate family. He is an in
vetcrate smoker--like the President, but
unlike him-never appears in the street
with cigar He is 6 feet "a inches high,
height only exceeded by Pratt of Iudi-
ana, and by Charles Sumner, C feet 81
inches.) The heaviest men in the Sem
ate arc Pratt, go pounds, Pomeroy, 232,
Chandler, 20S, and Thurman, 2O5. Judge
Thurman is the most brilliant, chivalric
aud yet severe, debater on the Democratic
side. He is man of warm temperament,
| although very conservative, and he prob
ably laughs with more dimples and with
greater frequency than any person in
Congress. He is great favorite with the
anti. Administration Republicans. Like
Sherman he received only an academic
education. He removed to Ohio from
Lynchburg, Va, his birthplace, at the age
of six. He is a Aorid, stoutish, hearty
man, with great versatility of genius, and
has much humor and snap in him. So
cially he is one of the most interesting men
in the Senate. His term expires in 1875.
In the centennial year Of our independ.
cnce few of the present Senators will be
found.
HOWE, CARPENTER, SEIZURE AND coNK-
LING.
The States Of Wisconsin, Illinois, Tndi.
ana and Missouri rank nearly equal in
the ability of their Senatorial delegations.
Senator Timothy Howe comes from
Livermore, Maine, the homestead of the
numerous Washburn family. He is 81
years old, tall, slender, graceful man,
with silver gray hair, gentle address, and
is we'll grounded in the law. He is said to
be eXpectant of seat on the Supreme
Bench Of the United States, in case of a
vacancy, as are also Conkling aud Edmunds.
Matt. Carpenter ranks as debater, with
Thurman, Conkling and Schurz These
four are different in style, Conklins com.
pairing we'll with Carpenter. Perhaps the
very strongest impromptu debate in the
Senate would be had, if there were occa-
sion for it, between Schurz and Thurman.
These two latter are acute, wcll-rcad men,
and very wary Of each other. Carpenter
is brilliant debater and speaker, with hu.
morous af6nities. Conkling speaks best
under the influence of strong resentmen,
or dislike. lie has the sharpest tongue Of
any man in the Senate since John Ran.
dolph.
CALIFORNIA IN THE SENATE.
California has had in the past, two no.
table Senators, Broderick and Baker
There is no man now in the Senate who
has 1.-THE of Bakers famous power as a
natural orator. He selected his ilustra-
tons from all points of tho globe, from all
elements, and all literature. He had tina,
peculiar sort of mind which could concen-
trate every power upon the immediate
question of debate. Although personally
a careless man, with the business qualities
of poet, his speeches read to this day
like the emanations of wise spirit full Of
enlightened yearnings. The nearest ap.
proach to Baker in Congress at present is
Charles Sumner. But the extended
knowledge, aptness Of quotation. FIRE, raph.
sody, suggestiveuess, and splendor which
Baker invoked upon the instant Mr.. Sum-
ner pedantically and laboriously brings up
from books, and he frequently has to read
the speeches he has composed, thus utter.
ly yelling their oratorial spirit. Charles
Sumner is scholar rather than an orator
| MORTON AND FREDERICK.
David Broderick was more like Senator
Morton than any man at present in the
Senate. Morton's strong qualities, like
Broderick's, are force in executing his
projects aud resolute will in designing
them. Broderick came out of Tammanv
Hall, New York, where the manner Of
doing things was either to purchase or to
fight them through. In qualified degree