The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-19
RutIev.'E E,e KBuIIy.


NY. World Washington letter.
Butler will gwagger more than evel
now in the few days that are left him OF
official strutting. How we shall miss that
slouching figure strolling up The aisles af'
ter the morning hour is beglnl He al
way comes in late chewing his cigar;
| throws his overcoat to one page, his hat
to another, sticks his hands in his peck
cts, and then turns around to take leis-
urely survey Of the House. He AWAY s
manages to have front seat, by exchang-
ing with, or buying from, some less i'm
portant member who happened to draw
d good position. He is very rarely to be
seen at his desk His practice is to close
! up to whom ever he's addressing, and
talk into his face This is not his first
| tilt with Kentuckian. Who remembers
| the scene between him and Garrett Davis
in the Senate one day? He and Davis
| b II been denouncing each other in a
Pickwickian fashion, and while the SEN
ator was speaking Ton some Indifferent
! topic the Representative happened in
and sat down next to him. Butler is all
defiance and impotence. Davis was a
little, wiry man. Well, Butler sat down,
threw his head back, and looked both ways
at once. Davis glanced down, thought
he was looking at him, and began to grow
hdgety. Butler moved not. The speech
went On-Davis' speeches always did
and Davis grew more and more nervous;
but Butler was invuInerable. By this
time the Kentuckians discontinue was
50 evident and its source so ridiculous that
the other Senator were convulsed with
laughter. Not so with Davis he was flu
rIous. Does the gentleman mean to in
.E,lf tNapf 10, 81
sion in the middle of his speech. Still
Bitter sat perfectly passive. But at last
1t threatened to be so serious that Wilson,
OF Massachusetts, went over to Butler,
sat down between him and Davis, and
finally got him away. Butler protested
afterwards he had no intention to offend
the Senator. When he does choose to
speak he is uncommonIy ready with his
answers remember one night, directly
before the close of last session, after
long speech by Foster against him not in
the most parliamentary terms, Butler
arose and made few similar comments
on Foster with regard to some action that
Butler characterized as fraudulent Let
US pray" said Foster with a sheer, as
Butler ceased Quick as a flash. cold
Cockeye,' as Foster had insOlently call
ed him, turned to the stenographer:
Put it down with an c." he said, SO
distinctly that it reached every corner of
the House, and shook it with applause.
One favorite bit of smartness with him is
to distract attention from the point at is
sue by getting up personal quarrel with
his antagonist. When he made out his
briefs for cases before Judge Shaw of
| New Hampshire he used to write oppo-
! site the weak points: Here insult old
| Shaw" OF course ''old Shaw would get
| angry, and i'll the heat of the discussion
| Butler would get what he wanted. Chief
| Justice Perley, of New Hampshire, used
| to take to his bed regularly after Butler
| had tried case before him, and the lat
ter, at the impeachment trial, worried
! Stanberry into fit of sickness. Evarts
was completely disguised. Curtis alone
| could bear his insolence with unruifled
| dignity. Nothing disconcerts him.
! Shortly after the conviction OF Professor
! Webster, of Harvard College which set
all New England agog, Butler was ex-
amining-or bullying would a better
| word-a professor witness IN a case, when
| one of the opposing counsel Indignantly
interferCd, and said that perhap she Gidn
| know whom he was dealing with. Per
! haps he does not understand that a pro-
lessor Of Harvard College Is Il dis
tinguished person. said the counsel, with
a lofty sarcasm. oh, yes, said Butler
promptly, 81 know all about them; we
hung one Of them the other day The
only man who ever got ahead OF him was
Joseph Ames, the painter. According to
a cosby story, he painted portrait of
B anche, General Buffers beautiful
daughter. An exquisite picture it was
she, in a pure, white dress, stepping from
a rustic doorway. And then he asked
| 81 900 for it. Her father refused to pay
ii. So, after waiting little while, Ames
wrote to him that he should paint bas-
ket of fish on her head, and one in her
arms, alter the dress some and sell it to
a Boston club. Butler paid the money
then, but protested against TIE injustice,
as he said the portrait was painted at
Mr. AmeS' request