The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1877-01-31
SCENES IN THE SENATE.
THE GIANTS GRAPPLING WITH TIE
GREAT PROBLEM

Speech of Eslp>unds on Saturday--An
Able Etfort--Morton "Eatin Grow" on
Monday.
Special to The Philadelphia Times,
WAslHNGToN, January 2O.-Crowd-
cd galleries looked down upon a
quiet Senate. No sign there gave
notice that anything unusual was
about to happen. The little quick
footed but soft-stcpping pages
fitted about. The secretaries
busted themselves over their pom
derous journals The official re-
porters had no thought outside of
the curious characters of their
somd-writmg. The President of
the Senate buried his hand in his
long beard, and faced, but evidently
did not listen to, the Virginia Sena-
tor on the floor.
THE SENATOR'S IN COUNCIL
A heavy figure makes it's WY
with difficulty through q side ell
trance. The difficulty arises from
the management Of stout crutch
which supports the massive should
ers of the low, shopping man, while
the other hand makes IL leaning post
of stick that might have been Il
belaying-pin snatched from the deck
of pirate. His slow. labored pro-
cesslon across tho floor gives time
for all to notice this man, who if
his antecedents do not belle him,
will become the Danton of the
American Senate. A. gloom seems
to surround his very person. It
may be physical pain which accounts
for the deep scowl set into his
broad, intellectual forehead, but the
black, ill-iitting clothes, the dark,
stained hair and ovorhanging eye
brows and bristling moustache,
when brought into contrast with the
clammy whitencss of tho skin of bis
face and pate, gives to the spectator
an impression which results in "
shudder rather than sigh. AS
Senator Morton pl,lnges his huge
form into his seat he brushes the
shoulder of his next door neighbor,
n thin cadaverous-looking man,
whose iron gray whiskers and
moustache show intimate acquaint-
ance with an Industrious pair Of
scissors, and his deep, sunken eyes,
hollow cheeks and pinched visago
seem TO tell of bile on the stomach
and narrowncss of the soul. The
very orange that Senator Sherman
takes from his pocket and lays on
the front of his desk seem to have a
sour look.
HOW CONKLINd LOOKS,
Across the central aisle an entire
ly different sort of man sits daily
ing with his handsome hands. The
occasional fash of O. knife blade
shows that no more serious thing is
engaging his attention than his
nailsss% When he rises up you will
see tall, symmetrical form, neither
too large nor too small, dressed in tho
latest. fashion. The cardinal" in his
cravat and the scrupulous care with
whichhis light-colored, curled hair
is'banled up on each side of his
Vandyke head give his appearance n
touch Of dandyism. Senator
Conkling waits quietly in his scat,
with one shapely foot swinging
lazily over the other, until his great
compeer enters the cxpectant Senate
to begin the debate--the debate
which will become as memorable in
the histories of peoples as any that
ever echoed in the halls of legisla-
ton.
These are the figures in the i'm
mediate foreground of the Senate
of the United States. The Senators
who sit around arc hardly less con-
spicuous. Tho eye running over
the chamber will rest easily upon
the almost unnaturally heavy shock
Of snow~whito hair of the venerable
ASenator from Pennsylvania, who
Ttook Summers place at the head of
the foreign relations, and whose son
holds tho fathers old portfolio in
the War Offica. Far back of him,
on the last row, sits the Senator
who counts, in piles hundreds of
times bigger than his little body, his
ingots of silver dug from the bowels
Of Nevada's earth. The Senator
from New Jersey, whose name tells
of the Dutch ancestors whom Irving
has immortalizcd, and whose scat in
the Senate is now trembling in the
balance with the odds of q majority
of one on joint ballot against him,
sits beside the desk of the speaker
of the day. The Grocer Of Groton,
whose retirement from the Senate in
favor of Judge Hoar seems to give
such universal satisfaction, chats
with the oarpet-bag Senator from
Alabama, whose fit, vealy figure
seems to express the character Of
the man. Boutwell, looks rs though
he knew this was the last session
his iron-grey whiskers and milky
eyes will be seen in the Senate.
THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE.