The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-02-15
Ghe1ateltiqeuter:
\ Few OF the Legislative Notable
tiles aS Seen Through II Lady'S
SDeCtaClpS.

SpectacleS.
Bliton OF Intelllgenter
Having spent a casual hour now and
then in the House OF Delegates, NJ sort
oil a locker on in Vienna, am tempted TO
communicate through the medium OF
your "valuable," &c, u few Of the fugi.
tive impressions brought away from that
focus OF assembled wisdom.
Mr.. Gibson, a. Speaker Of the House,
naturally takes precedent; but he being
absent from the chair the attention Is di.
rected to come Of the members on the
floor.
The gentleman VINO sits there quietly
taking in the proceedings Of tue House,
is Mr.. Barr, from Ohio. He ia medium
in height, spare figure and neat in dress.
Is u deliberate and pleasant speaker,
terse in style and evidently knows what
he is going to say before he gets up 10 say
it. He commands the respect OF all by
his dignifed and courteous way Of doing
things.
Mr.. Hall, Of Richie, who sits on the
Speakers right, ia member who evi.
IDENTIFY wishes to do his duty. He ia by
no means silent member. Speaks
earnestly on all questions in which he is
interested. He is middle aged gentle
man Of progressing appearance, with
dark hair, gray whiskers and an honest
face. Wears pair Of gold bowed spec
tacles becOmingly. Dresses well and "a
lady remarks) always looks 30 nice and
clean.
Mr.. Wilson, from Kanawha, known as
+. Wind Wilson, is n gentleman OF per.
haps forty. A medium.si2ed man; san
guine complexion; luxuriant moustache;
ight.blue eyes, having sharp expires.
sion, and always neatly dressedin black.
A seli.made man it is said; is not at all
backward about making u speech; evi.
IDENTIFY considers it his duty to his constit.
uents to speak as often, as long and as
loudly as the rules allow. Certainly the
aforesaid constituents cannot complain
Of neglect Of aforesaid duty in regard to
the Capital Bill. He fought good fight
fought long and hard. II he failed to
make himself heard it was because OF the
noise he made. Mr.. Wilson's friends
speak highly Of him.
Mr.. llcarne, Of Ohio, who sits over in
the southeast corner OF the House is q
nice.looking gentleman Of about sixty
live winters. Hair gray, face ruddy and
smoothly shaven and Ia rather clerical
looking-this, perhaps, because he dresses
in black. When he rises to speak, he
consults comfort rather than elegance,
generally standing with arms a.kimbO.
He says he doesn't know much about
law. His tastes probably run in another
direction, Judging from an allusion, The
other morning; "Pip." The man who
likes Dickens lit isto be inferred that he
likes him il he quotes HIM has good
taste, il he doesn't know much about law.
II the gentleman has read OF the famous
chancery suit, is he not reminded Of it
by the almost equally famous Capital
question? II there be cage OF birds
awaiting the final issue Of this question
Tor their liberty, woe be unto them
That spare, elderly gentleman, who al
ways wears his speCtacles and is constant
Iy reading some document or other, is
Mr., Lowe, Of Marion. He evidently
thinks that silence is golden and pre-
serves il carefully. Notwithstanding his
apparent absorption in the documents,
when called upon to vote he gives his aye
or no in manner which shows that he
knows what he is doing. His bonanza OF
golden silence is fully compensated by
silvern speech in other quarters. Should
Congress restore silver TO its ancient po-
tency as legal tender am confident that
E. Wind Wilson would enable the State
to resume specie payment in less than
twenty.four hours.
Mr.. Chancellor, from Wood, sits in
front Of the Speaker in the outside row.
He is dapper gentleman OF forty.eight
or thereabouts. Exquisitely neat in
dress and dignitied in manner. He does
not often speak.
The very tall gentleman near Mr.. Chan
cellor is Mr.. Browse, Of Peasants. An
insane desire to make pun on his very
suggestive name seizes me whenever |
hear it. But bearing in mind what Mr..
Holmes says about puns, ! suppress the
desire will say, however, that were Mr..
Browse compelled to subsist by browsing,
he would have peculiar advantage in
that line. 1t is not probable that this ad.
Z vantage will ever be called into use, for
IS il is said Though this is, perhaps, not the
place 10 mention it) that he il the richest
man in the Legislature.
MIR. Faulkner, one Of the most promi.
nent members OF the House, is distin-
guished looking young gentleman of pro.
badly twenty.eight. Has dark hair and
beard and penetrating eyes Of the same
hue. Is good looking and apparently has,
as Of course he should have, considerable
respect for Mr.. Faulkner. 10 stranger
he presents the appearance Of man OF
education and cultured manners and no
doubt possesses fine social qualities,
They are characteristic Of FL We. His
father at one time minister to the Court
st, Cloud, was reputed the politest man
in the politest Capital in the world.
Mr.. Farnsworth, the new member from
Huckleberry, looks as though nothing
ever went Contrary" with him in all hi,
lie, SO smiling is his countenance. In
deed it seems TO be chronic. Yet for the
sake Of the good opinion OF his colleagues
he ought not TO be solayish Of his smiles
No doubt in their school days they have
all written the old copy: "a man may
smile and SMILE" &c. Then again he
ought to be warned by the sad fate o.
another man, to fortune and to fame moi
unknown, who smiled and smiled till he
smiled himself into the U. S. Senate
Still another awful example IL Smiler
Colfax.
Mr.. Wells, of Marion, in the southwes,
partof the hall, is a short, rather heavy
set gentleman, with light hair and sandy
moustache and imperial, a Ia Napoleon
whom 1t is said he resembles. He look,
wide.awakc, but is not a loquacious mem
her, What he lacks in speech he per
haps makes up in thought. General.
makes himself comfortable, not standing
on such small matters as putting his fee
on the top Of his desk. This, by the way
Is fayorite amusement with many o
the members, together with free use o
the weed that Sir Walter Raleigh loved
Mr.. Gibson, Speaker OF the House
having resumed the chair, an opportunit,
Of observing him now offers. lie ia ap
pSrently verging on forty; not particu
i9tly preposSesssing in looks (thougl
this opinion may be somewhat biased B,