Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-06-05

THE PERSONNEL OF THE COMMITTEE.

W e%thC INC lOllONiiI3 lcdutuit stCCOu
lat of the makeup of The Potter investigator
IN committee from an entertaining Washin;
Ill ton letter to the Boston Post:
Id Clarkson N. Potter, the chairman, is
lg genuine, thorough-going exquisite. He
Y, son of Bishop Potter. and co mes of
70 family of exquisites. all of whom affe
English mannerism and English style
III Clarkson has a brother, an architect, wi
lr Is also musician and tenor singer. II
D. is the beau ideal exquisite of the family
4 as Clarkson is the beau ideal brains of i
1t is related of the brother that he wear
I silk gloves to and from his office. change
l. his clothes six or seven times day, goe
It to his lunch regularly, and, as mark O
genius, divides his lunch hour between
food and music-feeding the stomach an
j. The soul at tho same time. SO to speak
:. Garrison copies this illustrious example a
S closely as so busy man can. He wa
q first civil engineer, then lawyer, lat
terly politician. lie was born at the oil,
> Dutch town of Schenectady. N, Y, in
, 1925, and graduated ut Union College. liz
Is a warm personal friend of Mr.. Tilden
which fact, doubtless, has much to do with
his choice as chairman of the investigation
committee. lie is Il lawyer of first class
ability and Il man of abundant means.
physically he is tall and well built. lie
wears pair of brown, English mutton
chop side whiskers of which he is very
proud. affects the Adonis gait of Conkling
with the crooked knee and the bent hip.
wears the best English broadcloth, and
tnere is Il corset-like suggestiveness about
his waist. '''''''
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William Il. Morrison, of Illinois. the
second member of the committee, is well
known us chairman of the committee on
appropriations of the forty fourth congress.
tie served in the Mexican war, command
ed an illinois regiment in the war between
the states, and is serving his fourth term
IN congress. lie is no orator, but IN able
lawyer, and almost if not quite the astut
est politician ON the democratic side of the
honse: His open hostility to Randals
candidacy for speaker cost him all oppor-
tunlty to make prominent figure in the
present congress, bnt no mans counsels
are often sought or more uniformly worth
needing. In manners he is Potters anti
podes. Genial, outspoKen and plain, fond
OF companionshp, fond Of II joke, carrying
his heart upon his sleeve but committing
his political plans and purposes to the
care of none.
Eppa Hunton, the third member of the
committee, is "A native born Vireinian and |
one of the immortal seven who voted
steadily against the eight. He was bora
IN 1873, was n member of the secession |
convention OF Virginia, earned the rank
OF brlgadler-general in the war, entered |
congress in 1873, and is now serving his
thlrd term. He, too, was overlooked by |
randall in the make.ub of the committees,
because he voted for his colleague, Goode,
for speaker,
Two of tho best men on the committee
are John A. MacMahon, of Ohio, and Jo-
seph G. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky.
Blackburn is on the notch of forty, bit
looks to be hardly thiry-fve. He is
native born kentuckian, II Lawyer by pro.
esslon, served throughout the war in the
confederate army, and is now serving his
second term in congress. Although so
Young IN congressional life, Blackburn is
'lready recognized as one of the demo.
'ratlc chieftans. Personally, Joe. " as )
le Is iamlllarly called, he is very popular.
ike every genuine Kentuckian, lie loves
good horse, admires u fine woman and
ucceeds in politics. lie is an inveterate
oker and an incessant teller of good sto- {
les. Physically lie is tall, wiry, LONG
lmbed, angular and so spare of flesh as to {
ook tritle gaunt. He has large, lustrous /
yes, sports II fsrocious mustache and is t
areless us to his dress q
Mac Mahon is an entirely different type :
I man. lie is physically less robust than f
'lackburn' and naturally less exuberanl. k
oC ne Is one OF the abest lawyers of the t
ouse anu almost the longest headed poll L
clah. lie Is II quiet hammered, medium n
lzed man, wears II short, full beard and c
lousGache and dresses and looks like a n
afelul' wei to do business man. lie is no "
rator, but Il cogent debater. Whatever b
@ undertakes is thoroughly done. His tt
peeches, almost without exception, are u
magazines of facts, logically arranged. Il
lie was born in Maryland in 1888, studied h
wv with Vallandigham, and has practiced O
Dayton, Ohio, Since 1851. He is on his it
'cond term us the representative of the W
'urth ONO district, and acquired dstinc- W
on us one OF the prosecutors for the house e.
thesBelknap impeachment trial. II
otenSer Is Pennsylvania by birth and %
le Youngest member of the committee HI
e IS thrty-eight, but might easily be
'lstaken for thirty, on account of his
lght build and smooth, youthful face. In
IS own state and in the house he is ac. u
'unted lawyer of exceptional ability.
e Is serving his second term in congress M
the representative of the eighteenth ST.
district
Chbb, who ends the democratic list, is a
tive lndianlan, fifty years old and rep. tn
SCENTS the second Indiana district He is III
lawyer by profession, is serving his first ne
I'm in congress.
The republican end of the committee is q
curious hodge podge of cratic strength. NJ
ne country knows who and what is But II
=" A body of brass and legs of straw, tr
a colleague APPLY described him. He is tn
ore "Poddy " and less obstreperous than m
used to be, but the same tireless intrig- ed
I rs ever, and If possible, more crafty tn
Is main object, doubtless, in being on the ha
mmlttee is to get even with the president ar
d Wayne MacVeagh, and he may be N
united on to vote with whoever and for
latever will most aid him to accomplish
desires.
Frank lliscock, of New York, the sec at
q republican member is one of the new in
en- who is made known to fame THROUGH no
investigations. The congressional direc- an
y merely records of him that he was du
IN ut Pompey. N. Y, in 1884, has been Po
practlclng attorney since 1855, was a lie
amber OF the state constitutional con mi
ntlon in 1867, and was elected by the vo
enty-tilth New York district to the forty. br
n congress as republican by 1851 da
tioriy. lie is accounted man of fair hn
llity and sound judgment. WI
Jacob d. Cox, of Ohio, was heralded the
fore his arrival here as one of Ohio's mn
ong men. He had served in the Ohio IN
,islature, won distinction in the war IN
ming out of it II major general of voun, bel
rs. He had been governor of Ohio from col
Sc to 1868, had served Year in Grants pau
1inet as secretary of the interior. He is AM
strong man, and he is the is
y sop to the president on the whole get
only man who from his hon
affections may not be considered quite wa
Hing to see the president overthrown. tlo
was born in Canada, educated at ODER Mr.
, Ohio. is fifty years DID, and has the HIN
&c physical build so common with the
preventative men of Ohio. I
Chomas b. Reed. of the first Maine Ac,