New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-11
enable the Democrats TO take advantage OF this
record vote at the caucus this evening.
A FAREWELL APPEARANCE.

a GAhBN Il.l1 al I.-NhhtNi'
SENATOR MCREERY MAKES ONE OF HIS FAMOUS
SPEECHES TO A CROWDED HOUsE-THE SENATE
To LOSE An INTERESTING CHARACTER.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TKBUSE.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-The most striking face
and figure in the United States those possessed
10y Senator McCreery, Of Kentucky. His head, from
the square, heavy brow over the top and down al
most to the back Of the neck is bald as an onion
while on each side, entirely covering his ears ana
extending around below the bald spot behind,
hangs thick curtain OF the blacklist, stTaigltesI
and stiilCst hair over grown on any other than an
Indian scalp. 1t contains not the slightest sus-
piciOn OF gray. notwithstanding the nearly seventy
year, OF the Senator. and it never will. The lace
would be Wcbstoran, and even moro SO, exception
the iulantile smile which constantly ingcra aronh'
the corners of the mouth, and rpples over the lower
part of the nose whenever the Senator is addressed
b. his associates.
Strangers are at loss whether to rate him as a
man of towering intellect even among the giants by
whom lie il surrounded, OF "a sort OF wilkins
Micawber who owes his position to the accident Oh
his impressive appearance. His figure and dress
rather carry ont the latter theory. Slightly podgy
in the body.with lower cxtTemIties somewhat eXag-
gerated in the other direction he covers his person
witt the regulation black claw hammer style Of
garment in vogue twenty years ago The comic
element in ms makeup rather predomnates and as
the old gentleman always smiles when he Is ad-
dressed 50 his appearance is always attended by a
lighting up OF tho faces of those who approach nm
Senator McCrcery is at once the most indOlent
and the most eloquent man III Congress. His bog
Taphy in the Congressional Directory is only three
ana one-haf lines in length, and is the only one
from which the date OF birth is omitted. il Is Tc-
ported that he could not he persuaded to write any
H. ,It stp~s tharo =
a session, and usually, as was the to-day waits
until that is a dead one before he speaks upon H.
Yet tho announcement that Senator McCrcnry Is to
speak is always sufficient to cram every seat N the
Senate GALLERIES. for such a treat be had on no
other occasion.
Last year he sold his audience very chcapy He
had selected the repeal OF the income tax statutes
upon which to make his one annual effort and had
given notice. rs usual. a week IN advance IN
audience Of the highest and brightest had crowded
il 10 hear him and awaited his hour with some i'm
patience When at last it arrived the Senator arose
and introduced bis subject in manner entirely bls
own, clohing the dry title in terms most cXGui>tcy
smooth and poetic. he then said that other Sena-
TOYS had doubtless gwen The subject "a much a;ten-
ton as he himself had, and would vote according
to their convictions of right. He then beamcd upon
the galleries for 9roat and subsidized for another
year
Probably the tri;e old arguments in favor Of the
transfer Of the Indian Bureau 10 the War Depart
mcnt cannot be put into English which is more
worthy 10 be ranked with the modern classics than
that in which they were clothed to-day. From be-
aiun.ng to end The Senator Was followed 10y every
Senator and every spectator present a7
closely as il his words wc:e pearls. Yet
it was simply an entertainment. aud even
as such was inarTed by 10 least one feature Of
questionable taste. THROUGHOUT the greater part q
his Grafton there was pcrceptib,s covert sucer at
those things which the create" PORTION OF ms au-
dicnce hold sacred, and not even nc poetic hcd! OF
his sentences could take away tb.T sting IN closing
hp drew "A most pathetic picture Of the suffering, OF
Chief Joseph and his band at the hand oi the
white man, and made an appeal for justice flr the
NcZ Percc- which would have touched n heart OF
stone since however, Chief Joseph left Washing
ton a week ago, perfectly content with thc Pre-
visions which hid been made for him by the
Interior Department. the appeal Is wasted 50 lar -
any practical result n concerned. HE House also
killed the transfer matter beyond the Tcmotcst
chance Of resurrection last week
senator McCre,ry las been IN the Senate nme
wears and has had enough Of it. His term e4pitco
ON the 18th Of next month. and consequently I'm, }"
probably tho last appearance OF this remarkable
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