Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-16
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The senate and house o. represent
atives, taken together, contain sixty
three men who, sixteen years of ago
fought against the union, and fifty
seven fought for it. There they are
now united and tolerable happy
family. No nation on earth can show
sucha spectacle. There they sit or hob.
BILE about, some without arms and some
without leg, cut, manned and scar.
red from the blows which few years
since they gave each other. Now in
stead of cannon and rife. they aim
anne ,dment7, motions and resolutions
at each other. Now, in pl ace of bull.
let's, they fire bills.
In the senate are ten former confed.
crate generals-Wade Hampton,
Butler, Morgan. Gordon. Williams,
Jonas, Gibson, Ransom, Butler and
Maxey-against the two union lead~
ers, Burnside and Logan. Burnside
aud Hampton seem now rivals in a
contest of military and William
whiskers. Facially, Burnside is the
nearest approach to an Emperor Will
liam on this side of the Atlantic. Sen
ator Gordon is in appearance as i'm
posing man as the south ever
raised, and bears no traces of the
eight wounds received in the battle.
Logan's is prominent head from its
glossy black hair and moustache.
David Davis, his colleague, Of Illinois,
vaguely suggests Boss Tweed. Ed
rnunds of Vermont, looks the last of
long line of New England deacons,
slightly modified by the fashion of the
age. Hanniabl Hamlin retains day and
night the swallow-tailed coat Of his
forefathers. Herman of New York,
looks the old school senator of forty
years ago. Likewise Lamar, who has
"a Henry Clay type of couLtenance.
Conklings hair is quite gray or cross
between gray and white-a sort of
Office gray but not silver gray.
Conkling walks with slight jury
droop.' His legs seems imbued with
an individuality of their own and inn
press one with u sense of intellectual
mechanical power. Ia the house
General Joe johnson commands a
premium for imposing silvery locks.
His hair-if his is the head pointed
out to me would bring at the hair
merchants $50 per ounce. General
Tom Ewing's of Ohio is massive
physically and deliberate man in
manner. S. s. Cox isn't. Bliss, Of
Brooklyn, is one OF the handsome men
of the house, and possessed of much
quite Influence. Cover from Flushing,
is youthful. good looking member,
and full of refinement, delicacy. good
sense, practicallty and executive abil-
i:y. Speaker Randall has professor
like air. and owes millions to a good
wife. As whole, both senate and
house are externally very respect
able appearing body of men. They
convey sense of regular meals, reg
ular hours and regular salaries. There
are now in Washington fifty two SEN
atorial wives and fifteen senatorial
daughters. There are one hundred
and sixty-ive rel resentative wives
and one hu ndred and sixty-four rep
resentative daughters. These of
course, move in the court circles, to
which no Washington merchant,
report says, has access. You must
make your money outside, in the
wholesale or retail pin and needle
trade, then come to Washington, sink
the shop, and YOU may enter in FASH
ionable and official Washing on king
dom of heaven. This is etiquette, If
not repablicanism. .E s9rII1