Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-18
not reputed over scrupulous in his methods

ternational affairs. some able legal assistant
might be secured. General Garfield him.
self will probably desire to dictate
the policy of the State Department
circumstantially, and in that case he would
| harmonic with a man like Mr.. Morton as
Secretary better than with more opinion
ated one. The social side of the State
Department has not been strong under this
administration. The wife of Secretary
Evarts and their bevy of daughters are
ell-dIsposed ladies, but greatly in con-
trast with Mrs. Fish and her two daugh.
tiers, three superb women. Besides, be-
reavement in the death of son in Califor-
MIA, on his way home from China, has
overshadowed the Evarts' home a portion
of the time At the bar Mr. Evarts is a
power With Charles OConor and Jere.
5. Black he forms the trio of American
lawyers that rank with the great men OF
the profession in England; but away from
the bar, in politics or governmental affairs,
he seems petit n,ditre. In New York, his
| own State, his political influence is almost
| cipher. Roscoe Conkling was scathingly
true at Buffalo when he called him little
Evarts." In the Geneva arbitration mat
ter the laurels that he gained were purely
legal !;
THE DIPLOMATIC HERO
OF that afflir was Bancroft Davis, the elder
brother of Representative Horace Davis.
His part in bringing it to successful issue
is one of the unwritten pages of history
but Chief Justice Waite gained his gown
and seat from his participation in that
Commission, and Mr.. Evarts his chair of
state, while Judge Davis takes life in otiuna
cum digRitote on the bench of the somno-
lent Court of CLAIMS. Physically Mr..
Evarts is the least impressive man in the
Cabinet-spare, even to attenuation, of
barely medium hight, beardless in face, and
with but one strong feature, an immense
and sharp pointed nose. If you have no.
ticed, the legal nose is usually an aggres-
sive feature.
There is much speculation over the
Speakership of the next House, although
it is long time ahead. 1t is queried
whether there is any really first-class
material for it, though there is one session
yet for budding genius in that line to de-
velop itself. Frye, of Maine, is too mer-
curial besides he aspires preferable to
succeed Hamlin in the Senate. Conger, of
Michigan, is deliberate and sarcastic, and
pugnacious, though a good parlia-
mentarian. Mark Dunnell, of Minnesota,
has some strong traits for the position, but
is not very popular on his own committees,
and does not return with the prestige of a
thoroughly united constituency at
liant man-one of the little quintet
of leaders in the Forty-third and
previous Congresses, of whom Gen
eral Garfield, William A. Wheeler,
James n. Tyner and George W. McCrary
were the remaining four, could never keep
first.class order when Mr.. Blaine sum
moned him to the chair. Ii it was
A CRITICAL TINE
Mr.. Wheeler or Mr.. Tyner was the man
selected; but Mr.. Kasson has the light
ning-like rapidity of thought and motion
that characterized Schuyler Colfax in the
fourth Congress, and is now our Minister
to Austria, but has been elected to seat
in the Forty seventh, and there is little
boom for him as Speaker. But meanwhile
new men have replaced nine-tenths of his
old comrades, and Kasson will scarcely
have strong following. The Speakership,
in power, responsibility and prestige, is
second only to the Presidency. In the pre-
rogative to choose who shall be recog-
nized as entitled to the floor, among
the many who rise to press their
diversified interests and schemes,
and in dispensing the large patronage at his
command, lies the Speakers prestige, but
mainly in the selection of those powerful
engines for good or evil the Congressional
committees. On the makeup of these
depends the legislation of the whole coun-
try. MIR. Kasson would hardly fill the
measure of so great trust, and there are
also personal reasons which would weigh
against him with strictly moral men. New
York has two favorite sons for the place.
noticeably Hon. Frank Hiscock man OF
good address and pleasing personal traits !;
but it will count against him with some
that he is perhaps the strongest protec-
zionist in the House also he is only in
his second term of membership,
and had had no previous legisla-
tive experience, which will also be
held an objection nor will it be conceded
to New York, without struggle, to have
the Guardianship of the Senate in the
person of the Vice. President and also the
Speakership of the House, and leading
place in the Cabinet 1t is only to Ohio
that it is permitted to pile Ossias upon
Pelions of aggrandizement for her sons.
Mr.. Hiscock is more likely to concentrate
upon himself the anti Conkling vote of the
New York Legislature for the Senate, than
to secure the Speakership, or to be chosen
Chairman of the Committee ON Appropri-
atoms of which he is now a prominent
member. This committee is fountain of
power, and
GOOD PLACE TO sPRoUT A GREAT NAME IN.
From the Appropriations Committee of
the Forty third Congress alone, have since
been chosen Presideut-Garfeld its
Chairman, Vice President-W Wheeler a
Cabinet officer under Grant-Tyner; and
Judge of the United States District
Court-Isaac G. Parker, of the Western
District of Arkansas That was the last
Congress in which Republicans held SUI
premacy.
There is one new member, this being his
| first term, who will some day be a strong
man for the Speakership-Colo George
R. Davis of Chicago. He is born leader
of men. He represents the Second Illinois
District, embracing the West Side of Chi
cago, and has just scored the most magnif-
cent personal victory of the campaign, as
Governor Cullom told him, greeting, His
district lies wholly in the city and had
been Democratic for years before he took
hold OF it. 1t gave Tilden over l, eco ma
jority in 1876. Further, it has dominant
free trade sentiment, while he is from con-
viction tariff man, and so voted in every
case last session. The Democrats put up
Colonel John F. Farnsworth, a strong man
and ex-Congressman, against him, confident
of a victory, and the Chicago Tribune, Times
and Stats ZeituHg had made up their minds
to his slaughter. But, without wealth or
patronage to lavish-with only a splendid
capital of pluck, vitality and the genius
for hard work, he plunged into the canvass
and brought out victory for Garfield in
his district of over 1900, while he out
stripped his great chief in the race by
nearly 1000 more Colonel Davis is the