Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-26
How Congressmen Talk.
Some of Their Personal Peculiarfttes
 Exhibited When Addressing

Some of Their Personal PecuIiarities as
 Exhibited When Addressing the
 House.
 lCorrespondencs of the Cleveland (Oh'o) Herald.l
 Congressman is not always known by his works There is David Davis, for in stance, who is distinguished more for his TO- tund form than for any judicial decision or act of statssmanship. Again they often be- come famous for some peculiar gesture or ec centricity of manner. When you mention the ''great objeotor" every one knows you mean Holman, of Indiana Whenever an at- tempt is made to pass 8 bill by unanimous consent or suspension of the rules every one
 looks over to see what Holman is going to do. He has been in Congress many years,
 and by his Democratic associates is termed the "watch dog of the Treasury" He ques- tions every motion calculated to appropriate penny. He has been in Congress many
 years and those who recollect him in his early days say he had good voice, but he has lost that attraction now, and while his voice is indistinct, bis customary "I object" is always understood. He has queer habit of throwing forward his open hand and de- seribing small circles in the air while talking Another man with an odd gesture is Sunset" Cox, who, while facing the Republican slde generally during his remarks has habit of extending his right arm out as far as possible every now and then, as though reaching over a neighbours face to steal apples. Cannon, of Illinois, is distinguished for a habit he has of stopping squattlng as means of ges- ticulation and suddenly rising up as though | he had sat upon "Bogardus kicker" His | left hand he brings up his shoulder as ! if by a spring action. Springer, whom you ! may always see with buttonhole bouque l looks around shyl when about to speak. as ] though he expected volley of rotten eggs. 1 Abram s Hewitt generally starts of with his l thumbs ill his pantaloons pockets, and when ] through his little speech, during which his | voice sounds as though he had hot potato ! in his mouth, he whirls about and sinks into his seat though overcome by nervous pros tration. Robeson, whose rotund figure if | not often associated with great orator, is \ ever, his gestures generally labored and \ peculiar One of them is to extend his l right hand as high as possible above his head never lowering it but for 8 moment or two ! Horr, the funny man of the House, is an ! other of the fat men, and closely resembles his twin brother who resides at Wellington
 Ohio, and who has just been nominated fol \ Congress. Mir. Horr has way of clenchine ! his fist and. after lowering it, bringing 1t uI ! suddenly to the height of his breast with evi dent earnestness He tells funny story oi his own canvass in the lumber districts o1
 Michigan. He had heard much of the ! Greenback movement, and his investigation
 of the reports, he said, reminded him of the story of the Irishman who for the first tim, | was camping out as one of a party of back
 woodsmen. Hearing a peculiar noise out I side the tent Pat, in his superstition, be
 lieved it to be some strange spirit lurking
 near. He was persuaded by his companion ! to investigate. He returned to the tent af
 ter finding that the noise was made by tre