The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-08-05
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.


Brief Biographies of all the Members
Five OF the nine are gray-haireC
men, two are of middle age, anti two
are alert and strong limbed young tel
lows, who look, neither of them, to he
much past the thirties-as they are
not. Mr.. John l.. Hayes, of Massa
chusetts, President of the Woolen Man.
ufacturers' Association, is also the
manifest New Englander-clean cut,
closely trimmed, prompt and incisive.
He was the friend of Longfellow,
whose neighbor he was at Cambridge,
and occasionally turns a verse for him.
self. He draws with facility, and is a
noted amateur in wood carving. His
house at Cambridge is filled with OBJ
jects of art, and he has grown up
family of five, all still around him in
the one home. EIe has been influen-
tial to a degree, as the result has
shown, in urging the interests of the
association before Congress. He is
seventy years old.
Mr.. Duncan +. I<enner, of New Or
leans, ,ex.Commissioner of the Confede-
rate States to France, is the antithesis
of Mr.. Hayes in appearance, but has
not less the same characteristics OF
marked intelligence in face and man
ner. He has been noted figure in the
political and social history of the South
for over half century. Before the
war he had noble racing stable and
broad plantations, and by social station
as we'll as force of character and mind,
was conspicuous in the public affairs of
Louisiana. He will represent the pro-
tected sugar interests of his State.
Austin M. Garland, of Illinois, is a
farmer and representative of the Ma
tional Association Of Wool Growers.
He is en- evidence as from the. West,
quiet aud reserved, but full of informa-
ton concerning some s10o,000,o0o Of
capital which he represents. He is
probably not much over fifty.
Judge John w. II. Underwood re-
signed a judicial position in Georgia to
accept this appointment. He was a
Henry Clay whig and holds still to
the great commoner's ideas on the
tariff, with notifications incident to
the change in the labor system of his
section and the recent growth of manu-
factures in his State. He represents
division of the growing class
in the South-that which made politics
a I;fo x,ort/ orr1 efu1x, 1uifhonf tho oosxI
of the planter who once and
again went into public life as change.
Mr.. Alexander r. Boteller is the
typical Virginian of the old school
courteous but grave, with mind stored
with political and economic facts and
and almost passionate
in devotion to his people and section.
He was the whig opponent of Ran
dolph Tucker before West Virginia
was cut off from the mother State and
the dividing line took him out of the
district in which he and the Democra-
tic free trader had many memorable
The iron furnaces, the salt
wells, the timber and coal Interests of
his State will be represented in the
by him.
Mr.. Henry Oliver, of Pittsburg, can
didate before the Convention two years
ago for United States Senator, and an
iron manufacturer worth several mil
lions, is young man of thirty-five or
so. He will attract attention among
the Commissioners. That he has quail
tiles to make him anywhere noted
among his fellows is thus far shown in
that he began life as a poor messenger
boy, and his establishment is now one
of the largest of its class in the world.
He owes much to the tariff, neverthe-
less, and the protected iron interests
will doubtless be vigorously represent
ed in the commission.
Robert p. Porter is the youngest
mem ber. He is close on to thirty, was
born in England, and came to this
country boy in 1869. He began work
in Rockford, ILL.,, on weekly news
paper. Articles that he sent to the
Chicago newspapers on the debts of
cities at once attracted attention. Other
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