New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-11
HOW TARI0US SENIORS LOOK.

W1SEfu1iou Letter 10 The CieTciGHd LeGder.
Senator fIoar is a well-made man. large. rat and
healthy He has a round head partially covered
with silver gray HAIR lis face is fnll anu ms great
ewes look ouC through his spectacles with the same
benevolent spIle that those of Horace Oteetey
Nore lust before bis death. With his friends and
feowSenatOrs he is very afiable and pleasant Dus
he to consider the ordinary politician
grade below HIM, aud he does not put himself out
TO entertain him. lie treats the ordinary man
courteOuslv. but he does not traternlze with hlin
Senator fIOar is accomplished scholar lie IS
a graduate of the Harvard Univ erslty and OF tho
Harvard Law School, and his range of reading has
been OF the broadest kind: lie Is specially we'll
posted in the languages and keeps up his stndlea oil
the classics. am told. at this time. MS speeches
show a complete know lege of the history OF the
United states. and wedgested reading OF those OF
other countries. lie Is fair orator ana ihoueh NOT
the most influential yet one OF the ablest members
on tie floor Of the senate. As representative Oh
Ing lie is lust the man for his state. SEN
ator Hoar is not rich man. He has house
In Boston and other property. which All t0d. would
not suppose. aggregate 100000 lie Is now hlty
Sc, en- years old and has been Massachusetts man Az
his life. lie practised law after leaving Harvard
at Worcester. and was twenty ak years OH when he
entered politics as n member of the massachusetts
Legislature. Since that time lie has been actlFely
connected with the politics OF hls State anu the
Nation having ser ged eight years in Congress. SIX
years in the Senate and having occupied numerous
important positions IN the Republican manage
ment. ,.,. g.,
low looking more like a youth OF twenty-five IMAM
the great man OF tit two that he 49, lie IS SNORT,
slight man with brown hair and yellow mus
tache. and he would rOt weigh, should JUDGE oNer
I25 pounds lie is one OF the great teaseTs oil ihe
Seuate. He is q good speaker ana when ne taxes
the floor he chooses the rear OF the senate chaUtl,
and walks uD and down the room as lie pounds his
ideas into the ears of his brothers Senator rye Is
an efficient worker and he keeps up the reputation
o. Maine at Washington rs Blame dld tefore hiil.
His father is wealthy wooilen Manufacturer at
Lewiston Ale., and senator Frye has had al that
T.oney could do to make him what he is. lie had
a good education at BOwdOn College, ana studied
and I'D II "
At the &c OF thirty he entered the Maine Leeista
ture and he has been an active men Oer OF tne me-
publican party ever SINCE serving ON the National
Committee and for the past thirteen years IN Con-
gress here at Washington. ,,.,
Senator Allison, the man whom Iowa wouIu lke
10 make President comes rom ONO. lie WAS norm
al Perry on the ID OF March. sixty years ago.
aud vent to school about twenty years later az
Hudson College, where lie graduated. Senator Al
iisnn ~ as Brntus was a plain blunt man. He is
one of the most practical members oil the senate.
and his views are full OF good h0rse-sense lie - u
plain speaker of considerable force. Dut ne lachS
line eloauence of a born orator. lie watches tho
dongs OF the Senate closely and is one CT the pest
listeners in the chamber lie IS wen posted On tllo
tariff and other leading measures, ana MS views
are always looked for with interest. lie mas much
influence among his fellows and is looked UP 10 as
one of the leading Republicans OF the Natioo.
TLo persoual appearance of this Iowa senator
bears out his character lie has an honest plaih
face ornainented with a beard OF reddlsh-DroNn,
cut with the corners lett on. Ills Barr Is dafk
brown is thick and short, and IS conoed "ack
from "a high, square forehead. HIS nose rs straghe
and his OF gTdNieu oluc' iiN
about the chamber n great deal ana one oil Ms
fayorite positions is with his hands III DIS panta-
looms pockets. -
Senator Edmunds IL tan man with a large
frame and a students stOOp IN his broad shoni-
ders He has large hands a good sized foot ana
big head which on the top, ~ a. destitute OF har
as a bauy's cheek. a twO-inch fringe OF line gray
locks surrounds this oasis of badness. fading away
into the full white heard which covers the side and
the lower pan of his square intellectual tace ms
forehead is broad and high, ard bis bald spot rack
of terminates in several blunt cones at the crown
His eyes are steel gray, aud they shoot out az you
from uuder heav brOws of brstling white. Ills
nose is large and slightly inclined 10 he komap' ~
has, like his coun tenance, tlnge OF decae plnh'
and shows the good living aud warm blood oi Us
er Senator Edmunds sls I'D his maroon cusnonexs
chair behind his rosewood desk ia the irons 10y "a
the Senate sandwiched between the herce ihuIan-
featured Logan on the lett. and the slately siHy
hn red Anthony of Rhode Island. on MS Hen'i ho
keeps pretty busy, aud seems always 10 20 uvus
something The Clerk reads bill. he hears ~,
at once leans forward and nerNously
n The tIunbs of his folded hands against each
otbcr lie half RISES throws his right index iihger
M the antbor of the DILL makes short remark, aGd
walks toward him with pushing, energetic STRIDE.
lie il n poyerfu speaker Is this Senator from er-
mont and As a constitutional lawyer he has not MS
near in the Senate. When bis mind takes hold OF
m beet every other part of the universe IS excluded
rom il. Like SpinoZa, he looks at the world
through goose-qull, aud when lie points his quiz
toward particular star all the rest OF tue nrIns-
aim ant