Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-02
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Iti.the RnIInE Caste.

nv and dGleberger are Journalists, AND
consequently poor. Mr.. Plumb in his
early days was printer, but has been and
is q lucky speculator, in mining stocks
principally, and Is now worth SS,OOO,OOOo or
100000. Aldrich is Providence store
keeper and the only merchant. Randall,
Gibson and Lamar are the scholars OF the
Senate and have always been interested 10
educational matters. Don Cameron, Brown
and Malone are railroad men, and Gormsn
is 9 canal president, but was once page
of the Senate. Three Senators are bankers,
four are manufacturers and the other Tor
ty.eight are lawyers.
The people do not apply civil service
rules, il would seem, from the fact that
olly twenty nine of the Senators sat in the
House before st,sinIng 10 the higher honor,
and nine served their apprenticeshipS In
subernstorial chairs Garland and Vest
were Senators in the Confederate Congress.
As everybody knows, Anthony Is the
Oldest Senator, having to his credit nssrly
q round quarter of centUry's service.
Edmunds
is next in seniority of service, having
eighteen Of years Senatorial lif behind him,
his colleague, Morrill,, has served seventeen
wears, AMI is next. Bdyard came to the
Senate on the death of his father fifteen
wears ego. Salisbury has Reen thirteen
Years service; Ransom, twelve; Allison,
eleven, and Jones of Nevada and ingalls,
ten each. All others are new men. At no
time during the past half century could
the Senate have been found with 50 many
Lew faces; and very much is said in these
days about loss Of brilhanCy from tae
tines of Hill Morton, Blaine, Con >lluk,
and Simon Cameron (Sll names with EiuS
and iingleL aud while | confess that
the places these men held In
the chamber are not filed, and
waived the question as to whether
their-sort Of brIlliancy is desirable in that
BODY. | Ceuy that the level mas been lew
cred during tue past decade. On the con-
Irsry, IN the sixty odd changes that have
taken place in that period, the Senate has
in tWenty-fye cases made indlspu;a5le
gains in power, reputation aud general tit-
ness, while in only eighteen cases has II
actually lost. The other changes have re-
suited evenly. one cannot help renarkiOg
the real gain the body has scored when l.
is rtnembtIrd that Morgan, profound
constitutional scholar, though rather gar
Garland, one Of the judicial minds OF tbs
Senate. sueCes ded the tipping cArpst-big
ger, Powell Clayton; or tlat P,uuo, the
u an of business, and figures and hard WOck,
took the place of Harvey; or Beck OF
Stevenson, whose only qualification was
thSt hs Is = gentleman, sir. Gibson sits Ia
KellUgg's place, AMI Vest, the Senats's ora
tor, is Boys successor. Most OF the i'm
proVsmFnJS, however, have been made in
the Southern delegation, which ten years
ego was made up Of carpst-blggerS, Of
whom
Dorsey II About the Only UDTorGOtten
one.
The Senate has lost one thing that By
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60, al d u All 10 stTiSiUg,- the great Amer
lean eagle hsth floAn, Changes that have
taken place WITHIN the last i've years has
sadly despoi;ed the Senate Of its old.tims
rhetoric. Vest aud Ingalls, are perhaps
liked better than any other speakers On
the floor The MIssOurian is most always
entertaining, anu Is occasionally brilliant
lie is of the old school. a Louisville
newspaper msn in his earlier days, be has
developed into one OF the most popular
lawyers IN Missouri. He is short aud
thick, with brown-grsy hair and short
moustschs and imperial.
Mr.. Ingalls, is the best representative Of
the nPw-Prsct cold. mOtiOnleSS and pre-
else. The best speech he ever delivered in
the Senate was on the Ben Hill memorial
day, which b" began with the words: B.
Hill has gone to the undiscovered country
This speech took up twenty minutes, and
HeInbp5 was - AOIk 1A CAAbAN ~
Ingalls, ever made in the chamber. Tue
EN- bodimFnt of cutting satire and rasping
irony, face aud eye manifest Of the keen
est intellectual penetration, with language
Sirgularly pure, he is, when in the uega
tive absolutely unassailsble. ingalls, has
rot q spark Of magnetism, and would be a
freezing failure ON the stump, but in the
Senate his words are always closely attend
ei. A head of gray hair, streaked with
l. ~ e. .eaa - - fell and mn
ard lonely, and he wears on his face an
aggressive looking moustaehs and i'm perial,
fLd or his hose pair OF pinChinS glasses.
He s OF heart low tariff man, with rec
ord for tConUn v snG OpTosi ion To river
ard hsrbur ana big county public build
irg bills; in fact il he wee not so consist
frtly fond 81 cur great transcOntjnautal
highway" he might be senatorial Holman
As he is he is a terror. Before jury OF
en-
The Western stump
every Senator would be an inferior in the
presence Of Mr. voorhees,. and when in thP
House, during the war, his Oratory WA
ism Gus, hot Sir &c coming to the ) nate IA
has been disappointment As aSenatO'
he pCktS through speech with bale OF
MAI uscriUt under his eye, aud affects
studied delivery thst is almost tedious. His
col esgus Mr. Harrison, used TO be called
Iudiana'S silver tOnRUed orator, but the
Senate either OgsraWes him or has started
buzz IN bis bonnet Edmunds never makes
q set speech nowadays, and he might b.
called the great inteTjectOr, for half the
time be makes his remarks without rising
from. his seat bat hsY' often seen him
stOlidly blurt ont q dry sentence that
would briTg n dozen men 20 their feet.
john ShtTmAn's voice comes from his
bCots, ard be has no conception OF deliy
eIy LISA vulgar confession, but often |
Eevs lDOkcd down upon his bloOdless face
srG dry ard wbitish lirs and wondered II
the mar hsd eEOugh Juice about him TO
make q splL Beck does not chew his to-
baCcO, but hr lets - rest on the left side Of
his rCu'N. and rever removes il prepare
tory to bis longest spesch. With his spec
taclss down on his nose an inch he viii
stand in bis place and humble out two
hours spe' CD, always gazing over the
glasses at the faces about him, without
once liiIirg his eyes to the gallery, the &C.
cupsnts Of which vainly strive to catch
syllable. He is a comm on looking man, q
a bard worker and q logical tslker.
Bsyard Is n Weak Tenor,
and Pendleton, as q speaker, is anything
but pleasing. Logsn's voice, everlasting
frown and severe stare can be compared
with nothing but some fsnciful, impsna
trsble fort in painting. His grammar is
not so bad as il IS made out to be, out his
manners are boorish and intolsrabe. In
debate he is either eXpectorstipg on the
carpet, or saying or doing 80 unciyil thing.
BE walks or swaggers around like bully,
and have beard that like Certain villain
in certain play, famed only for its author.
ship, be eats green peas with knife
Plumb is an earnest man, 6igsty aud in
formal Frye has said some eloquent
things, but be cannot he relied upIn n
repeat the achievements at the proper
time. Mr.. Dawes has no distinguiShiul
attribute, excepting that he Is Mr.. Hlsr'S
colleague and follower, while q. {. H lar's
attraction is bis gold bowed Rlsssss
Lsmsr's loEg sickness has robbed him OF
his once excellent style Of delivery. Hi.
words have always been forcibls, bat never
chosen for their pretty sound. Vac Wyck
is usually right, but bis mule and sledg-
bsmmer way Of going ct il have made bin
unpopular. His delivery, with It's mis-
plsced gyrstiOns, is sbnminable. Warner
Miller Is unattractiys from any point OF
view. Don Cameron never appears in de
bate spd when be wants any executive
business Fixed be gives little luncheon
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