Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-15
THREE NEW SENATOR'S.
Interesting Pen Pictures OF Them.


SENATOR sPOONER.
The oddest-looking addition to the
Senate comes from Wisconsin. His name
is Spooner. He is tine successor to Angus
Cameron, who served out Matt Carpen-
ter's uneXpired term. He occupies Sena-
tor CullOm's old seat upon the short row
behind the main body of the Republican
Senator's seats. There have been before
in the Senate nsigniticant-lOOking men,
but never one who has approached Spoon
er in this regard. 1t is the custom of the
clerks and messengers about the Senate
when they are in the Senate Chamber
waiting for orders to drop into any of the
vacant seats that there may hap
pen to &c in the back rows.
SpoOner's position gives him the ap-
pearance of messenger waiting to
carry some bundle. There is not one of
the messengers or clerks who does not
lock to be more of man than he. In the
first place he is understood. He is not
bit over 5 feet 6 inches in height and
would not weigh over 12O pounds. This
would not be enough to make him look
conspicuOusly inferior among the tall
men in the Senate If he had gOOd-SiZed
head, one even in proportion to his small
body. Senator Vest is q small man, but
he has large head full OF character, and
as he sits at his desk compares very IA
=
head is grOtesQue in its smallness. His
face is almost wizened in its thinness and
sharpness of line. The lower part of his
face runs TO a sharp point. His eyes are
small and deeply sunk. His nose is
slOping, thin and straight. His mouth is
very large. His nair is thick sandy
red, which is brushed up f1ippantly as if
with stiff whisp broom from his right
ear smooth into a solid bank of hair which
-
side of his head, completely covering the
left ear. The hair upon the back of his
head is also brushed to this central
point. He has the appearance of having
been out III a very high gale of wind and
of having had his hair frozen stiff when
the wind was blowing at its highest
gauge of velocity. InvOluntarily, as one
looks at SpOOner, he thinks of his wind
ward and his leeward sides. Underneath
his wildly blown mass Of hair his naturally
small face becomes so reduced through
contrast that nothing but photograph
would make any one believe IN the real
absurdltY of his appearance. Over this
small face there steals whenever he is
addressed the shrewd smirk Of the viii
lage oracle. When he stands up to talk
he squares his legs and slips his hands
into his trousers pc ckets after the fashion
of the leader in the village gossip in the
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his home. He has been a useful little
man about Madison, where he has been
for number of years employed by the
railroad interests of the State. He is
said to be an attorney With good railroad
practice, and has some reputation for
skill and legal knowledge. He was sent
to the Senate by the railroad corporations
who have employed him in the past. He
is in the Senate to-day as the messenger
boy of these corporations.
SENATOR EUsTIs.
Eustis, the new Louisiana Senator. is
we'll known in Washington through his
having been here several years ago as a
contestant for a seat in the Senate. He is
a tall, pOwerful-lOOking man, with a very
full, round figure. He has large head
set well down between his shoulders. His
neck is thick and short. His bair is iron
gray and just beginning to thin upon the
top of his head. His forehead is broad
and high. His eyes are a keen blue.
His nose is thick and straight. The
lower part OF his face is con-
cealed by a dropping, irOn-gray NOUS
tache and beard OF medium length. His
color is very fresh and high for a man
from his section of the country. His as
sOciate, Senator Gibson, who is a very
tall, elegant-lOOking gentleman, has not a
particle OF color in his sallOw face. Eustis !
looks Ike leaVY man VINO might DO a |
great deal of work under high pressure.
His everyday movements are very slug |
gish. He dresses in black, and always |
wears with his ordinary dress a huge !
pOlka-dot necktie tieG in a |
careless bow.
SENATOR STANFORD.
Stanford, the California millionaire,
who has just taken a seat in the Senate,
las his desk in the most distant corner to
he left OF the presiding officer. 1t is said
nat Mr.. Stanford is mortified by the nu-
nervous publications throughout the coun-
rY representing him as a sprItualistIc
rank. He has been unusually reserved
since ne came to Washington. When the
senate is in session he remains at his desk
'ery quietly writing instead of going
lbOut seeking acquaintance among his
associates. Be is a man in the neighbOr-
rood of 30 years of age. His figure is
arge and powerful. He has a very large
lead. There is a strong contrast between
lis hair and his mOustache and beard. His
laT is thick and dark brown in color,
While his mOustache and beard ofmedium
ength are iron gray and in some places
snowy white. The moustache itselfis near
Y all white. The general Characters
les Of his face resemble those of Eustis.
1t a distance they might be taken for
They have the same high color,
Ugh forehead and straight nose.