The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-21
In NEW YORK.
Hon. William M. Evarts Receives Majority
/ in the Legislature.

Hon. William M. Eyarts Receives a Majority
in the Legislature.
ALBANY, Jan. 20-In the Senate Mr.. William
M. Evarts was formally nominated and voted
for for United States senator to-day. Mr. Evarts
received 10 and Mr.. Cooper 13 votes At noon
the House balloted for United States senator,
with the following result: William NJ. Evarts
70. Edward Cooper 81
PERSONAL PORTRAITURE OF MR.. EvARTs
New York Special
A heavy head on a light body turned from
Wall street into Broadway this afternoon. The
head had on a modern but unbrushed high silk
hat, tipped to backward angle, and quite in
congruous with the rest of it's outlines. The
profile was almost like julius Caesars, as shown
in the familiar medallion portrait of the illus
trious Roman, and it can therefore be imagined
that the hat of the nineteenth century did not
comport with medieval face. The visage was
thin, deep-lined wellnigh grotesquely serious,
unmarried IN Its ancient characteristics by beard
or mustache, and suggestive of the surTnise that
1t hadn't been alive for long time. The body
was III clothes which hung unfashionably and
almost shabbily on his shrunken proportions,
and a hard brushing would probably have de-
veloped threadbarenesS under the dust: This
was William NJ. Evarts. He is this city's most
perfect embodiment of brains, according to pop
ular estimation.
Evarts's home is in a curious remnant of social
pretentlousness-Stuyv Square, where
stand the domiciies of a score of New York Fam
lies a little less than the average. Although
crowded on all sides by tenement population,
these folks refuse to bulge from the place of fash
ionable distinction fifty years ago. Evarts's nigh
neighbor is Hamilton Fish, and close around
him are other proud descendants of the original
Dutch. His family is large, his children num-
bering eleven, and his daughters figure in circles
which deem themselves select and exclusive.
he has long had large income from the practice
of the law, and his fee of $25, 900 for defending
Henry Ward Beecher in the scandal trial is not
disproportionate to his customary remuneration;
but his living expenses have also been heavy, and
it is not thought that he has much Of a fortune
His membership of Hayes's Cabinet was costly, in
the sense that it lessened his income, and from
the senatorship he can hardly fail to suffer
financially but his ambition has been to succeed
William Al. Seward as New York's leader in the
Senate He is said to regard the position as
having been vacant since Stewards time.
The fight at Albany has been somewhat curl
GUS. Evarts was dignifed throughout. He
neither went to Albany sent representa-
tive. The work for him was done principally by
the Union League Club, whose membership of
sixteen hundred prosperous and solid New York
city Republicans was nigh unit in preferring
him over Morton. They delegated committee
to go to Albany, and it was mainly through thsss
Indictment that petitions in his favor poured into
the Legislature from all parts of the State.
Against this mighty power nothing at all could
be said against the candidate. His record
was such as to clear him from suspicion of
seeking place for pef and the legislators
were forced into his line by public opinion
Few men are match for William M Eyarts
IN academic, historic, legal and general learning
He is perhaps unequaled phrase maker, and
seems able to talk happily about everything un-
der the sun, not less fecitously in an after-din
ner speech than while untylng a knotty legal
question: or unsphering the spirit of Plato I'm
fortunately, his delivery, graceful and correct as
it is, is unaccompanied by the power necessary
to its perfection. Notwithstanding this defect
however, no public man in the United States is
heard with greater respect and admiration than
he. The accomplished Mr.. Evarts was born
in Boston Feb. 6, 1918, the son of q
clergyman of that city. When child he mani
Tested wonderful precocity, and was we
grounded in the learned languages very early ia
life. He is a graduate of Yale, and of Harvard
in law. 10 1841 he admitted to the bar in
New York city, where he continues in active
practice. He was leading counsel for Presidant
johnson in the impeachment proceedings of
1868. and from July Is of that year to the end
of the johnson administration was Attorney
general of the United States. He repre-
sented the United States in the tribunal of
arbitration which determined on the Alabama
claims at Geneva in 1872. Mr.. Evarts was chief
of counsel for Henry Ward Beecheri in the Tllton-
Beecher trial He was Secretary of State during
the administration of President Hayes The firm
of which he is now the head, is intrusted with
great interests, and he enjoys large income de-
rived from his brilliant practice Mr. Evarts's
personal appe .arance is remarkable He is tall
and thin HIS face is ref ned and indicative of
his extraordinary capacity, but cold and un-
varying in its expression. The great lawyer
and rhetorician, ''the American Cicero as some
body calls him. dresses most ungracefully; but
too much hat and baggy trousers do not impair
the certainty of his being recognized as gentle
man by all sorts and conditions of people He
is family man, the head of household emf
nent among the most refined and cultured.