St. Paul daily globe., 1885-02-02
NEW FACES IN THE SENATE.
Sketches Of the Men Who VIII Appear
Next March in the American
House of Lords.
Evarts in the Front Rank-Spooner the Ora
tor-Payne the Millionaire.
An Extra Session Probable-Great Delay
In Legislation.

see tue new races that Will make their ap-
pearance In the senate on the 5th of March.
Or the twenty-six vacancies it seems that
about half are to be filed with new faces.
Nine of them already elected are new, and
thirteen old, whole Of those still to be decided
upon it seems probable that nearly or quite
all will be new men. or course the faces Of
mauy Of the 'new" ones are familiar here
Blackburn, Chace, Teller and Evarts are well
known In Washington. Blackburn is an
irrepressible sort of fellow, with more voice
than brains, and will find his level in hurry
in the senate, which is not of the sort to be
bulldozed or led by man simply because he
has voice and can tell a good story. Teller
did not make much of a record when he was
there before, and while the interior depart
ment has been good school to him, he is
not expected to be any particular addition to
the senate. He is podding sort of man,
with no particular brilliancy or marked abil-
ity in any special line. He is of medium
height, with black hair combed back after
the Andrew Jackson style, full beard, but
smooth upper lip, and reminding you of some
pulpit dignitary rather than senator from
the young and vigorous state of Colorado.
Blackburn is
GOOD LOOKING FELLOW,
with fine figure and good leg, shakes
hands with everybody and calls every one
'old fellow" in such a brotherly sort of way
that everybody likes him.
Chace will make his mark In the senate,
intellectually If not physically. And if there
is any work to be done there that requires
quick run up stairs he may make a
record physically. 81 saw him."
said a senate employe talking of Mr..
Chace a day or two after his election,
"going upa marble stairway at the senate
end the day of his election four steps at
time. / really think he went up
the stairway in 4 half dozen strides"
Chace is only ffty-ive years old
and as agile as cat, physically, while in
tellectually he will take high rank in the
senate. He will not add especially to Its
beauty, however. Very tall, very thin, with
hatchet face, sharp nose and little scrap of
side whiskers, he is not famous for his beauty.
Evarts, of course, is well known here and
everywhere else, so far as his appearance and
ability go. That he will take u front rank In
the senate goes without saying.
Stanford, who is said to be the weathiest
man in the senate, will probably be the
quietest one in the first year or two of his
term. He has had no legislative experience,
and is not much of talker anywhere, and,
being past sixty, he will not be swift to
change his manner of thought and action.
good deal is expected of Spooner, who
is to succeed Cameron, Of Wisconsin. He
has the reputation of being an orator of
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fellow and hard worker, who puts his whole
soul into his work, whatever that is. II re-
member seeing him argue case for the
railway company that he was so long
identified with,'' said a friend of his
here. sit was hot day in July,
He went into she court room, took off his
coat and vest and necktie and collar and
cuffs and went to work. The sun shone
down as it only eau in Wisconsin on its hot
test occasions, and the court room became
like an oven. But Spooner went on piing
up the arguments high and broad and deep,
MoPPING THE PERsPIRATIoN
between times, but never lost sight of the
main point, and before night he had won
his case. And II was a most important one,
too, upsetting a law passed by the legislature
which had been looked to as one Of very
got salary of sl2, 900 year after that, and
could have held the place now at 1000 a
year hal he not voluntarily given it up when
be saw that the management was directing
an attack upon a man who had been his life
long friend" Physically, Mr.. Spooner is
not a striking man. He Is below the me-
dium size, with black hair, stubby black
mustache, and a boyish sort OF way that does
not impress one with greatness
or Mr.. Payne there is as much known
away from Washington as here. 1t is not
expected that he Will make much Of a figure
In active work In the senate. lie is too old,
past seventy, and has been too long out Of
public life 10 take bold very vigorously. But
as his words are 10 be those OF a very wealthy
man, the second In wealth In the senate,
they will be listened 10.
Eustis, who succeeds Jonas, OF Louisiana,
Is we'll known TO those who were here four or
five congresses ago, for he occupied the seat
10 which he Is now again elected. He did
not make much Of II record when here be-
fore. Perhaps be will do better now that be
is older and more experienced.
or +. W. Wilson, who succeeds Senator
Groome from Maryland, IL IL expected that
he will, at least, be worthy successor, for
while GroOme is almost always in his seat
and seems to be very agreeable and obig-
ing gentleman, personally, he has not at all
immortaized himself. Perhaps 1t is because
be is loo fat. for he is the fat man Of the
senate since David Davis retired.
As TO An EXTRA SESSION.
There is a good deal Of talk about an extra
session Of congress. The average Democrat
is suddenly waxing up to the fact that four
years Is a very short while when you are
busy though IL seems long enough when you
are waiting. There seems TO be a growing
impression that the thing that the Demo
cratic party must do TO make record IN its
first return to Office is to build a navy.
Everybody recognizes the need for one and
there is probably a majority IN the party here
in favor of making this record'in the com
ing four years. II was talked over pretty
fully at the recent caucus and the plan pretty
well agreed upon. But since they come 20
think more about 1t they see that the term
must be pretty nearly gone before tkey can
make any show unless something eXtraordi-
nary is done. If they wait until next winter
TO pass bills making the appropriations for
this work the money will not be available
until year from next July. Then it will
take year to get their plans and another
year TO build the engines and begin work.
aud the next presidential election will be
upon them with very little TO show In the
way Of record" II need surprise nobody
to see an extra session, provided some rea-
sOnable excuse can be found for bringing
one about
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