Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-22

OF course the nOiSieSt man in the House,
and the one who kicks up the iYelieSt
rows, is John u. White, of Kentucky. He
can get up a tirst-claSs low on shorter no.
tice than any man in that body, or indeed
than any man in Congress. 1t is not neces-
sary to 90 into details as to his methods.
He has an especial hatred for the internal
revenue system as now administered, and
never fails to give it a whack when OppOr-
tunity offers. He has way Of coming
suddenly 10 the surface and demanding TO
be heard on this or that subject. He
has q pretty fair knowledge of the rules of
the House, and is not at all afraid
to speak his mind about them, or to de-
mand what he believes to be his rights.
And sometimes he does so in language by
no means parliamentary. But though he
may be supplementary Mr. White is
never ungrammatical. He is a man of
fine education, studying at Eminence Col
lege and University, then graduating at
the law school of Michigan University,
taking then a course in medicine, chemis-
try and anatomy, i'll preparation for the
practice of criminal law, trav-
cling largely in Europe thereafter.
And yet, although he spent years
in this work and has been IN the Ken
lucky Legislature, and three terms in Con-
gress, ard been called ''crank" hun
bred thousand times, he is yet no more
than 36 years of age. He was born in
1919. In person MIR. White is tall, slen-
der, with glossy black beard and hair,
regular and rather handsome features, q
pleasant smile which disclOses a hand
some set OF teeth, and the polish and
agreeable manners in conversation which
mark him as a man of reading and Gull
ture. just how it is lhat such a man, so
lamblike and apparently sensitive in
private life, can be always kick
e.
hard to understand. That his ways are
very winning and his head extremely
level in his private life is shown by his re-
cent marriage, in which he became hus-
band to a most estimable young lady,
whose fortune is sufficient to place Mr..
and Mrs. White quite beyond the neces-
sity OF troubling themselves about the
financial future of their lives. Yet no
man in Congress is so liable to kick UP a
rumpus on short notice as is this same
John ID. White.
Another man who has his peculiarities
in an especially marked way is Mr.. We'll
Ter, of Iowa. OF course, it is very wrong
to call him a crank, but there have been
some bad men in w Washington since his
term began, and he has been SO demOni-
mated. Certainly, he is peculiar.
at the most inopportune times to
say and do the most inopportune
things, fighting the most simple and need
ed measures which nobody else would
think of opposing, and collecting" when
not even "the great Obiector' himself
would think Of Offering an objection. All
this he. seems to do as n matter of sheer
''cussedness,' with the object, perhaps,
of obtaining some cheap nOtoriety. 1t
was this disagreeable habit, by which he
has made himself very unpopular, that
caused the House to break out iRtO APP
plause the other day when he asked for
and readily obtained ''indefinite leave Of
ABSENCE Mr.. Weller, who is usually
spoken of as Calamity" Weller, is %
years of age, his chief physical charac-
teristic being a head ana tace that re-
minds one in startling way of the late
lamepted Guiteau.