Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-31
STATESMEN. orrNIr.
How the Senators ana Congressmen at
Washington Dress Ordinarily.

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OF the Senators wear GETAWAY coats
Warner Miller has on clothes which w0ult
not he ont Of nlace ware me at tbe head o
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collar is tied with a sOit-biue polka Io
pecKtie.
Senators MORGAN and Butler are both
vveli-dressed southern men: still, their
roats are black diagonal getaways, but
toned bigb III the front bv a single button,
and neither of them showing an atom Of
shirt
stanford the millionaire from Cali
fornia ia dressed ina business suit which
conId be duplicated for so, and his
evce are covered by glasses with rubber
rims.
John A. Logan wears a turnover collar
and black clothes. Hls raven hair kisses
the collar of black broadcloth double
breasted fr0ck coat, tine skirts of which
are very fuli,and the buttons seldom fast
ened. Logan is shorter than most people
think. He is growing pOrt!y, and be
dresses so that be looks shorter and tatter
t0an he is.
Senator Allison OF Iowa wears shirt
that opens at the front, black clothes, and
his white neckue Is as hlgh rs was mat
Ol lAthi y 0luN
senator Joe Brown IS cOid-Dlooded
human, aud he fights the weather in
clothes made OF beaver. Enough he aas
good tailor, ms form is SO angular mat
g. Is almost impossible to cut this thick
cloth to tit MIN. and IL hangs 10 wrinkles.
Brown wears very long hair, which
Curls as though he had twisted IL round
a slate pencil where 1t iaIls upon his
shirt collar His long gray beard hIdes
his shirt, but a look at ms Wristbands
shows his red hannel under-cl0tning
peepiDg out.
Walthall, Lamar's successor, dresses
ike business man. re is tail ana
thin, and bis blue ana whlte neckue Is
not tied, but IS fastened by gold RIM
Through which IT. Is drawn. Like the
most of the southern men, ne wears
boots, and you VIII ma tnese only USED at
present by statesmen from the South and
West.
The dandy Of the Senate is Matt Ran
SOM he IS always dressed IN Dlack dla-
sgonal, and wears his coat closely button
Jed as he moves about the chamber with
stately strides, pulling down mis- white
cuffs, so that al least three inches OF tnem
may be seen below his coat sleeves. lie
seldom appears out oil the senate Wlthout
gloves. His iaYorite nat IS slouen, ana
he wears IL as Ihough IL was Oauge OF
military greatness
Senator ingalls, is one OF the best dress
ed men in the Senate. lie wears good
clothes, and has Broadway tailor. His
curfs are of the WhlJest, and his halr is
never awry.
Hoar, who sits next to him, dresses in
business clothes, cutaway coat, and he
keeps his watch IN the side pocket OF his
vest, fastened by a chaln Whlcn com
mences at its top button, and falls down
10 graceful curl upon his eapacious
abdomen.
JohnSnerman wears blue-black broad
cloth, with rather high standing collar
open at the front. This collar is bound
with wide black neekue, ana the vest is
cut rather low, so as 10 snow the Whitest
and the finest Of linen.
Senator Teller dresses IN black, and
combs his lalr without part, Ia pom
padour.
CullOm wears Business clothes and
boots.
Don Cameron dark coat and light
trousers.
Wade Hampton has rough business
suit.
Eyarts' clothes hang upon him like
those of a scarecrow. They are several
sizes loo large for him, and when he sits
in bis chair upon his spine-his favOrite
pOsition-the wrinkles IN them look like
the corrugauOns OF washboard. He
wears a big, white, unstarched standing
collar which CUTS AROUND his liliCk neck
tie OF soft black silk like a roll, and his
shirt bosom, like the snow in color, is
very full. and punches itself up outside of
his vest.
Chace, the Quaker Senator, wears
fancy black clothes of Quaker cut.
There is little. if any, color to the coat.
but the lapel at the front is faced with
velvet. He has a standing collar and
black tie.
NJ ahone is the queerest dressed man in
the Senate. HIS one hundred pounds of
skin and bones are bound round with
clothes which make him look like a fash
ion plate of fifty Years AGO. seUtled and
materialfzed. His long black trock coat
is cut in the shape OF two inverted bells.
with a big chest, little waist. and the
skirts below these fun. ike those of a
woman. BE wears the finest linen of old
Ireland, and his little hands are bound at
the wrists with ruin ID sleeves which al
most turn back over the black of his coat.
His vest is always omen at the
waist. and at times he leaves il
entirely upbuttoncd. He wears gold
spectacles. has long gold y atch chain.
and wnite he.
The dress OF representatives is worth
looking al. Tom Read dresses i'm the
toughest of clothes. and he would have
more influence Il ne maid more attention
IN his raiment