The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-07-10
A LOOK AT THE SENATE.
A PEEP At OUR STATESMEN FROM
THE PRESS GALLERY.


feelings and often as foolish in their actions.
There are seventy six Of them and the great
majority OF these are over fifty years Of
aga John Logan Is 62, Sherman 63, and
Morrell, Of Vermont, the oldest man In tho
body, is ~ Senator Edmunds looks older
than either Sherman or Morrill,, and his
hair is frosted and crown bald at 81, while
Kenna, Of West Virginia, the youngest
member Of the senate, looks like boy and
has yet to see his fortieth year.
The senators are az rule big men. Their
average height is over five feet nine, and
their average weight about 175 pounds The
fattest and heaviest senator il Philetus
Sawyer, who though he Is short will pull
the beam at $50 Stanford, Of California,
Eustis, Of Louisiana, and Beck, Of KEN
tucky, will aggregate at least
COO pounds, while sPalmer, Of
Michigan, Jones, Of Arkansas,
George, Of Mississippi, and the doughty
West, Of Missouri, have each about 1H0
pounds Of solid flesh in their anatomies
John Sherman has not one ounce Of fat buc
his bone, brain, and muscle weigh about 1d0
pounds Chaee, OF Rhode Island, atl,e
1 Quaker, weighs 15O, and John G. Spoonsr
about les pounds John 4. Logan has
grown fat lately, and he now weighs about
$50, while Ingalls,, who sits back Of him,
though he is six feet tai, will not weigh
more than 14Q 1t would take twenty Ma
homes to make ton, and the weight OF
these twenty would not amuont to IS much
as that Of eight men like Senator Sawyer.
Malone is the leanest man in the senate,
though Eli salisbury, Of Delaware, Henry
b Payne, OF Ohio, and Ingalls,, Of Kansas,
crowd him very close.
HEIGHT oE SENATORS
Payne. Walthall Sherman, Saulsbury,
Ingalls,, Eustis, Brown, and Blair ary each
six feet high, while Vest Is not over Eve fest
six and Spooner about five feet four. for
got to mention Evarts among the thin men
OF all the noted dinner eaters in Washington
he gets the least fat out Of his mealA He
looks very small indeed as he sits, but when
he rises you find that he Is Of good height,
and as he draws those long 400 word SEN
tences out of his anatomy during his speech
you imagine he must be giant Ben Har-
rison, Of Indiana, is short and inclined 10
obesity. Gen. Hawleyi is taller with slight
tendency the same way. George HeaTst,
the new millionaire from California, IL
six -footer, and Maxey, OF Texas, has to take
8f aarb biz .s bet xhsn be goes through an ordi-
heig ight Of ordinary men Eli s46Gbdfy
looks to be six feet on account Of his thin
ness, and Wilson. the new senator from.
Maryland, although he is about six tachss
shorter than Salisbury, looks to be foot
less by the contrast
II were cannibal would rather eat q
slice of George Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, than
, any other senator. Hoar is the personi1ca.
| ton of cleanliness, and his complexion
shows that he keeps his blood in good con-
dition He is fair skinned, smooth faced,
and he looks like Horace Greeley. Allison
is another man who would serve up welI,
and Manderson, Of Nebraska, and German,
of Maryland. would make dishes ft for the
king of the Fits don't think there would
be much demand for either Sherman, In
gals or Evarts in the cannibal market, and
Conger, Eustis, Kenna, and Chase with
their brunette compilations would only be
In demand on the principle that the dark Il
, sometimes the sweetest.
HAIR AND IT'S LACK. .--
There are number of bald heads IN tho
senate, and the most patriarchal Of these is
Joe Brown who, with his long beard Of
white hanging upon his chest, looks like .
Mormon elder. Philetus Sawyer, and
Henry B Payne a.e both bald as to their
crowns, and dibson, OF Louisiana, and
Harris, OF Tennessee, are fast growing tho
same way. I note that Senator Hoar's
locks have to be very carefully combed ia
cover the white skin on his. Uranium, and
Austin F. Pike, Of New Hampshire, has q
| head whose top is as bald as that Of q drum
head, and as shiny as that Of George F. Ed
munds Walthall, who takes Lamar's
seat in the senate, Is one Of the longs
haired senators Malone, who has
gray locks, which he throws back like .
name, is another, and Morrill,, Of Vermont,
| a third Coluuitt. OF Georgia does not part
his hair at all 1t Is very thick, of IRON
| gray, and he combs it . 10 pompadour.
Logan's hair is as black as shoe polish, and
as glossy as Jet Ingalls, has short iron
gray hair, and Blair, Of New Hampshire, Il
| the only red head in the senate, although
! Spoone.'s locks are Of reddish brown, and
/ Dan voorhees, was probably - strswberry
/ blonde when he was boy. Senator George.
! of Mississippi, lost his comb and brush
| when he first came to congress, and he has
| never bought new one Spooner scents to
! have cowlick all over bis head, and tbs
! gray bristles Of Wilson, Of Iowa, stand up
! like brush an around his finely formed
! Uranium
| Not enc Of the senator's wears . Wig. and
| none of them dye either their hair or whislk-
! ers John Sherman's hair IL Of Q brownisl,
i gray, and lock falls in q contrary way
down over his forehead ct times Jones, OF
Arkansas, has habit of running his hands
through his hair, which keeps It from be-
! ing in well kept order, and Wade Hampton
has a good growth of iron-gray strands,
with pair OF side whiskers, so cut d "a
make him look like Kaiser Wilhelm In min
ature-"Carp' in Cleveland Leader. Isl
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