The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-14
THE WAYS OF OUR STATESMEN.


What q Washington Correspondent Says
OF Some Of Que Representatives.
Apple eating is Mr.. BANDS great act
lie holds the fruit between the thumb and
torctmger Of the left hand and grasps good
sized jack knife firmly III the right. With
great dcliheration he passes the blade around
the side of the apple once, drops the wide but
hot thick pairing under some other members
desk, cnts OF generous slice and transfers it
TO his mouth The PAIRING and the slicing al
ternate without Il break III regularity, unless
something in the proceedings attracts Mr..
BANDS attention IN that event he suspends
the manual operation, but continues to work
his jaws in a slow, merhodical way. Nobody
on the floor of the house gets more satisfac
tiOn out OF an apple than does Mr.. Bland, Of
Missouri.
An habitue of the gallery can not help
wondering where Congressman Springer gets
SO many yellow roses The member from
the Sangamon district would hardly be rec
ogDlzed without the inevitable yellow rose in
his button hole. 1t is always a rose just I'M
folding, one or two petals seeming to he on
the point of dropping off. A bud doesn't
count with Mr.. Springer, for he is a con
nooSher' on roses, and knows just when to
MP them to obtain the best effect.
The silver haired Breckenridge of Ken
lucky, is a marked man for his laughter. He
Is as exuberant as boy when he hears or
sees something funny, and it doesn't nlatter
how solemn the pending bill may be, oil goes
Breckenridge with cackle that makes the
speaker look reprovingly in his direction
OF course the bluegrass member sees he has
made a bad break, and tries desperately to
smother his feelings, gets purple in the face,
and looks as if he was going 10 have fit.
The burly Reagan has one of the worst
habits. Wherever he goes he leaves "a trail of
bits of paper behind him ON the floor of the
house. He isn't nervous man and moves
slowly, but by close watching one can see his
pudgy fingers always Mt work tearing paper
into little bits and letting them drop. Mr..
Reagan seems to he wholly unconscious of
what he is doing Ii he leans over n desk to
talk to member, when he Strengthens up
there is the usual litter of scraps
Mr. Glover has an eccentric way of making
his entree Most members as soon as they
come into the chamber seek the scclIlsioE of
three times out Of five, marches in at the
tBtSi front Ills Sestb ana StflIoS Gown
the main aisle and across the floor, hat in
hand overcoat on his back, with bundles OF
papers protrudms from the pockets, As he
arrives after the opening, when proceedings
ere In full blast, he creates the impression
that he is i'll Il hurry. Arriving at his desk,
III the front row and on the extreme left of
the speakers dais, Mr. Glover unloads his
pockets, sheds his ben, and starts the nearest
page for the clOak-room with good load
MIR. Reed, of Maine, the Republican leader
by virtue of having been the choice of the
caucus of that party for speaker, is great
traveller He likes to swing his pondcrous
form up and down the aisles, and he has
conviction that since be can't white a pine
stick the proper place for his hands is in his
pockets At any rate, there he keeps them.
Mr.. Reed doesn't confine himself 10 his own
side Of the house. His leg exercise takes him
over among the Democrats quite frequently
Washington Cor. Globe-Democrs