River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-05-06

undertaking peeplng out.
Walthall, Lamar successor, dresse
| like "a business man. He is tall AN,
! thin, and his blue and white neckti
| is not tied, but is fastened by a col,
rim, through which it is drawn. Lik
| the most of the Southern men, he wear
boots, and you will find these only use,
at present by statesmen from the SOutl
and West.
The dandy of the senate is Matt Ran
som. He is always dressed in blacl
| diagonal, and wears his coat buttone'
as he moves about the chamber witt
stately strides, pulling down his whit
cuffs, so that at least three inches 0
| them may be seen below his Goa
| sleeves. He seldom appears out of tn
Senate without gloves. His favorite ha
| is a slouch, and he wears it as though
it was badge of military greatness.
Senator Ingalls, is one of the hes
| dressed men in the Senate. He wear
| good clothes, and has Broadway
tailor. His cuffs are of the whitest
| and his hair is never awry.
Hoar, who sits next to him, dresses
in business clothes, a cutaway coat
and be keeps his watch in the sid,
pocket of his vest, fastened by a chain
which commences at its top buttor
and falls down in a graceful curl upor
his capacious abdomen.
John Sherman wears a blue-blacb
broad-clotli, with a rather high stand
ing collar open at the 'front.'. This col
lar is bound with a wide black neck,
tie, and the vest is cut rather low, sc
as to show the whitest and finest oil
linen.
Senator Teller dresses in black. anC
combs his hair without a part, Il
pompadour.
Cullom wears business clothes and
boots.
Don Cameron dark coat and light
trousers.
Wade Hampton has a rough bust
ness suit.
Evart's clothes hang upon him like
tn ose of a scarecrow. They are sever
al sizes too large for him, and, and
when he sits in his chair upon his
spine-his favorite position-tht
wrinkles in them look like the CORFU
cations of a washboard. He wears 8
big, white, unstarched standing col
lar, which curls around his thick 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 out
side of his vest.
Chace. the Quaker Senator, wears
fancy black clothes of a Quaker cut.
There is little, if any, color to the coat,
but the lapel at the front is faced
with velvet. He has standing collar
and a black tie.
Malone 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 fashion plate of fifty years
ago, settled and materialized. His
long black frock coat is cut in the
shape of two inverted bells, with a big
chest, little waist, and the skirts be-
low these full, like those of a woman.
He wears the finest linen of old Ireland,
and his little hands are bound at the
wrists with ruflled sleeves which almost
turn back over the black of his coat.
His vest is always open at the waist.
and at times he leaves it entirely I'M
buttoned. He wears gold spectacles,
has long gold watch chain, and a
white tie.
The dress of Representatives is worth
looking at. Tom Read dresses in the
toughest of clothes, and he would have
more influence if he paid more atten-
ton to his raiment
Frank Hiscock wears a double
breasted dress coat, which is always
closely buttoned around his capaciOus
frame.
Judge Taylor of Ohio, has on 2
business suit, and is now walking
about the chamber with his hands in
his pockets.
Sam Randall dresses in black broad
cloth, and his hat is plug.
Morrison sometimes wears 9 SLOUGH,
and his suit of blue flannel business
clothes would be dear at S35.
FELTON,. the California millionaire,
looks like a business man, and wears a
Derby.
Harry Bingham, at his side, sports a
light-colored necktie, dark clothes, and
always looks as though he had just
jumped from bandbox.
Tim CAMPBELL, the Joe Miller of the
House, is a New York Ring politician,
in the dress of a preacher. His clothes
are black, and he puts on a new
white cambria tie every day.
McKinley's favorite coat IS double
breasted frock closely buttoned.
Tom Bayne always wears business
clothes.
William Walter Phelps likes red
neckties, but the favOrite necktie of
the House is the black string of our
fathers.
Gen. Wheeler wears cutaway coat
closely buttoned, and looks more like
a clerk than a great cavalry leader.
Bragg dresses in olive brown.
Martin A. Foran is one of the few
men of the House who wear white
necktie.
Ohio Singleton of Mississippi has q
velvet collar on his coat.
Ira Davenport, the rich New Yorker,
and Perry Belmont, each wear clothes
of black diagonal.
The colored members of the House
are dressed in business clothes, and
they are as closely fitted as any man
in the chamber.
Congressman as a rule, wear poorer
Globes than any other class of men
who receive $4,000, a year salary.