The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-19
LEADING CONGRESSAEY
WHO MAY BE MET ON PENNsYL-
VANIA AVENUE.
What they Look Like and How
They Llye-HaDdsOme, Well
Dressed Men.

DTchStu men.
WAsHIKGToN, November 1S.--A cor
respond snt, tel ing Of who ard what
be saw while ttroiliDg along Psnnsyl-
vayia avenue, lays: "Thers is Beriah
Wilkins, neatly dressed and always
smiling. He looks like q preacher,
with smoothly shaven upper lip and a
manner which confirms you in the be-
lief that he has just come out OF the
pulpit. But looks are sometimes de-
csiving, and that il probably the case
with Beriah, for il is said that he can
play a better game Of poker Than any
other man who has giaced the balls OF
Congress for decade. Out in the
mid lie of the avenue, in handsome
cAriisge, with liveried driver and a
spanking fne team, goes Mr.. Hit, the
member from Illinois. He was once
a shorthan writer, but was appointed
to an important position abroad by the
Hayes sdministatlo ION, and became AS
, sistant Secretary OF State under Gar
field, which gave him boom for Con-
press in his Illinois home. He is cap
jtal fellow, well posted on the de-
mands Of the foreign service, aud not
a bit spoiled by his success. He has q
fine home here and pretty and pop
ular wife. As for himself, he can
speak French like Frenchman; and
understands the duty OF Congress
man far better than the average OF
| them. fG
Senator Gibson rolls up the avenue,
too, in his coy but not especially
slyl sh carriage. Gibson has a good
many political enemies, but on the
whole Is one OF the most able and
careful men that the South has had IN
the Senate for long time. He is tall
and slender, rather round shouldered,
with gray muslache and hair little
mixed WITH gray. You often notice
that he carries ore OF his hands in q
glove. This is not for style, but be-
cause he has rheumatic govt in his
hand. Gibson inheri ed a fine for
tune from his father, but much of
it was swept away by the war. He set
to work after the war, however,
and recovered part OF it
through close attention to the
law. His wife was also pos
8 s,es OF an ample fortune. He lives
in elegant style here with fine house
on Rhode Island avenue. Senator
Morril's carriage follows after that OF
Senator Gibson. Their carriages are
a good deal alike, both very comfort
able, but not notable for their stylish
ness. Morrill, is a very slender and
rather feeble looking old gentleman.
He is much b tier though than be WAS
when he left here at The close OF the
session last summer. You would not
think to look AZ him that he was
nearly seventy.seven years old. But
he is. His rather long hair is gray
but not wbite, and the little patcn OF
whekeis on the side Of his face are
mixed with gray.
Senator Call alks down the avenue.
He does not often tide, and when he
docs it is generally IN street Ger.
Ca is not wealthy man, He has
no business tact aud has the Ieputa-
ton Of being constantly in hot water
with his finances. But be that as 1t
may, nobody ever accuses him of
taking what was not his own, and
there are some members OF Congress
who lave not 20 much as that to say
about themselves Gall is not hand
some mao. HIS face is red, the cor
ners Of his mouth are generally ad-
veltising The feet that he chews TO.
bacco, and his subby mustache is
too stubby 10 be handsome. Neither
is he a popular orator. HIS spes ches
are rather dull, and do not hold the
Senate and galleries as do those OF
some Of his fellows. Senator Ed
munds permits the public to gaze
upon his facs and figure occasionally,
but not tfteD. Probably he thinks it
would be too much for them. he
keeas himself shut up in his new resi-
dence on Massachusetts, avenue most
of the time, studying abstruse topics
and struggling to hatch out some new
mtaBs of turning the thumb screws
down on the Mormons little tighter.
His red note he's not lot shade OF
its ledness aud the mass If white
whiskers that covers his face eeem
wbiter than ever. Ills very bald and
shiny head looks like VIII to water
melon on q fro ty morning.
Senator Buller, Of South Carolina,
stumps along the street with his
wooden leg az briskly as the average
man with Two genuine legs. He has
the reputation If beiug the handeom-
est man in the Senate, aud this is
probably true. He 10 one of the most
gentlemanly of the lot, too. He ID
greatly di treseed over the condition
OF things at Charleston, and ia some
thing ia the condition OF the average
person who goes to take look at the
corpse Of funeral. ~ went down to
SEQ how things looked at Charleston
as coon as | got back from Europe"
he said to your correspondent, "but
almost w'eh that l had not gone. II
is go terrible almost regretted having
looked upon it. Yet the energy Of
those peop'e under these dis rsesinE
cirCum't ances u something wonder
iul." II You continue your walk IA
} enough you ave liable to meet SeuEtol
= Kenns, who managed the Congress
sional campaign, a boyish loosinI
man, with smooth face and good ma
tuIed expression. II you meet {
rather small man with an unusual!
neat suit of brown, a dark mustsche
aud busy, busting way, he is likel!
to be Congressman James, from ont
OF the Brooklyn districts. James is
bright fellow, with the busy, eelf pos
sessed air Of New Yorker. II |
cur GUS that you can always tell
New York business mao. He seem