Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-04-06
THE WAYS OF OUR STATESMEN.
What a Washington Correspondent
says of Some of Our Repre-.
SentatfVeS.

Apple eating is Mr.. BANDS great act
He holds the fruit between the thumb
and forefnger of the left hand and grasns
a good-sized jack-knife in the right. With
great deliberation he passes the blade
around the side of the apple once. drops
the wide but not thick pairing under some
other members desk, cuts off q generous
slice and transfers it to his mouth. The
pairing and the slicing alternate without
break In the regularity, unless some
tnlng IN the proceedings attracts Mr..
bland's attention: In that event he sus-
ponds the manual operation, but contin-
ues to work his jaws in slow, methodi-
cal way. Nobody on the floor gets more
satisfaction out of an apple than does Mr..
Bland, of Missouri.
An habitue of the gallery can not helm
wondering where Congressman Springer
gets SO many yellow roses. The member
from the Sangamon district would hardly
be recognized without the inevitable vel.
low rose IN his button hole. It is always
a rose just unfolding, one or two petals
seeming to be on the point of dropping.
A bud doesn't count with Mr.. Springer.
Tor he is "connoosher"> on roses. and
knows Just when to nip them to obtain
the best effect. ''''l
The silver-haired Breckenridge. of Ken.
lucky, is a marked man for his lauohter
He is as exuberant as boy when he hears
or sees something funny, and if doesn,t
matter how solemn the pending bill NAV
be. off goes Breckinbridge with a cackle
that makes the Speaker look reprovinoiv
In his direction. Ofcourse the BLUEGRASS
member sees that he has made q had
break, and tries desperately to smother
MS feelings, and gets purple in the face
ana an looks as If he was going to have a
The burly Reagan has one of the worst
habits: Wherever he goes he leaves ~
trail . OF bits of paper behind him on tho
1oor OF the House. He isn't a nervous
man and moves slowly, but nv close
watching one can see his pudgv fingers
always at work tearing PAPER into i;ttie
pits and letting them drop. Mr.. REAGAN
seems to be wholly unconscious Of Wbat
l Oi, Is oolng. If he leans over desk to
"a, an t,. W !hem Der, when he straightens
~ mere Is the usual litter of scraps.
Mr. Glover has an eccentric way Of
i aa ms entree. Most members as
Don as they come into the chamber seek
s0S.uoiou oi the clOak-rOOm The
Dung Missourian, three times out of five i
narches IN at the door furthest from his
eat and strides down the main aisle and {
cross the floor. hat in hand, overcoat on U
us pack, with bundles of papers protr1d. 8
ng from the pockets. As he arrives after h
1e opening, when proceedings are in fnll 8
iasG, ne creates the impression that he
III hurry. Arriving at his desk. in
ne front row and on the extreme LETT Of
ne Speakers dais, Mr.. Glover nnlosds F
is pockets, sheds his Ben, and starts +
he nearest page for the cloak-room with Ii
Mr. Reed, of Maine, the Republican
ader by virtue of having been the
1olce OF the caucus of that party for
peaker, is great traveller. He likes to o.
wing his ponderous form up and down n
le alsles, and he has conviction that
nee ne can't white a pine stick the
.oper place for his hands is in his mock. 81
;. At any rate, there he keeps them h,
+. Reed doesn't confne himself to his p
S ,I SIDE OF the House. His leg exercise a
*. aes MN over among the Democrats NJ NJ
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