Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-01
THE WAYS OF OUR STATESMEN.


What q Washington Correspondent SayD
Of Some Of Our Represent tives-
Apple eating is Mr. Bland's great oct.
forefinger Of the left hand and grasps good
sized jack-knife firmly 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 of a generous slice and transfers it
to his mouth The pairing and the slicing al
ternate without break in Regularity, unless
something in the proceedings attracts Mr..
the manual operation, but continues to work
his jaws in a slow, methodical way. Nobody
on the floor of the house gets more satisfac-
ton 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
ognized without the inevitable yellow rose in
his button hole 1t is always rosa just un-
folding, one or two petals seeming to be on
the point Of dropping of. A bud doesn't
count with Mr.. Springer, for he i a con
noosher" on roses, and knows just when to
nip them to obtain the best effect.
The silver-haired Breckenridge, Of Ken
lucky, is marked man for his laughter. He
is as exuberant as boy when he hears or
sees something funny, and it doesn't matter
how solemn the pending bill may be, Of goes
Breckenridge with cackls 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 to have a fit.
The burly Reagan has one Of tho worst
habits. Wherever he goes he leaves 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 at work tearing paper
into little bits and letting them drop. Mr..
Reagan seems to be wholly unconscious Of
what he is doing II he leans over q desk to
talk to a member, when he straightens up
there is the usual litter of scraps
Mr.. Glover has an eccentric why Of making
his entree Most members as soon as they
come into the chamber seek the seclusion Of
the cloak-room. The young Misourian,
three times out Of five, marches in at tho
door furthest from his seat and strides down
the main aisle and across the floor, hat in
hand, overcoat on his back, with bundles Of
papers protruding from the pockets. As he
arrives after the opening, when proceedings
are in full blast, be creates the impression
that he is in hurry. Arriving at his desk,
in 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.
Mr.. Reed, Of Maine, the Republican leader
by virtue of having been the choice Of the
caucus of that party for speaker, is a great
traveller. He likes to swing his ponderous
form up and down the aisles, and he has a
conviction that since he can't whittle 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 to his own
side of the house. His leg exercise takes him
over among the Democrats quite frequently.
Washington Cor. Globe-Democrat.