St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11

Brief PEN sketches OF the Senators
OF Solid Sense.
Special to the Globe.

CptCldl 10 OlOut-
WASHINGTON, March 10.-The scenes
in the senate this week have been very in
teresting. The great debate on the right of
the senate to demand the reasons for the
suspension of officers has filled the galleries,
and turned all attention TO tie figures on
the floor. There are half dozen men on
each side who are the central figures. They
are the leaders on the debate. and on them
all eyes center. On the Republican side
Edmunds is the recognized leader. His
big. bald head, with its fringe of white
hair, is the target for thousands of eyes.
His face is a strong one, but so utterly
under the control of its owner that you can
never tell by looking at il what is passing
in his mind. He is not polished orator,
but his clear, judicial mind enables him TO
assume the leadership of his side.
in spite of his coldneSs and personal
unpopularity. Sherman is not like him in
appearance or manner. He is tall and
thin man. his irOn-grey beard closely
cropped. his rather small head well covered
with grey hair. He speaks louder and
more earnestly than Edmunds. accompany
ing his words with more animated gestures.
Yet ne does not command quite the atten-
tion that Edmunds does. logan holds at
tention because he is a more
POPULAR PERSON,
and more of an orator, not because of what
he says, for on a constitutional debate like
this, he does not size up beside Sherman
and Edmunds. He is a more popular
speaker. however, than either of them. If
the galleries and not the senate were the
jury, Logan would be worth both of them.
ingalls, receives pretty clOSs attention when
he speaks, for he is not only an able lawyer,
but has a wonderful command of language.
His keen, caustic sentences cut like
polished steel. He is tall and slender, this
peculiarly extending even to his head.
which is narrow, but with high forehead.
the giay hair on top parted in the middle,
and the thin face set off with gray mus
tache, goatee and gold-rimmed eyeglasses.
| On the Democratic side Jackson and Nor
/ gan and Pugh and Beck are the central fig
ures. Jackson, who is in his first term in
! the senate, is looked upon by his associates
as one of the ablest and cleareSt-headed
/ lawyers on the Democratic side of the SEN
ate. He is a comparatively young man,
| his black hair only a little mixed with gray,
though the little bunch of gray whiskers
/ on his ruddy face are almost white. He is
an extremely modest man. however, and
does not by reason Of this fact, hold the po-
sition at the
HEAD OF THE COLUMN,
which a more aggressive man with his
| splendid abilities might. 1t is fact not
generally known that Jackson was not
only strongly recommended for a place in
/ Cleveland's cabinet, but only escaped by a
narrow chance the misfortune of being Sc
lected for that place-for it can scarcely be
regarded other than a misfortune for a
/ young ard able statesman to exchange a
growing position i'm the senate for a briei
cabinet position. Pugh. who was assisted
by Jackson in the preparation of the minor
ity report of the committee defending
Cleveland's course, is big, brOad-shOul-
dered man. with a wonderful memory and
| thorough understanding Of constitutional
laws, a hot partisan, strong In physique and
voice and conviction, with full. round face,
brown beard and dark hair, not much of an
orator. but an intense lover of his party anC
its principles. Morgan of Albany is more
slender than Pugh. with large. well-devel-
oped head, grey hair and mustache, quiet
talker who does not make any attempt al
oratory, but having thorough knowledge
/ of constitutional law. Beck is big. burly
ScOtchman, whose round head is well GOV
cred with black hair. we'll streaked Will
grey. his chm covered with grizzly beard
not much of an orator. but hard hitter il
debate. and very shrewd Scotchman. whit
knew how to get the advantage of his fel
lows by getting in his silver speech ahead
of any of them when the session began.