Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-27
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Mr. Allison he was born In Ohio and came
up by hard knocks on farm. He is. how
ever, one of those singed CATS" whose ap-
pearance greatly bellies the man within.
His face is of the rustic type Pale blue
eyes, thin closely shut lips, stiff white up
combed hair and farner-Hke beard i'm
press the observer at first with the notion
that Mr.. Wilson was hardly likely to have
a civil tongue or fresh idea. The expert
ment Of acquaintance would prove exactly
the reverse to be true. Ee IL one Of the
most accessible, approachabIe men in the
Senate. His answers Oh all questions Of
public policy are forthcoming in plain,
dry, matter-of-fact way. His style of speech
is close, terse, compact and forcible. When
he has said a thing once it is as if other men
had been expressing it for an hour. Mr..
Wilson entered Congress in 1861 and left it
in 1869 to resume the practice Of law. In
1883 he was sent to the Senate to succeed
ex-senator McDill.
There are four members Of the Fiftieth
Congress who have been Chief Magistrate
of their States. Governor Gear is one of
them. He Is typical Westerner. He was
born on the shores of Lake Cuyuga, New
York, and wandered all over tho West be-
fore he took root in the great State whose
First district he represents in Congress-.
In 1886 he was smart boy at Galena, III,
then the chief entrepot Of the Mississippi
valley. In 1888 he went to Fort Smelling
where st. Paul and Minneapolis now form
the metropolis of the new Northwest. Gov
ernor Gear could have bought the site Of
either of those cities then for one hundred
and fifty dollars. But be did not, and in 1S43
went down the river to Burlington, his pres
ent home. In 1878 be was elected Governor
Of the largest prohibition State in the
country. His election to the Fiftieth Con.
gress was the defeat Of Burton J. Hall,
who received the Commissionership cf
Patents on retiring from the Forty mir n
Congress.
Judge Hayes is the man who beat Gov
ernor Kirkwood, who was Secretary of the
Interior under another and very different
sort of Hayes. He was born in Michigan
and is graduate of Ann Arbor Law School.
General Henderson is Scotchman forty
eight years old. He grew up on farm and
studied law as soon as he could wean him.
self from the plow. When the House gets
in storm no voice can conquer the din so
easily and completely as his. His army
record is the pride of many Grand Army
post. General Henderson always wears the
button, and in addition wears cork leg in
lieu of one he gave his country.
at is seldom a department clerk rises to
the honors Mr. Fuller has attained. Thirty
years ago he was one-thousand-dollar
clerk in the Indian Office. He is Penn
sylvanian by birth, schooled in Iowa Col
lege, and steady-going country lawyer
when at home. Mr.. Fuller is not an orator
and is as taciturn as toad. 1t is when a
tough legal question comes up in the Ju-
dietary Committee that he shows signs of
life.
Congressman Kerr is another Scotchman,
and in his old country his name would be
pronounced Carr. He has bushy shock
of hair and his colleagues of his look to see
him shake the hayseed out of it, but he
never does. He was admitted to the bar in
1862, and instead of practicing enlisted, maxi
ing good army record.
General Weaver has risen to be one of the
leaders of the Democratic side of the House.
He has more Of the elements of leadership
than almost any man on that side. His
knowledge Of parliamentary practice is
ready and unerring, and with his fearless
nerve he dares do any thing 1t was Gen.
eral Weaver who knocked out Beriah Will
liins Banking bill early this session.
Edwin II. Conger, of the Des MONIES
district, is q fit man to represent the capital
district OF vast agricultural State. He
has broad Joshua Whitcomb countenance,
and voice that sounds like the goodness of
Sod. He is a young man of forty-five, and
was born in Knox County, III. He has
Abraham Lincoln's autograph on brevet
Mayors commission for "gallantly on the
ield." He studied law at Albany Law
School, and has practiced farming since 1868
With great success.
One of the results of the Interstate Com
nerce act is the presence in the House of
Colonel Anderson. General Hepburn voted
against the bill and Anderson beat him at
he polls. Anderson caucuses with neither
tide of the chamber and sits as near the
middle aisle "betwlxt and between" as it
S possible to get. Mr.. Anderson was born
n Ohio and is fifty years old. He was ap-
pointed a postmaster by Lincoln in 1861, but
preferred to enlist. He has been United |
Statas District Attorney and State Railroad
|
Joseph Lyman, of the Council Bluffs dis
riot, is dubbed ugly Lyman by his col
eagues, who long ago noticed his peculiar |
'eauty of face and form. Mr.. Lyman is an |
bile man well equipped for debate and re-
pected as Woodworking member He /
erved in the army and was admitted to the |
'ar after the war.
Adoniram Judson Holmes was born in
)hio and educated in Wisconsin. He is
orty-six years old and this is his third Con-
,ress He was for many months prisoner
q AndersonvileE during the war. While