The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-25
SENATOR BECK IN TOWN.
The Distinguished Kentuckian Comes
south 10 Rest.

| from Kentucky, is at the Pulaski House
with his son, Hon. Geo. T. Beck, Of Wy
oming legislature. Senator Beck has come
south, trusting to the equable climate to
minister to his physical ailments, and hop
| ing that he may find in an unobtrusive
quiet surcease from the mental strain of
an overweight brain whose book and vol
ume had been taxed to their utmost tension.
The senator's trip is made upon the advice
of his physician, who has counseled him
that he should not consider or be disturbed
with questions of state. In fact the edict
of the physician was absolute that Mr..
Beck should thoroughly divorce his mind
from questions Of political economy and
give his brain rest, which is peremptorily
demanded.
A CONSPICUOUS FIGURE IN POLITICS.
Senator Beck is one Of the conspicuous
figures in American politics. A Scotchman
by nativity, be has rounded up as full a
measure of political ambition as is attaina-
bic under the constitution of his adopted
country. In the home of the Clays, the
Powels, the Crittendens and the Breckin-
ridges he has exceeded each and singular Of
the galaxy of eminent statesmen by being
elected unchallenged to a third term in the
Senate. His mird is great store
house Of statistical knowledge. covering
all the departments of the legislative
and executive branches OF the general gov
eminent. Under the weight of such self
imposed burden, signs of overtaxation have
alarmed the senator's friends, and have inn
pressed himself and led to the earnest
protest of MS medical advisers that he
should give his overworked brain the abso-
lutte quietude which alone stands between
him and more serious results.
A MAN WITH NO ENEMIES.
In long and vigorous public life Senator
Beck has been conspicuous for two things
his fidelity to public trust and his fearless
devotion to the section in which his lot has
been cast. Throughout the south he has no
enemies, for in its hour of need his eloquence
persuaded and his integrity convinced.
Among his political opponents no breath
of scandal was ever breathed. In debate
he was a giant, and those who en-
tered the lists against him soon learned
there were blows to take as we'll as to give.
He had the rugged honesty of his Highland
ancestry, the fearless front of his sires,
while he poised the knightly lance Of the
peerless Kentuckians with the courtesy of
Clay and a Breckenridge. 1t is this man,
worn and weary in the service of his
country, a shining lance in the congress Of
the United States, firm and unyielding in
his demands that to tire south should be ac-
corded all the autnomy of statehood which
the north enjoys, who has come here for
needed rest.
CAME SOUTH FOR REST.
To MORNING NEWS representative last
night Senator Beck said that he appreci-
ated the honors and courtesies which had
already been extended, "but say for me
that have come to your beautiful city for
rest, and the hospitalities your people offer
me, while very pleasing to me, must not at
present carry with them the activity which
am counseled by my physician to avoid"
The cotton exchange appointed COM
mlttee OF seven yesterday afternoon, con-
sisting of President +. ID. Bloodworth and
Messrs. III. M. Conner, Capt. John Flannery,
G. Menelas Col. J. II. Estill, Clavius Phil
lips and Capt John +. Wheaton, to extend
the hospitalities of the city to the distin-
guished visitor. A subcommittee called
upon Senator Beck in the afternoon and
expressed desire, on the part of the CON-
mittee, to call on him and extend to him
the Inequalities of the members of the ex-
change. The senator expressed his thanks
to Dis visitors, but said that his health was
so precarious that he desired to avoid all
unnecessary exertion, but he expected to
remain in Savannah some time and hoped
to avail himself of their courtesies.
UNDER PHYSICIANS CARE.
To representative of the MORNING NEWS
Senator Beck said that he could see how
difficult it is to rigidly obev the injunctions
of his physician. He said that he wanted
to take trip down the Savannah river in
a few days, and that of course necessarily
carries with it an interest in the needed APP
preparations for the harbor. Finding
that he was trenching on ground
which his medical adviser had in
terdicted, he turned from the subject
to say that he had no fixed plans for the
future. How long he will stay in Savan-
nah has not even been considered.
A DRIVE THROUGH THE CITY.
He took q drive about the city
We terday afternoon, which he en-
joyed very much, and he said that
he felt that the equable climate, the
changed surroundings, the pleasant drives
about the city and suburbs, and plenty of
physical exercise, with from eight to ten
hours sleep out of the twenty-four, will
soon restore him to health
Senator Beck and son left Washington
Sunday morning and reached Savannah
yesterday forenoon. The senator was
somewhat fatigued from the journey, but
the afternoon drive did much to relieve the
fatigue. Congressman Norwood, who rec
mended Savannah to the Senator, was a
visitor at his rooms last night.
BY the light Of the bright fire in the
cheerful fireplace Of the senator's room be
looked the picture of physical strength last
night, but that his brain is overworked was
plainly to be observed, as the senator
avoided political topics, yielding to the adj
vice of his physician. II did not read the
minority report signed on the Senate tariff
bill, he said. as If he wanted to impress
upon his auditor that his physicians in
structions have been and are being obeyed
TO the letter.