The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-17
SENATOR EDMUNDs.
PecuIiarities and Pleasantries of
The Veteran VermOnter.

Senator Edmunds is one of the most
peculiar men in public life. The opinion
people have of him depends upon
whether they meet him most in the
morning or later in the day. The theory
that it is best to ask favor of man
after he has dined, does not apply to
E1munds.
He always takes a small glass of
brandy at intervals from the time he
gets up until noon. At uoon he takes
bottle OF wine. After that he is as
unyle ldiDg as rod OF iron. He can
| not be influenced or persua led. He
is stern and uncompromising. How
ever accommodating and ready to Weld
10 The wishes of others ia tue tn0ruinK.
nothins can bend him after be has mad
his md day wine. He is the only man
| L ever met whom vine would not mel
| low.
So veil is this popularity of his I'M
derstood by his colleagues that they al
ways avoid asking anything of him they
think he might b. reluctant to grant
without first assuring thems Ives that
he is not in his cups. He always keeps
| stock Of the best brandy in his com
mittee room, and when in confer
ence on any measure where there is a
| disagreement to be settled he applies
himself to the brandy at short inter
walls. After he has taken a certain
amount his colleagues know that they
might as well yield everything to him
or aojourn.
While the conference was being held
to settle the differences between the
! House and Senate on the anti poly
gamy bill, the House COME rees had an
| experience of this Mr.. Edm lnds, who
was one of the senate cou;e, ees, would
meet them IN the morning III he most
cOnclliatory sp rlt. and they v GU d think
settlement would be reached with
out difficulty. They would all
open little Closet and bring out O
olack bottle and gias es.
will you j in me gertlemen2"
That was always his greeting. Gener-
ally they would decline, aud he wuud
say: "Well. must take some hing my
Self" Every now aud then d1rinS the
conference lie would rep=at this, and
! each time he TUulL cUme back TO the
counsel BOARD more determined that the
DILL should be just as he wanted II.
After Several meetings of this sort the
other conferees came to the conclusion
that no agreement would ever be
reached at that rate. During all The lime
not the least progress was made.
| Finally, one of the members suggested
that they meet earlier and adjourn be-
| fore the Vermont Senator became rigid.
| The sugge stion was readily adopted.
After that tn y came together very
early in the morning and always ad-
jOurned before IL O'Clock. They got
along splendidly by this arrangement.
The adamautIue Senator became man
u wax. A settlement was soon ar
ranged and all pa es were satisfied.
Any man who at empts To gain an
influence over the wise old Vermonter
| by plying him With Hiue will fipd to
bis grief that he hiss made mistake.
Not many years ago there WAS a certain
gentleman who had bill in the Senate
for his relief, which he thought Ed
munds was intending to oppose. As a
| fact, however, that gentleman care" h
| little about it one way or the ether.
70 remove this imagined barrier 1IUm
the track of his bill, the beneficiary be-
| thought him to get E munds IN q.
good humor and VIII him over. He
inv ted the Yermonter ito a champal ne
supper and vas careful 10 make cham
payne the princip4 Il feature of it. The
Senator was so fr endly TO him when he
st down that he began to think
that he trcuble and exprnSe had been
unnecessary. but the champagne was
there. and to make a sure thing of it
ne waited until the glasses ID riinked
many times aud a fusilade of corks
bad pounded the c, ling. Then he
preached the subject nt Arrest his heart,
his bill. 1t must be imagined what was
las disappointment and chsgrIn to find
bis guest ready to sntat onize him at
every point - an uncC mprOmisirg,
bitter and relentless oppOnent-a man
of adamant.
This story is no fiction drawn for
purposes of illustration. 1t relates an
actual occurrence known TO number of
eople.-TrGnStattG from the Munsor
photographic NeUs ana Teacher, By N.
T. Rosa.