, 1889-03-06
distinguish themselves. A single term

oNo ~" $1,000
have the forceto INSERT themselves to any
marked extent till after they have served
four or five years New men are usually
placed upon the least important commit
tees, and at the foot of the lists. With
out a good committee q congressman
anxious to win distinction is likely TO
find himself badly handicapped, and
there is n tradition of the body restrain
ing him from appearing too often or too
c-onspicrously upon the floor.
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Few If any of the veterans of the house
FELL in the storm which ragged last Novem-
Der, but n number of interesting and
successful men viii find it desirable or
necessary TO leave their seats on the 4th
instant, not to return for at least two
years. William Walter Phelps, who is
n of the most popular men in the
house, win be as much missed as any
body, though it is not likely no will re-
tire to private life. Mr.. Phelps hopes to
20 to Paris as the minister OF the United
States. Governor Long, of Massachu-
sets. a quiet little man with o bald head
and an intellectual face, will remain at
home in the hopes of makingsomo money
ut the law. He was never acclimated TO
the confusion and babble of tho house.
Warner. of Kansas City, will be very
popular in Oklahoma and among the
Grand Army men. Pat Collins. of Mas
sachisetts, is not coming back to CON
gress. Baker, of New York, will be
here. Though n Republican congress
man. Baker is said to DO on better terms
with the outgoing president than any
other man in tho Capitol.
Tim Tarsney, of Michigan, will retire,
but his seat is to DO kept in the family,
for his brother Jim is one of the new
members from Missouri. Another case
of this sort is found in the Stephenson
family. Ike Stephenson, of Marinette,
Wis. returns to his lumber yard, while his
brother Sam, Of Menominee, Mich,
leaves his lumber yard to come to con-
gress- Several happy chumships are To
be broken up March A. Senators Palmer
and Manderson, who are now together
as much rs possible, will nave to seek
new companions after the death of this
congress, for Palmer is going back to
Michigan. Oklahoma Weaver, the fill
buster, will ave 10 go and leave his
dear friend Springer in possession of the
field. Dick" Guenther, of Milwaukee,
and Bob" Vance, of Connecticut, men
who look much alike, both having red
hair and blonde m~ustaches, are great
chums. Both retire, as does n third
member of the practical joke coterie,
brilliant Amos Cummings, the New
York newspaper man. Mr.. Cummings
has had n good deal of fun in congress
and at the snmo time has managed 10
make n good record, but says n news
paper office is the place, after all, for n
newspaper
Quito n number OF men known the
country over for one thing or another
are among the disappearing contingent.
William L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, Pre-
sident Cleveland's manager at st. Louis,
will retire from politics and the house.
Durham, of Chicago, who has won
famc by looking like John A. Logan
and driving tho best spar of horses in
Washington, will no more DO seen in the
halls of congress. Tho most conspicuous
Of the half dozen Illinois members who
arc not to come back is Jehu Baker, the
quaint old fellow, who wears collar and
choker of the crop of 1910, and whose
neck appears to be so stiff that heAcan't
turn his head without moving his body.
In Baker the house will lose what the
senate is to lose in Uncle ELI Salisbury
"a statesman of the good old school.
knute Nelson, the Minnesotian of brains
and strong convictions, who looks like n
farmer in haying time, will not be in the
next congress. -
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firing members and delegates may be
mentioned Johnston, Of Indiana, who
always gets excited when ho speaks and
spoils his voice; Senator Voorhees, son,
Delegate Voorhees,, who has Just brought
his bride to the capital; Foran, tho labor
ing mans friend from Ohio, and O'Neill,
the champion of toll. from st. Louis;
Leopold Morse, the clothier of Boston,
whose ten dollar suit figured conspicu-
ously in the tariff debate; Bourke Coch-
ran, h orator; Taulbee, of Kentucky;
another man from Kentucky bearing the
beautiful name of Latfoon; Hayden, of
Massachusetts,, whose chief claim to
fame is that he is to DO succeeded by u
former speaker of the house, Gen. N. i.
Banks; Allen, of the same state, who
is known and feared for his in
-stantaneous camera, which no carries
upon the floor with him concealed
under his waistcoat; young Mr..
Ford, of Michigan, whose invcsti-
cation of the immigration question has
given him q broader reputation than new
members usually get; DIR. Gallinger, of
New Hampshire, who wants to go to the
senate TO succeed Chandler; Beriah Will
kins, of Ohio, the best poker player in
h capital, and the man who was SO I'M
willing to leave Washington that he
bought q newspaper to keep him here;
Hovey, of Indiana, who became COVER
nor of his state, and Matsda, who didn't;
Anderson, the parliamentary fighter from
Iowa, who goes but leaves his family
well represented, three Andersons re-
naming; Dougherty. the fierce member
from Florida, who always a what he
thinks and wears no s~uspenders; Nor
wood, of Georgia, the only retiring men,
Der who was formerly a United States
senator; Clifford, of Dakota, who will
undoubtedly be a senator from one of
the Dakotas; Romeis, of Ohio, who for