Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-19

ridge. He is well worth his 81, 600 as a show
figure, and he comes out into the arena at
every political tussle.
The other albino, Charles Grosvenor, is
now walking about the house with his hands
In his pockets. He is n straight. cookbook
ing LONG. whiskered freak, and he has as
many outside tricks worth noting as has
MIR. breckenridge. He is q good speaker,
and is happiest when engaged in a political
fight. He strikes from the shoulder and de-
lights in espousinR the EXTREMIST views of
his party.
THE HAIRY AND HAIRLESS.
Speaking of HAIR the congressional animal
show has all kinds of color. There are twen-
ty-seven red heads in this congress as there
was in the last, but the house has still its
share from the. brightest vermillion TO the
brickdust hue, and from the black OF Dali
zell of Pennsylvania to the silky white fuz
of Tom Reed. Fully onethird OF the mem
bers are more or less bald, and this badness
runs all the way from the little white spot as
big as q ffty-cont piece which now appears
In the center of Ben B~utterworth's crown TO
the vast expanse Of rosy-white which covers
the brains of Cole of North Carolina. Hit
OF Illinois needs the services of the seven
lonR-haired sisters TO revivify his scalp, and
Harry, Bingham of PENNSYLVANIA has no
more hair on the top of mis- head than you
will find about the rosiest dimple of Madam
Langtry's cheek. j. ID. Taylor of Ohio ia
fast becoming bald. McCreary of Kentucky
has q forehead which Is climbing TOWARDS his
crown and there is nothing but a fuzzy down
left on the big head of Roger q. Mills of
Texas. Amos Cummings brains are eating
way bis hair and Adams of Illinois has q
bald spot the size of n trade dollar AZ his
crown around which the remainder of his
brown hair radiates. Cabot Lodge has short
brown hair which stands up all over his head
and La Toilette of Wisconsin is afflicted with
q cowllck all over his Uranium. Ashbell +.
Fitch of Nav York lacks hair. Crisp of
Georgia would give $1,000 an inch to have
his bead replanted and Silver Dollar Bland
which he believes the country ought
TO use. Carlisle is fast growing
bald and Holman's hair Is thinning
McKinley's head ia still dark and we'll
%nlicent brush of iron gray, and McComas of
Maryland has hair as thick as the fur of the
seal and as black as the raven. Martin Of
Texas oils his hair with bears grease, and
the locks OF Ex-Speaker Banks are thick
and we'll brushed, though they are whittier
than snow. Cheadle of Indiana has brown
hair and a sandy beard, and he is q freak of
the first water, and it was he who by his
movement In favor of Milburn made the
democrotlc blind parson the chaplain Of con-
gress.
HISTORICAL CURIosITIEs.
Our historical curlos are numerous in this
congress Buckalew of Pennsylvania was
United States minister to Ecuador before the
war, and he was u United States senator in
1868. He is a smOoth-faced dark complexion
man of sixty-nine years of age, and he has as
yet made no remarkable spec ches. Banks of
Massachusetts is one OF the most noted char
acters in American history. That tall,
straight, slender, fine looking man with the
gray mustache and the mass of snow
white hair is he. He sits near
the speaker on the republican side of the
m and he has as much iron in his
blood as when he learned the trade of ma
chinest in a cotton factory. From mechanics
he went to the law and he was elected
speaker of the house of representatives as a
knownothing in 1855. He has been governor
OF massachusetts was q general during the
late war and has fora lumber of times served
IN the house.
Whitthorne of Tennessee has been in the
senate and McCreary of Kentucky and Gear
of Iowa have been governors of the states
they represent.
EX-Speaker Carlisle may pose as an his
torical curiosity and General Joe Wheeler,
that tight little dark faced-man with q long
leaders of the cenfederacy. Out of $3.50
members fully oue-half have war records
and there are ninety union soldiers in con-
gress and eighty-ive confederate ones.
Hooker OF Mississippi one of the most noted
OF the southern members lost au arm on the
battlefield and it was in battle that Hender-
son, Bootman of Ohio and Laws of Nebr ask
each lost one Of his legs.
II FEATURES.
There are some literary curiosities in this
great show. Amos Cummings way be called
the editorial freak of the house. He is about
five feet eight inches high, dresses in BUSH
ness clothes and has the students stoop. His
face is fair. He has a broad forehead, dark
brown hair and a sandy mustache which
hangs down over q good mouth. he sits in
front Of the speaker and writes at his desk
all day long using q pencil and u pad Of print.
Ing DaDer, He carries on n npVsnQnpr.
bureau in addition to his congressional work
and doubles the amount of his congressional
salary with his pen. He Is tho only nan In
congress who writes editorials at his desk
did work while he was In the house and
whose famous mileage expose has become a
matter of. history. Ex-Governor Ding
ley OF Maine is the editor and proprie-
tor OF a newspaper BOutelIe also
has q paper in Jackson City, Mich, which is
said to pay him $4,000 a year. John It.
Game, the Mormon delegate, is interested in
the Salt Lake Herald, which is q paying
sheet ana well edited, and Henderson Henry
Cabot Lodge adds to his income by writing
works Of political biography. He has a num-
Der of books in the American Statesmen
series and his pen Is a fluent one.
coNGRRssMEN WITH HOBBIES.
Judge w. III. Holman of Indiana Is the
economical freak of the house museum. He
~ uoou uCEO iOT tWcnIy-lOuF years ana
during the whole of that time he has been
cutting down the expenses of the government
on every item. His knowledge of the cost
OF things Is wonderful. He knows to a cent
just how much every charwoman in the
treasury gets and he can tell you to a mill
what every brick in the new pension build
ing cost. He is known as the great sob
1ector" and he hes killed many a bill by
singing out his long finger at the speaker
and SAYING ~ object" Judge Holman is
six feet tall and a foot and a
half broad across the shoulders. His
business are hung upon mis- frame and nature
has been as stingy in he- appropriation OF
fat to him as he Ia to the civil service in his
giving out OF the government funds. His
beard is now turning to iron gray and his
brown hair has many white strands. He is
fond OF tobacco and he sits In has seat with
his pencil In his hand and figures and chews
all day long. He is fond OF fine cut but when
he makes his campaigns in Indiana he is
said 70 carry q plug of pig-tail twist which
ne offers TO his constituents. He is too
economical to allow his voice melody and
f~ullness, and he rasps out his speeches with
the sound OF a buz-saw when 1t strikes a
Knot. He gestures in pump-handle style,
and he is In short a statesman OF the blue
Jeans Williams type. He Is q Kind hearted
fellow withal and is as honest as the day is
long. He is worth about 300, 900 and has q
tine farm in southern Indiana.
Silver Dollar Bland has made all the repu-
tation he has out OF the bill which boro his
mama am told that Ca,atn, A n;.o. 4. ~