St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-09
EoW Our Statesmen Prepare
and Deliver Their
Speeches.
Geek Is the Fastest Speaker
and George Is the
SloWeSt.
Elair's Crankiness and Black
burns Flowers Of
Language.
Hoar's Impromptu Speeches
Rehearsed in His Bed
Room.
snecial correspondence Of the Globe.

Special Correspondence Of the Globe.
WASHINGTON, March 7.-OratOry is
dying out in congress. You can count
OH YOUR fingers the great speeches which
have been delivered in the senate this
session, and the Millionaires' club runs
more to gossip and story than to states
manike eloquence. There are two men
in the body who can make a good after
dinner speech TO every one who can &C
quit himself with homer upon the floor,
and the Clays, WebsterS and CalhOunS
of the present are numbered. The fat
est speaker in the senate is Beck. He
willis his shit collar as he talks. and he
pOuTs out the dictionary at the rate OF
225 words per minute. He speaks with
ont manuscript and thinks Oh his feet.
1t seems to rest him to talk, and that
big brown, griz2ly-gray head of his is
packed full OF fact and figure, which he
hurls at tie sides of the chamber in a
sort of sledge-hammer way. Gen. Joe
HaWley is a fast speaker. His voice Is
full and clear and he not infrcquently
utters sentence that sticks to the gray
matter OF your brain and is worth repe-
ttion. George, of Mississippi, is the
slowest speaker in the senate. HIS
tongue goes by clockWOrk, and no pen
duium ever moved slower. He pays no
attention to the graceS of oratory, and
when he came to congress he promised
his constituents that he would not wear
a dress suit or ride in q carriage. The
same old Snuff-cOlOred clothes, which fit
as though they had been cut by one of
the old mammieS of his plantation. in
close his fat frame when he addresses
the senate that forms his everyday cos
tune, and he puts his whole force into
his constitutional arguments. which are
weighty and strong.
Senator ingalls, ShaveS his face twice
before he comes TO the senate to make a
great speech. He has his hair carefully
combed, takes Turkish bath and looks
as he rises to speak as though he had
popped out Of q bandh0X. His Prince
Albert coat Is hutttuned tight around
his Interrogation point of a frame, his
red necktie is of the freshest. and he
has 4 haf-inch of red silk handkerchief
sticking outside of the left breast pocket
of his coat A pair of gold spetacleS,
attached to long gold chain, are seated
&C, osS his aTiStOcratic nose. and these
spectacles are made in curious shape.
Ont of the lever halves of each glass
4 half moon has been cut, and q differ
emit quality OF glass inserted therein.
The top of the glasses are for farSight-
edneS~. and were especially made for
ingalls, TO get a glance at the Dem
orrnts and the galleries, and the half
moons are for nearSi ,htedneSS in order
to enable him to read his manuscript
notes. ingalls, has the reputation for
being a good impromntu speaker. Ideas
drop from his tongue faster than the
pearls and diamonds from the mouth of
the good little girl in the fairy tale, and
he has gotten the credit Of b ing made
up of pure and unadulterdtpd brain.
This is in measure true and in meas
ure not. He has wonderful vitality of
Intellect and he is wonderful saver of
the intellectual pennies. He Is in a
constant state of preparation for
speeches and everything hereads, hears
or thinks is laid away in one of the
thousand pigeOn-h0leS of that little
head, at such an angle that it will slide
out and down upon his tongue at Sec
ond'S notice. He has a wonderful
faculty of memory in that when
ever he writes out sen
tence or a fact the pen that prints
the words upon the paper makes an in
deiblc impression on his brain. He
never forgetS such sentences, and when
he sees a good thing he puts it down
He is nervous man upon the floor. and
he worries considerably over his
speeches. / am told that he did not
sleep at all the night before his last
great speech, and, though he pretends
to have the skin of hog, he is as ten
der as a twO-year-Old child. He is a
man of wonderful ability and of the
most high-strung and sensitive temper
ament. He is full-booded thorough
bred whose heels are ready to fly in the
faces of his brother senators at
the slightest provocation and who is
never so happy as when he is kicking
his enemies. He has the greatest power
of invective ever possessed by United
States senator. and his culture is so eX-
tensive that he is able to say cutting
thing in thousand different ways and
10 make each one more bitter than the
last. He reminds me much of John
Randolph OF Roanoke, and his head is
shaped like that Of the great Virginlan.
He is greater man than Randolph,
and back Of his invective he is full of
ideas which tend to the good of his
party and his country, though his own
speeches often act somewhat in the
shape of boomerang upon himself.