Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

good speaker. BE is little too quick and
jumps to his feet now and then when he had
better remain in his chair. He is, however,
always ready to say something, and he very
often says it very we'll. He ranked as one
of the red-heads ofthe House when he hrst
came here about four years ago, and though
his hair is now white his heart action IS
good and his joints are we'll oiled: he Is
only 81 years OF age, and he was born In
Connecticut in 1888. His father carried him
out to Ohio as a squalling baby and he was
rocked in a sugar trough instead OF cradle:
He went to school in log schoOlhouse, did
his first reading by the light OF an old
fashioned log fire and pounded away until
he has gotten an extraordinary amount of
facts stored in that gray matter of his brain.
He has been a soldier, Speaker OF the
Ohio Legislature and divers odd other
things before he became Congressman, and
he now has the seat oil Silver Dollar Warner.
CANNON AND MILLS.
Joe Cannon tells me that he is tired of
Congressional life, and he thinks he would
have been better of If he had stayed out of
Congress and stuck to moneymaking. He
is an able speaker, nevertheless, and he will
be heard from a number of times within the
next few weeks. Cannon is perpetual mo-
tion personified when he makes speech.
He tears the air, pounds his desk and needs
about 90 square feet to move around in. He
grows red in the face and throws his fingers
at Roger @. Mills while he howls out det-
ance and logic in strong nasal tones.
Speaking of Mills, he has not cut much
of figure this session, and the leadership
which he held as Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee of the last Congress
has been practically taken from him by the
af 10
floor. Mills is not great speaker, and as
compared with Carlisle he is not great
man. He has not the reading of Carlisle,
and his chief forte is the tariff. At the
time Mr.. Mills was chosen as the head OF
the Ways aud Means Committee I called
upon him to get the story of his life. 1t
was in the winter. found him in his shirt
sleeves, though the thermometer was at
zero and there was snow on the ground. He
did not put on his coat during the inter-
view, and notwithstanding the fact that
Mrs. Mills was in the room, he seemed per-
fectly at home. He is big man. Fully
six feet high. his arm is as big as one of Joe
Cannon's legs, and you could put the little
head of Henry Cabot Lodge inside OF his
big Uranium and there would be an inch of
space between the outside bones of the one
and the inside bones OF the other. I doubt
not that the smaller head would contain
fully as much brains as the larger.
AN ANGULAR TOBACCO LOVER.
W. S. Holman is another Democratic
leader His long experience in Congress
and his knowledge OF the ins and outs of
congressional appropriations, added to
the remarkable amount of a certain
kind of ability, make him one of
the ablest men on the floor. He knows just
when to object and how to clog legislation
upon any measure that he disapproves OF.
Holman is curious looking man. Nature
made him when she was in her roughest
mood and you will not find curve in the
six feet of his anatomy. He looks as Though
he was carved out with square and draw
shave. His body is all angles and his
tongue is the most angular or the whole.
When he speaks his voice sounds lik buzz
saw which has struck a knot and he cuts the
air in geometrical figures. His beard is as
rough as the rest of his face and his hair
looks as though his head was covered with
cowlicks. He is an uneasy body and is
very fond of chewing tobacco. When he is
not speaking he chews and his jaws in one
way or the other are kept in perpetual mo-
ton. For all his roughness, however, he
has one of the kIndest Of hearts and he is
very popular both here and az home. He
lives at Aurora, Ind, very near whers he
was born 6S years ago. = He. has fine farm
there aud he Is worth, / ant told, in the
neighborhood of $500, 600. He lives here at
an hotel and he has for % years paid rent
and board in Washington.
CRISP AND THE WHITE HOUSE BABY.
There are score of other leaders in the
House of Representatives. many of whom
are able and several Of whom have won
their spurs in debate. Julius Cesar Bur-
s = - Al.
some spread-eagleism about him. Boutelle,
of Maine, is a good speaker and his voice is
as strong as that of the bull of Bashan.
Henry Cabot Lodge has both gall and
brain and Payson, of Illinois, makes good
speech. McComas, of Maryland, is a good
talker and John Dalzell, of PENNSYLVANIA,
has shown himself to be man of ability.
Blount, of Georgia, is another spread-eagle
speaker and Crisp, the baldheaded, gets
there every time. He does not make many
mistakes like that he made while he was 10
Georgia during the Cleveland Administra-
tion and some malicious reporter had tele-
graphed that baby had been born in the
White House. Crisp thought the report
was true and he made an after-dinner
speech, in which he said that the news had
come to him "That in the house of our
fathers ch lid is born. Let US ali unite, -
said he, ''in the hope that the mother aud
baby are WE'LL" His speech was telegraphed
over the country and when he heard that
the report was a false one he grasped at bis
crown with an air as frantic as though il
had been covered with hair and he would
tear it in his dismaE.
PROBABLY CARLISLE'S SUCCESSOR.
Mr.. Crisp has during the past week
jumped away to the front as the House
leader. The prospect is that he will take the
honors from Mr.. Carlisle. He is very ready
in debate, has strong, full voice, and is MOI
afraid of anything. He is Dearly as big q:
Reed in size, was 45 years old last month
and is in perfect health. He is, am told, ,th,
son of an actor, was born in England, ha.
been in the Confederate army, and was
Judge before he was elected to Congress. HI
is a well-educated man, and is a gentleman
and a scholar. He possesses to a marked de
gree the qualities of leadership, does not LOST
his head when on the floor, a nd his command
of the Democratic forces is Increasing il
power every day.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
AN IMPORTANT LITTLE PERSON,