The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-04
Congressman Cummings Gives a
Few Pen Pictures Of Dog
Day Orators.
How the Life Of Marcus Aurelius
Smith, Of Arizona, Was
Saved.
TOW the Hail Of the House Il Enlivsned In
July and Aug
uSt,

|3n for hot-weather statesmen. Not since
be foundation of the government has the
atmosphere in Washington been more heat.
B and humid. In the house of representa-
Ives at times the Temperatures has been al
lost lntolerabls. Tho capitot.sWas an i'm.
Sense oven. Representatives sat in the
bomber of the house roasting like 80 MANY
.ck-snipe. Speaker Reed was enthroned
oove them, holding fan instead of q
|'epter, and trying to keep cool. Those
pom the floor below him were fairly drip
Ing with perspiration. It was a sight to
be such magnificent political partridges az
harles s. Baker. Of New York, and Judge
afnes, of Georgia, basted in their own
Aices.
Marcus Aurelius Smith, of Arizona, was
bother sufferer. As he was entering the
Puse one morning his appearance excited
bneral comment. His eyes were dull and
streless, his features pinched and drawn,
I'D his motions languid and listless. He
30 bent over like . parenthesis. The ex
aordinary heat had made him i'll and re-
hced him in flesh. Somebody said face
Dusly: you're looking bad, Mark. You
ust have struck the wrong brand last
ght.''
mo" replied Mark. "they're all alike.
hey have saved my life. But I've been
living bad time. I've been monkeying
it'll eternity for twenty-four hours. left
door open and the weather got in.
bwever, my life was saved"
What's her nameY" a congressman
ked. Al
belle Nelson" Mark replied.
There are statesmen, however, who are
bt affected by hot weather. One Of these
Hon. William J. Stone, of Nevada, Mo.
one is tall and thin and typical south
ner. He has straight, black hair, high
eek-bones and brow knobbed with per-
ator. Upon the hottest day Of the season
stood in democratic aisle and for an
bur and half riddled Speaker Reed with
hmber four shot. The bill under consid-
alton was one characterized as q bill to
mpound felony. It allows the rail-
ads to retain a, 600 GOO acres of the pub
lands which they have not earned pro-
ded they will give mp claim to 100000
With flashing eyes ana uplifted hand,
!. Stone arraigned Judge Payson for his
ange Of front on the land grant forfeit
10 bill. With ringing emphasis he de-
bunced the speaker q the tool of the rail
bad corporations. He called him parlia-
entary joss, who united the hands Of the
publican members that they might clap
his utterances, and unsealed their lips
1sV VAA0y AAAAtSAAV oA0AV q 0OXV4A0 CAOEuH TO
commanding tones of his majestic
los. It was great work for hot weather.
be house was in committee of the whole
tn John F. Peters, of Kansas, in the
air. A better presiding officer never
nched gavel. Speaker Reed stood at his
SIX some time, an intent, if not pleasant
tener. Afterwards he wandered up a
mocratic aisle, dropped into McAdoo's
pit. and enjoyed a little quiet chin
1cic Nth Gou Tronor
ny, and Joe O'Neil, Of boston. He
Pmed to be in jolly mood. At times,
viewer, he turned toward the impassioned
htor and with an open mouth and an air
ildlike and bland listened to his elo-
enoo as though wondering what it was
about. Mr.. Stone withdrew to the
Darkroom at the conclusion Of his speech.
long black hair hung over his forehead.
Pisture could have been wrung from the
eck alpaca coat which he wore.
u was the hottest day of the season-hot
himself as we'll as for Reed and Pay
p. The effect of the hot weather was
pwn when over twenty leaves Of absence
re asked for in the afternoon.
Judge Payson had preceded Mr.. Stone,
is right royal talker and has the face,
miners and tactics of true statesman.
wore striped seersucker coat. The
Rt gave his face roseate glow. Rivulets
kVAoHAt 0VA0A 40A 4xOu ul6 UIOW NUGO nlS
lskers: Although slightly bald, his head
ringed with curls. Stones characteri-
Fion of him afterward was ideal.
10 Missourian spoke of him as bold
rrior who once, like a plumed knight,
ode down yonder aisle, answering corpor-
insolence with brave defiance. Then
was a parliamentary Murat, the field
rshai OF forfeitures. To-day, however,
stood yonder, timid, tender footed and
pressed with doubt, advocating, with
q which he had opposed four Years 400.
he contrast was sharply drawn, but was
Re hguratlve than realistic. There is
hing timid nor tender-footed about Paw
He Is genuine Murat all the way
ough. Payso1 would have led the
rye at Eylav or have died upon the
DIS OF the Sicilies with equal nonchal-
he Payson-Stone episode was one of the
Et picturesque in the hot weather.
robably the most interesting of all the
weather orators is Hon. George d. Till
q, of South sCarolina. His complexion.
and eyes are as light az were those al
race Greeley. One is as honest az the
er was and equally firm in his conyic-
hs. Here the resemblance ends. Horace
as mild as cooling dove. even when
ouncing fraud and humbug. Tillman
% 1AAc q AAOAs Law W00tuGE 6UaLS MIN.
has always had plenty of it in his dis
\, and his brother seems to be making it
for the Palmetto aristocracy in South
DINA to-day. The discussion of the
DRY claim bill drew out of the honest
South Carolina member one of the
It unique speeches ever delivered in the
se. He understood the claim
% A to lizard. He denounced
in Anglo Saxon that would
Q done credit to Thomas III. Benton.
became as breezy as a palmetto in
=. Quaint smiles. original metaphors,
uisite tropes and iridescent imagery
3 mixed up with old farmers maxims,
sayings and negro plantation phrases,
ariven home with the peculiar accent
racteristic of Dixie. Tillman is proba-
the most convincing speaker In the
p. When talking he seems to lose sight
u his surroundings and to concentrate
he powers of his mind upon the point
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