The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-13
THE sENATEs TWIN STARS.
Good Fellows Despite Their Reputa.
ton for Austerity.
(CopuriqhE.l

WASHINGTON, Oct. lit is pop ularly
supposed that if Senator Sherman should
happen to pass condensed milk factory
the concern would at once become an ice
cream saloon; and as for Senator Edmunds
he is general y believed TO be so cold that
people in his neighb orhood have to wear
buffalo overcoats and yarn mittens all
summer.
A man from the west called on Senator
Sherman one evening last winter and
noticed a screen drawn up between the
senator and the fire. Presumably the west
erner did not accomplish the purpose of his
call, for he afterward said,
Hanged if they don't have to put screen
between him aud the stove to keep him from
freezing the fire.
one of the recent hot spells, when the air
trembled above the bubbling asphalt pave
ment, saw Senator Edmunds passing down
street.
look a. there" said the visitor, she
makes the very atmosphere shiver."
So it goes. 1t is the fashion to make
jokes about the frigidity of these two dis
tinguished statesmen, and these jokes have
given to Senators Edmunds and Sherman a
reputation which they oonld not in serious
ness have acquired, for really they are not
cold men.
A few weeks ago two newspaper men
who had never seen either of these senators
were engaged to procure interviews with all
the United States senators on a subject of
national Importance. In the division OF the
labor both Senator Edmunds and Senator
Sherman fell to one of the correspondents.
Hold on" said he. you must take one of
them. l am willing to be frost bitten, but
| object to being frozen stiff"
yLOvx HsaA l1k1 AknS.- %nnIx
asked
"Who was the most agreeable senator on
your list to interviewp
"Would you believe it7" said the other;
"Senator Edmunda He is a charming
man."
"Yes; l should have guessed so after my
experience with Senator Sherman. He was
one of the most cordial and entertaining
men | met"
That is the common verdict of men who
go to either of these senators with civil q ID
suitable questions If you have anything
worth while to ask or to say you can always,
at proper times, approach them without
fear of being received coldly, but rather
with the assurance that you will f1nd re-
spectful and interested listeners, and when
it is their time to speak they will say
something worth hearing. OF course
they have neither taste nor time for
mucn tltJle-LdtLies 4 n0y are very Duby men,
and are not profoundly interested in the
knee measurement of tne latest style of
trousers. But they are as simple as chill
dren in their mental methods, and so free
from all affectation of greatness that it is q
refreshing pleasure to sit with one of them
after having been in the august presence of
some cheap creature who wears gilt braid
on his mind and thinks with his pompous
lungs.
Senator Sherman is much more entertain
ing as a converser than as q speech-maker
In mis- study-a large room just at the head
of the first fight of stairs in his great. plain
looking house on K street.-the is thoroughly
at home. Here he spends most of his even
ings, seated at a fiat desk, upon which an
abundance OF books and papers lie scattered
in that systematic confusion which makes
everything easv to find At the left of
the desk stands vacant, comfortable
chair for anybody who may have sufi-
GENTLY important business to warrant the
senator's attention. Since, Of course, his
visitors are always announced TO him be-
fore they come to bis study, they never have
to go through that embarrassing expert
ence of having 20 stand and wait until he
has come TO a period in his writing or read
lug before he looks up. There is one soma