Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-09

suit ride In carriage. The same old
gnuff-coIored clothes which fit as though
they had been cut by one of the old man.
mics of his plantation, inclose his fat frame
when he addresses the Senate, and he puts
his whole force into his constitutional argu-
ments, which are weighty and strong.
HOW INGALLS, PREPARES HIMSELF.
Senator Ingalls, shaves himself twice be-
fore be comes TO the Senate to make 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 a
bandbox His Prince Albert coat is but
toned tight around his Interrogation point
of frame, his red necktie is of the freshest,
and he has a half inch of red silk handker-
chief sticking outside of the left breast
pocket of his coat A pair of gold spectacles
attached to long gold chain are seated
across his aristocratic nose, and these spec
tacles are made in a curious shape. Out of
the lower halves of each a half moon has
been cut and a different quality of glass in
serted therein.
The top of the glasses are for far-sighted-
ness, and were especially made for Ingalls,
to get glance al the Democrats, and the
galleries and the half-moons are for near
sightedness, in order 10 enable him to read
his manuscript notes. ingalls, has the repu-
tation for being good impromptu speaker.
pearls and diamonds from the mouth of the
good little girl in the fairy tale, and he has
gotten the credit of being made up of pure
and unadulterated brain. This is, in a
measure, true, and in a measure not. He
has wonderful
VITALITY OF INTELLECT,
and be is a wonderful saver of the intellect
u8l pennies. He is in a constant state of
preparation for speeches, and everything he
reads, hears or thinks is laid away in one of
the thousand pigeon holes of that little head,
at such an angle that it will slide out and
down upon his tongue at seconds notice.
He has wonderful faculty of memory in
that whenever ne writes out sentence or a
fact the pen that prints the words upon the
paper makes an lndelioie 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 a hog
he is as tender as 2-year old child. He is
a man of wonderful ability and of the most
hIgh-strung and sensitive temperament
He is a full-blooded thoroughbred whose
heels are ready 10 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 a
United States Senator and his
CULTURE is so EXTENSIVE
that he is able to say a cutting thing in a
thousand different WAYS and to 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
Virginian. He is a greater man than Ran
doIph, 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 a BOONE
rang upon himself.
The most deliberate speaker in the Senate
is Edmunds. He speaks without notes,
never revises his manuscript, and now and
then is quite as bitter as Ingalls,. With a
face like patriarch and beard and bald
head so sanity that he is taken for the
model of Father Jerome. he likes nothing
better than a slight thrust at his brother
Senators, and he is one of the kickers of the |
Senate. He is strong on constitutional
points, and he has an amendment to offer to |
everything under the sun. One of his |
brother Senators the other day said he would |
bet 500 that il the matter could be proven |
it would be found that when Edmunds, as a |
baby on his mothers knee, was first taught |