Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-27
THE WORLDS FAIR COMMITTEE.
Representatives Who Are Struggling
With the Great Site Problem.


With the Great Site Problem.
HOW THE COMMITTEE IS coSsrIfUTED-MEN WHO
REPRESENT THE DIFFERENT CITIES IN THE CON-
TEsr-THE CHAIRMAN, WHO HOLDS THE BAL
AScE, AND LOOKS LIKE ROSCOE coSKLINe.
The worlds fair committee Of the House was
appointed to perform one of the most difficult
tasks any committee will be called upon for.
Four sets of men, of equal numbers and rival
interests, are put together to come to an agree
ment which must be disappointing to all but
one set, and single odd member is nominated
to be impartial and bring about an agreement.
THE CHAIRMAN.
Mr.. Gambler the chairman of the committee.
designated to. be impartial. is the man who
looks as Roscoe Conkling used to. He wears
his hair and beard as Conkling did, and it is
just about as gray as Conklings was. He is an
energetic, quick-moving man, with vell-set
frame and muscles firmly knit. Perhaps there
IL little more of amiability and less of
determined force in his face than there was in
Conkling's, and he is, withal, a handsomer
man, but at little distance the likeness is
quite striking. He is a merchant. He was
educated for commercial life, and is largely
Interested in commerce with the East and West
Indies and South America, and is interested in
railroads. He is sixty-two years old, but would
look fifteen years younger but for his almost
white hair. His movements quick and he
Is smooth and rapid talker. During the
Forty-seventh Congress he was a member of
the House, but he was not reelected until the
Fifty-irst.
Hit Of Illinois is one of the best members of
the House. He is the chairman of the foreign
affairs committee and is diplomat of ability.
He was charge d'affaires at Paris for seven
years and In 1881 was appointed assistant secre-
tary OF state. A year later he entered the
House and has served there since. He is man
of most amiable and winning address and he is
held In the highest regard by all his colleagues.
He has the reputation of being perfectly fair
man, and one who can be depended upon to
follow his convictions and to keep his engage
ments. His methods those of the diplo-
mat rather than the politician AS an Illinois
man he Is for Chicago. but his disposition is
very friendly to Washington. and he SAYS
openly that under certain conditions" he in
tends to vote for Washington.
MR. BowDEN.
Bowden is supposed to represent in part the
interests of the District of Columbia on the
committee, as he comes from Virginia and his
interests would be supposed to be nearest
located here. He Is young man, quick witted
and shrewd in politics. and he is not apt to ne
glect any interest he really has at heart. He is
being tall, OF swarthy complexion, with long
black hair resting on his collar and shaggy
black side whlskers, which grow long and thin.
With this he wears SLOUGH hat and has little
the ar about him OF a man who might carry
gun" He is Mahone's first lieutenant In Vir-
gina politics. He Is lawyer by profession,
but has been chiefly in the banking business
This Is his second term in Congress.
MR.. WILSON.
Wilson, the other member supposed to rcp-
resent the District, is the modest and quiet
little member from West Virginia, who is re-
garded as one of the finest orators and ablest
members on the democratic side of the House.
Tie Is rather small of stature. of blonde complex
ion and very mild expression of face. He is a
thinker and student. and has a way of get
ting the best of an argument without making
his adversary mad. Though but a young man
he has served as a soldier in the confederate
army. After the war he professor ill one
OF the best known universities at the capital
ana his career IN Congress has been brilliant.
BELDEN AND FLOWER.
Belden and Flower, who represent New York
on the committee, are pair of shrewd work
ers who have but little to say and seem good
natured almost to the point of Indifference.
but who do not forget the interests they have
In charge and manage to accomplish about
what they set out to do without its being quite
clear how it was all brought about Neither
would arouse the suspicion of being diplo-
mat and that, perhaps is wherein their strong
est diplomacy lies. They are both hospitable,
jolly and gifted. with the appearance of taking
life easy, even in hot contest.
MR.. SPRINGER.
Everybody knows Springer, who is helping
MIR. Hit look out for Chicago's interests-the
bounding, buoyant and ever-present Springer
He is one of the best known members of the
House. He has vigor. persistency and impet-
uosity in fight, yet he is gifted with store
of amiabllity that he can fight all day without
getting mad. His idea of compromise is to get
what he wants. His long service in Congress
gives him valuable experience in parliamentary
plotting, and he and Mr. Hit make a strong
pair to guard the interests of Chicago.
MR.. HATCH.
Missouri is represented on the committee BY
an old and experienced man, Mr.. Hatch, and a
young and new member, Mr.. Frank. Mr. Hatch
has long been the mouthpiece of the farmers in
the House and has had remarkable success in
getting things in about the shape he wanted
them to be in. For several years under the
democratic majority he has been the chairman
OF the agricultural committee and he has con-
Quoted successfully some hard fights on the
floor OF the House. He is not given to diplo-
macy, but hits straight from the shoulder and
keeps on hitting when he has fight on hand
His purpose is to get there"
MR.. FRANK.
Mr.. Frank, his colleague, is now serving his
first term in Congress, but he had the expert
ence of being "a contestant for seat occupied
by another through full term. He is quite
young, the son OF II successful st. Louis mer-
chant. and Is thin, keen-faced man, with the
appearance of alertness. He is a LAWYER by
profession, having graduated at Harvard law
school, and he makes specially of CONNER
cial law. bankruptcy. dc. In fact he has the
experience and knowledge of a commercial and
business man as well as a lawyer. With Hatch
and him on the committee Missouri is well
represented and her interests will not be ne
elected.
A Nine-Day Nightmare.
sensation has been created around Kansas