The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-02


blood that produced John {. BrecklnrIdge.
he is well worth his s. 900 as a show figure
and he comes out into the arena at every
political tussle.
The other albino, Charley Grosvenor, is
now walking about the house with MS
hands in his pockets. He is a straight,
! geoi-looking, long whiskered freak and he
has as many outside tricks worth noting as
has Alr. Breckenridge. He is a good
speaker, and is happiest when engaged IN Il
political fight. He strikes from the shout
der, AMI delights IN es pOusIng the EXTREMIST
views of his PARTY.
Speaking of hair. the congressional ami
I nal show has all kinds Il all colOrs. There
are twenty-seven ed-heqds il this congress,
as there were in the last, but the House has
| still its share, from the brightest vermil-
| ion 20 the brick dust hue, and from the
| black Of Daizell Of Fenrsylya ia to the
! silky white fuzz of Tom Reed. Fully one
| third Of the members are more or less ba d,
| and this badness runs all the way from the
I little white spot as big as a fifty-cent piece,
| which now appears Ia the center of Ben
! Butterworth's crown, u the vast eXDause
of ROSY white which covers the brains Of
! Cole of North Carolina.
Hitt of Illinois needs the service Of the
seven long haired sisters to revivify his
! scalp, and Harry Bingham Of PennsylF ania
| has no more hair on the top If his head
than you will find about the rOsiest dimple
on~,lme. LanGtry's cheek. j. ID. Taylor of
ONO is fast becoming bald. McCreary Of
Kentucky has forehead which IS climbing
towards his crown, and there Is nothing but
fuzzy down left on the big head of Roger
q. Mills of Texas. Cabot Lodge has short
Drown hair which stands up all over his
lthead, and LaFollette of Wisconsin is
afflicted with a cowlick all over his Uranium.
Ashbel +, Fitch of New York lacks hair.
Crisp of Georgia would give 81 900 an
inch to have his head replanted and
Sllver-Dollar Bland will soon nave
pate as white as the coins which he believes
the government ought to use. Carlisle is
fast growing bald. aud HolmRn's head is
thinning. McKinley's head is dark and well
matched. Henderson of Iowa sports
magnificent brush heap of iron-gray, and
McComas of Maryland has hair as thick as
the fur of the seal and as black as the wing
of the raven. Martin Of Texas oils his hair
with bears grease, and the locks of ex-
Sceaker Banks are thick and well brushed,
though they are whittier than snow. Cheadle
of ludiana has brown hair and a sandy
beard, and he is freak of the first water
II was he who, by his movement in favor of
Mllburn, made the democratic blind parson
tho chaplain of congress.
HISTORICAL CURIosITIEs.
Our historical curios are numerous in
this congress- BGckaley of Pennsylvania
was United States minister to Ecuador be-
fore the war, and he was a United States
senator in 1868. He is smooth-faced
darlI-complexioned man of sixty-nine
years of age, and he has as yet made no re-
markable speeches. Banks of Massachu-
sets is one of the most noted characters in
American history. That tall, straight,
slender, fine-looking man with the gray
mustache and goatee, and with the mass of
snow-white hair, is he. He sits near the
speaker on the republican side of the cham
Der, and he has as much iron in his blood
now as when he learned the trade of a ma
chinist in a cotton factory. From me-
chanics he went to the law, and he was
elected speaker of the House of Representa-
tives as knOw-nothing in 1866. He has
been governor of Massachusetts, was a gen.
eral during the late war, and has for a
number of terms served in the House.
Whitthorne of Tennessee has been in the
Senate, and McCreary of Kentucky aud
Gear of Iowa have been governors of the
states which they represent
EX-Speaker Carlisle may pose as a his
torIcal curiosity, and Gen. Joe Wheeler,
that little dark-faced man with the long
beard, was one of the most noted cavalry
leaders of the confederacy. Out of the $50
members fully one-half nave war records,
and there are ninety union soldiers in CON
kitSS anu tlRnb1-uNt COulbubIube ones.
Hooker of Mississippi one of the most noted
OF the southern members, lost an arm on
the battlefield. and it WAS in battle that
Henderson of Iowa, Boothman of Ohio, and
Laws of Nebraska each lost one of his legs.
CONGRESSMEN WITH HOBBIES.
Judge W. II. Holman of Indiana is the
economical freak of the House museum. He
has been here for twenty-fOur years, and
during the whole of that time he has been
cutting down the expenses of the govern
ment on every item. HIS knowledge of the
cost of things is wonderful. He knows to a
cent just how much every charwoman in
the treasury gets. and he can tell you 10
mill what every brick in the new pension
building cost. He is known as the grea
collector" and he has killed many a bill
by singing out his long finger at the
speaker and saying II object"
Judge Holman is feet tall and l x feet
broad across the shoulders. His business
clothes are hung upon his frame, and nature
has been as stingy i'll her appropriation of
fat to him as he is to the civil service in his
giving out of the government funds. His
beard is now turning to iron-gray and his
brown hair has many white strands. He is
fond of tobacco, and sits in his seat with his
pencil in his hands and figures and chews all
day long. He is fond of fine-cut, but when
he makes his campaigns in Indiana he is
htli W u VI DlR-Udll LWlSO, WnlCn
he offers to his constituents. He is too
economical to allow his voice melody and
fullness, and he rasps out his speeches with
the sound of a bnZz-saw when it strikes
knot. His gestures are in pump-handle
style, and he is, in short, a statesman Of the
Blue Jeans Williams type. lie Is kind
hearted fellow withal, and is as honest as
the day is long. He Is worth about $780,
000, aud has fine farm in Southern In
diana.
Silver-Dollar Bland has made all the
reputation he has out of the bill which bore
his name. l am told that Senator Allison
was the author of the bill, but that it was
given to Bland, and he got the credit of it.
Bland Is a semi-bald, brown-whiskered.
common-faced man of 81 He dresses in
business clothes, and evidently wears a suit
II long time. He looks more like a country
grocer than a famous congressman, and he
evidently has not surplus of the silver
which is being coined in his name He
| comes from Ohio, aud first came to con-
gress in 1868, from Missouri.
THE FUNNIEST MAN.
He is too good a fellow to be called the
clown of the congressional museum, is
Allen of Tupelo, Miss. Allen is possessed
of the genius of humor. Fun shines out
through every line Of his solemn face. and
he is the best after dinner speaker at Wash
ington. Straight and slender, with the
sallow complexion of the south, he has a
low forehead, which is RAPIDLY rising