St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-19
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cent just now much every charwOman
III the treasury gets. and he can tell you
to mill what every brick in the new
pension ilding cost. He is known as
the great ''objector," and he has killed
many a bill by Singing out his long
finger at the speaker and sayin :, II ob-
lect." Judge Holman is six feet tall
and a foot and a half broad aero S the
shoulders. His business clothes
are hung upon his frame. and
nature has been as stingy in
her appropriation Of fat to him as he is
to the civil service in his giving out of
the government funds. His heard is
now turning to iron gray. and his brown
hair has many white strands, He is
fond of tobacco, and he sits in his seat
with his pencil in his hand and figures
and chewS all day long. He is fond of
fine cut, but when he makes his cam
paignS in Indiana he is SAID to carry a
plug OF pig-tail twist, which 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 buZZ-saw when it strikes a
knot. He gestures in pump-handle
style. and he is, in short, statesman of
the Blue Jeans Williams type. He is a
kind-hearte'l fellow Withal, and is as
honest is the day is long. He is worth
about 100000, and has fine farm III
Southern Indiana.
Silver Dollar Bland has made all the
reputation he has out of the bill which
bore bis name. am told that Senator
Allison was the author of the bill. but
-tnat it Was given to Bland and he got
the credit of il. Bland is q semi-bad.
brown-whiskered, cOmmOn-faced man
of tfty-four. He dresses in business
clothes and evidently wears his suits a
long time. He looks more like a count
try grocer than a famous congressman,
aud he evidently has not a surplus of
the silver which is being coined III his
name. He comes from Ohio and first
came to congress in 1868 from Missouri.
The Funniest Man in Congress.
He is too good a fellow to be called
the clown of the congressional museum,
is Allen TupelO. of Mississippi. Allen
is possessed of the genius of humOr.
Fun shines out thrOu IN every line of
his solemn face. an he is the best after
dinner speaker at Washington. Straight
and slender. with the SallOW complex
ion of the South, he has low forehead,
which is rapidly rising through his
paucity of hair towards his crown. He
has brown muStache, bright bla ok
eyes and face like a funeral. He is a
good speaker and is possessed of good
abilities in other ways than those of
humor. He is the only wit left in con-
gress, and lie is the prince of those who
have gone before. He 'OutShines jim
Bedford, and throws O'Neill. Of Mis-
souri,. and Thu TarSney, of Michigan,
into the shade. He is a better story
teller than was Sam Cox, and he could
make fortune as lecturer.
The raIlest and the shortest.
The tallest man in the house is still
Stewart, of Texas, and the shortest is
little La Toilette, of Wisconsin. Stew
art is biz all over. He weighs close to
275 pounds, and he has leg as big
around as Joe Wheeler's waist. He has
been in congress for six years, and his
speeches in the Congressional Record.
if the pages were pasted together. would
not be as long as his frame. La Toilette
is nearly foot shorter than he is and
has twice the reputation on the floor.
He is member of the ways and means
committee. and notwithstanding his
five feet three inches. his 100 pounds
weight and his boyish look, he
has made a place for himself in the