The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16
ORATORS IN THE SENATE.
COW LITTLE AND BIG STATESMEN
MAZE THEIR SPEECHES.

speeches - Blair'S Cranky Habits
Evarts' Long Sentences.
From the Nelo York World
WASHINGTON. March Oratory is ying
ont in congress. You can count on your
fingers the great speeches which have been
delivered in the Senate this session, and the
N llionaires' Club runs mora to gossip and
ory than to statesman-like eloauence.
/ There are two men in the body who can
make a good after-dinner speech to every
one who can acquit himself with honor
mon the floor, and the Clays, Websters
and Calhouns of the present are num-
bered. The fastest speaker in the Senate
is Beck. He willis his shirt collar as he
talks, and he pours out the diet ionary at
the rate of 225 words per minute. He
sneaks without manuscript and thinks on
his feet. 1t seems to rest him to talk and
that big, brown. grizzly-gray head of his is
hacked full Of fact and figure, which he
hurs at the opposite sides of the chamber
in a sort of sledge-hammer way.
Gen. Joe Hawley is fast speaker His
voice is full and clear, and he not infre-
ouently utters sentence that sticks to the
gray matter of your brain. and is worth
repetition. George of Mississippi is the
slowest speaker in the Senate His tongue
qoes bv clockwork and no pendulum ever
moves slower. He pays no attention to the
craces of orators, and when he came to con-
eress he promised his constituents that he
would not wear dress suit or ride in a car
rage. The same old snuff-colored clothes.
which fit as though they had been cut by
one of the old mammies of his plantation,
inclose his fat frame when he addresses the
Senate.
csooo+or Tp0a1ls ebax,aS HE Foo +,.;oo -
fore ne comes to the Senate to make a great
speech. He has his hair carefully combed
takes Turkish bath and looks as he rises
to speak as though ne had popped out of a
handbook His Prince Albert coat is but
toned tight around his interrogation point
of frame. his red necktie is of tue fires nest.
and he has half-inch OF red silk handker-
chief sticking outside of the left reast
pocket of his coat. A pair of gold specta>
cles attached to long gold chain are seat d
across his aristocratic nose and these spec
tacles are made in curious shape
Out Of the lower halves of e .ch glass
half moon has been cut and a different
quality of glass inserted therein. The top
of the glasses are for farsightedness, and
were especially made for Ingalls, to get a
glance at the democrats in the galleries,
ard the half moons are for nearsghtedness
in order to enable him to read his manu-
script notes.
Ingalls, has the reputation of being good
impromptu speaker. Ideas drop from his
tongue ia ter than the pearls and diamonds
from the mouth If the good little girl in the
fairy tale, aud he has got the credit of being
male UP OF pure and unadulterated BRAIN
This is IN measure true and in measure
not. He has a wonderful vitality of intel
lect, and he is a wonderful saver of the in
tellecJual pennies. He is in 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 a seconds
notice.
He has a wonderful faculty of memory,
in that whenever he writes out a statement
or fact the pen that prints the words upon
the paper makes an indelble impressi N
on his brain. He never forgets such sem
tences 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 ne pretends to have the
skin Of hog, he Is as tender as a 2-Year-old
child. He is a full-bloodcd thoroughbred.
whose heels are ready to fly i'll the faces of
his brother senators at the slightest provo
cation. and who is never SO happy as when
he is kicking his enemies.
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 a beard and bald
head so sanity that he is taken for the
model Of Father Jerome, he likes nothing
better than 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 if the matter could be proven
it would be found that when Edmunds was
baby on his mothers knee, and was first
taught the Lords prayer, he objected,
Jumped down and offered an amendment
to it.
The trouble with Edmunds' intellect is
that it is too big for this world. He grasps
matter in detail rather than in whole, and,
as one senator describes it, he looks at the
heavens through q goose-quill aud never
sees more than that which comes within his
range. WHAT he does see he sees wonder
fully we'll, and the old story of the senator
who said Edmunds could see a bluebottle
fly on barn door four miles away without
seeing either the door or the barn struck the
Vermont statesman to T. Edmuuds
speaks well on stimulants A little rare old
bourbon makes his tongue more regular
and his clear blue eye more cold and cruel
He has a good voice, and his range of
knowledge is wonderful. He is, of all the
senators, the nearest approximation to pure
intellect, and his experience added to his
brains has made him the autocrat of the
Senate. Both the republicans and the
democrats are afraid of him, and he knows
it and likes it,
Another intellectual giant who is not
here this session is Joe Brown of Georgia.
Brown looks like a country parson who has
been retired after long service in the church
and has turned book agent. He has a long
patriarchal beard, yellowish, bald head,
from the sides of which long iron-gray curls
fail down and wrap themselves around his
ears. His black broadcloth clothes, made
OF double thickness for warmth, hang on
his big, thin, angular frame as though, they
came from a second hand clothier, and his
red undershirt forms bracelet around his
thin wrist as he solemnly gestures in
straight up and down lines. His forehead
is high and full His big, sunken eyes are
hidden by gold spectacles, and.the upper lip
above his large mouth is closely shaven.
AS he speaks the long beard on his chin
moves up and down like that Of billy-goat
when he is chewing his cud, and you think
of patent straw-cutter with heavy tail
of bar fastened to the lower end. The words
come out by machinery and they are carved
into vocal blocks with the slowness and the
articulation of funeral Grafton r judges
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