The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-01
VS. PALF ANn sALLow.


As he raised his face to vote upon meas
ure I noted that it
WAS PALE AND sALLow.
and his eyes seemed to have sunken deeper
under his high, broad forehead. Senator
Carlisle is fully six feet tall, but he does
not weigh more than $50 pounds. His com
piexlon marks him as a man with a liver.
and he walks about packed full of the ma
-arIal secretions which fill the air of Ohio
river bottoms added to those which float up
from the miasmatic Potomac He has the
Students stoop, and he has never been a
disciple of physical culture. He paws no
aUtenton 10 his diet. and he plods away day
and night at his studies He gets IN an
hour before the rising time of the average
Senator, which is at O'Clock or later. and
he works IN his room until he goes to the
capitol He eats his lunch in less than ten
minutes, and he often works while he is
/eatlng 1t. When he was Speaker he
!unched IN his private room, and it is said
that he never took lunch while the House
was IN session. He is not fond of society.
and ne goes about just as little as he can.
lie is man with no recreations whatever.
ana ms great brain only rests when he
sleeps.
STILL SPEAKER CARLISLE
does not look much older now than he did
when he came to Washington twelve wears
ago. He was then forty three years old
tie same tall, pale, thin, black haired. grey
eyed, smooth-Shaven, dignitied man. He
lived for years in boarding houses and
notes, and 1t has only been short time since
ne bought place and went to housekeep-
ing he paid, | think, 80, GOO for his home
II Is located within three squares of the
W llre HOnSp Il - -.
most fashionable part of the city. Mrs.
r Carlisle presides over it. She is a tall. we'll
formed, blonde lady, possessed of fine
social qualities, bright and well educated.
One takes very good care of Speaker
Carhsle, and 1t is due to her that he stands
the strain OF his work as well as he does.
Senator Carlisle will be a stronger man
IN his present position than he was in the
House He is more of logician than an
orator, and his speeches are more noted for
their thought than for their briiliancy of
dlctlon- Spreadeagleism has practically
died out in the Senate. The great speeches
nave become, like these of the English
parliament, talks between the Senators
uttered IN conversational tone ana il is
Ideas rather than words that tell. Carlisle
VIII be at the head of the southern men of
the Senate. He will rank with Butler.
vest and Morgan, and will be the peer of
any man on his side of the chamber. He is
IN character like Joe Brown. of Georgia.
IMAM any OF these men, and he will not have
10 walt ike the average new Senator for
two years to make himself felt.
THE CHANGE FROM BECK TO CARLISLE
has been no loss to the strength of the
Senate, and Carlisle is undoubtedly the
equal of his predecessor. The same can
hardly be said of some of the other changes
which have taken place within the past
few Neither Of tho f,.o,,
Arkansas have the same prominence that
was held by eX-Atuorney-G General Garland.
and Senator Gray does not figure as ma
tional character as did Thomas Z. Bayard.
Walthall IS undoubtedly an able man, but
he has not as yet reached the proportions
of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar and
the millionaire f'arwell, and though he is a
good man in committee, has no such place
IN the public eye as was held by John A
Logan. In the whole United States Senate
there is not more than dozen men who
have national prominence and whose minds
sifect public legislation. The average Wis
Stor to the capitol has to ask when told the
names of the sixty other odd senators as to
whether they belong to the Senate or the |
House, as their personality is unknown Il |
number Of the senators are supposed to |
possess great ability, but they seldom ap- |
pear on the floor, and an instance of this is |
Senator Payne, of Ohio, who is known in |
Cleveland as great lawyer who has been |
talked Of as possible President and dur
ing the six years which he is just closing
has not made one speech of any note |
Senator Eustis, OF Louisiana, is un-
doubleday an able man. He comes of a I
long line Of statesmen and he has written /
articles for the magazines and has de- I
lvered classic speeches which show him to |
be a man of great parts. Still he never
speaks in the Senate and the people of the