The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-06

He says he will not be 6 candidate for re-
election and he states that he hopes to see
Governor Jackson elected. It would not
be fair to say that there was any arrange
ment to that effect connected with his ap-
pointment, but such things have been be-
fore and may be now. Senator Gibson is q
well made. handsome young fellow some
where in the forties. He is noted for his
fellowship, his hospitality and his generos-
ity, and his wife is one of the handsomest
and most accom- plished women at the CAPT.
tai.
SENATORS FROM THE GULF STATE.
The Gulf of Mexico furnishes two new
men to the Senate. These are White Of
Louisiana who takes the seat OF the rich
and phlegmatio Eustls and Davidson of Flo
rida who hopes to hold from now on the
position which the choleric Call has kept
for the past twelve years. Senator White
promises to make more of a noise than did
Eustis. He is a Louisiana lawyer, and is
noted for his vitality and nervous energy.
He is six feet tall, has robust frame and
his hair and complexion are blonde. He Is
well educated, speaks French like a creole
and is very fluent as debater. He is quick
at repartee though not bitter in his re-
marks. He is sugar planter as well as q
lawyer, and has large sugar estate near
New Orleans. He Is a bachelor but pre-
fers his own home to hotel and he will
probably keep house at Washington with
his sister as the female at the head Of the
house.
Senator Davidson of Florida has been in
the Lower House of Congress for years.
He is a man Of fair average ability but with
none Of the elements of great statesman
ship or great oratory about him. He is
well educated and during the late unpleas-
antness he won his spurs on the Confeder
ate side, entering the service as q captain
and coming out q Northumberland. He
was acting in this position when he was
severely wounded in 1864 and had to leave
the service. He Is is now about sixty years
of age and has been in politics all his life.
GREAT MEN FROM THE CABINET.
The two ex-Cabinet officers who come
trotting into the Senate will probably at
tract considerable attention. Proctor Of
| Vermont IL as mild o man as ever cut or
official throat, but he is fresh from the
great department Of war and there is fire
in his eye. Villas has been digesting hi
postal schemes in the long walks which ht
has taken about his Wisconsin home and b.
will trot out new bills for the improvement
OF the the two great departments will
which he has been connected. The race be
I tween the two as to senatorial noteriety
will be unequal. Proctor is rather bust
ness man than speaker while Villas has
great reputation as both. Senator Procto
has made fortune by his business brains
He was made receiver of the Vermont Mar
Bile quarries and he managed them so tina
they have made him rich. He is said to b
a millionaire, and he lives very nicely her
at Washington in a big house on Masss
chusetts avenue just across the way fror
Chief Justice Fuller's home and betwee
Scott and Dupont Circles. He is now abou
sixty years Of age and he Is nearly ten year
older than Senator Villas. He was born il
Verm ont and was studying law at the tim
the war broke out. He left his studies {
go into the army as quartermaster and ros
to be colonel, when his health failed and b
went to farming. He was farming whe
he became receiver of the Marble auarrie
which made his fortune and he still owns
big farm and runs 1t. He ia said to posses
some Of the finest bloaded cattle in II
country and he is fond of country life
Senator Villas is also something of
/ farmer though have never heard Of h
being scientific one. During the tin
that he was making reputation SIS Law
yer IN Wisconsin be lived on farm fou