Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-03

OPPOSING THE ELECTIONS BILL.
Republics Senators Who Won't Stand in
the Party line.
THREE PROMINENT FIGURES - CHARACTERISTICS
OF SENATOR TE1LER-QU1ET But r1RM-sENA-
TOR woLooTrs HUsTLINo wAYs-A YOUNG SEN
AroR WITH oPINIoNs-sTEwARr's HOBBIES
TT Is EVIDENT that Senator Teller, having
L declared himself, is not going to let his OPP
position to the force bill be merely passive. He
is q man Of judicial mind, firm convictions,
reserved but aggressive. He may be depended
upon to do all in his power to sustain himself
in the position he has taken, otherwise he
would have maintained silence.
He is one of the few men in the Senate who
immediately attract the attention of the
stranger in the gallery and cause him to ask:
''who Is thatT' There is keenness about his
visage which leads to the prompt conclusion
that he is more than an ordinary man. He is
somewhat under size. being below medium
height and rather slender. His movements are
quick. but not so quick as to destroy the
character Of firmness which is plainly stamped
upon his face. He has high. broad forehead
and a long face, well proportional and taper
ing to prominent chin, well set to support a
firm mouth. His thick dark hair. sprinkled
with gray. is worn moderately long and combed
straight back from the forehead after the style
of Gen. jackson. His face is marked with lines
which indicate thought and quickness as well
as frmness.. He is not n talker. That is, he
does not talk much, though when he does talk
he does it well. He carries this trait from the
Senate chamber into his private relations.
QUIET BUT FIRM.
He does not fully reveal himself to passers
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and are seldom expressed before there is de-
mand for them. Enthusiasm. excitement and
haste are almost unknown to him, or if they do
enter into his makeup they are not revealed to
the outside world. Reserve and self
confidence and perhaps consciousness of
power are shown in his face and bearing, but
he never obtrudes himself in any way. He is
apt to have set convictions on any question
that is occupying public attention, but they
are not set as are those of q bigot who
reaches conclusion and then patches mp some
reason to sustain it. With his conviction fol-
lows reason, and nothing but superior reason
can shake it. He is a man of action. All along
he has kept very quiet about the force bill and
it has been uncertain whether or not he would
oppose it outside OF the party caucus. His
position was a matter of grave concern to the
managers Of the bill for the reason that he is
one whose opinion carries weight He il an
ardent and earnest advocate of free coinage OF
silver and as such has all along been impatient
| at the dallying with the elections bill. but his
speech on the subject shows objections to the
bill itself entirely apart from the position il
| occupies in blocking the way of silver legisla-
ton His attitude since this first declaration Of
principle is characteristic. He has not done Of
others have, as was the common practice among
republicans who opposed the tariff bill last
Congress, and as some have done in this de
bate-declared his opposition to the bill and lei
it rest at that. He has since taken an active
part in replying to his colleagues and in trying
to prove to the whole Senate that the position
he has taken is RICH. and wise for the party.
He is one of the ablest men in the Senate and
his words have done more. perhaps, than those
uttered by any other Senator to discomfit Mr.
Hoar.
Mr.. woLCorr As A HUSTLER.
Mr.. Wolcott is a man who is constantly send.
ing cold chills up and down the backs of Hoar
Edmunds, Harris and some of the rest of the
older Senators. who have their own notions
ABOUT the rights Of new Senators, especially il
| they are young. to form and express an opin.
ion. He has number Of opinions on mum.
Der of subjects, and he not only acts as If he
thought he had right to them, but even ex-
presses them in very bold and convincing
manner. 1t is shocking to the nervous system
| Of the Senate to have young man talk as he
| does The solons might get used to his bold
ness il he did not talk so well; but for him to
rush headlong into prominence is to them in
excusable.
He does not look like the man he is. His face
and manner show keenness; a sporting man
would call him ''fy," and he is evidently bold
but the casual observer would not take him FOL
an orator and q master of logic who could at.
tract attention among the body OF sages who
constitute the United States Senate. He looks
like sporting man Of the jolly, generous, de-
vil-may-care sort, who can pass the world
around in the good-fellow class. He il well
formed and athletic in build, with flesh enough
TO indicate good living. His face is altogether
too full Of delicately tinted flesh to suggest the
team.
HE Is Up TO SNUFF.
Most any man Of the world would readily be
lieve that he has wasted more midnight oil in
prosecuting game of poker than in the study
Of law, politics or science. He is evidently FOND
Of dress, and ia not entirely unconscious Of the
| fact that he Is q fine-looking man, one who
| would be very apt to attract attention from {
gallery full Of ladies such as listened to hi
speech Tuesday. He does not take to the sedatt
senatorial suit Of solemn black, and his neck
wear is sometimes positively shocking" Or
Tuesday he wore a gensdsrme blue tie, puffet
out and pinned with a diamond. In addition
to this he wears his hair parted in the middle
| His habitual air is of self-confdcnce mingled
with general indifference; not undignifed, bu
not straining after dignity.
His predecessor, Mr.. Bowen, had the reputa
ton Of being the best poker player who .evel
served In Congress up to his time, but WolcOtt
] it is said, would consider him but baby. But
if he is an expert at poker he plays at the game
| Of craftsmanship with nearly much skill, anC
he promises to have wide fame before he ha,
served another year. Anthony Higgins is
precocious youth in the Senate, but Wolcott il
| ahead of him on that score.
| SENATOR STEWART AND HIS HOBBIES.
| Stewart of Nevada, another of those in opeI
revolt against the managers Of the force bill
| not only looks like Santa Claus. but has tina
| genial, generous, good-natured manner which
we like to consider one of the attributes of thu
patron saint Of our childhood. He has twt
hobbies, silver and the race problem. Silver il
first, always first. The race question il ont
rather in the retrospect in his mind than on,
| for future solution. He is regarded as the au
| thor of the fourteenth amendment to the Con
stitution, and with that and the one succeeding
the negro problem has been working itself out
These two questions being 80 closely allied il
the present controversy in the Senate, it is no
astonishing that Mr.. Stewart should take al
active part in the struggle nor is il strange tina