The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-25

find In niue-tenths OF the heaas VI A.sS
brother senators, and the gray mater III
Der of the House, with the exception, per-
haps, of that of Tom Reeds.
Senator Plumb has just risen to speak.
He has the aggressive business back. lie
is fat and strong and clustering. Every
line of his rear is practical. His shoulders
are square. and so square that they hurt
vour ewes. His shoulder-blades are turned
In towards his chest, and he doubles up
his fists and pounds the air as he talks.
He whips himself this way and that, and
YOU see that there is not weak joint IN
his vertebra, and you can almost see the
backbone of the man though il is padded
with q thick covering of flesh. He is speak
ing on the silver bill. and wonder whether
the big silver mines which he owns in
Colorado influence his speech. he
is a general speculator as well as a
banker and a broker, and he has lots oil
money out at interest. Just back OF him
stands Young Senator Wolcott. He has
rair of Shoulders so broad that had he
been Sinbad. the "0ld Man of the Sea"
would have never left him, and he Is a
good deal like Plumb. only better made
and better rounded. He has short neck,
big. welI-combed head, and he has
shown himself to be a good speaker. Just
beside him l note lean little fellow OF
about 100 pounds weight. / would take
him for clerk il did not know that he
was Senator Chandler, and as look at the
big frame of Wolcott, one OF the legs OF
which is as big around almost as Chand-
lers waist, and the head of which CORE
spends to Chambers as football does TO a
baseball, see that avoirdopois is no
index of brains, and that little man may
do as much as a big one. Chambers back
does not measure more than loot and q
half from shoulder to shoulder. His neck
~. - hot. ~ hn txEsG
that of chicken, and it hobs this way and
that. and he twists his shoulders in and
out as he sits there and thinks. He is the
most nervous body in the Senate, but his
dyspeptic organization is packed fuii CT
vitality, and he has had enough brains to
make him secretary of the navy and to
keep him for years in the United States
Senate.
Senator Voorhees, has a fat. Dutch back.
His frame is tail, heavy and apopleptic. 1t
is an aggressive back and sort of bully
ing back, and he has made lots of money
at the law by throwing those big shoulders
back and bllIdozing the Jury. He is one
of the finest lawyers in Indiana, and it /
said that he makes $25,0 Il year at the
practice. He is famous as a criminal law
yer and he has gotten of rs many murder
ers as any man in the Senate. Eustis, who
sits beside him. is also lawyer, aud his
back looks up TO the gallery with all the
lines of good living and good clothing. He
has an income bigger than that of Voor-
bees and have no doubt but that he
could buy Voorhees, n half dozen times
over. His big frame has been fed with a
silver spoon from the time it first saw light
as bouncing big baby until now when it
holds its own as one of the six-foot
lpillionaires of the United States Sen
ae. Eustis comes from one of the
oldest families of the country. He gradu-
afed at Harvard, and has been n professor
for years in one of the universities of New
Orleans. One of his brothers married Mr.
Gorcoran's daughter and the senator him
self inherited a fortune. He is man of
great ability and great culture, but he is
too rich and too lazy to cut Il great figure
in the Uniled States Senate, and he takes
things easy, and seldom makes a speech.
Senator Vance has the back of a fat old
grandmother and his double breasted coat
with long skirts makes you think he is an
old woman in black s'Mother Hubbard
as you look at him from the gallery. His
back is full of good nature, and he is one of
the ablest as well as one of the most genial
men on the Democratic side of the cham
Der.
Blodgets of New Jersey is one of the
razor-backed senators. He is long and
thin, and he scores you when he
begins to get up. He rises and rises
until you wonder where he will end and
the bald spot on his crown, when he stands
erect, is somewhere near seven feet from
the floor. He has the students stoop, but
he got it bending over the machinery of
locomotive rather than over books, and
his reputation has been made out of rail
roads rather than politics. He began life
as locomotive engineer, and he worked
his engine so well that he wheeled him.
self into one of the chief offices of the
LnI c. L
of the Long Branch division of the Jersey
Central railroad. He lives at Long Branch,
and is said to be in close connection with
the sewell party of New Jersey politics.
Another tall, lean senator is Walthall of
Mississippi. He is six feet high and about
eighteen inches broad. His shoulders are
narrow and his long hair flows down in
curls upon them. Looking down at him
from the gallery, you would hardly know
whether his head was that of man or
woman, for the hair is combed Ia pompa-
dour and it flows in graceful curls down
the napc of his neck. He is n high
toned Southern gentleman and he is said
10 be an eminent lawyer. He is always
dressed in the cleanest and neatest of
clothing and in this is somewhat different
from his colleague, Senator George who
looks AZ though he had been modelled
by one of natures brick makers instead of
one of natures SculptorS, and whose negli-
gent ways have caused his bitter-tongued
enemies on the other side of the chamber
TO call him the educated pig of the body"
George, however, is q very good fellow
He is a man of considerable brains and he
is great constitutional lawyer 1t is not
true that his trousers are cut with q circu-
lar saw and his coats are, in reality, made
In Washington instead of at home His
pantaloonS are undoubtedly slightly baggy
and the remark of Senator Vance as TO
them is not altogether ont of the way.
Vance says that he never takes Il rear view
of his old friend George without thinking
OF what one of his colored constituents
said about an elephant This old uncle
had been 10 circus and Senator Vance.
upon his return, was asking him about the
animals lie had his own opinion ahout
ali of them and at last asked the senator:
And how about the elephant, Uncle
NedP Did you see the elephant2"
Yes replied the old uncle, 81 done
seed the elephant"
And what kind of an elephant was it,
Uncle Ned ?"
wal, never seed an elephant aforc. but
low this was mighty smart elephant
only II 'pcared To me that he sutinly had 4
heap of slack leather in his pants" -
And so IL is in Senator Georges clothes
There seems to be a lot of slack cloth in
them. and his dress and manner would
never tell YOU that he had been a soldier
in the Mexican war under Jefferson Davis
and hrigadier general during the late I'm,
pleasantness that he had been chief Justice
IN the supreme court of Mississippi. thai
he had published some of the best Law
books in Georgia. and that he was now
serving his second term with credit in tn,
United States Senate.