The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-18

ana ne commanded troons fhror gb or. lie
Iereit parts of the West. He started Wsst
s snen ne was only is years old with his
,s;' VINO was well-to-do PennsyIya-
t i.an, ana stopped first in Illinois. where
ms iather engaged in stock raising He
ielt there at the age of Is, and crossed the
piains IN an emlgrant train of canvas-cn,-
efed wagons, and engaged in minine in
Ioiofaao. somewhere near Pixies Peak, He
snept store at the same time. and
,a;,, s'ols paiq enough to keep the
mines going. He mined for some ,;mo
and then moved northward and snallv
settied In Boise City. He has been en-.
gagged IN mining, stock raising and ,oar-
cantiie business for years. and he i Now
SAD TO be one of the rich men of his state
he has had all the honors that the state
ana !he territory could give him, and he
tive chair to take his present Mace in tbe
senate, He has been a member of the
national Republican COMMITTEES and be
says there is no doubt of his Renuhlican.
Ism, Notwithstanding his action on the
snVer Dill couple of weeks ago.
TWO DETROIT LAWYERS.
Inc ups and downs of politics were we'll
illustrated in trial which took Mace he
lore the supreme conrt this week A dan
per little gentleman with luxuriant side
whiskers the color of tan bark. and with
an air altogether like that of a la-de-lah
preacher, was haranguing the old men in
gowns on the subject of patent case. The
pfeacher-lke lawyer made a good speech.
ana ne was closely listened to by one of
the justices at least. This Justice sal nj
the extreme end of the bench nearest the
clerks office, and he frowned from time to
!ine with all the Importance of a new
Judge. He had big head, a high broad
forehead, and his severe ewes looked ont
from under his heavy, bushy brows. His
nose was Roman one, and it was
large and straight. His great mouth
was tightly closed in conscious dignity and
he wrinkled his brow as he sat there and
frowned and frowned and watched the
dsapper little gentleman make his plea
Inc dignlned man was the new supreme
court justice, Judge Brown, of Detroit.
ana the dapper little gentleman with the
tan-bark whiskers was Don NJ. Dickinson.
who was postmaster general in Cleveland's
cabinet. A few years ago both of these
men were practicing before the Detroit
bar and both had great official ambitions
Dlcklnson reached the top of the ladder of
his desires first and he rather smiled at
Brown as he sat in the great postoffice de-
partment and looked out at him still try-
ing cases in Detroit. He fell back to his
old level at Harrison's election and now it
is Brown who is on top, and on top To
stay: Cabinet officers rise and fall with
presidential elections, but judges of the
supreme court are elected for life and
Brown has the assurance of dy-
ing full of honors. He is a fine
looking judge and he looks very much
like Judge Brewer, who sits on the other
end OF the bench. He owes his appoint
ment largely TO his friends for promptly
pressing his claims. He has long wanted
TO be a supreme justice, and when Stanley
Matthews died his friends were here and
they were ready to push him for the place.
After Brewer was appointed they reserved
their papers in hand for the death of the
next justice, and upon Justice Miller's de-
cease they at once filed their claims Judge
Brown IS said to be a very fine lawyer. He
made fortune at the law and he is worth
somewhere between $500 900 and 81 ,0O0, OO0
He is the richest justice of the supreme
court since the day of Chief Justice
Marshall, who died owning about 100, 600
acres of land and stocks and bonds galore.
HOW THE MISSOURI SENATORS KEEP THEIR
SEATS.
One of the brightest of the Western con-
gressmen is Representative Tarseney of
Missouri. He is a brother of Tim Tarseney,
who was in the last House, and he is quite
as level-headed and quite as witty as his
brother. l asked him as to the standing
of Senator Cockrell in Missouri and where
in consisted his strength with the people.
Said Mr.. Tarseney:
Senator Cockrell is one of the most
popular men in his state and he is much
better politician than he is given credit for
being. There is hardly granger in the
state of Missouri who has not one of Frank
Cockrell'S autograph letters framed to
hang up in his parlor. Cockrell attends to
his correspondence better than any public
man / know. He answers every letter the
moment it is received and if the writer
wants anything at Washington his letter
is replied TO with the statement that the
matter will be attended TO at once and
few days later he writes another letter
telling the man just how his case stands
and sending him what he wants. Senator
Cockrell has the StateSman'S memory. If
he meets you today he will know your face
fifteen years from now, and If he has met
your wife he will be sure TO ask what has
become of Maria, and how is baby John
who WAS with YOU when he last saw YOU.
He makes it his business to attend to the
wants of his constituents. He is one Of
the hardest workers in public life, and he
isn't afraid TO tackle John Sherman,
George +. Edmunds, or any of the other
big bugs on the other side of the chamber.
"What kind of man is Vest?p | asked.
Senator Vest" replied Mr.. Tarseney,
sis the direct opposite to Cockrell. He
holds his position through pure brains and
he has no missing qualities whatever. He
has had so much trouble of one kind and
another that he has become, TO a certain
extent, misanthropie, and he is not, as a
rule, 3 good conversationalist He is a
man of great ability, and we Missourians
admire him.
SENATOR TURTLES EDUCATION.
The conversation here turned TO literary
senators, and Mr.. Tarseney said that he
believed that Mr.. Turpie was the best
posted and most bookish of any man at
Washington City. said he:
Senator Turpie understands half a
dozen different languages, speaks French,
German and Italian, and he quotes Shakes
peare, Homer and the Bible in the same
breath. He came out to Kansas City not
long ago and wanted to show him the
town proposed a carriage, but he OBJ
iected and said he didn't want TO ride
around the streets, and that he would
As we started out he asked me
if we had any good book stores. | told
him we had few, and he asked TO he
shown the biggest one. We went to 1t,
and Turpie asked the clerk for some out
landish old book that | had never seen or
heard of. The clerks didn't know the book
and one after another, including the pro-
prietor was asked concerning it, but all
professed ignorance. At last the lady
bookkeeper was called up, and she said she
thought they had a copy of it. She got it
and gave il 10 Turpie. He grabbed at it as
a hungry dog at bone, and sat down right
there and read away at ii for an hour while
| watched him III wonder, wanting 10 show
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