Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-18

OF his ingenuity and had raised corns ON the
convolutions Of his brain by overworking that
organ.
Well, what are the facts?
Why, the facts are that the lawyer Is Just as
dominant In this Congress as ever There are
few more farmers than usual, but they have
no more influence on legislation than they had
IN the FIfty-frst Congress and their voices are
scarcely heard. As John Davis one Of the
ablest farmers in Congress, said to me yester-
day: we scarcely expect to get any Of our i'm
| shall be satisfied with an educational campaign.
We are going to make some speeches that viii
influence vote hereafter"
MAKING THExsELvKs INDIsPEEsABLR.
Another Congressman-farmer from the west
permits me to publish his plant thus.
The lawyers always rule tbs states
sApd I'LL the bench a. Judges;
And ns no man updsr.t.nas the Laws
For they are tangled up because
The cunning lawyers made thsm!"
This is ''the farmers Congress- ;. yet there are
only twenty-three members who really get their
living by agriculture. and there are 40 law
yers, about three-fourths of the whole. and
twenty more belong to one of the so-called
learned professions. In the Tennessee delega-
tion both Senators and al ten Congressman are
lawyers Both Senators from Virginia are law
yers and all the ten Congressman, except Q par
son and an editor. Both Senators from Texas
are also lawyers and ten out of the eleven Con
gressmen, the odd man being PEARSON Long. .
who thus indicates in the Congressional Di-
rectory that he is virtually and sentimentally q
Presbyterian farmer:
John Benjamin Long of Rusk was born in
the county Of Eacogdoches, September Q, 1s4s
hls education Is ordinary; has held no official
ffa ufxx,x> 49, DO L.
OF the order Of Patrons Of Husbandry, and took an
active interest in advocating the cause of pro-
gress among his fellow laborers; IL now overseer
OF the Texas state grange and president Of the
Texas Farmer Cooperative Publishing Associa-
ton; has always been 9 democrat; Is ruling
elder In the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
made the canvass and secured the nomination
Tor the Fifty-second Congress over some Of the
most prominent and best men Of the state; had
no expressed opposition after nomination: he
received 1879 votes and Sc votes scattering. /"
OTHER PROFESSIONS.
Among the other ciergymen are Senator
Kyle Of South Dakota (Congregationalist) Nc
Kinney of New Hampshire (Baptist), Baker O,
Kansas and Poeey Lester Of Virginia, who ID an
ttinerant preacher in eighteen states.
Among the doctors are Gallinger of New
Hampshire, Dockery Of Missouri, L. z. Akin
son OF Pennsylvania and Thomas Dunn English
OF New Jersey, Tar better known as q poet and
author.
1t is noticeable that there il only one mer.
chant in the House, but . number are ''enRsasd
In mercantile pursuits." So Q lot Of the LAWYERS
are chrome farmers-tillers Of the soil at ions
range. There are half q dozen bankers. too
who are fat farmers-raising produce at !
tremendous expense, the horny hands with
which they toll being attached to somebody
slse's shoulders.
Some Of tho most extensive farmers ana
planters In this Congress are those who practice
law q their chief interest.
PEACH AND oYsrER PACKING.
This is true OF Senator Gibson Of Maryland,
man Of fifty, who does not look his years. He
dresses with natty care, wears his gray hair
jauntily parted in the middle, and his marked
resemblance to Gen. Hawisy is emphasized BY
exactly tho same sort of pepper-and-salt NOUS
tache and g0atee. He 10 the owner of RatclifYe
Manor, one OF the four manorial estates still
remaining IN the old Catholic commonwealth.
The manor house was built in I757-a vast. big
chiMneyed, three-storied, mAny-Rabied, spa
ciousiy oaIconied mansion OF brick, overlooking
40 acres OF the fairest part Of the eastern
shore. Gibson keeps farmer, of course. He
raises corn and wheat-twenty-dye to thirty
bushels to the acre of the latter He has four
or fve thousand peach trees and sends the
peaches and much small fruit to New York and
Baltimore.
At steamed oyster supper once given here
Senator Gibson remarked that oyster farming
In the United States began at Ratcliffe. II
planted IL, 900 bushels myself" he said, land I
should reap great harvest nov IL they had not
been stolen As it is barely get enough to
eat"
HoLNAN's HARN
Holman Is running farm Of three or four
hundred acres in the southeastern corner of
Indiana, and be csn stand on his front doorsill
and see court houses in three states-Indians.
Ohio and Kentucky. His slightly home is on
the Ohio river hills, and the house is the one
he was born in, built by his father in the early
pioneer days in the first quarter of this century.
The kind OF ability resulting from courage,
segacity and experience gives him . great deal
OF influence on the floor Of the House. He has
been lawyer, but he now spends most Of his
time farming when he Is not here. He raises
hay, wheat and corn, and ''farmer'' is written
all over him. He is homelier than Lincoln.
Nature made him when she was feeling reckless.
He looks as If he bad been rived out with dull
ak from tough maple log. His gestures are
al severely angular and his voice sounds like
tnman's cart on corduroy road. His beard
II always three times as long - il ought to be
and his bead is covered With COW Hicks, evil
IDENTIFY bestowed when the animal was feeling
mad. Notwithstanding his personal appear
sncs ne has kind hsart, and will help any
body kill an appropriation with all the suavity
AAS Am - POor - nc looks,
but, In spite Of his proyerbia honesty, is worth,
they say, el50 900 His neighbors at home are
all like himself, the descendants of the original
pioneers who entered the land. He Keeps no
clerk here, but does all Of his own work, even
to directing seeds; but suppose he finds thsO
easier than digging post holes or blowing up q
new clearing Last week he celebrated his
golden wedding-aH years with one wife.
NORTHERN FARMRR SENATOR'S.
The northern Senators are mostly small farm
ers and the southern mostly large planters.
Mr.. Morrill, spends all the time he can on his
little Vermont farm Of sixty-nys acres. and
never enjoys himself 20 well q when he IL there.
But he 10 almost always present in his senatorial
seat and looks younger and more vigorous to-
day at eighty-two than Mr.. Edmunds did when
he resigned at sixty. He has been In Congress
almost forty years.
Senator Casey Of North Dakota was sent here
as farmer BY the farmers. He Is one of the
biggest farmers In the land, having the control
OF over 800 900 acres spd owning . good deal of
It himself. Irrigation 10 his continual text and
he expects to make his state garden BY bring
ing TO the surface the vast lake which underiiss
1t. The question of fencing his immense do
main recalls Senator Farweu Of Illinois, whose
Texas fences, IL was said, eucompassed 5,O0o, 900
acres Of land, and were enough, strung ont,
TO reach from Galveston to Chicago.
FEE SENATOR'S Ylox DrxrE's LAND.
Mr.. Vance II . senatorial farmer. Around
hin d. h. - Nn~xR.