Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-10


which the boys were rocked is kept in the
Norlands Library in Maine. 1t is made OF
pine boards an inch thick, rudely dove
tailed together, and its solid pine rockers
are shaped like half moons. 1t is painted
dark green and has been Drowned by age.
1t has held four Congressman and two Gov
ernors.
Almost Ben Butler's Double.
Senator Cush Davis, the other Minnesota
representative in the Upper House, is the
direct opposite of fWashburne. Senator Davis
looks like Ben Butler. He was taken for
Ben Buffers son not long ago when he and
Hotel together, and it is said that when he
was courting his wife, with. whom it seems
he fell in love at almost the first sight she
insisted that she had a photograph of him
taken when he was soldier. He told her
that she must be mistaken, and asked to
see it She then brought out locket in
which there was photograph of Ben But
Ter taken when he was in the army, and it
looked in fact very much like the picture
of Senator Davis as he is to-day. Senator
Davis was born in New York.
He went into the army as a private and
came out of it as lieutenant and after the
war was over he went to Minnesota to
practice law. He was Governor of the
State when he was 35 years OF age, and he
has had for years one of the biggest law
practices of the Northwest. His practice
is said to be worth from $40, 900 to $50, 900 a
year, and he might be a fich man if he cared
anything for the saving and accumulation
of money
Napoleon is His Hobby.
As it is he spends as fast as he makes, and
in 1881, when he withdrew from the firm of
Davis, O'Brien & Wilson, he was 500, 900 in
debt. Since that time he has paid off this
debt and has made enough to buy himself a
comfortable home and to make little nest
egg for the future. l doubt, however,
whether he knows actually how much he is
worth and doubt whether he cares. He is
a student and a lover of books more than a
lover of money He speaks and reads two
or three languages and is to some extent a
hero-worshiper. One of the greatest men
who ever lived is to him Napoleon. He
reads everything he can get about Napoleon
and has a large collection of pictures of him.
He has 500 books relating to him and his
time, and he says his collection will not be
complete until he can 60 to Europe and
pick up about 500 more.
Another man of culture among these
Northwest Senators is Senator Casey. He
is farmer and has the management of a
hundred thousand acres of land or SO in
Dakota. A self-made business man, he
talks several languages, has travelled widely
in Europe and looks more like New York
club man than farm manager.
Two Fighters in the Senate.
The Northwest has two Senatorial fight
ers These are men whose lives have been
spent in the widest parts of the frontier
and who have grown strong with fighting
among the Indians and the desperadoes. I
refer to Senator George Shoup, of Idaho,
and Senator Wilbur T. Sanders, of Mon
tana. Shoup is tall, straight, broad
shouldered, biue-eved man. There is no
hair on the top of his head and he has not
even q scalp-lock He lost his hair natur-
ally, however, and he has had number of
scrapes where he might have lost it from
the Indians. Born in the East, he started
out for Pixies Peak when he was % years
old, and during the war he was one of the
independent scouts of the Colorado volun-
teers. A large part of his career during the
war was as scout and he has been con-
nected with all the Indians and the desper-
ADDE'S of the West. He is now at the head
of the Indian Affairs Committee, and he
has been Governor of Idaho and left the
executive chair to take his seat in the
Senate.
Senator Sanders is noted as having rid
overran the Northwest some years ago. He
was at the head of the Vigilantes. and he
has number of times looked death in the
face.
4 Revolver as an Argument.
AT one time, when he was trying case
in Montana courtroom, the opposing coun-
SCI, who was sitting behind him. found fault
with the way he was questioning the wit
fart t-ad oJ1fh ! cold
as he looked along its barrel at Sanders:
''If you put that question again to my wit
ness 1 will shoot you"
Young Sanders turned coolly around, and,
looking into the ugly pistol barrel and over
it at the LAWYER behind with a most con-
smile, said: '1t would be Just
like you to shoot man in the back"
He thereupon turned around and asked
the witness the same question over again,
and the counsel, strange to say, did not fire.
Had he done so the feeling against such
cowardly act would have been such that he
would have been surely killed. Sanders is
one of the finest lawyers of the Northwest.
He makes at least half the Presidents
yearly salary during the recesses of the
Senate at the law, and he is said to have
much of the sarcastic power of ex-senator
ingalls,. He has been rather quiet in the
Senate so far, but during the coming session
he will probably make some speeches which
will astonish his fellow Senator's
Keep Your Eyes on Them.
There are score of other prominent men
from the Northwest at Washington. Every
one knows the record of William f. Villas,
who, cold and clean-cut, is considered one of
the finest orators of the country, and who is
bound to make great reputation in Con-
press. Villas is in his prime During his
whole 81 years he has never wasted penny
either financially or intellectually, and he
has the accumulated savings of lifetime to
use in his political and forensic struggles.
He will probably be leader OF the Demo
cratic side of the chamber, and he is enough
of politician to know that he has to take
care of his State and his section.
There is large Norwegian element rep
resented bvAa number of Norsemen in the
Lower House Of Congress which will in time
make itself felt
Both OF the Wyoming Senators are good
men and Senator Carey is one of the finest
looking men in Congress. Warren has made
a fortune in the West and he is still under
30. The prospects Of young Dubois, of
Idaho, are good, and the same may be said
Of his colleague, Senator Shoup. All told,
you will not find in Congress a set of men
who will average up better than these Sen
ators from the Northwest, and it will pay
he people of the United States to keep
heir eyes on them.
FRANK G. CARPENTER