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yet unmastered by him. Shortly after he
had come to the House the Democratic
speaker in looking over the Republican
side 70 find the weakest man to put on the
ways and means committee picked out
Morrill,. Morrill, decided TO show the
House that il was mistaken in him. he
went to work at once to study economic
questions, and he put in his time to such
advantage that he soon became one of the
chief authorities of congress, and he was
made chairman of the committee when
his party got into power. He drew the
famous Morrill, tariff law of 1851, and he
has maintained his position as one OF the
leading financial thinkers among our
public men from that time to this. He Is
man OF means as well as culture. ana ne
has very comfortable home on Vermont
avenue, not far from the White House.
OF all the New England senators there
are none who are so well known as Sena-
tor William z. Chandler, of New Hamp-
shire. and General Joe Hawley, of Con-
necticut. They are both Yankee products,
and each has his Deculiarities. Hawley is,
perhaps, the ADLER speaker, but Chandler
is the greater politician, and he is Haw-
ley's equal as man of affairs. / doubt
whether there is a shrewder political man
ager in the country than Chandler. He
jumped into the lap of his party as soon
as he became of age, and, metaphorlcally
speaking, he has waxed lat on of1ce-hoid-
ing He was little more than boy when
he became chairman of the state COM
mittee of New Hampshire, and he was for
eight years secretary OF the national COM
mittee of the Republican party. 1t was
his instructions TO the New York Times
to claim South Carolina, Florida and
7 IN. hot
pubiicans to seat Hayes without trouble,
and he has been one of the leading man.
ayers of the Republican party ever since.
He was made counsel of the government
in trying the naval frauds in Philadelphia
in 1864 by President Lincoln, and Johnson
made him his assistant secretary
of the treasury. President Arthur ap-
pointed him secretary of the navy, and
short time after he left that department he
came to the Senate. Senator Chandler
has always been an outspoken Republican
and, though he helped to make President
HAYES, he violently opposed his Southern
policy He is noted for saying bitter
things, and it was remark against the
South that stirred up his fuss with Senator
Joe Blackburn, in which Chandler is said
10 have called Blackburn an ''ex-negro
driver" and Blackburn is said to have
contemptuously pulled Chambers ear.
How this may be, don't know. but the
perfectly natural to both senators. 1t
would not require very brave man to in
suit Senator Chandler. He is a little
pigmy of a fellow, weighing not over LIS
pounds. HIS thigh is hardly as big as
Blackburn's biceps, and you could put his
little bushy iron-gray head, black rubber
glasses ses and H., all, ,i inside . Of Joe
would rattle around like a pea
in bladder. Senator Chandler, however,
makes up in nervous energy and brain
what he lacks in size. He is packe full
of energy, and at 81 through his own eff
forts has made reputation and fortune
of between 100000 and 100000.
General Hawley is another self-made
man. His father was Baptist preacher,
and young Hawley was brought up on a
farm. He borrowed money to get his
schooling, and paid this with the first sur
plus froE- his practice after he had been
admitted to the bar. He early plunged
into politics, and had acquired some
prominence as a speaker when the war
broke out. He was the first man in
Connecticut to volunteer, and he
went into the army as captain
and came out of it major-general. After
the war was over he went again into poll
tics, making journalism his profession and
eultluR the hartlOrQ COufdat, winch he
owned in connection with Charles Dudley
Warner. He was president of the Repub-
lican convention at Chicago in 1868, when
Grant was nominated, and he has been the
presidential candidate of Connecticut at
national conventions. AS a senator he is
good extempore speaker, and is hard
worker. He is well to do, has pretty
Englishwoman fer his second wife, aud is
noted as being frank, honest and able
man.
The other senators from New England
rank well. Plat, of Connecticut, is 6
feet tall and IS inches across the
shoulders, and his head, which would
fill peck measure, is packed with figures
on the tariff and finance. The Rhode
Island senators, Aldrich and Dixon, are
fne-looking men of average ability, and
both are good workers and fair speakers
As to the members of the House from
New England, they will size up just about
like the average representative from the
other parts of the Union. Only theee or
four are of any national prominence, and
Tom Reed, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles
A. Boutelle and General Cogswell are the
only ones who have acquired regulations
which extend beyond their own sections
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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