The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-17
three months every year, spending this
time on the Maine lakes in the northern
part of his state.

the first place, one of the richest men IN
Washington City, having become so
through his marriage with the daughter OF
Zach Chandler. Senator Chandler left
fortune Of So. 500, 600, and halt of this went
10 his wife and the rest to his only daugh-
ter when he died. Senator Chandler was
very generous during his lifetime. and he
gave Senator Hale's children each S50,OO0
at the time they were born and invested
the money, il Is said, IN government oonds
as aestegg for the children TO begin life
with. Senator Hale has the finest house
in Washington City, and he lives IN as
good STYLE as any Of his brother million
aires in the United States Senate.
lie was, however, not born with
o golden spoon in his mouth, and ms
father was farmer in one of the country
districts of Maine. Young Hale was adj
nnitted TO the bar when he was II, and he
acted for nine years as prosecuting attor-
ney of Hancock county and followed this
with thirteen years in the Maine legisla-
ture. Now it happened that man named
Pike had been representing the congress
sional district in which Senator Hale lived
in the House. There was considerable OPP
position to him from some OF the counties
of the district, and seeing he could not get
the nomination he concluded, so the story
goes, to make congressman, and he
picked upon Hale, and he was nominated
gress while Blaine was in the zenith of his
power, and Blaine took great liking to
him and did much to help him on. He
lived for time at Blaine's house and
Blaine, as speaker, pushed him for
ward to such an extent that the
Haie's indignation, once referred to him
as Speaker Blaine's Little Bub." Hale,
however, showed himself a man of ability,
and with powerful friends and a shrewd
diplomatic manner he got on. Grant was
so pleased with him that he wanted to
make him his postmaster general. and
Hayes offered him cabinet appointment.
He declined both, and just eleven years
ago he got Whist was the goal of his ambi-
ton, seat in the United States Senate.
He is now 50 years old, and Is in the very
prime of life. OF medium height, his form
is straight and well rounded, and the only
sign of his advancing years is the IRON
gray which is creeping into his banged
black hair and nothing the somber hue of
his full black beard. Some of his fellow
senators accuse him of having very good
opinion of himself, and this recalls an in
cident which took place during cam
paign in which he and Frye stumped the
state together They were riding in
stage coach and Mrs. Frye was one of the
party. Senator Hale had the front seat and
had to ride backwards, while Senator and
Mrs. Frye sat opposite him facing the
horses. Senator Hale was in joking mood,
and he told Mr.. and Mrs. Frye that if
any fat woman came along and got into
the stage she would have TO sit with them.
Just at this moment fat woman did
come, and upon Hale telling her that she
had better not ride backwards and that
he thought Mr.. and Mrs. Frye could
make room for her, the woman, who was
of the Irish persuasion, said, "Indade, sir,
] don't moind riding backward at all, at
all, and thereupon pumped herself
down beside Senator Hale. Senator Hale
laughed, and as they went on he tried to
banter the woman. and said, Now, my
good lady, If another woman would get
in, she would have TO sit over there with
them, wouldn't she?''
Yes sir" said the fat woman. 81 sup
pose she would. 'Ye see / am very large
mesilf and me hoop is very large, and I
see You feel very large, and SO l don't
think there would be room on this seat"
What Senator Hale replied have never
heard.
The two senators from Massachusetts,
are men of weight. Both have for years
been prominent before the country, and
since the passing of Edmunds Hoar is to a
large extent the watch dog of the Repub-
lican party. He is man of unquestioned
integrity, broad reading and much more
than ordinary ability. He comes from
rz6nssacR the oldest families of Massachu-
setts. His grandfather was captain in
the Revolution, and his father graduated
from Harvard in 1902 and was possessed of
some of the same qualities which have so
prominently cropped out in his son. He
was opposed TO slavery and was sent by
the legislature of Massachusetts, TO Char
lesion, s. c., sometime before the war TO
test the constitutionality of the right of
that state 10 imprison free colored people
-ttnh had tad
laws. He went, but the legislature of
South Carolina expelled him from the
state, and he came back again. This man
married daughter of Roger Sherman, and
George 4. Hoar was one of the results of
the match. His brother had been the at
torney general under Grant, and it was
about this time that Hoar came TO con-
gress. He served twelve years in
the lower House before he got
10 the Senate, and among other
poninent things with which he
has been connected was the management
of the Belknap impeachment trial. and he
was also a member of the electoral COM
mission of 1876. Senator Hoar is said to
be one of the best posted men on Ameri-
can history in congress. He is president
of the American Antiquarian Society, and
he has received the degree of doctor of
laws from the colleges of Amherst, Yale,
Harvard and William and Mary. He de-
votes the most of his time TO study, and
his Gree!ey-llke face is never happier than
when he is getting off some historical fact
There is considerable humor in his
makeup, and he is by no means averse TO
joke on his brother senators. He lives
very simply here at Washington CITY. and
not long ago he said that his total income
outside of his salary was less than 81 500 n
year, and that his whole estate with the
exception of his house. did not amount to
more than 5000 lie is more of lover of
books than of money. and his library il
said TO be one of the finest private Ii
braries in the United States
Senator Dawes is now rs years old. He
was born during the administration OF
James Madison, and is a graduate of Yale
college. lie began life as q school teacher,
and served as a country editor and law
Yer before he got TO congress at the age of
al Since then he has been almost con-
tuuouStv IN public life in one house or the
other and he was eighteen years in the
House of Representatives before he was
elected TO the Senate to take the seat OF
Charles Sumner. During the past year he
has made Indian affairs his hobby and he
knows more about the Indians than any
man in the body He is an enthusiast on
the subject Of Indian education. and when
this subject comes up In the Senate he
tears the AR and shouts and roars at the
galleries ike the bull of Bashan He is
tall, bent man with gray whiskers and
white hair He has the students stoop,
but IS young for his years.
The two senators from Vermont are
Justin 5. Morrill, and Reddeld Proctor.
The state has lost a great deal in the re-
tirement of Edmunds, and if Vermont is
10 have much influence on the legislation
OF Ithe Senate hereafter 1t Will have TO
come from Proctor. Senator Morrill, has
spfSba1 tho host mart of his lffass ,xc-t-