The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17

Hale's children each $4,000 at the time
they were born and invested the money,
ii is said, in government bonds as n o st
egg for the children to begin life with.
Senator Hale has the finest house in Wash
ington and he lives in as good style as any
OF his brother millionaires in the United
States Senate. He was, however, not born
with golden spoon in his mouth and his
father was a farmer in one of the country
districts of Maine. Young Hale was ad-
United to the bar when he was twenty-one,
and he acted for nine years as prosecuting
attorney of Hancock county and followed
this with thirteen years in the Maine legis-
lature. Now it happened that man
named Pike had been representing the con-
gresslonal district in which Senator Hale
lived in the House. There was consider
able opposition to him from some of the
districts, and seeing he could not get the
nomination he concluded 80 the story goes,
TO MAKE A CONGRESSMAN
and he picked upon Hale, and he was NOM
mated and elected. Senator Hale came to
Congress while Blaine was in the zenith of
his power and Blaine took a great liking to
him and did much to help him on. He
lived for q time at Blaine's house and
Blaine, as Speaker, pushed him forward
to such an extent that the late Sam Cox,
much to Senator Hale's indignation, once
Bub." Hale however, showed himself
man of ability and with powerful frien DIS
and shrewd diplomatic manner he got o n.
Grant was SO pleased with him that he
wanted to make him his postmaster-genera
and Hayes offered him cabinet appoint
ment He declined both and just eleven
years ago he got what was the goal of his
ambition, seat in the United States Sen =
ate. He is now fifty-slX years old and is
in the very prime of life. OF medium
height, his form is straight and we'll
rounded, and the only sign of his advanc-
ing years is the iron-gray which is creep
ing into his banged black hair and nothing
the sombre hue of his full black beard.
Some of his fellow Senators accuse him of
having very good opinion of himself, and
this recalls an incident which took place
during a campaign 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 facing the
horses opposite him. 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 a 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 there upon pumped herself down be-
side Senator Aa e. Senator Hale laughed
and as they went on he tried to banter the
woman and said, ''Now my good lady, if an
! other woman would get in, she would have
10 sit oyer there with them, wouldn't she!'
Eyes. sir, nsaid the fat woman, Il suppose
she would. aye see l am very large mesilf
and me hoop is very large and l see you
feel very large AMI 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 Tor years
been prominent before the country, and
since the passing of Edmunds, Roar is to a
large extent
THE WATCHDOG OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
He is a man of unquestioned integrity,
broad reading and much more than ordi-
nary ability. He comes from one of the
Oldest families of Massachusetts. His
grandfather was captain in the revolu-
ton and his father graduated from Harvard
in 1902 and was posses sed 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 Charleston, South Caro-
lima, sometime before the war to test the
consututionaity of the right of that state
to imprison free colored people who had
committed no offenSe against the 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 f. Hoar
was one of the results of the match. His
brother had been encouragement under
Grant and it was about this time that Hoar
came to Congress. He served twelve
years in the lower House before he got &c
the Senate and among other prominent
things with which he has been connected
was the management of the Belknap i'm
parchment trial. and he was also member
of the electoral commission of 1876. Sen
ator Hoar is said to be one of the best
posted me-. on American history in Con
gress. He is the president of the Ameri-
can Antiquarian society and he has received
the degree of Doctor of Law from the col
leges of Amherst, Yale Harvard and vii,
liam and Mary. He devotes the most of hi!
time TO study and his Greeley-like face il
never happier than when he is getting of
SOME HISTORICAL FACT.
There is considerable humor in his makeup
and he is by no means averse TO Joke OF
his brother Senators. He lives very simpl!
here at Washington and not long ago h
said that his total income outside of nj
salary was less than eighteen hundred dol
lars year and that his whole estate wit
> the exception of his house, did not amour
, to more than s., 900. He is more of love
4 of books than of money, and his library
J said to be one of the finest private libra
) ries in the United States.
! Senator Dawes is now seventy-six year
4 old. He was born during the ADMINISTERS
, ton of James Madison and is agraduate G
- -
teacher and served as country editor an
a lawyer before he got to Congress at tn
age of forty-one. Since then he has bee
almost continually in public life in on
House or the other and he was eightee
i years in the House of Representatives be
. fore he was elected to the Senate to TAX
: the seat of Charles Sumner. During tn
j past year he has made Indian affairs
hobby and he knows more about the Indi
i ans than any man in the body. He is a
: enthusiast on the subject of Indian educa
ton, and when this subject comes up in th
5 Senate he tears the air and shouts an
l roars at the galleries like the Bull
o Bsshan. He is a tall, bent man with gra
d whiskers and white hair. He has tn
z Students stoop but is young for his year!
/ The two Senators from Vermont are Jul
l tin s. Morrill, and Redfeld Proctor. Th
i state has lost great deal in the
I RETIREMENT OF EDMUNDs
and If Vermont is to have much influenC
d on the legislation of the Senate hereafte
n il will have to come from Proctor. Sens
s tor Morrill, has finished the best part of h
h life's work He is the oldest United State
s Senator. He was born in 1910, only yes
e or so after President Jefferson left Il
Y White House, and he has had longer COZ
8 tinuous service in Congress than anyoI
|. else at present in public life. He has bee
It here since 1855 am has been in the Sena-
: since 1867. He is now eighty-two veal
g old though he looks somewhat younge
e He is over six feet tall and his shoulde