Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17

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bar when he was 81, and he acted for nine
years as prosecuting attorney of Hancock
county and followed this with Ii years in
the Maine Legislature. Now it happened
that man named Pike had been represent
ing the Congressional district in which Sen
atorHale lived in the House.
Favorite of James G. Blaine.
There was considerable opposition 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 a
Congressman and he picked upon Hale, and
he was nominated and elected. Senator
Hale came to Congress while Blaine was in
the zenith of his power, and Blame took a
| great liking to him ard did much to help
him on. He lived for time at Blaine 8
house, and Blaine, as Speaker, pushed him
forward to such an extent that the late Sam
| Cox, much to Senator Hale's indignation,
once referred to him as Speaker Blaine's 'Lit-
! tie Bub."
Hale, however, showed himself a man OF
ability. and with powerful friends and q
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 II years ago he
got what was the goal OF his ambition, seat
in the United States Senate. Some of his
1ellow-Senators accuse him of having very
good opinion OF himself.
Tho Historian of the Senate.
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 q large ex-
tent the watchdog OF the Republican party.
He is man ofunquestioned integrity, broad
reading and much more than ordinary sbil-
1ty. Among the other prominent things
with which he has been connected was the
management of the Belknap impeachment
trial, and he was II member of the Electoral
commission of 1876. Senator Hoar is said to
be one of the best posted men on American
history in Congress. He is the 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 devotes the
most of his time to study, and his Greeley
| like face is never happier than when he is
getting off some historical fact.
There is considerable humor in his make
| up, and he is by no means averse to joke on
| his brother Senators. He lives very simply
here at Washington, and not long ago he
said that his total income outside of his SAL
ary was less than 81, 500 year, and that his
! house, did not amount to more than So, 600.
He is more of lover of books than OF
money, and his library is said to be one of
the finest private libraries in the United
States.
The Indian Is Dawes Hobby.
DdWeS Is now 10 years Olu. uo
was born during the administration of
James Madison, and is q graduate of Yale
College. He began life as a school teacher,
and served as country editor and a lawyer
before he got to Congress at the age of Al
Since then he has been almost continuously
in public life in one House or the other, and
he was Is years in the House of Representa-
tives before he was elected to the Senate to
take the seat of Charles Simmer During the
past year he has made Indian affairs his
hobby, and he knows more about tho In
d1ans than any man in the body. He is an
enthusiast on the subject of Indian educa-
tion, and when this subject comes up in the
Senate he tears the air and shouts and roars
at the galleries like 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 JUS
tin S. Morrill, and Redfield Proctor. The
State has lost great deal in the retirement
of Edmunds and If Vermont is to have
much influence on the legislation of the Sem
ate hereafter, it will have to come from
Proctor. Senator Morrill, has finished the
best part of his life's work He is the oldest
United States Senator, and he has had
longer continuous service in Congress than
anyone else at present in public life. He
has in his house bust of himself which is
often taken for n bust of Sumner, and am
told that he prides himself on the resem-
blauce.
The Man Who Seated Hayes.
OF all the New England Senators there are
none who are so well known as Senator
William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire,
and General Joe Hawley, of Connecticut.
They are both Yankee products, and each
has his peculiarities. Hawley is perhaps
the ablest speaker, but Chandler is the
greater politician, and he is Hawley's equal
rs man of affairs. 1 doubt whether there
a yd in tha
try than Chandler 1t was his instructions
to the New York Times to claim South Caro-
lima, Florida and Louisiana in 1876 that en-
abled the Republicans to seat Hayes with
out trouble.
Senator Chandler is noted for saying bit
ter things, and it was a remark against the
South that stirred up his fuss with Senator
Joe blackburn, in which Chandler is said to
have called Blackburn an "ex-nigger
driver" and Blackburn is said to have con-
temptuously pulled Chandler's ear. How
this may be do not know, but the actions
of both sides would have been perfectly
natural to both Senators. 1t would not re-
quire very brave man to insult Senator
Chandler. He is a little pigmy of fellow,
biceps. and you could put his little bushy
1ron-gray head, black rubber glasses and ali.
inside of Joe Hawley's big cranium and it
would rattle around like pea in a bladder.
HawIey's Brilliant Record.
General Hawley is another self made man.
His father was a Baptist preacher and
young Hawley was brought up on farm.
He borrowed money to get his schooling and
paid this with the first surplus from his
practice after he had been admitted to the
bar. He early plunged into politics and had
acquired some prominence as speaker
when the war broke out. He was the first
man in Connecticut to volunteer and he
went into The army as q captain and came
out of it major general. After the war was
over he went again into politics making
Journalism his profession and editing the
Hartford CourdTt which he owned in connec-
ton with Charles Dudley Warner He was
President of the Republican 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 a good extempore sneaker
and is a hard worker. He is well-to-
do, has pretty English woman for his |
second wife and is noted as being a frank
honest, and able man.
The other Senators from New England |
rank well. Platt, of Connecticut is 6 feet |
tall and Is inches across the shoulders and |
his head, which would fill peck measure, ia |
packed with figures on the tariff and finance, |
The Rhode Island Senators, Aldrich and |
ity, and both are good workers and fair |
speakers. AS to the members of the House |
from Srw England, they will size up lust |
about like the average Represen tatives from |
the other parts OF the Union. Only three or |
four arc OF any national prominence and |
Tom Reed, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles A. |
Routelle and General Cogswell are the onIv |
ones who have acquired renuta tions which |
extend beyond their own sections.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
AN EYE-OPENER,