The morning call., 1893-09-24
BY THEIR Boards.
How Some Senators Nav
Be Known.
ONE LOOKS SANTA CLAUS.
A Senator Who Resembles a Chinese
nandarin-MustaCh in the
House.


has been changed for badness of crown.
Half the public men of our time are bald.
President Cleveland's hair is fast passing
away. .Adlai Z. Stevenson's is thin at the
crown, aud it would take twenty silver
dollars to cover the bald spot On Joe Haw-
ley's handsome white head. Joe Black
burn is fast growing bald. though his rosy
cheeks show that his blood con tains plenty
of iron. Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
has enough white skin on the top OF his
head to make a cover for boys new
drum. and | note that Senator Butler of
South Carolina combs his hair to the
front. David 3. Hill has a white streak
of badness running from his deep-set eyes
to the back of his head. Above the ears
there are whisps of black hair closely cut,
and these whlspS run into short brown
side whiskers. HilPS face is a sOmber one.
His eyebrows are not strongly marked.
de has an aggressive mGStache. 1t is
more that of man of determination,
however, than one of pure fighting. 1t is
short, black and well defined. and it fairly
brieteS when Grover Ceveland'S name is
mentioned. Sitting in the press gallery
you cannot distinguish Senator Hi's eye
brows without an opeTa-glaSS, but his
fierce eyes look up at you hnG his whole
figure makes you think of that of the
SDhynx.
a But whiskers and not hair now form the
true sign OF greatness. Take PETER of
Kansas; you could put his little hickory
nut head in n two-quart bucket, and if il
laid on its back the nose would not stick
up above the edges. The beard, however,
would flow out 10 a length of three feet,
and the beard of PETER gives sort of dig
Eity to his features. PETER is tail and thin.
He Is feet in height and about Is
inches across the shoulders. As he stands
up in the Senate his beard reaches to his
waist, and he appears 10 be the typical
product of the dyspepte lowlands of the
Missouri Seated in his chair his beard
flows over his narrow chest and its bottom
ends kiss the lowest buttons of his vest.
He fondles it as he thinks, and when he
speaks he points his periods by running
| his hands up and down it. Does he dye it?
| am told he does not, but those whskers
have tawny, dead look, which is often
associated with the har-festOrer, aud they
are as wavy and curly rs though they were
kept in curl papers over night. They are
by all odds tho longest whiskers i'm the
| Senate, and are only exceeded in length by
the speeches of Senator Stewart OF Ne
vada, who sits jast behind.
Senator Stewart is the Santa Claus of
the Senate. He has often been called so
and his whiskers have given him the title
He is a big. well-formed, portly old fellow.
with head twice as big as that of Senator
Petfer, and this head is made larger by its
| face being covered with a luXuriant beard
| of straw-colored silver. The Senator. in
fact, ls silver throughout He has made
much OF his great fortune in silver mines
and he owns hundred times as MANY
silver dollars as he has hairs in his long
silver beard. and the most of bis speeches
are made upon silver, and when he speaks
every strand of silver in his white beard
quivers. His long beard bObs up and down
like that of a blllygoat ewing its cud,
and he talks and talks and talks. He is a
man or ability, fine lawyer and prac-
teal, go-ahead Western business man.
There are three men in the United
States Senate who cut their whiskers
after the style of Louis Napoleon They
are all big men and they have all the dash
of the late Emperor of the French. One is
Napoleon of finance, another has been a
Napoleon in war and the third is still a
Napoleon in the Senate. The first is Nc
MILAN of Michigan, who started life a
poor boy and who Is now a great car
factor He has great works in Detroit.
He is worth a fortune and he lives here in
fine style in house which cost him SS00nO.
His imperial beard is iron gray and with
the thick thatcned iron gray hair above il
gives dignity TO a handsome face McMil-
Ian is one of the fne-looking men of the
Senate. He dresses well. looks well and
acts well. He is very popular and has
made a reputation for himself as a good
business Senator.
Every one knows OF the great brain of
Joe Hawley. He is one of the really great
men of our times, and through the strands
of his iron-gray imperial have come some
of the best speeches that have been tieliy-
cred in the Senate. This imperial is now
white. When it was black it quivered
with his commands as a general of the
| army. 1t has been tinged In the smoke of
battle and its owner should to-day con-
| slider it badge of honor.
As for Senator Manderson, his record
| has also been good in the field as well as in
the Senate chamber. He is all able de-
batter, man Of great social qualities and
good all around Senator. His beard is a
brown in which the gray strands are just
| beginning to appear.
A muStache gives the statesman rather
! a rakSh look. and some of the bold. bad
| men OF the chamber thus cover their upper
| lips. Joe Black burn of Kentucky has a
red mustache which quivers with fun,
| bristles with rage or gently rests in placid
| self-content over his mouth, according to
the condition of his mind. Blackburn is a
/ very handsome man. He is tall and
| straight. and his mustache forms a strik-
ing feature of his rosy face. Ii is just the
color OF good Kentucky whisky, and though
| the Senator seldom touches this product of
his native State his sensitive nostrils can
evidently tell old Bour bon from old rye,
just back of Joe Blackb to-day is
Senator Dan Voorhees,, the tall sycamore
of the Wabash. A year or so ago he be-
loDged 10 the Louis Napoleons of the SEN
ate and he wore an imperial. Now his
chin is smooth shaven and all that is left
is his musiaehe. Senator VOORHEES, verges
on the strawberry blonde" order of
statesmen. His mustache has a reddish
hue, and, like his brown pompadour bair,
| it flows out in curves and makes a bow
over his big, broad mouth. ou could draw
| Voorhees, face without using a straight
line. His chin has a roll of fat below it,
! His cheeks swell cut and his every feature
| partakes of that line of the beautiful, the
curve. His mustache is the mustache of
an Esau. 1t is heavy, strong and full of
character. and you see another sign of this
Esau strength in the red bristles which
stand out over Voorhees, blue eyes. As to
his head, every individual hair there does
seem to stand On end as though rejoicing in
| its strength over that of the white. bald
pate OF Senator Coke, who sits just in
front of him.
There is a great deal of character in
whiskers. You could tell that Senator
] William B. Allison was a diplomat from
/ the way he trims his beard. 1t is rough in
| texture and reddish brown in hue, but it
is cut as smoothly as has been fashioned
| the character of lis owner, aud il is the