The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-06-27
STORIES ABOUT PUBLIC MEN,
An Imposition ON Senator Fair-The
Satire of ingalls,.

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An imposition ON Senator Fair-The
Satire of ingalls,.
Very frequently impositions are prac-
ticed on careless or ignorant senators
by people who are interested in the
passage of bills before the senate
Senator Fair, who died recently in
California, was man on whom it
was easy to impose because of his ig-
norance and his carelessness. One day
the senator came into a meeting of
committee of which he was a member
and presented favorable report on a
bill which had been referred to him as
a subcommittee. 1t was the custom
of Mr.. Fair to say to another senator
who sat beside him in the committee
room: Senator, you are better reader
than I. Read this report for me" The
other members of the committee thought
always that Mr.. Fair did this because
he was not able to read his clerks
handwriting. On this occasion Mr..
Fair made his usual request. At the
same time he explained to the other
members of the committee that the bill
was one which had been reported to
the senate favorably at the last session
of congress. This explanation would
have been enough, ordinarily, to with
draw attention from the bill. 1t hap
pened that the senator who was Mr..
Fairs spokesman was busy and that
the reading OF the report was delayed.
In the meantime, Mr.. Hoar in a casual
way turned over the reports of the last
session until he came to this bill. 'Look
here, Senator Fair said Mr.. Hoar,
"that bill was reported adversely at
the last session. $50 it was," said
Mr.. Fair, looking st the reports.
"Then that--lawyer lied to me. !"
It appeared from his explanation that
Mr.. Fair had accepted the statements
of an attorney who was interested in
the passage of the bill and had made
his report in accordance with them.
Mr.. Fairs reports were scanned very
carefully after that.
Ex-senator Ingalls, continues to keep
himself in the public eye, and he has
hopes that he may resume his seat in
the United States senate when the term
of Mr.. PETER expires. He may do so,
but there is one senator who believes
he will not. This senator was on the
train with Mr.. Ingalls, some time ago,
and he noted the fact that though they
were travelling through the state of
Kansas, the ex-senator sat alone
throughout the journey. When they
reached the station where both alighted
Mr.. Ingalls, stalked through the crowd
almost unnoticed. The conspicuous
ness of the famous Kansan gave him a
people of almost any state are proud to
have their representatives in the senate
Or house of representatives ranked
among the leaders in national affairs.
But Mr.. Ingalls, too caustic tongue
made enemies for him at home as well
as abroad. There was probably no
man in the senate or house in his day
whose tongue was as much feared as
was that of the senator from Kansas.
Men whom he had never injured hated
him cordially for his merciless vindic-
tiveness in dealing with others. At
the time when Mr.. ingalls, made his
historic attack on Senator Joseph
Brown, of Georgia, great many people
felt sympathy for the old gentleman
because they believed that he was much
too small a mark for ingalls,. This
was the speech in which Ingalls, de-
scribed the Georgia senator as the
Joseph Surface" of American politics,
and pictured him as continually
washing his hands with invisible
soap in intangible water" One sena-
tor from the West was especially in
censed against Mr.. Ingalls, and he went
to Mr.. Brown to offer him his SYM
pathy. Mr.. Brown had just made
lame reply to the Ingalls, attack and
sat down. 81 think it was outrageous,
Senator Brown" said the sympathetic
senator. Mr.. Brown beamed on him
softly. 'He brought it on himself, sir"
said he; she brought it on himself. :"
And to the day of his death Senator
Brown believed that he had wiped up
the oratorical earth with Mr.. Ingalls,.
The cordial hatred which so many of
his fellow senators felt for Mr.. Ingalls,
was shared by Mr.. Maxey of Texas.
During debate in which Mr.. Ingalls,
and Mr.. Maxey both took part the
Texas senator turned to one of his
neighbors and said: "That man In
gals is the meanest man in public
life;" and he abused the Kansan
The other senator slipped
over to Mr.. Ingalls, desk little later
and said: Congratulate Mr.. Maxey
on his speech. - "What are you trying
to do-get up a fight?" asked Ingalls,.
Not at ALL" said the other senator.
You do as said.' So short time
afterwards Mr.. Ingalls, strolled over to
the Democratic side of the chamber