Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
Pen Pictures of Representatives Payne
and Dolliver.
METHODS ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT
One of Them Cares Nothing for
the Flights of Oratory.
IOWA MANS PERSONALITY

Written for The Evening Star.
In a way Serene E. Payne of New York
Is the biggest all round high tariff man in
the lower house of Congress. or he wouldn't
be chairman of the ways and means COM
mlttee today. AT the same time he can
hardly be termed tariff expert in the
sense that President Mckinley is or the late
Mr.. Dingley was; and there are now several
men in Congress who might properly be
considered more accomplished schedule eX-
perts than Payne. But he knows tariff law
and tariff history Intimately as indeed, he
should. He has been on the WAYS and
means committee several years and his
training, begun when Mckinley himself was
chairman and continued under Dingley, has
been thorough and comprehensive
Mr. Payne's smile is his most distinguish
Ing characteristic. 1t is aggressive and il
never deserts him. This is literally true
no matter what happens or how contrary
TO MS wishes the course of circumstances
may be. 1t has given him the reputation of
belng uniformly good humored, whereas
there are many days when he doesn't view
me world through rose colored spectacles
When he really feels jolly it is an admira-
bic exponent of his mental frame: when he
Is charged with anger or tense with anx-
1ety, 1t hides his feelings; when he is in
c!lned to be sarcastic, 1t adds point IN his
forceful words; when he is listening to the
duliest story, even, it lends an expression
of the most fiattering interest to his face
1t Is by all odds his choicest possession and
he probably knows this as well as any one
Payne's Big Body.
Mr.. Payne's body is tall and broad and
heavy, and he knows how to make Impress
i've use of his size. His voice is big and ex-
pansive; in fact, it has no superior, so far
as carrying power is concerned, among the
public men of the present time. When he
speaks, every syllable can be heard dis
inctly in the remotest corners of the House:
at the same time his tones instead of being
marsh and discordant, are rather musical
and decidedly pleasant to the ear. Next to
his smile. his vocal organ is by far the most
compelling Payne characteristic.
Mr.. Payne's countenance is boldly mod
eled on rugged lines. Deep creases crisis
cross 1t In every direction. A thick gray
full beard covers his Jaw and lips Silver
hair crowns his head. Were it not for his
everlasting smile he would be set down at
nrSt sight as person of undue severity
OF monotonous seriousness. AS it is, who
SO beholds his smile takes note of his am
plltude and listens to his orotund voice, ex-
poets to learn presently that he is one of
the best story tellerS alive. Yet Mr.. PAYNE
lsn good story teller; in truth, he never
afects humorous narration at all, and his
friends say it would be impossible to worm
a story out of him in any circumstances.
He likes good stories, though, and to see
nun suiIoulueu py crowd OF story tellerS,
his massive bulk propped against a pillar
his hands In his pockets, his wonderful
smile playing in thousand forms over his
characteristic features, is to behold pic
ture not likely soon to be forgotten. Mr.
Payne can laugh well as smile, and like
his voice, his laugh is strong and full and
round, and is sure to set whole party
into boisterous cachination by its vigorous
heartiness.
Despite His Smile.
Mr.. Payne doesn't shine particularly as
a conversationalfst. Despite his smile, he
is too serious minded for small talk and is
altogether too deeply absorbed in the po-
itical questions to which he has devoted
a life time of study to care much for the
discussion of general topics. This renders