The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-17

been the most usignificant-looking. Dan
lei Webster GARFIELD Conkling and a few
others were the shining exceptions that
proved the rule. Everybody knows who
the pretty man" of the last two Con-
crosses has been-and his record may be
correctly expressed in just as many ciph
ers as you choose to write against his
name. Why" he doesn't look as If he
knew so very much" is an expression fire.
quently heard in the galleries. in refer
ence to the most famous of ohr senators,
whom strangers always ask to have point
ed out to them. The ladies of the gallery
will generally pick out somebody who
has a Jove-like front, and is fautlessly
dressed, with hair carefully parted and
carnation in button-hole mine times out
of ten a doorkeeper or committee cierk)
and say of him, Now there is a man
who must be somebody. who is hep
While the tousle-headed, carelessly-at-
tired intellectual giants pass unnoticed.
The regulars" on the mems side OF the
House galleries are a rather seedy lot,
black and white, with suggestions of the
genus tramp among them. But this is a
free nation. and they have right to not
only keep warm and doZe i'm their special
corner on these cold days, but to bring
bags and scraps Of newspaper. Among
them, however, are a few eager-eyed men
who hope "some day, by and by" to
get their little bills introduced, generally
of the claim VARIETY, which will bring
them the blessed relief they have so
many years been seeking. The prospect
of having the ghost OF a show, in the
way of a bill presented until along to-
ward the tag-end Of the session, may be
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first to last they are the earliest to ar
rive and the latest to leave. anxiously
studying every move of the representative
whose services they fancy they have en-
listed in their cause. At best 1t is a heart
breaking quest, almost invariably doomed
to bitter disappointment; but so true It
is that Hope springs eternal in the hu-
man breast" Among the claimants are
many women, too,-mostly old and mani
testify poor who have grown gray and
feeble in vain seeking after congressional
relief. In truth, the claims of many OF
them have been negatively and finally pas
sed upon. years ago; but the matter has
become a sort of craze with them, and
injured to the habit, they cling 10 the
galleries with the same old tenacity,
clutching at elusive siraws of hope.
The attention Of the galleries Is about
equally divided between the newest leg
islators ana the Oldest Naturally, peo-
pie want to see how well the new man
from Minnesota fills the place OF the late
lamented Cushman x. Davis, and how
the togo "sets" upon the new senator
from Kansas. They do not have to ask
the whereabouts OF Senator'S Lodge, Hoar
Dcpew. Hanna, and many other much
pictured men, for the newspapers have
made their faces as plain as A B c.; ex-
cept In the aforementioned case. when
people involuItarlly ioyk for the dollar
mark % all ever his clothes. as he is
Usually caricatured. Senator John Tyler
Morgan ~ the oldegt-timer Of all, ! bo-
lleve, now serving bis tWenty-sixth year
The venerable statesman, who Is IN his
18th year Is hard az work on plans 20
force favorable legislation for his pet
Nicaragua canal scheme lie has lost -
pounds or 10 this session, and his voice
Is cot - resonant a. Il once Wasi but