The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29

of "The New South.'' which was just then coming into being. year later he married a Virginia girl named EuSenla Massie She died in 1900, and four years later Underwood married the daughter of a Birmingham steel manufacturer named Woodward.
 Underwood's first election to Congress was in the bitter year of 1894 when Cleve- landism and tariff reform were anathe- ma maranatha, but he made his fight strictly and solely on the Cleveland tariff platform.
 And I have never left it. said Under wood d few months ago.
 When the democrats took possession of the House of Representatives there was a grand swoop on the offices by all the faithful. When it became known that Underwood was to be chairman of the most important committee in the House, all the negroes in Alabama descended on him in a cloud, applying for the job of serving in the committee room Under wood sent them all back home, and kept the two republican negroes Harry and William, who did the work under Speaker Cannon and Chairman Serene Payne.
 Underwood is 4o years old, but if lie claimed to be B nobody would dispute him. A little growth about the midriff in late years is the only thing that shows
 
 ago even this would not have told saies on him, and if he had tried to make a bluff that he was a very recent college graduate it would have been hard to disprove 1t. His age will never be given away by his hair, which is of that light brown tint that becomes gray only by very slight Ce- grees, and when it is gray does not look sc very different from what it was when il l,uty iS | head now. l He has frank, candid eyes, light blue in color, that look yours right in the rupi as he talks to you and that never drop tc ! your knees or your shoes. In conversation | his most striking attribute is ranqui | smile and a genial play of features that makes you feel that Underwood is per sonaly interested in you and in what you | are saying.
 Nobody could ever charge him witl | being "cold.'' He is a very warm hearted and human sort of person. ht 1 drinks in great moderation, but he will ! take a drink; he smokes necessarily l every. negro that ever met him swears by , Marse Underwood, and that is the aci6 | test Of a southerner.
 | His dissipation is pedestrianism. No. body could hire him to climb aboard 6 taxicab or trolly car unless he was
 
 1 o'clock in the morning and gets over tc | the House office building three hours be. | fore Congress meets. His work is and always has been chiefly in his office ant | in committee. He does not care much | about getting up and making speeches although when he does his speeches illu minate whatever subject he is talking about. | He is tremendously effective speaker but not fin the least an orator. Usually he comes Tout into the aisle, shoves s hand in his hip pocket and peels off col unn after column of solid argument with Tout referring to a note unless figures arc involved His voice is rather high and nature never intended him for q | Wendell Phillips
 For all that. when Underwood speaks Congress listens. You may think this is que to his position as chairman of the WHY'S and means committee, but 1t is not lie got the same tense attention when he was humble congressman ternpora rily oitlawed by John sharp Williams -ir- ie does tolnv vhc~ 'iT 's '+ltA
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