Evening star., 1934-11-18
CHAPTER xxx.
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

CHAPTER xxx.
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
~LEVELAND'S head and neck
4 have occupied large place
I in his past successful cam
~ paign, and phrenology has
run riot In the discussions.
A look at Congress shows that the
President-elect is by no means the
only big-necked public man in the
country. Dan Voorhees,, the Indian
Senator, who characterized Cleve-
lands neck as being as big as his
thigh, has a neck like bull. and his
red. beefy face is by no means free
from animal features. Senator
Pendleton, beside him, has large,
round and fat neck, and Lamar, the
finest scholar of the senatorial body,
has neck like horse, upon which
his gray hair flows down like name.
Lamar's eyes are sleepy. He is
great dreamer. And an incident OF
his absent -mindedness occurred last
year in st. Louis. He dozed in the
chair while the barber cut his hair;
when he awoke he found to his dis
gust that he was closely shorn. He
usually wears his hair very long.
The heads of the House Over
three hundred of them are bobbing
up and down in various positions,
above those desks below me. Some
are red, some black, some brown and
many are silvered over with age or
polished with badness by silk hats
or the sandpaper of time.
Among them all DorSheimer'S IS
the biggest and Perry Belmonts is,
should say, the smallest. Dosheimer's
weighs as much as he did when he
was born. 1t is fat, round and rosy
and partially bald Fluffy black side
whiskers ornament its dark red
cheeks and two lines bisecting each
other at right angles from ear to ear
and from forehead to back would
measure over a foot. Its face is Ger
man and its forehead fades off into
badness in which an oasis of hair as
big as a silver dollar springs up.
Perry Belmont wears a very small
hat and his weight, all told, cannot
be much over one hundred. His face
is thin and commonplace. He has
black hair, fierce mustache of
set of features. His millions, how
ever, would make man with no head
at all prominent, and Belmont's lit
tie Uranium is packed with brains.
Tom Reed has curious head. 1t
Is cross between that of Dickens
fat boy and that of the Chinese giant
It is joined to broad, STOPPING
shoulders by neck like a wafer Its
Chinese eyes are cut almost aslant,
its mouth wears a pugnacious air,
the top of the head is bald and half
dozen thin red hairs are, combed care
fully over it. They remind me, as I
look at him, of the story told by Sem
ator Hamlin as to how such a head
defeated him in his first contest for
the United States Senate.
Hannibal Hamlin was Speaker of
the Maine House for years before he
became United States Senator, and
at this time there was in the Legis-
lature a very dandified old fellow
whose chief weakness was in trying
to conceal the badness which was
rapidly stealing over his head. He
came into the House each morning
with his hair SO carefully combed
that it looked as though each par
ticular hair had been pasted in its
place, but even so there was scarcely
enough to cover the bald spot.
One morning Speaker Hamlin,
thinking to have some fun, called this
gentleman to him and said: My dear
Blank, beg your pardon, but one of
your hairs is crossed over the others"
you insult me, sir! You insult mel"
the old fellow cried angrily, and
walked stif1y back to his seat. He re-
fused to be reconciled, and he be-
came Hamlins lifelong enemy. A
few years later. when Hamlin was a
candidate for the United States Sem
ate, this man was again in the Leg
islature, and his vote decided the con-
test in favor of Hamlin's opponent.
About one-fourth of the House is
bald-headed, and among these some
heads, such as those of Lyman of
Massachusetts,, Rice of Massachusetts
and Hunt of Louisiana, shine as
though they were vanished delicate
pink. Hunt, by the way, is, like Ly-
man, one of the aristocrats of the
House. His ancestors date back for
a century and he began his first cam
paign for Congress in kid gloves and
sWallow-tail coat. Lyman is, like
Hunt, wealthy, and doubt not either
of these two men would gladly pay
SIS hair to cover their cold pates.
Congressional Heads.
But hair, like ideas, is not to be
bought with money, and many of the
richest men in Congress are the poor
est in hair and brain. In this state
ment do not refer to Hunt, Rice and
Lyman. for they have, all of them
more brains than hair. But their
proportions are not a circumstance
to Congressman and Senators who
have more hair than brains. Many
of those heads below me are as Fuller
says, so little that there is no room
for wit in them and others SO long
that there is no wit for so much
room" Some would do for sculptors'
models. Others are cracked with
hobbies and in others the ideas rattle
round as loosely as peas in bladder.
OF many it could be quoted:
"And still the wonder was,
And still the wonder grew;
That one small head
Could carry all he knew"
And of the others the saying:
THE people gazed and gazed.
i. And then began to hint;
So large head, indeed!
And yet so little in t."
The inside chambers of the House
and Senate, where the sessions are
held, are by no means the only i'm
portant places about the Capitol dur
ing a congressional session. The
scenes on the outside are often more
exciting and interesting than those
on the inside and more business is
done in the committee rooms and the
lobby than on the floor before the
Speaker. 1t is in the corridors that
the members meet their friends and
lobbyists, and an old Senator tells