| Show DOGDAY OR TORS Some Pen Pictures of Hot Weather Statesmen r J W STONES GREAT SPEECH The Tall 1nd of the Tammany Celebration Celebra-tion How the Hall of the House Is Now Enlivened WASHINGTON luly 30 18J0rSpecial correspondence of TIIB HCHAIDJ It has been a season for hot weather statesmen Not since the foundation of the government has the atmosphere in Washington been more heated and humid In the House of Representatives at times the temperature has been almost intolerable The capitol was an immense oven Representatives sat In the chamber of the House roasting like so many jacksnipes Speaker Reed was enthroned above them holding a fan instead of a sceptic and trying to keep cooL Those upon the floor below him were fairly dripping with perspiration It was a sight to see such magnificent political partridges as Charles S Baker of New York and Judge Barnes of Georgia basted In their own juices Tho hot weather had an alarming effect upon some of the orators The irrepressible irrepressi-ble William M Springer fell by the wayside way-side after his effort in Tammany hall on July 4th He broke down on his return to the House and sought the cool surges of the ocean Congressman Frank of Missouri Mis-souri says that ho had an experience with the tail end of the Tammany celebration It arrived at Long Branch late on the afternoon after-noon of theoth in the shape of John Allen of Mississippi Frank took good care of it Ho gave it a magnificent dinner at John Hoe > s Holly Wood Inn and filled it with wine It afterward went over to Monmouth Mon-mouth park and made enough money to run a howling campaign in Tupelo this fall John returned to the House and opened his mouth only once whilo tho thermometer stood in the nineties He then made a telling tell-ing speechone that blistered the back of the Republican party Marcus Aurelius Smith p1 Arizona was another sufferer As he was entering the House one morning his appearance excited general comment His eyes were dull and lustreless his features pinched and drawn and his motions languid and listless Ho was bent over like a parenthesis The extraordinary ex-traordinary heat had made him ill and reduced re-duced him in flesh Somebody said I I i DELLE I F jNELSONi1j KENT1JCItYI A FltlEXD OF MARCCS AURELIUS SMITH facetiously Youre looking bad Mark You must have struck the wrong brand la t night No replied Mark theyre all alike C They have saved my life But Ive been having a bad time Ive been monkeying with eternity for twentyfour hours Ilett my door open and the weather got in Through the kindness of a Kentucky lady I however my life was saved Whats her name a congressman asked Belle Nelson Mark replied At this several Kentucky and New York members laughed and spoke approvingly of the lady All seemed to be acquainted with her The Prohibitionist remarked Miss Nelson seems to be a universal favorite I wish I knew her At this everybody broke into a loud guffaw The merriment was intensified when Marcus Aurelius gravely replied You ought know her Shes an original package There are statesmen however who are not affected by hot weather One of these is Hon William J Stone of Nevada Mo Stone is tall and thin and a typical Southerner South-erner He has straight black hair high cheek bones and a brow knobbed with perspective per-spective faculties Mr Stone is a first class orator Upon the hottest day of the season he stood in a Democratic aisle and for an hour and a half riddled Speaker Reed with number four shot The bill under un-der consideration was one characterized asa as-a bill to compound a felony It allows the railroads to retain 47000000 acres of the public lands which they have not earned provided they will give up claim to 0000000 more to which they have no right With flashing eyes and uplifted hand Mr Stone arraigned Judge Pil son for his change of front on the land grant forfeiture bill With ringing emphasis he denounced the Speaker as the tool of the railroad corporations cor-porations He called him a parliamentary joss who untied thehands of the Republican Republi-can members that they might clap to his utterances and unsealed their lips that they mightchant a servile chorus to the commanding tones of his majestic solos It was great work or hot weather The House was in committee of the whole with John F PctciSfOf Kansas in the chair A 0 better presiding oQicer never touched a J gavel Speaker Reed srood at his desk some time an intent i not a pleased listener Afterwards he wandered up a Democratic aisle dropped into McAdbos seat and enjoyed a little quiet music with General Traccy of Albany and Joe ONeil I of Boston He seemed to be in a jolly mood At times however he turned toward to-ward the impassioned orator and with open mouth and au air childlike and bland listened to his eloquence as though wondering wonder-ing what it was uli about Mr Stone withdrew with-drew to the cloak room at the conclusion ot his speech His long black hair hung over his forehead Moisture cculd have been wrung from the black alpaca coat which he wore It was the hottest day of the seasonhot for himself as well as for Reed and Pa soD The effect of the hot weather was shown when over twenty leaves of absence weio asked for in the afternoon Judge Payson bad preceded Mr Stone Ho is a right royal talker and has the face manners and tactics of a true statesman He wore a striped seersucker coat The beat gave his face a roscaus glow Rivulets of perspiration ran from his brow into his whiskers Although slightly bald his head is fringed with curls Stones characterization characteri-zation of him afterwards Was ideal The Missourian spoke of him as a bold warrior who once Hue a plumed knight strode down yonder aisle answering corporate insolence 1 in-solence with brave defiance Then ho was i i a parliamentary Murat the field marshal of I forfeitures Today however he Mood yonder timid tenderfooted and oppressed I I with doubt advocating with humble apologetic apol-ogetic Toice the very proposition which he had opposed four years ago Tho contrast was sharply drawn but was more figurative than realistic There is nothing timid nor tenderfooted about Pay I son He is a genuine Murat all the way through Payson would haveled the charg a at Evlav or have died upon the sands of Ail > Sicilics with equal insouciance The Pa son Stone episodewas one of the most picturesque in the hot weather Probably the most interesting of all the C hot weather orators is Hon George D Till man of South Carolina His complexion hair and eyes are as light as were those of Horae Greeley One is as honest as the other was and equally firm in his convictions convic-tions Here the resemblance ends Horace 1 was as mild as a cooing dove even when I I denouncing fraud and humbug Tillman rages like a lion Hot weather suits him 1 He has always had plenty of it in his district dis-trict and his brother seems to be making it hot for the Palmetto aristocracy in South Carolina today The discussion of the 1 Emory claim bill drew out of the honest old 1 South Carolina member one of the most I I unique speeches ever delivered in the House He understood the claim from A I to izzard He denounced in A AngloSaxon I I I 7 JUDGE PATSOS A CHAMPION HOT WEATHER ORATOR that would have done credit to Thomas H Benton He became as breezy as a Palmetto Palm-etto in a gale Quaint simihes original metaphors exquisite tropes and iridescent imagmery were mixed up with old farmers maxims trite sayings and negro plantation phrases all driven home with a peculiar I accent characteristic of Dixie Tilluian is nrobablv the most convincing speaker in the House When talking he seems to lose I sight of all his surroundings and to concentrate concen-trate all the powers of his mind upon the point at issue He is a perfect Massena in debate He is as quick of perception as that old French general as obstinate a fighter and as unpretentious a tactician As an orator ho reminds one of the late Senator Cock who never made a mishit Another hot weather orator is Major John M Farquhar of Buffalo He has thick grayhair a gray mustache and blue eyes He is as broad across the shoulders as he is broad in mind The major is loaded with facts and figures on nearly every subject sub-ject He is eminently aggressive Ho cant can-t lk in the hottest weather by the hour Mr Farquhar was born in Scotland and has all the Scotch traits of character It was Farquhar who shoved the conference report on the Emory claim bill through the House when the quicksilver marked blood I heat No statesman ever accomplished a more difficult feat in hot weather Another really fine hot weather orator is Hon John Henry Rogers of Arkansas He is a young mar with a clear complexion wellcut features and a ringing voice He maintains a perfect aplomb in his orator He never loses his presence of mind He is always camping on the trail of Speaker Reed and is persistent and annoying in his assaults upon the Republican flank as wore the Spanish guerrillas upon the flank of I Marshal Suchet Springer undoubtedly I annoys the Speaker but Rogers seems to make him wild A story illustrative of this fact is told One day when the thermometer marked 100 degrees in Washington the Speaker was sauntering through Democratic aisle when he was approached by Mr Mc Clammy of North Carolina McClaminy looks like a ramrod endowed with life He is the thinestmember south of the Potomac His tariff speech was an opal of eloquence j REED AXD MCLAMMT I I Upon meeting the Speaker in the aisle he said so the story goes J I want you sir to recognize me for tho purpose of calling up a bill If you dont do it youll be sorry for it Well nowMcClammy the great Maine Yankee drawled recognition under tho rules may be made at times with a proper degree of fairness and I Well broke in McClammy that proper degree of fairness will have to be reached Youll have to recognize mo or youll be mighty sorry And I mean what 1 say Yes drawled the Speaker but your utterance is in the nature of a threat and that wont do h Makes no difference Mr McClammy replied youll be infernally sorry if you dont recognize me Youll be more than infernally sorry Youll be dumb sorry What do you mean 1 the Speaker asked with a lurid light in his left eye uI mean just this McClammy replied If I dont get recognition and get my bill through the House Im sure to lose the re nomination The people of my district will then take care of you Theyll send a man here wholl bo a thundering sight worse than Rogers That settles it the great man from Maine is reported to have said Youll be recognized McClammy And the Hon Charles W McClammy of I Scotts Hill still awaits recognition AMOS J CCMMIXGS I |
