Show from the sacramento eplen LETTER FROM washington THE personnel OT CONGRESS from our special correspondent washington march tun TUB HOUSE FROM THE REPORTERS RS GALLERY the scene which is spread out before us as we sit in the gallery of the third estate this thia blustering afternoon ia is literally and figuratively 4 alchech checkered ered clouds come and go over the great stained and ground glass skylights of the root of jot the house of representatives ta tives casting their shadows transiently upon the part parti i colored scene below it is half halt past two of the clock and the gallery where we sit has tta its full complement of reporters who are baisy taking nota not bor a sor or exchanging weighty opinions upon the questions oi ot the day as the r relative positions on the dil Terent different newspapers may d mand gobright who makes up the dispatch a for the associated prees press and BO so is responsible for ail of the reports which go to the country from this branch of cor car greeb grees is busy keeping trick trade cf ct the debate and is writing his hia long hand band sketch from bis his shorthand short band hand notes be is flanked on either lard by the new york herald and world your special cor resi res i comes bexton next on the left being flanked flunked oo 00 either elther hand band by two tribunes one from chicago and one from new york with the san sn francisco journal To missouri democrat and other jolly jaco jacobins bins in the rear other reporter reporters are dotted in around us u and inny in indy ny circulate on the floor of the H tied use where here have managed to be smuggled in ds s comi corni cittee clerks to the disgustful envy of their less fortunate or less pushing brethren j bit we look took down upon the marble dais of the speaker the desks of the cl of the house in front of him the G gobe obe phonograph 1 gra era in front of them thew the area next and be yond this rise in rows rowa the carved oaken desks of the members who sit in he hevy ivy oak chairs which are cushioned ard lined with dark green leather thee rise in semi circles to the bar of the house which ia is only a slightly raised space outside the belt sell sand band outside of that is another open space bounded by the square walls walla of th the cloak rooms above wb wh ch eh rise ahli th gal gai galle leris in bich which A are a fw few hundred blent spectators of or the bus bub busy Y ascone below the members are variously occupied some listening to the debate or parti cipa ing in it others are reading or writ rig tig one or two are asleep in their comfortable chairs and on the lounges outside of or the desks debbs des deb sl are many more dore who 60 are chatting with their outside friends who have been brought in on various pretexts being a californian you naturally ask for tor our own rs that lawyerlike lawyer like ilke pale man with gay hair and whiskers three lats cats from the front at the left of the speaker r is higby he be is chatting with upson ot at michigan a sandy hairel hairet thin fac faced ed man with a pleasant mile gile nailer he is a brother of your surveyor general I 1 lauren upson and is a good debater and a prominent member of the committee of elections one seat nearer the front and on the left of higby ia is cole a heavy beavy dark haired quiet man he is reading the gih GIL giebe glebe be ot of today to tf day and on hi left with wit b his hia feet cocked up on bis his seat ia is shannon vrho who la Is watching uhe ibe debate and stroking us hia whiskers kers comfortably darting arout are dozens of pages pagel 1 1 impudent young varlets carlets var lets lete snatched maturely prematurely pie from their mothers arms arena to run upon messages in the house and to be a hin bin hindrance drance arid a pui pul nuisance nuisance sance sauce to everybody in general they are the s sons bons mons ne nephews phena cou cousins sirls siris children or relatives of the members for the most host part here and there we discern an unobtrusive porter who comes staggering in under a huge hilge load of enveloped enve lored documents dockum ento which some member apropo es to frank g nic nit and send bend tp his waiting who will value them 1 for tor their weight as paper maff maefra rae rai stock un less they are picture books like mullans and will please pl ase chi dren the subject before the house is a proposition to buy of the publishers of the on hundred sets eels ot of their annals alb als ot at congar Con gres sq 11 a bookoff seventy one large volumes g giving a history of Coli congressional gressional debates lir from 0 the first session of the first congress to 1845 1815 inclusive this is only a small mall job 31 the price ct f each set being which would bring the lot at thatis ak all ail the last congress authorized auth prized tie clerk to buy one indred hundred hi copies of the booky book al a though eight ohve copies coples were already in the possession ot the government gates gales A sea ton delivered on the very wry day after the house passed the mo it lution solution in 1862 but ta there mere wab wis w wib is ailo jilo no money to pay for them the clerk refused to receive them and ana the whole lot was stored in the capitol gales seaton retaining the key of the storeroom from that day until this but before payment could be made the house rescinded oded its ita resolution and the books were never received now the publishers claim hat bat they have performed f their part of the contract by a delivery athe books within the walls of the capitol and nd they ask that they manhave may have bave their money aa As might be expected kentucky is the chain plon pion of the conservative ibie inte hemer bemer femer and 14 green clay smith makes a swelling and high toned rejoinder to the remarks ot of clark dark of new york who speaks about an investigation into the manner manner in which this job was gott golan n up 4 V there is a great deal deai of confusion a as to tho the lahl abbt of the floor and the aisles are speedia stull faull of member members all ail wanting vvan ivan ling to be beard an and all ali that tuat right colfax coit coif ax rahl rapi rapa lo loudly pilly I 1 and bayl bewla still more I 1 loudly before he can r command a berde ce but IV windom of minnesota Alin neiota grets gets the tte tle floor and reads long extracts from the r report of an investigating C ci maitee mm itee by wh which I 1 c it appears that one coyle bookkeeper in the concern for or twenty odd years was instrumental in having a reconsideration made during last Con congress giess gless of the vote by which the house rescinded the resolution of purchase that he urged outsiders to urge members to move a reconsider reconsideration tion that somebody offered 1000 or 1500 for such a job that coyle had testified that he rievel nevet ot of money but thought he said he had bad rather lost 1000 or 1500 than lose that resolution anddore to the same effect smith 0 of f kentucky wants the floor BO so apes vla ili washburn ash who wants the investigation printe printed d dawes also want wants s the floor and anil so does mallory of kentucky and he interposes a good word for gales seaton who it appears got in debt to their bookkeeper who ho advanced them mo ey and han hen then undertook the job of getting this little bill 2 spaulding of ohio a hard faced old iii lri non nun in gets the poor floor and gives a history of the whole affair during which coyle the faithful book i keeper and bookseller is observed ed to quitt quit ibe floor of the huse hube where hei bet has been all of this time and anif go up to the gallery where he be belongs being moved thereto by a motion from some of f the anti nt illel ii gracer men for the action of the at arms spaulding ldina having fi ii shed in spite of at repeated inta interruptions raup which make him very petulant a dozen members spring up at once but james 0 alj 1 len ien en of illinois gets the floor and proceeds in in a violent and sleep speech tr to show that the original contract wa was a a good one and should be liepa by the house and that the lusht to halve have its money there are more struggles for speech but a all ali ai are choked oft off by the bleared previous ques 1 tion lion which is caled upon the motion to lay the who ho e matter upon the table the ayes ases and noe noes aire atre are ordered and the dronin droning voice of the clerk goes on with the roll and amidst considerable excitement for the affair haa baa stirred up some feeling the vote is announced as 67 ayes 50 neb nea so the bas has been laid upon the table apparently b but 1 t I 1 voorhees ea a copperhead champion nt fit th abe i job ll 11 has voted u with aith ith the majority arid and moves a reconsideration more nore ayes and noe mo more motions more bother ah all are needful before the thing is dead deal and the houe howe adjourns nearly the whole afternoon has been spent in this thia miserable wrangle which has reye revealed aled corruption bribery 0 or r atte attempts apts at them tiam and has elicited much hard bard feeling and not nt it a ittle tittle i temper emper on all bides sides but before the house ad adl 1 bourns an and I 1 th members go hurrying to their five dinner with a dim consciousness of not having earned i it let us sketch in light i ly a few of the most noti ceab reab e of these men who come up from the people to legislate in the popular branch of congress JUSTIN 3 MORRILL we commence with vermont which sends bends the above named gentleman amon among others of lesser note dior Alor illi till is tall shapely and very good lookin looking Is fifty four years od old a farmer by occupation and has been in every congress from the thirty fourth to the present uhe the thirty eighth her hee is a prudent saving man an excellent financier and is a prominent member of the fhe ways and na means eans commit tee teo ile he sits beside thad toad who is tue ibe chairman at 0 the committee of ways and means ft cl which morrill la is the tue second member he ile is slow of speech and has a hesitating tin way which a stranger takes for affectation ile lie is not a fluett fluent debater but bat is eminently a sound man SAMUEL HOOPER stout beaded headed dignified quiet and gentl manly hooper of massachusetts is the best type of a solid mn m n of boston his ilia solid ft ef avoirdupois is well matched by his bis weight rot jot of cab for be is one of the w alt ait althie hiest et meb mell ii 11 the theloise ho holse Hoise ise lse he is also a prominent member of at the ways and means Commit committee teg tei and is a good financier ile he also gives lives good dinners always speaks to some purpose but seid beld seldom beldom addresses the house and is so courteous and gracious that be always commands respect from all parties ile he has been a member of the house for the last three terms of congress grebs gress johm JOHH BALLEY ALLEY 13 this mild mannered g gentleman ent ema p a little attl lame considerably gray a and rid pale looking is the chairman of the post office committee and as 99 such is entitled to 0 o great respect from californian abo yaho haye have a great P great many axes to grind in thai thae committee ile he is moreover an a agreeable gent gentleman liman laman belon belonos belongs a in lynn lia lla 51 iia as 8 seldom makes a speech but speaks peaks lotha eotha t lothe 0 the purpose if at all and is conservative consul dative and diffident iu in manner and belier belief i GEORGE 3 BOUTWELL of massachusetts 2 was never in congress bf fore forb fore lore this term but was formerly commission I 1 er ot of internal revenue once Gover Govern the old bay stae as ad the yankee yankees a fondly ta to in it and he tie started life ag as a village storekeeper ile he is to a tall sal sai sallow lowi black haired and arid bechis man roan able financier and arid a cooj a good I 1 debater debaier lie ile he i 13 a lawyer as well and has peculia peculiar i not notions ons ui uton dil oil the subject of rec n st ruction lie he is in the prime of ef eifel life and achieved much distinction nhi abi while le yet young HENRY heney L dawes massachusetts bas baa the ablest delegation as a whole in the ibe houske and dawe as the chairman of the committee on E elections lec tiong ia is necessarily a prominent ma manin illin iliin many he lie is youthful looking but it u forty gicht years old has baa been in public 1 ilfe life if e in various way ways ever since 1848 having baving be been e n in his own j state stilt legislature Legisa ture a district attorney etc he was waa a member of congress from the thir I 1 ty fifth to the present term and has hag been chairman of the committee of elections for two terms ile he ia Is a lawyer by profession I 1 able logical but of exceedingly poor delivery i I 1 having baving a wasteful hesitating drawl which is aggravating to a listener he can never elec anybody HENRY G STEBBINS represents the first or staten island district of 0 new york he ia 13 a war democrat the last member of the wa ways y a and means commit tee and an able and patriotic man if be he does 11 sit bit it arl ari ablong ong the copperheads Copper heads he is the author of the odid gold bill which be he advocated in an excellent logical and eloquent speech he is about fifty years of age arid is in tte the full fuli vi vigor vior 0 or of florid health THE TUP WOOD WOODS benjamin benjaimin Benja ikin inin and fernando wood eli ell enjoy 0 y the bad eminence of being P the notorious who ll 11 0 are inquired after by every newcomer new comer in the gal derea deres of 0 the iha piouse ben wood is tall well shaped slightly stooping has a bad gray blue eye overhanging light 1 ghr long hair a doughy face lare jare light colored mull mua fache arid and has haa a vulgar dishonest look albeit he wears good clothes he never and has bailom been in his bis seat during this eesi sion aion owins owing to a prolonged elcaness sic ELe kness kieBa f fernando fern Fera ando wood ia is better looking than his bro bretler br titer otier ia is tall daik salk polished in appearance appearances arid and haa baa a scholarly look he dresses in gentie 1 manly black twirls hig his eye glass is never ruffie ruffle in temper ia is a good dejaner dej aler ajer speaking with great case and grace reminding one of descriptions ot of talleyrand and phe les ies both at the same time somehow ile he dit eit sits rita in the center of the opposition side of the house and is unquestionably the smartest j man among them ile he was born in philadel Phila dele deir phia in 1812 consequently be is now gifty fifty two years old commenced life as a cigar maken maker was waa afterwards a clerk merchant a ship owner and is rich ile he was in congress from 1841 to 43 and afterward mayor of 0 new york as everybody kno knows ws 1 JAMES yli yil BROOKS LOOKS ant another anther her ber new york bembi member rp is probably po bably the 5 bebr bear read man in the hoase house hoase house e ile he is tall ion IOD longi headed bas baa large dali dall eyes abroad broad a fore bad I 1 dark hair wears an eyeglass eye glass aud ard is forever i preaching economy in appropriation gro ero groan 1 l I 1 I ing and lamenting every dollar a ahing an fn r the good old times when such things a as the lim lime point job were eq al to a modern ba batie banle with atwith fifty gifty thousand killed brooks is a maine alaine j man by birth is fifty tour four years olt oli was waa ari art binally a clerk a schoolmaster climbing tip up I 1 like an ambitious yankee as he is was bia iia a a graduate at waterville Wat erville college and lips 1128 been I 1 a great trav tram traveler eler eier in his hia own a and nd forel forein foreign n coun i tries he ii i an accomplished ami arid courteous i gent gentleman lemary I 1 cannot find it in my heart to abuse him even if be he be a copperhead and 0 one ne of the edi edl ors ora of the express newspaper 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