ABOUT THE SENATE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 16.

ABOUT THE SENATE.

TWENTY of the United States senators served in the Confederate army during the war, and sixteen in the Union army. The man with the longest time to serve is Edward C. Walthal, of Grenada, Miss., who has been reelected by the Legislature of the State for the term ending in 1901. The most cultured senator is Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, who is an author, artist, linguist, scholar, and society man. The handsomest is Charles H. Gibson, of Maryland. The most senatorial is Alfred H. Colquitt, of Georgia, whose father and grandfather sat in the Senate before him. The haughtiest is J. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania, whose unique distinction is never to say a word in the Senate unless he moves to adjourn. The richest, now that Stanford is dead, would seem to be John P. Jones, of Nevada, who bestows gold dollars on the beggars of Washington. The one most celebrated outside of his own country is John Sherman. The most abused is Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. The most punctilious is Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio, who changes his shirt three times every day. The most temperate is David B. Hill, of New York, who neither smokes, drinks, swears, gambles, nor eats dainties. The strongest is William B. Allison, of Iowa, who could almost fell an ox with his fist.—Commercial Gazette.