Abstract

Notes from the Capital

U.S. Senator Moses Edwin Clapp is a big, ponderous fellow, who walks with a roll, as if his feet had been an afterthought of nature's in putting him together, and not adapted to the support of such a frame. Looking into his face, the first features that strike you are his eyes, which are set under brows with the slant associated with the gift of language. His voice has rapid changes, rather than much variety or subtlety of inflection, the kind to found in persons who are obstinate in sticking to a point in an argument. One of his special hobbies is thrift. He is at home not only a lawyer, but a farmer, and is never so happy as when he gets into his overalls and goes out to take a hand with the men at work on the crops and he takes pains to know that all his farm resources are well conserved and carefully husbanded.