Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1887 — Portraits of the Speakers. [ARTICLE]

Portraits of the Speakers.

In the House corridor on the south side of the chamber, known as “the Speaker’s lobby,” are hung a number of photographs and crayons of the various gentlemen who have been chosen to preside over the House. Most of these are indifferent pictures, those representing the earlier Speakers being enlarged photographs, copied from such pictures of the subjects as were obta nable. Information has been received from the Governor of Massachusetts to the effect that an appropriation has been made by that State to supply oil paintings of such citizens of the Bay State as have been Speakers of the House* This is an example which will be doubtless followed by the Legislatures of other States; and in a few years, it is hoped, a valuable and creditable collection of oil paintings of all the men who have been chosen to preside over the House will take the place of the indifferent pictures that now hang upon the walls of the Speaker’s lobby.— Cor. Philadelphia Ledger. If you speak what you will, you shall hear what you dislike.