The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-04-14
Curious Facts About Congressman.
What Members of the House are No,ed
For. e.
NUMBER rs.


Tines. .- II 80 -
The best speaker on the Union side is VIM.
D. Kelley Pennsylvania; on the Democrat
ic side, D. W,Voorhees Indiana. taea
The best parliamentarian Union side, f.
B. Washburne Illinois; Democrat, S. S.
Cox 81
The readiest debater, Union, John A.
HANSON, Iowa Democrat, George H. Pen
dleton, Ohio In the last Congress, John
A. Bingham Ohio, c. L. Vallandigham
Canada - -
The member with the best blood is John
Low, Indiana, whose patriot grandfather
was member Of the old Continental Con-
gress, 1776. His maternal grandfather was
a member OF the first Congress under the
Constitution, his father was a member of
Congress during the war of 1912, and Mr..
Low, the present representative, is now serv-
ing his second term.
The oldest consecutive member is E. B.
Washburn, Illinois, who has held his seat
for eleven years. In the last Congress, was
John S, Phelps, Missouri who was a Colonel
In the Union army, and had been in Con-
gress for eighteen years.
The oldest man is Thaddeus Stevens.
Pennsylvania, who is almost II years old.
The youngest is Gen. James A Garfield
who is only 80 years old. Ignatius Don
nelly, Minnesota, is just sixteen days older
Walter McIndoe, Wisconsin, very eff
Gent gentleman, has only one hand.
The General of highest rank is Major
General Robert G. Schenck, whose commits
sion dates from August 30th, 1862. The
other Generals, are Garfield, Ohio, Dumont,
Indiana, Blair Missouri 4-
The handsomest man is William Window
Minnesota.
The wealthiest man is Cakes AInes a
manufacturer from Massachusetts,, who is
worth over two millions.
The most rapid speaker is the Speaker
Schuyler Cofax, Indiana.
The tallest man Brutus J. Clay, Ken
lucky. The shortest members are j. w. Nc
Clurg, Missouri, Augustus Brandegee- Conn
ecticut; Nehemiah Perry, New Jersey; Fran
cisco Perea, New Mexico; the difference to
be decided by the respective thickness of the
soles of their boots.
The smallest member is S. S; Cox the
largest is John D. Baldwin, Massachusetts.
The most productive-Gen. Ebenezer Du-
mont, the father of nineteen children.
The most graceful man is William IL.
Wadsworth, Kentucky.
The most dignified man is Rufus P. Spaul-
ding Ohio.
The most sarcastic man is Thaddeus Ste
vens, Pennsylvania.
The most social man is Gen. E. P. Blair,
Missouri.
The member who sent away the most
speeches is S. S Cox, this Congress; the last
B. Wood the speech Fernando wrote.
The largest farmer OH the Union side, is
Josiah b. Grinnell, Iowa, who has six thou
sand acres of land, and keeps six thousand
sheep The big farmer on the ''other side"
is good substantial Union man, Brutus j.
Clay, Kentucky, who owns sixty-five hun
dred acres Of land, and whose home farm
contains two thousand acres, worth $50
per acre. Mr.. Clay has two hundred and
seventy five negroes fifty mules, two hum
bred Sheep one hundred and fifty blooded
cattle-some of the most famous i'll the Uni
ted States. His usual stock of cattle is about
four hundred head
The member who never fails to move all
amendment is Willium S. Holman, lndi-
ana
The member who lives the fartherest East
is Frederick A. Pike, Maine, West, John r.
Mcbride, Oregon, North l. Donnelly, Mime
sofa, South, Cornelius Cole, California,
whose district reaches down to Mexico
James Brooks is the man who has a dis
trict of the smallest area-three Wards in
New York city.
Idaho is the largest territory, and has an
area Of 1926, 373 square miles. Mr.. Donnelly
of Miennsota has the largest district of any
member-his is 500 miles wide
The house has twenty five members with
bald heads thirty with mustaches, and two
with wigs.
Henry Winter Davis lives the nearest,
thirty nine miles, and has $32 for mileage.
William H. Wallace of Idaho, travels 1897
miles and gets Sc, 397 60 for mileage.
The politest MEMBERS Reuben e. Fenton,
New York.
Three members represent each State
Messrs Smithers Delware; Mcbride, Oregon
and Wilder, Kansas
There are seventeen members who are
Shareholders.
There are twenty four members from slave
States of whom fourteen vote with the
Union party and ten with the Democrats
The best penman is Augustus Frank, New
York, the poorest, Thaddeus Stevens, Penn
sylvania. ..''
The member who is always there, sound
and true, is Henry L. DAVIS, Massachusetts;
tho on+inoda RaniaD,in Wood New York