, 1864-04-08

What Members Of tho EIouRe nro M,
ted For.

tFrom the washington Correspondent. OF tne rso
Times.F
The best speaker on Lle Union sitlc il yVrr
D. Kelly, Pennsylvania; on the Democr.ti
side D. W. Voorhees,. Indiana.
The best parlamentariaa. Union Rid. r
! B. Washburnc, Illinois; Democrat, s: d
Coz.
Tho rcadlest dcbatcr: Union; John A Kas
son, 1owa; Democrat, George II. PendIeton
Ohio. r. tie last Congress, John a, Bing
| The member with the best blood in 1oh,
Low, Indiana, whose patriot grandfather wat t
member Of the old Continental Con1rrss
| 177G. His maternal grandfather was man
ber Of the first Congress under the Copstitn
! ton, his father Wns member Of Conrrss;
during the war Of. 1879, and Mr., Low thr
present, representative, Is now serving hls
The oldest consecutive member ia n
Nashbufne, Illinois, who has held bis seaj
for eleven years. In the last Conrress No. Ma'
John S. Phelps, Missouri, who was n rnfonci
in the Union army, and had been in ConIsrcs 81
for eighteen years. ~''
Tic Oldest nun is Thaddeus Stevens Penn,
sylsanla, WAo Is almost q years old. The
youngest is Gen. James A. GARFIELD. who r.
only 90 years old. Ignsiius Doaueliy' Mn
ncsota, ia just sixteen days older,
Walter D. Mclndoe, Wisconsin. VERY M,
ciert gentleman has only ono hand.
The General Of highest rank is Major Gen.
eral Robert G. schenck, whose commission
dates from August Goth, 1862 The other
Gen Genefa5s n3s; are Garfield ohio Dumont, Indi.
Tie handsomest man Is William winlom,
Minnesota.
The wcaltliest man is Cakes A,nas, ,nan-
ulcturer from Massachusetts. who il worth
over two millions.
, The most rapid speaker is the Speaker,
Sch1ls ler ColEaX, Indiana.
The tallest man is Brutus j, Clay, Ken-
lucky. Tic shortest members arc J. ".
McC1urg, Missouri; Augustus Brandeecc,
Connecticut; Nehemiah Perry, New jersey:
Francisco PcTca, New Mexico; the d(fIerrnce
TO be decided by the respective thickness Of
the eoleE.
The smallest member is S. s. Cox; the
Etreest e. is John D. Baldwin. Massachusetts.
mont, the father Of nineteen children
SIAc- most graceful man Ii William Il.
Wadsworth, Kentucky.
The diEnified man is Rufus P. Spaulding,
Tie most sarcastic man is Thaddeus. sto-
Fens, Pennsylvania.
The. social man is Gen. F. P. Blur, Mis-
eollri.
The member who has sent away the most
speeches Is s. s. Cox, this Congress; the lust,
B. Wood, the speech Fernando wrote.
The largest farmer on the Union side Is
Josial. D. Grtnnell, Iowa, who has sfx~ thou-
sand acres Of land, md keeps nix thousand
sheep. The big farmer on the s'other side"
e good suhaiantial Union man, Brutus j.
Clay, Kentucky, who owns sixt7-Evc hun.
aIed acres OF Land, and whose home farm
eonta1ns two Thousand acres, worth $50
per acre. Nr. Clsy has two hundred and
'e'sntj live negroes, nifty mules. two hun
l1ed sleep, one hundred aud. fifty blcoded |
Of the most famous in the UNI |
onr. hundred head.
lhe member who never falls to move an' /
mcndnent is William 8: Holman, Indiana. +
The 1n3h Der who llres the fart1est East is l.
frederick A. Pike, Malns. West, John 4 |
deBride, Oregon: North; I. Donnelly, Min /
ssota. ua south, Cornelius Cole, California,
hose district reaches down to Mexico.
James Brooks is the mar who has dis
Eict Of the smallest area-threc Wards in
lew York city.
Idaho Is thslargcst tcrritcTy, and has IN
rea OF 1G, ,S1s square miles. Mr., Donnelly
Minnesota, has the largest district of any
'ember-his i,-500 miles wide.
The House has twenty-five members with
Aid beads, thirty with mustach:s, and two
Henry Winter Davis 1lres the r.ar.y.. tbir.
nine miles. snd has S33 for mil=ge VIII
va ID. Wallace, Of Idaho, travels 1857 miles
nd gets 6, ,S9zt1for mileage.
The politcst member Is Reuben E. Fentop.
GIT York.
Ihtee members represent each saState-
essrs. smithcrB, Delaware; Mcbride, Ore
ID, and Wilder, Kansas.
There are seventeen members rho. are
aveho1ders.
There are twent7.teur members from slaye
'ates, Of whom fourteen vote With. the
nlon party and ten with the Democrats.
The best penmar-is Augustus Frank, New
ORR; the poorest, Thaddcus Stevens. Penn
lvania-
Tbs member whc Is always there, gound
ID true, is Henry L. Dawes, Iassn-
nsstts; the antpode, Benjamin Wood,
W. York. ,