The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-04-14
SELEC TIONS.
Curious Facts about Congressman.

The best speaker on the Union side is
William ID. Kelly, Pennsylvania; on the Dem
ocratc side, ID. w. Voorhees,, Indiana.
The best parliamentarian, Union side, L.
B. Washburne, Illinois; Democrat, 5. S.
Cox.
son, Iowa; Democrat, George II. Pendleton,
Ohio. In the last Congress, John A. Bing-
ham, Ohio, G. l.. Vallandgham, Canada.
The member with the best blood is John
Low, Indiana, whose patriot grandfather was
= member of the old Continental Congress,
l776. His maternal grandfather was mem
Der OF the first Congress under the Consttu-
ton, his father was a member of Congress
during the war of 1912, and Mr.. Low, the
present representative, is now serving his
second term.
The oldest consecutive member is L. b.
Washburne, Illinois, who has held his seat for
eleven years. In the last Congress was John
s. Phelps, Missouri, who was colonel in the
Union army, and had been in Congress for
eighteen years.
The oldest man is Thaddeus Stevens, Penn
sylvania, who is almost " years old. The
youngest Gen. James A.. Garfield, who is
only 81 years old. Ignatius Donnelly, Mime
sofa, is just sixteen days older.
Walter ID. Mclndoe, Wisconsin. a very efi-
cient gentleman, has only one hand.
The General of highest rank is Major Cen
eral Robert c. Sclrenck, whose commission
dates from August 80, 1852 The other Gen.
erals are Garfield, Ohio; Dumont, Indiana;
Blair, Missouri.
The handsomest man is William Window,
Minnesota.
The wealthiest man is Oakes Ames, a man
ufacturer from Massachusetts,, who is worth
over two millions.
The most rapid speaker is the Speaker,
Schuyler Colfax, Indiana.
The tallest man is Brutus j. Clay, Ken
lucky.
The shortest members are J. w. McClurg,
Missouri; Augustus Brandegee, Connecticut;
Nehemiah Perry, New Jersey; francisco
Perea, New Mexico; the difference to be de-
cided by the respective thickness of the
soes.
The smallest member is S. S. Cox; the lar
gest is John ID. Baldwin, Massachusetts,.
The most productive-Gen. Ebenezer Du-
mont, the father OF nineteen children.
The most graceful man is VIM. Ii. Wads-
worth, Kentucky.
The dignifed man is Rufus P. Spaulding,
Ohio.
The most sarcastic man is Thaddeus Ste
yens, Pennsylvania.
The social man is Gen. +. p. Blair, Mssou-
ri.
The member who has sent away the most
speeches is 5. S. Cox, this Congress; the last,
B. Wood, the speech Fernando wrote.
The largest farmer on the Union side is
Josiah Il. Grinnell, Iowa, who has six thou
sand acres ofland, and six thousand sheep
The big farmer on the 'other side" is good
substantial Union man, Brutus j. Clay, Ken
lucky, who owns sixty-fiye acres of land, and
whose home farm contains two thousand acres,
worth $3.50 per acre. Mr. Clay has two hun
dred and seyenty-fve negroes, hfty mules, two
hundred sheep, one hundred and fifty blooded
catte-some of the most famous in the Uni
ted States. His usual stock of cattle is about
four hundred head.
The member who never fails to move an
amendment is VIM S. Holman, Indiana
The member who lives the iarthest East Is
Frederick A. Pike, Maine. West, John X.
Mcbride, Oregon. North, l. Donnelly, Min
nesota. South, Cornelius Cole, California,
whose district reaches down to Mexico.
James Brooks is the best read man, and has
a district OF the smallest area-three wards in
New York city.
Idaho is the largest Territory, and has an
area of 326,3T3 square miles. Mr.. Donnelly,
of Minnesota, 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, thir-
ty-nine miles, and has S32 for mileage. VIM
II. Wallace, of Idaho, travels 1897 miles and
gets S6397.60 for mileage.
The politest member is Reuben T.. Fenton
of New York
Three members represent each a State
Messrs Smithers, Delaware; Mcbride, Ore
gon. 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 Democratic.
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.. Dawes, Massachusetts,; /;
the antipode, Benjamin Wood, New York
Washington Correspondent of Troy Times.