Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-17

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Congressional NaIiVffies.
OF the fifty gentlemen composing the
United States Senate as it now stands,
twenty-one only are there as the represen-
| tatives of their native States. A majority
| of the western Senators were born in the
| eastern States. Mr.. Howard, of Michigan
is a native of Vermont, and his colleague,
Mr.. Chandler, was born in New Hamp-
| shire. Mr.. DooHttle, of Wisconsin, is a
| native of New York, and his colleague,
Mr.. Howe, halls from the rock-rlbbed
! coast of Maine. Mr.. Grimes, Of Iowa, first
| saw the light of dsy in New Hampshire.
No other State but Massachusetts could
have been guilty of Ben Wade. Connec-
tieut divides the honor of Mr.. Trumbulls
birth between herssifand that gentleman S
parents.
MI. NcDougall, who, in his lHcid inter
walls, represents California, took his first
sniff of atmospheric air in New York,
near the Pennsylvania line, about the time
! of the Whisky Instruction, which has
since been transferred to his own stomach.
Ohio is responsible for Mr.. Hendricks, of
Indiana, and Mr.. Norton, of Minnesota.
1 Kentucky gava to the world, the flesh and
the devil, Mr.. Yates, of Illinois, and to
the irrepressible radicals, Mr.. Brown, of
Missouri.
N,a York is entitled to all the honor
that attaches TO the natal State Of Mcssrs-
| Ste yart and Nye, of Nevada. Mr.. WI
iiams. of Oregon, and half a dozen other
Senators. Nor does emigration seem 20
go - ---aD--ala from tho
/ East to the far West, in Senatorial In
stances. Mr.. Fessenden of Maine, is a
| New Hampshire man likewise MIR. VIII
| son, of Massachusetts,. Mr.. Cragin
| thought better of New Hampshire than
these two gentlemen, and left Vermont to
| take up his residence in it. Mr.. Sumner
was born in Boston of course.
New Hampshire, n Of the smallest
States of this Union, has six OF her ma
tives' in the Senate-Messrs. Chandler,
! Grimes. Wilson, Fessenden, Pomeroy and
| Clark. New York, the largest State in
the Union, has but two more than New
Hampshire-Messrs. Doolittle, Harris,
| Nye, Stewart, Wright, Williams, McDou-
Gal snd Van Wrinkle. Pennsylvania and
Ohio are equal, each having three-the
| former. Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan
and Ramsey; the latter, Messrs-
sherman, Norton and Hendricks.
| Massachusetts, has three-Sumner, Wade
and Morgan. Kentucky has five
Davis, Guthrie, Yates, Brown and Henry
S. Lane. Vermont has four votes--Foote,
Howard, Cragin and Poland. Cennecti-
cut has three-Foster, Dixon and Irum-
bull. Virginia has two-Willey and
Henderson. Maine has three-MorrIlli
Howe and Nesmith. Indiana has one
Jim Lane. Delaware has two-Riddle
and Salisbury. New Jersey has one
Stockton. Rhode Island has two-Sprague
and Anthony. Maryland has two-John-
son and Cresswell; and Ireland one
Conness. There is one yet lacking to
make up the ffty-Mr. Kirkwood, OF
Iowa, whose nativity l am unable to
state.
IL will be seen from the above that
Kentucky, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,
Vermont, Connecticut and Maryland are
represented in the Senate by men born In
the States they represent. The other
/ States are represented, in whole or IN
part, by adopted citizens. No member
| Of the present Senate was born west OF
| Indiana-nlinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Missouri Kansas and Iowa being without
sons in that body.
Of the n hundred and eighty-fOur
members of the House, th%irty-nine are
natives of New York, including Speaker
Colfax, of Indiana; Mr. Eggleston, OF
| Ohio; Mr.. Ross, Of Illinois; Mr.. Highly,
of California; Mr.. Whaley, of West Vlr-
| ginia and a number of other Western
Representatives. Pennsylvania has twen-
ty-seven of her sons on the floor, among
them Messrs. Bingham and Plants, of
| Ohio, and Orth, of Indiana. Chic has
twenty-one members, including three who
had the bad taste to emigrate eastward
in their youth, and Mr.. Wilson, Of Iowa.
| Massachusetts has fourteen, including
Messrs. auckland and Spaulding, of Ohio,
4 and Mr.. Clarke, of Kansas. Vermont has
thirteen, including Thad. Stevens, of Penn
sylvania; Columbus Delano, of Ohio; Mr..
/ Eldridge, of Wisconsin; Mr.. Davis, of
New York; Messrs. Grinnell and Kasson,
of Iowa, and Mr.. Beaman, of Michigan.
Maine has eight including Mr.. Wash
burne, of Illinois, and Mr.. Brooks, Of New
York. Connecticut has eleven, among
them Mr.. Baldwin, of Massachusetts, and
Mr.. Hubbard, of West Virginia. Illinois
has three, Mr.. Cobb, of Wisconsin,
and two Illinois members. Tennes
see has two, Mr.. Defrees OF In
diana, being one of them, and Mr.. An
derson, of Missouri, the other. Virginia
has three, one of whom is Henry F. Blow,
of Missouri. Kentucky has fourteen /;
New Jersey, four Rhode Island, two;
Indiana, four; New Hampshire, four;
Missouri two; Michigan. one; Delaware,
one. Iowa, Wisconsin, Minneeota, Kan
sas, Oregon, Nevada, California and West
Virginia, have none. There is one Cana
dian, Mr.. Farnsworth, of Illinois; one
Irishman, Mr.. Hogan, of Missouri; one
Scotehnan, Mr.. McIndoe, of Wisconsin,
and one German, Mr.. Strouse, of Pennsyl-
vania.
1t will be seen from the above, that
west of Ohio no State has given birth to
as many Congressman as it has upon the
floor of the House. Indiana has eleven
representatives, and but four native
Hoosiers. Illinois has fourteen represen-
t~atives, and but three native Suckers.
Missouri has nine representatives, and
but two native Pukes- Michigan has six
representatives., and only 4 Wolverine
lows six representative, and only a sin
gle Hawkeye.
AT St. Johnsbury, Vermont, recently, g