The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-01

editor and publisher of the South Bend Register;
! was member in 1850 of the State Constitutional
! Convention; declined aTnomination or the State
Senate in 1888; in l84S and 1852 he was a dele
gate to the Whig National Conventions of those
! years, and one OF the Secretaries of each Con-
| venton. He was elected a Representative from
| Indiana to the Thirty-fourth Congress- aud re-
elected to each successive Congress, including
! the Thirty-ntnth, serving two terms as Chair
man of the Committee on the Post Office and
! Post Roads, and also as q Regent OF the smith
sonian Institution. He was elected Speaker of
the House of Representatives for the Thirty
eighth Congress, and during the recess preceding
the meeting of the Thirty-ninth Congress ne
visited the coast of the Pacific on tour of
pleasure
WILLIAM D. KELLEY
was born in Philadelphia in the spring OF 1914;
received good English education; commenced
active life as rea1er in printing office; spent
seven years rs an apprentice in ie welry estab-
lishment removed to Boston, and followed his
trade there tor four years, devoting some
attention to literary matters; returned to Phla-
delphia, studied law, and was admitted 10 the
bar IN 1S41, and held the office for some years
of Judge OF the Court OF Common Pleas IN Philas
delphia. In addition TO his political speeches, a
number of literary addresses have been pub
lished ffom his pen. He was elected Il Repre-
sentative from Penns 1lvana to the Thirty
seventh Congress- serving as a member of the
Committees on Indian Affairs and Exp enditures
! on Pubic Buildings. Reelected to the Thirty
! eight Congress, serving on the Committees on
| Agriculture and Naval Affairs; and reelected to
/ the ThrtS ninth Congress.
NATHANIEL p. BANKS.
Born in Waltham Massachusetts, January 30
\ 1916, his parents being respectable operatives
! in factory. He received common school
education, and early acquired fondness for
reading instructive books. His first venture
before the public was in the capacity of news
paper editor in his native town and he followed
the same pursuit at Lowell. He studied law
and came to the bar, but did not practise it to
any great extent. In l846 he was elected to the
| Legislature of Massachusetts, serving in both
Houses, and officiating for time as Speaker.
He was chosen President OF the Convention
held in 1858 for revising the Constitution of
| Massachusetts; was soon afterwards elected
Representative in Congress from Mas sachusetts,
serving from 1853 to 1851; was Speaker of the
House during the Thirty-fourth Congress- and
it has been said 10 his credit that not one of his
decisions was ever overruled by the House.
On his retirement from Congress in 1857 he was
elected Governor of Massachusetts by majority
of "a, ,O00 and was twice reelected TO that office.
At the commencement of the Rebellion he was
appointed major-general of volunteers, and
|. saw much active service in the field, and in
1865 he was elected Representative from Mas
sachusetts to the Thirty-nintb Congress, in the
place OF d. w. Gooch, resigned.
JOHN A. BINGHAM.
He was born in Pennsylvania in 1915; re-
Ceiyed an academica educatlon; spent two
years in printing office; entered Fra nklin Col
lege, Ohio, but his health prevented him from
graduating; be studied law in Ohio, and was
admitted TO the bar in l84o: from 1915 to l949
he was Attorney Tor the State in Tdscarawas
county; and in 1854 he was elected Represen-
tatve from OHIO to toe Thirty fourth Congress-
and reelected TO the Thirty.ffth Congress-
During his first term he was a member of the
Committee on Elections, and made report on
the Illinois contested cases, which was adopted
by the House; and he also served as O member
of the Committee on Expenditures in the State
department He was also reelected to the
Thlrty-siXth and Thirty seventh CONGRESSES
serving on the Judiciary Committee. In the
early part OF 1864 he was appointed O Judge
Advocate In the army, and IN the latter part of
the same year was appointed by President LIN
coin Solicitor of the Court of Claims; and in
May 1866, he was, the Assistant Judge
Advocate in the trial of the conspirators
tried for numbering President Lincoln. Re.
elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress-
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
He was born in Orange, Cuyahoga county.
Ohio, November 10, 1881; graduated at Williams
College, Massachusetts, in 1856, and adopted the
profession of law; in 1859 and 1860 he was a
member of the Ohio Senate; in 1851 he entered
the army as Colonel OF the 42d Regiment of
Ohio Volunteers; was appointed a Brigadier-
General IN 1862, the day that he fought in the
battle of Middle CreeS, Kentucky. He subse-
quently served at Shiloh, Corinth, and in Ala
bama, and early IN 1868 he was appointed chief
of staff to General Rosecrans, with whom he
served up to the battle of Chickamauea. In
1862 he was elected q Representative frOm Ohio
to the ThiTty-eighth Congress, serving as
member of the Committee on Military Affairs.
Before taking his seat in Congress he was ap-
pointed a Major General OF Volunteers "for gal
liant and meritortous services IN the battle of
Chickamauga, Georgia. from September l9,
1868" Reelected to the Thirty-nnth Congress,
GEORGE s. BOUTWELL,.
He was born in Brookline, Norfolk county
Massachusetts,, January 26, 1913; when boy he
had some experience in farming was in the
mercantile business as apprentice, clerk and
proprietor for twenty years studied law and
came to the bar somewhat late IN life served
seven years in the Legislature of Massachusetts,,
between the years l842 and 1850 was amember
of the Constitutional Convention OF 1853 and
also OF the Peace Congress OF 1851 ; was Bank
Commissioner IN l8i9 and 1850 was Governor
OF Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852 was Secre.
tary of the Board of Education for eleven
years was member for six years of the Board
of Oyerseers of Harvard College, aud Commits
March 1868. In 1862 he was eec.ed Represen-
tative from Massachusetts to the Thirty eighth
Congress, sewing on the judiciary Committee.
He was also a delegate to the Baltimore Conven-
ton of 1864 and was reelected TO the Phirty
ninth Congress.
Shall Congress Remain in Continual
Session.
Congress has been in the habit of assem- bling
upon the first Monoay in December so long, that
an Idea has become prev alent that it caunot
meet at any other time except upon the call Of
the President. This is q mistake The Consti-
tuition expressly provides that ''the Congress
shall assemble at least once in every year, and
such meeting shall be on the first Monday in
December, unless they shall bg tdU appoint a
different dQy.n There can be no doubt but that
the last clause of this section, which we nave
italicised, was intended to give Congress the
power over its time OF meeting The Cincinnati
Commercial in a careful article on this subject,
shows that such was the opinion of the early
fathers, and produces the following instances
as proof;
, THE first Congress elected under the Consti-