The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-01-21
Facts Abo,st Co,s1resG1Ieess.

Fdcts About C0ssOSoeeneess.
aFfpn data found in AsjeE Ben .Psr|ey
Poores valuable Congressional DirecteEY,
We compile the following: .ndnmO nj .uigG,
The average age Of scnatoMrs n p not far
on 81 sh.t Rfpis'elnS'''fys' pas Jt1'E
In the Senate there al .se 'i'es AZ, gentismsn atiiHos
below the o.ss of 4ot FL ny hSguss there
ats' i've n,embers under So 7'o'"oa 10 ''nol
The youngest Senator is General Spen:
Ger, of Alabama, born Nov. let 1886; md
consequently 80 years old. The youngest
Representative Is Hon. Clinton L. Cobb, Of
North Carolina, born Aug, q, 1s42, and
conseqneptly but title over q. ,.,,.I ~.
The Oldest Senator Is Hon, Simon Cam.
eron',, 81 Pennsylvania, born March 9Th,
l799. He Is also the oldest in congression-
aIseniority, having taken his sat in the
Senate Ia fS46. He has, HOY Fever, HAD two
long interruptions in his 'sebkdbrtai career,
% thai his 1hois ssrvtss 411pts 70 eleven
years. He Is the only membesaof eithes
House who was born before the commence.
ment of the present century.
The Oldest member Of the present House
Of Representatives, IN Congressional senior
ity, is Hon. Fernando Wood who took l,ia
scat In 1871, in the 9Th Congress. His age
Is but 81. .-..Y.1.tI .--
| sAr. Garrett Davis, Senator from Ken
lucky, was earlier in the House than any
4 present member of that body, having in
1880 taken his seat in the 28th Congress.
He is the only member of either House who
sat in. Congress more than thirty years
eiuce. !. 4r. Davis, howevez, belongs to the
present century, having been born In 1901,
two months earlier than Senator Vlckers
Of Maryland. In point of long continued
service, Mr.. Summer Is the Father of the
Senate" having served for almost nineteen
years without interruption. He has five
years more 70 serve ON his present term.
Hon. Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio, 10 the
| ''Father Of the House." Lie entered it in
1S4S. and llaying been out from 1851 70
1859 is now serving his eighth term. a-
| Hon. Henry G., Dawes, Of Massachusetts,,
is serving his seventh continuous term. -r.
Gen. Banks and Hon.. Horace Maynard
are in their sixth term, not continuous. r g..
Hons. James Brooke and s. s. Cox, OF
New York, and Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, OF
Rhode Island, are each in their fifth term.
Mr. Brooks was tho: pioneer Washington
correspondent, and also the first of Europe.
an correspondents for American papers.
|, The youngest Senators are Aessrs:
Sprsgue and Kellogg, 80 years, Mcdonald,
81 ye,rs; Osburn and Spencer, 81. All
pet.baggers." !" except Governor Sprague.
T. The youngest Representatives are Hon.
Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, 81 :. General J..
IS. Witchcr, Of West Virginis, 20; Hon.
Charles NJ. Hamilton, of Florida. a., and
Hon. q. N. Cobb, Of NOFtl Carolina, -.
Messrs. Hamilton and Roots were member
OF the lsat :CongTesA E!49! sLt .: G9l voG2
The average length of the Congressional
biographies nj is ten lines. The longest II
that Of Hon William +. Prosser. Of Tennes-
| see, who occupies twenty.six lines, but they
are so crammed with incidents that they
could not well he abbreviated.
|, The hnrdest-workcd Senator In Commit.
tee'service b, Hon. James w. Patterson, of
New Hampshire, who is Chairman Of the
Joint Comsnttteeon' rlsetrenchn,eut, and ID
a member Of three Others. oil ot1I mod I'D
The. 11ondea of the Senate hare il all
their own way in the Committee On the Ju-
oac!aIE % HcitiIrbn ra snirm ssa %. Z 9fI
l. In the House the mos: fortunate men on
Committees are Hon. Joha Lyach, Of
Maine, who is chairman Of, two COMMITTEES.
and stands second on that Of Banking and
Currency, and Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes, OF
Rhode Island, who is Chairman of the Com
mittee on Patents and runs those Of Re.
treuchnspt and Civil Ssrvice.-'& Joe Her.
0AII .dirg3 81 I2So1t sEW .iss-ig les. 9gt