The Portland daily press., 1871-01-20
PORTLAND.
u. 9. Senator's.

On the 4th of March next tWenty-one seats
in the Z. S. Senate are to be vacated under
the statue of limitation to be filed again by
some of the present occupants and in many
cases to receive new men. During the past
week eight U. S. Senators have been elected
Or no minated in the State Legislatures. In
our State Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, has become
his own successor by very handsome MAJOR
ity. Mr.. Henry Wilson, whom the people OF
Massachusetts have again returned to the Sen
ate, is 81 years Of age, and has had eight years
experience in the Massachusetts Legislature
and sixteen years in the U. S. Senate and is
therefore thoroughly disciplined legislator.
He also served in the State Constitutional
Convention OF 1858. The large maiorities
which these gentlemen received is compl-
nient TO their Republican fidelity.
In Minnesota, Mr.. VIM. Window has been
reelected by a vote of 43 to IS. Mr.. Win
dom was born in Ohio in 1927: has lived in
Minnesota since 1856; has been in Congress
four terms. He was appointed Senator last
year in place of Norton, deceased, and took
his seat in December last.
In Illinois, General Logan has been elected
by vote Of 131 to 81 opposed. Mr.. Logan
was a Quartermaster in the Mexican war, and
has held various offices in Illinois. He has
served four terms in Congress. During the
late war, he resigned his seat in Congress, en-
tered the service as Colonel and retired as
Major General. He has been an active and
conspicuous man in public life.
ExGov. Levi Salisbury has been elected to
the U. S. Senate from Delaware as successor
to his brother, whose unseemly exhibitions in
the Senate chamber have been more than
once noted in the newspapers. He is a gen
tleman Of ability and of better habits than
his brother.
The causeless split in the Republican party
in Missouri has given that State the honor Of
being represented by Hon. Frank Blair, Jr.-
Blair is 40 years old and native of Ken
lucky. BE was member of the Legislature
OF Missouri in 1852 and 1854 and served in
the 35th and 9th Congress. His history is
decidedly varied. He was an early and zeal
GUS advocate of Free Soil in Missouri and de-
Tended it with great courage and daring. He
saw a great deal of hard service in the
he war and was brave and popular Gener
al; then candidate for the Vice Presidency
subsequently soldier of fortune, bankrup,
cotton planter, bankrupt politician and retir
ed statesman. He contributed to the defeat
of the Presidential ticket in 1858 by his in
discretion, and is sure to do the Democratic
pllty harm in the Senate, whether he re
mains with them or opposes their measures.
The return of Mr.. FrelInghuysen from Dem
o,ratic New Jersey to the Senate we regard
as settled, and this will be more than an off
set to Blair from Republican Missouri. MI
f. is So years of age. His grandfather wa.
United States Senator from 1903 to 1916, and
his father held the same Office from 1929 t.
to 1885. Mr.. Freinghaysen himself has beer
already in the Senate, having been appointed
In 1866 to succeed the late Governor Wright
He took a leading position as debater, anl
made an argument in favor of the impeach
ment OF Andrew Johnson President Gram
offered him the position of Minister to Eng
and, in the place OF Mr. Motley, last yea, but
he declined the honor. Holding to both the
religious and political traditions of bis able
family, he is a prominent member of the Pres
byterian Church and able advocate of a pro.
tective tarif.
Michigan promotes Thomas W. Ferry OF
Grand Haven from the House to the Senate
Mr.. Ferry is nearly A years Of age. He is 3
native of that State, and received his educa-
ton at the public schools and was brought vi
to mercantile pursuits. Heserved year ii
each branch of the State Legislature, and
also in the 39th and 10th Cong, ess,a and is nov
the sitting member from the fourth district
On the 4th of March he will remove to The
opposite end OF the Capitol.
We must add ninth to the Senatorial
elections OF the present week-that OF Hitch.
cock (Rep.) IN Nebraska, after long ant
hard 6ght, in which Messrs. Thayer the pres.
ent Senator and Saunders were the opposin.
candidates.