The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-01
lowing is q list Of the States which seeded iu
the order of their final restoration, with the
dataa of their aacaaaion,

florluA .......... July j, 1885,. Jan. 10, 1861
South Carolina " July 20, isSs -. Dec. 20, 1860
North Carolina. July 20, 1865. May 20, 1851
MNIssIssippi....... Feb: e. is!S... Jsa. = 1891
Georgia .......... Jan. l6, 1S7l... Jan. 1s, 1861
The restoration of the Southern States intro
duced the negro element into the House, the
first member of African ancestry being j. II.
Rainey, who, at the opening of the third session
of the Foryfrst Congress, took the seat for
the First district of South Carolina which had
been vacated by Whittemore, the dealer in
cadetshps. In the next House there will be
five negro members one from Alabama, one
from Florida, and three from South Carolina.
An unusually large number of members leave
the House at the end of the present Congress.
Of the 229 already elected members of the next
House, only I10 are members of the present
House, and two of these have since been elected
to the Senate. One, whose vacant seat has not
been filed, is dead, and the remaining 100, or
nearly one-half of the entire number, have seen
the last of the Congressional service, for the
present at least. Numbered among these are
some of the Oldest and ablest members of the
House.
Illinois the first State in alphabetical
order in which there is an important change,
loses the services in the House of four promi-
nent Republicans Norman B. Judd has served
four ears; Bben G. Ingersol was first elected
in 1864, to fill the uneXpired term of the late
Owen Lovejoy, and has served seven years;
Shelby NJ. Cullom has served six years.
and John A. Logan, who was reelected, but
leaves his seat to enter the Senate, has served
over six years, being elected in 1853 and 1860
as Democrat, ind in 1866, 1868, and 1870, as a
Republican.
lian, Republican, who served from 1S49 to 1851,
and continuously since 1861; and Godlove s.
Orth, who has served since 1863
Iowa loses William B. Allison, Republican,
who las served since 1868.
Michigan loses Fernando c. Beaman, Repub-
lican, who has served since 1861.
Missouri loses Robert T. Van Horn and John
F. Benjamin, Republicans, who have served
since 1863
New York loses John Morrissey, Democrat,
the ex-prize-fghter, who has been in his seat
dozen time 30 during his one term of two
years; ECharles II. Van Wyck. Republican who
served from 1869 to 1868, and again from 1869
to 1871; Addison II. Latin, Republican, who
has served since 1865, William II. Kelley, Repub-
lican, who served from 1855 to 1859, and again
| from 1867 to 1871: and Hamilton Wlrd, Rapub-
lican, who has served since 1865.
who has served altogether sixteen years, from
1S4S to 1851, and again from 1868 to 1871. His
service is longer than that of any other member
| of the Forty-frst Congress, not single mem
| Der of which was in the House when he first
took his seat in 1SI3. During the early period
| of his service he was chairman of the Naval
| Committee, at the time of the Whig supremacy
! in Folks administration, and during his later
| service he was first chairman of the Military
Committee for four years, and then of the Ways
and Means for the same period. Ohio also loses
the services of William Lawrence, Republican,
| who has served since 1865.
Pennsylvania loses Charles O'Neill, Republi-
can, who has served since 1868; Henry L. Cake,
Republican, since 1867; Daniel NJ. Van Auken,
Democrat, since 1867; George w. Woodward,
Democrat, since 1867; John Cessna, Republican,
since 1869 only; Daniel j. Morrel, Republican,
since 1867; and William H. Armstrong, Calvin
w. Gilfllan, Darwin Phelps, and Joseph B.
Donley, all Republicans, who have served one
| term only,
Rhode Island loses Thomas A. Jenckes, Re-
| publican, who has served since 1868; and Nathan
F. Dixon, Republican, who served from 1849 to
1851, and again from 1868 to 1871. . ..
Tennessee loses VIM. B. Stokes, Republican,
who served from 1859 to 1861 and again from
1865 to 1871; and Samuel M. Arnell and Isaac R.
Hawkins, Republicans swho have served since
the restoration of the State in 1866.
Ard, finally, Wisconsin loses Halbert E. Paine,
Republican, who has served since 1855; Amasa
Cobb, Republican, since 1862 and Cadwallader
c. Washburn, Republican, who served from 1856
to 1861 and again from 1869 to 1871.
Among those who leave the House are the
chairmen of twenty-seyen of the House COM
mittees, including those on Elections Ways
and Means, Commerce, Public Lands, Manu-
factures, Indians, Military, Private Land
| Claims, Territories, Pensions, Rail-
ways and Canals, Education and Labor, Ac-
counts, Patents, and several others not so i'm
portant Mr.. Dawes, of Mass, it is generally
conceded, will be retained at the head of the
Committee on Appropriations; while the pros
poets of Judge Kelley, of this city, for the chair
manship of the Committee on Ways and Means
and the leadership of the House are regarded
as better than those of any of his rivals.
The Republican caucus to nominate officers
for the next House will be held tomorrow eve-
ming. Speaker Blaine and Clerk Mcpherson,
itEis generally conceded, will be renominated
and consequently reelected; but there will be
something of a contest over the other offices,
the Southern Republicans coming in for their
share of the spoils.
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