Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-22
Senatorial Gossip.


The Washington correspondent of
the Daily Graphic writes Mai. Ben
Perley Poore has issued proof copies of
the valuable Congressional Directory
he complies as "Clerk of the Printing
Records" Like its jolly editor, it
grows in bulk and value year by year.
Some of the statistics to be cleaned
from its pages would interest the
arithmetic man" of the World as we'll
as the general reader. Taking the Sen
ate for illustration, and one finds that
there is one Senator, Simon Cameron,
, over "a years of age; and one, Dorsey,
of Arkansas, just turned 81. The next
youngest is Conover, of Florida-both
oarpet-baggers. Is there any proba-
bility of the old proverb proving true
"Whom the gods love die young ?-for,
of course, the gods must, In American
eyes, love those who are elected to the
United States Senate. Precocity runs
in the new South. Spencer, of Alabama,
is but 81 Patterson, of South Carolina,
does not give his age, but looks about
80. There are, besides those named,
two Senators whose ages are So; two of
40 years two of AZ three of 43; four
of Al one of As six of 46 years; one
of AZ three of 40 years three of so;
two of 81 the same of So one of 81
four of 55 +; the same of Sc; two of 81
three of SO years three of 60; one of
81 one each, 81, 63, GA, 6S, and So
years of age. The latter is the venera-
BILE and urbane Gov. Buckingham, of
Connecticut. There are two elderly
Senators who seem anxious to
conceal their ages. One is Gen. Logan,
from whom Poore has never been able
to wax that secret. Logan must be
over so, but he seems to have found the
secret fountain of Ponce de Leon, and
never appears to grow day older. The
other elderly gentleman who doesn'tlike
to consult the register of his birth is
Gilbert, of Florida. The united age of
the seventy-two Senators now in the
Chamber is over 5000 years-being,
without counting Gilbert, Logan, and
Patterson, whose ages are not given,
1910 years in the aggregate. Adding
$50 for the three gentlemen named, the
total will be 3, 120, or an average of 43
years and 4 months for each. As will
be seen, by far the largest number are
in the very prime of life-fifty-two of
the whole number being between 40 and
go years of age.
The nativities of Senators are thus
indicated: Pennsylvania claims eight
Senators, including those who repre-
sent the State. New York has six SEN
ators,. including Messrs. Conkling and
Fenton Massachusetts, has five sons in
the Senate, including her own Senators;
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Yer
mont, Maine and Connecticut are rep
resented by native-born Senators, while
| Vermont and Maine give two to other
States. Ohio has four of her sons in
the Chamber, including John Sherman,
and Virginia has five, including the two
Senator'S of the State I; New Jersey has
two native-born Senators, and one other
claims the State as his birthplace !;
Maryland claims three Senators, her
own and one other Delaware, Georgia,
and North Carolina claim their own
Senators as natives; Illinois and In
diana gave homes to two Senators from
each, Gov. Morton and Gen. Logan
both being born In the States they rep
resent Louisiana claims her Senator as
native Alabama is the birthplace of
one of the Texas Senators South Caro-
lima has one native-born Senator Mich
igan the same while Germany and
Wales are claimed for Schurz and
Jones. Twenty-Five States hold the
birthplaces of seventy Senators, the re-
mainder being born abroad.