The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-02-05
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SKETCHES IN CONGRESS-.

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J SKETCHES IN CONGRESS-.
Il is historical euriC sity, and one
not generally known, that out of the
thirty-seYen States and 10 TerritOr-
les constituting the nation only three
States are entirely represented in Con-
gress by natives, VIZ: Delaware,
North Carolina, and Vermont. OF
these, Delaware has Representa-
tiyes, North Carolina 10, and Vermont
/ >, including 2 Senators for each
State. FIVE States and all the Terri
tories are entirely represented by
I aliens (Halien" is used in the sense Of
q man born outside the limits of the
States under discussion). These
States are Kansas, Wisconsin, Min
nesots, Nebraska, and Nevada, and
the ten Territories, Arizona, Colora-
DO Dakota, District of COlumbi
Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah,
Washington, and Wyoming. There
Is 9 delegate apiece from the Territor-
les, and the States last mentioned
have the following representations:
Kansas, 3; Wisconsin, 10; Minnesota,
4 3; Nevada, 3; and Nebraska, 3-this
last being the youngest State in the
\ Union.
There are fifteen foreigners in Con-
gress. In the Senate, Carl SchurZ, of
Missouri, is native of Cologne, Ger
/ many, and is the only one or the fif-
teen who hes any trace of foreign ae-
cent. 1t is paradoxieal to hear this
man apostrOphizing America as his
country, in words where the til sound
thickens to q d, and the = is almost
lost. But the Senator's language is
excellent. Whether his speech be
prepared or extempore, he speaks
very ftuently, and with an spprecia-
ton OF the delicate idiomatic distinc-
tons OF our tongue that reiutes Ham
merton's maxim OF its being impos-
sible for person to know two Ian
guages perfectly. German is Mr..
Schurz's domestic tongue, and Eng
lish his public. So he must be ex-
cepted from that discouTaging rule.
The other foreigner in the Senate is
Jones, Welshman by birth, and as
he is worth s., ZOO 900, he very appro-
| priately halls from Gold Hill, New.
In the House the United Kingdom
is well represented, there being five
lrishmen, four Scotchmen, two Eng
lishmen (one of whom is Elder Can
non, of Utah), a Canadian, and
Mexican who, instead of being SON
orous Don Something or Another,
signs himself HBuekner,n like Mark
TWain's iandlady, who "was an Ital-
ian by the name or Murphy There
are six Smiths in tho House, and du-
plicated in the House and Senate.
Queer names of all kinds occur on
| r11Io GtEhana1a. No Tnr,lrfr, ~ To-
| instance, and "Hezekiah Bundy."
The Old Testament is represented by
Abraham and Isaac, Reuben, Lot,
Zachariah, Timothy, Moses and
Aaron, Eli, Josias, Hosea, Elijah, Abb
jah, Ephraim, Nathan and jeremiah.
The four evangelists appear and Lez-
arus. Two gentlemen, "Chester Dar-
rallu and "Lionel Sheldon" should
be put into q novel Immediately,
while two Alonzos, Lorenzo, a Fer
nando, and Jason refresh the memo
ries of the dime blood and thunder
series, Libretti, and the Golden
Fleece. There is the good old Puritan
name of "Godlove," borne by a very
jolly, unpuritan, Teutonic-looking
gentleman, Mr.. Orth, of Indiana.
And then follow Roscoe, Philetus,
Roderiek, Random, Epps, Glenni,
LObeiski.
New York sends the largest num-
Der of representatives, there being 80
from that State. Pennsylvania sends
q, Ohio 20, and Illinois 10. New
York also heads the schedule of ma
tivity, there being in both houses As
from New York, A from Pennsylva-
mia, 81 from Ohio, 20 from Virginia,
10 from Massachusetts, ,16 from Maine,
IA from Kentucky, l3 from Georgia,
and IL from Illinois. There are no
natives from California, Kansas,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Oregon, Wis
consin, Iowa, Nevada, or Nebraska.
Out of Ill Southern Senators and
membrrs, only As are from other por.
tions of the country, and of these only
8 are New Englanders. So the cry of
"oarpet-baggersn is not so rational,
though, of course, as each year more
Southern men have come to the front
their political disabilities being re-
moved the outsiders have dwindled
very greatly from their numbers at
the Congress Of 1867. On the other
hand, the cavaliers have invaded the
Puritans. There is North Carolini-
an from Connecticut, and a aVirginian
represents Massachusetts, district.
Oregon's Representative came from
Maine, and both her Senators are
Pennsylvanians.
The law seems to be the most pop
ular profession. FOrty-four out Of -
in the Senate, and 250 out of 290 in |
the House have studied it. In the |
Senate there are 6 farmers, 0 mer-
chants (all rich men), 2 doctors, . |
ministers, both prominent (TiptOn /
immortalized by Mast, Brownlow by 4
HIMSELF, soldiers, of whom General /
Logan is the only one who keeps his |
title, literary gentleman-Mr. Sum-
ner-I engineer-PoHell Clayton, of
Arkansas editors and printers
among them Mr.. Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, the oldest man in the Sem
ate, Ramsey, of Minnesota, Is the |
only one who has been nothing but q /
politician, from the start, and Senator
Oglesby, who has the best-natured /
face in the Senate, has been carpen.
ter, soldier, lawyer and miner.
In the House, s. 3. Cox, whose
nickname of "Sunsetn comes from
his initials, and u. &. Mccormick, of
Arizona, are the literdtelTs, and
among their colleagues are an actor,
an omnibus driver, tailor, q jeweller,
a stenographer, q hotel proprietor, and
one who was slave at the time of
the rebellion; his name Is Lynch.
He is from Mississippi, and is the
youngest man in Congress. 2. NJ. b,
Young, an ex-Confederate, is the only |
West Point graduate in either House,
and Senator Sumner and Representa-
tive Bromberg are the only two Harv-
ard graduates. Two of the Senate
Boutwell, and Cameron-have been
Cabinet officers, and eleven have been
Governors. Governor Booth, OF Cali
fornia, has not yet taken his seat, and
we await him anxiously. He is rich,
literary handsome, young, and |
bachelor
ConkIing is considered the hand
soonest man in the Senate. He is a |
blonde, with q pretty little curl on top |
of his head, and a curly beard. Don
Piatt, at the opening Of last session, |
offered q dozen of the best champagne |
to whoever would make a rhyme /
with "Conkling," but Congress adj !
iourned before any one had mustered
the courage to attempt it, so Dom
draws his corks himself unmolested. /
Boutwell, is, to my taste, better look
ing thar the fair Roscoe, and quite
his antipode in style. He has bet
ter grace than Conkling, and dresses
well without being q dandy. Miss
Boutwell, is almost as much Of q poll
tician as her father, being perfectly