The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

BENTON CT. Boone, the new Speaker of
the Missouri House of Representatives,
is grandson of Daniel Boone.
THE New Hampshire Democrats have
nominated for Congress: First District,
Frank Jones, of Portsmouth; Second,
Samuel n. Bell, of Manchester; Third,
Henry A. Kent, of Lancaster.
The West Virginia Legislature is
vexed with the State capital question, as
other Legislatures have been. 1t is said
he United States Senatorship will be
made the basis of trade to bring the
capital back to Wheeling.
THE Florida Legislature has great
trouble to organize. The Senate is tie,
and the Governor has refused to interfere
and unite it, The House, after some
days balloting, elected Thomas Hannah
Democrat) Speaker, by a union of Dem
ocrats and Conservative Republicans.
In the persons of Jones and Sharon
the State of Nevada is represented i'll the
Senate by two of the wealthiest men in
the United States. The reputed wealth
of neither of them is less than $50, 000,-
600. No excuse for bribery or salary
grabbing on their part.
FRANK NJ. CoCKRELL, the successor of
Schurz in the Senate from Missouri,
was Il Major General in the rebel army,
having commanded the Missouri divis-
ion in Tennessee, and won his laurels
i'll Hoods luckless campaign against
Nashville and "Old Pap" Thomas.
Cockrell is man of stalwart frame,
standing six feet in his stockings, and
possesses n commanding appearance.
He is AZ years of age. His nomination
is wholly the work of the Granger and
Confederate elements.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN began life as print
er, and very possibly in the training
which he got at the type-font lies the
secret of his success rs politician. He i.s
now sixty years of age, and has been in
public life forty years, during which time
he has been member of the Maine Leg
islature six years, i'll three of which he
was Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, member OF the United States
House of Representatives for four years,
Governor of Maine for n short time, Sen
ator from Maine sixteen years, Vice
President of the United States four years,
and Collector of Customs for the port of
Boston four years. 1t is quite certain
that his nomination for reelection to the
United States Senate by the Republicans
of Maine Will be confirmed by the votes
of the Legislature now in session, thus
Ia. of Of1ina tn 1870
THE lower house of the Forty-fourth
Congress will consist of 292 members,
of whom all but II have already been
chosen. The members yet to be elected
are 3 from New Hampshire ; 4 from
Connecticut 4 from California and
from Mississippi. OF the 275 members
already returned, 16S are classed as Dem
ocrats, 100 as Republicans, and 6 as Indie.
pendents and there is one vacancy caused
by the death of Mr. Head, of Tennessee,
since his election, whose place Will he
filed by Democrat. As the list now
stands, therefore, the Democrats have d
majority of 90 over all. The number OF
colored men in Congress does not in
crease with great rapidity. Five only OF
all the Representatives SO far chosen are
negroes HARRISON, of Alabama Walls
of Florida Rainey and Smalls, of South
Carolina and Hyman, of North Caro-
lima. Though 10 of them are new mem
, bers, the House will include fair pro
portion of men of experience, as 1O5 have
seats in the present Congress. The
Clerkship of the next Democratic
; House in Congress is being sought by
, Southern men, and leading aspirant'
named are ThomasS s. Bocock and Thomas
Whitehead, of Virginia Francis r.
Shober, of North CUrolina (; Dudley M
Du Boss, of Georgia and David Clop
ton, of Alabama. All these have beer
} members of the House.