The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-07
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Sofiae Interesting Congressional Retn,nis-
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Abraham Lincoln had been elected
President The second session of the
Thirty sixth Congress opened with
thitty-siS Fetaoctats. tFeettF-six Repub-
lieans, and two Union1sts in the sehate
Kennedy, of Maryland, and Critten-
den, of Kentucky. Prominent among
the Democrats we're Jefferson Davis, of
Mississippi; Hobert Tootnbs, Of Georg rgia;
Il. Il r. Hniitet ind ifaJ1les Mason, of
Virginia; Thomas L. Ciingnsin, u ToFth
Carolina; Clement G. Clay, OF Alabama;
Jadah P. BENJAMIN and John slidell, of
Louisiana; tisss1.. isss1t;s 1.t;s WiFfa'i. of f.Texas; and
William Gwin, of California. These
went with the Confederacy Stephen A
Douglas, of Illinois; William Bigler, of
Pennsylvania; James A. Bayard and
Wiliafd Ssan'sb-iry, If Uelavarej and
Andrew johnson, of Tennesse0, re
NAMED in the Union. Among the promi-
nent Republicans were Hannibal Hamlin
and William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine;
Solomon JFoote, ef Vermont; Henry Will
son and Charles Sumner, OF 7Maseachs;-
sets; William II. Seward, of New York;
Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Ben
jamin F. Wade, of Ohio; Lyman Trum-
bull, of Illinois, J. B. Doolttle, Of
Wisconsin,; Esach Chst1d1et; of Michigan;
james Harlan and James ". Gfi11eB of
Iowa.
It will be noticed that, the two Sena-
tors from delaware in eel hshe two sons
as Senators from the same State in 1879
"a very remarkable incident. Hanni-
bal Hamlin had been elected Vice Presi-
dent, and resigned his seat early in De-
cefnber, being Succeeded by Let NJ
Morrill,, $ho Resigned year or SO ago to
become President Grants last Secretary
of the Treasury:
Henry B.. Anthony, of Rhode Island,
is the onI9 Senator now ip his seat who
heard JEFF Davis farewell speech, Fes-
sender left the Senate lour years after
TO become Lincoln's Secretary of the
Treasury, when Salmon P. Chase wss
appointed Chief Justice; Hale, Foote,
Wilson, Sumner, Seward, Douglas,
johnson, and other great inch who were
their colleagt.es then gre dead T1afay-
cite s. Foster, of Connecticut, is rieih-
Der of the Legislature of that State;
Doolittle and Trumbu1 are in the ranks
of the Democratic party; Cameron,
chandler and Wade are Watching from
private life the return to power of their
old adYersaties. Bialer Is speculating
in fhiladelphia, ahd WAS Financial
Agent of the Centennial Exhibition.
Gwin is hanging around Washington as
a lobbyist, and is known as the Duke of
Sonora, a title he got from Maxipail-
lian, having followed the fortunes of the
invaders of Mexico. Jefferson Davis is
writing his own biography, a recluse :;
Judah P. Benjamin, the Secretary of
State of the Confederacy, is a London
lawyer Too1nbs has recently managed
constitutional convention, and now
wants to go to Paris as an Exposition
Commissioner, His remarkable feat
ures are often seen in Washington
around his old haunts; his grizzled, TN
kempt hair piled in disorder over his
massive features, with deep, heavy
ridges in his face, and active. nervous
manner, make him marked man every
where he goes.
Anthony sits alone in the Senate
spending the last of his term of twenty
four years, and occasionally talks over
old times with Hamlin, who ranks him
in priority of service, but not the length
of consecutive terms.
Roscoe Conking, Justin S. Morrill,,
William Window, and L. O. Q. Lamar
now Senators, We're members of the
House of Representatives John Sher-
man, now Secretary of the Treasury,
was there, and was the leader of the Re
publican majority, as Chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means The
only members of the present House of
Representatives are John W. killinger,
of Pennsylvania, Republican; Samuel
S. Cox, then Representative from the
Columbus district of Ohio; John 81. Rea-
gan, of Texas; John T. Harris, of Vir-
ginia, and Otho r. Singleton, OF Missis-
sippi. The three last named left their
seats to join the Confederacy, aud Rea-
gan was made Postmaster General
Harris and Singleton were at once elect
ed members of the Confederate Con-
gress. Lamar was sent as Ambassador
from the Confederate States to Russia
Reagan alone of the four named took an
active part in the debates in the House
before he retired, and urged the adop-
ton of the Crittenden compromise.
John A. Logan was member of the
House, but resigned soon after to raise
regiment for the war. Elihu B. Wash
burn, McClernand, and Lovejey were
there FROM Illinois. Holman and Col
fax were Representative from Indiana,
as was also Gen. Dunn, now Judge Ad-
vocate General of the Army.
Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, was
member, as was also Alexan-
der H. Rice, now Governor OF
Massachusetts. Horace Maynard, Min
lister to Turkey, was member from
Tennessee, and Charles Francis Adams
from Massachusetts,; Ger. Spinner, so
long Treasurer of the United States;
Anson T. Burlingame, who opened the
ports of China to the commerce of the
world, was in the House, anxious to
fight duel in Summers behalf. Reu-
ben E. Fenton, and Daniel E. Sickles,
who lost leg in the war, and was re-
Gently Y. ulster to Spain, were members.
Twoy:l: before Sickles had been tried
for the murder of Key, his wife's Sc
1ucer, in the courts of the District OF
Columbia. John Young Brown was
then from Kentucky, the youngest man
N the House, who was not sworn in al
| the opening of the session, but who
waited a few days until he should reach
the constitutional age of 25 years. Pen
dleton, Vallandigham, Tom Corwin,
John Sherman, John A Bingham, now
Minister to China, and Jim Ashley, the
| impeacher, made Ohio prominent, as II
has always been in the National Legis.
| lature. Thad Stevens was then from
Pennsylvania, and Edward Mcpherson
for many years Clerk of the House, and
now Chief of the Bureau OF Printing
and Engraving.
After the withdrawal of the Southern
| Senators on the reorganization of the
Senate on the day Lincoln was inaugu-
rated President the political complexion
of that body stood: Republicans, 81
| Democrats, II: Unionists, 5. Hannibal
Hamlin, as Vice President. presided
over the Senate, and John G. Breckin
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