The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-24
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Some Interesting Congressional Reminis-
cences-The Senate and House of '61
and ,78 COMPARED


and '78 Compared.
Washington Cor Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
Abraham Lincoln had been elected
President. The second session of til,
Thirty-sixth Congress opened will
thirty-six Democrats, twenty-six Repub
! Leans, and two Unionists in the Senate
Kennedy, of Maryland, and Critten.
den, of Kentucky. Prominent among
the Democrats were Jefferson Davis, O
Mississippi; Robert Toombs, of Georgia
/ r. NE. T. Hunter and James Mason, d
1 Virginia; Thomas Il. Clingnan, of .Nortl
Garolina;s Clement @. Clay, Of Alabama
Judah P. Benjamin and John Slidell, Of
Louisiana; Lewis Wigfan, of Texas; and
William Gwin, Of California. These
went with the Confederacy. Stephen A.
Douglas, of Illinois, William Bigler, Of
i Pennsylvania; James A.. Bayard and
Willard Salisbury, of Delaware; and
Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, re-
MANNED in the Union. Among the promi-
nent Republicans were Hannibal Hamlin
/ and William Pitt Fessenden, OF Maine;
Solomon Foote, Of Vermont; Henry Will
son and Charles Sumner, of Massachu-
sets; William EEL. Seward, of New York;
Simon Cameron, of, Pennsylvania; Ben
/ ja1nin r. Wade, of Ohio; Lyman Trum-
bull, of Illinois, u. r. Doolittle, Of
Wisconsin; Zach Chandler, of Michigan;
I James Harlan and James w. Grimes of
Iowa. stoaG
It will be noticed that the two Sena-
tors from Delaware in 1861 have 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-
cember, being succeeded by Lot M.
Morrill,, who resigneda year or SO ago to
become President Grants last Secretary
of the Treasury. .ars... IS, I'll,
Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island,
/ is the only Senator now in his seat who
heard JEFF Davis farewell speech. Fes-
sender left the Senate four years after
to become Lincoln's Secretary of the
Treasury, when Salmon P. Chase was
appointed Chief Justice; Hale, Foote,
Wilson, Sumner, Seward, Douglas,
Johnson, and other great men who were
their colleagues then are dead. Lafay-
cite S. Foster, of Connecticut, is mem
Der of the Legislature of that State;
Dooiittle and Trumbull are in the ranks
of the Democratic party; Cameron,
Chandler and Wade are Watching from
private life the return to power of their
old adversaries. Bigler is specializing
in Philadelphia, and was Financial
Agent of the Centennial Exhibition.
Gwin is hanging around Washington as
lobbyist, and is known as the Duke of
Sonora, a title he got from Maximil-
liam, 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 ; Toombs has recently managed
a 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, I'M
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 Conkling, Justin S. Morrill,,
William Window, and L. O.. G. Lamar.
now Senators, were 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 H. Rea-
gan, of Texas; John T. Harris, of Vir-
ginia, and Ohio r. Singleton, of Missis-
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 a member Of the
House, but resigned soon after to raise
regiment for the war. Elihu B. Wash
burn, McClernand, and Lovejoy were
there from Illinois. Holman and Col
fax were Representatives from Indiana,
as was also Gen. Dunn, now Judge Ad-
vocate General of the Army.
Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, was
a member, as was also Alexan-
der Fl. Rice, now Governor OF
Massachusetts. Horace Maynard, Min
lister to Turkey, was member from
Tennessee, and Charles Francis Adams
from Massachusetts; Gen. Spinner, SO
long Treasurer Of the United States;
Arson 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 b. Sickles,
who lost q leg in the war, and was re-
centlys mister to Spain, were members.