The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
THE PRESENT SENATE.
AS Compared With That of Twenty Years
Ago.
New York GranhIe

Ago.
New York Graphic
When the forty-sixth congress met
the 18th, the Democrats had a ma
jority in the senate for the first time
since the withdrawal of the southern SEN
ators in 1861. There were at that date
thirty three states of the union. Five
have been admitted since the close ofthe
thirty-sixth congress on March 3, 1861.
The new states are *Kansas, West Vir-
ginia, Nebraska, Nevada and Colorado
The present senate consists of seventy
six members, though owing TO the fail
ure of New Hampshire to choose a sue
cessOr to Mr.. Wadleigh, the senate at the
beginning of the extra session only
had seventy-five members. OF these
only three were members ofthe senate of
the thirty-sixth congress-namely, Mr..
Hamlin, then and now senator from
Maine; Mr.. Anthony, then and now sen
ator from Rhode Island, and Mr. Chant-
Ter, then and now senator from Michi-
gan. Of these Mr.. Anthony is the only
one who has remained continuously in
the senate from that time TO the present
He is the father of the senate, having with
the close of the last congress served TWEEN
ty consecutive years as senator. Mr..
Hamlin, who was elected vIce-president
of the United States. resigned in Janu-
uary, 1861, and Lot NJ Morrill, was chos-
en- in his stead. Mr.. Chandler, who ent
cred the senate in 1857, two years before
Mr.. Anthony, and who served IS years
successfully, was defeated for reelection
in 1875. His successor, Judge Christian
cy, having resigned, he was elected few
| weeks ago to fill out the unexpired term.
Delaware was represented by Bayard
and salisbury in 1859, as Delaware is
represented by a Bayard and salisbury
in 1870. But though the names and fam
| lilies are the same the individuals are diff
| ferent.
Many of the sixty-six senator's of the
| thirty-sixth congress are dead. Seward,
| Wade, Sumner, Wilson, Pugh, Preston,
King, Baker, Fessenden, Crittenden,
Broderick, Slidell, John p. Hale, An
drew johnson and Mason are in their
graves Simon Cameron, of Pennsylva-
ma, is quietly enjoying life at his home
in Harrisburg and calmly awaiting the
| attacks of Widow Oliver. r. NJ. T.
Hunter is still prominent in Virginia
politics. Lyman Trumbull is practic-
ing law in Chicago. James r. Doolit-
tie still lives and is waiting for some
thing to turn up. Clingman, of North
Carolina, still takes an interest in poll
tics and is enjoying life. Judah p. Ben
jamin, of Louisiana, is practicing law
with great success in London. David
l.. Yulee is running Il railroad in FlOri-
da. William Bigler, of Pennsylvania.
was one of the most active organizers of
the Centennial exhibition. Robert
ToOmbs, of Georgia, is still as eloquent
and as popular as ever and would not
decline the governOrship of his state.
W. NJ. Gwln, of California, is alive and
interested in matters of legislation. Mr.
Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was,
when last heard from, somewhat inter
eated in matters of insurance, but was
unwilling to he reconstructed.
There are Il number of members of the
present congress who were members of
the thirty-SiXth congress, whose term be
gan in 1859. George S. Houston, of Ala
bama, now senator, was then representa-
| tive; Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts,
now senator, was then representative
VIM. Window, of Minnesota, now sena-
| tor and then representative; Lucius C..
Lamar, of Mississippi, now senator and
| then representative; Ohio r. Singleton
of Mississippi, representative now and
| then; Roscoe COnkling, of New York,
/ now senator, then representative; Zebu-
Ion B. Vance, of North Carolina, now
| senator, then representative; Geo. FL
Pendleton, of Ohio, now senator then
representative; John II. Reagan, of Tex
as, then and now representative; Justin
5. Morrill,, of Vermont, now senator and
| then representative, and John T. Harris
of Virginia, then and now represents
| tive. This last shows that with all the
abrupt changes in the personnel of the two
houses of congress there is considerable
continuity. No congress is quite so
new as We are apt to imagine
1t is noteworthy that not a senator
| from the south of twenty years ago is to
| day in either house of congress. Eight
| cen yerrs ago they put on their coats and
hats and withdrew from congress as non
chalantly as though going to an evening
party, though the task before them was
to break nation in two and make out
of a Pigment new nation. The task was
| too much for them, and nearly all OF
them were buried in trying to mount
higher. The confederate element is not
the old pro-slavery element by any means
1t has other leaders, with other aspira
tons. The pro-slavery regime has pass
ed away forever, and even if some of the
old faces are seen IN Washington again
in the position in which they find them
selves are new. The atmosphere has
changed. This is new world. The
BourbOns may not have changed, but
the country has, and even those on
whom the Bourbons have to depend
have changed with it.
+The Graphic is mistaken about Kansas. II
was admitted into the union on the 29Eh OF
January, 1861.