Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-06

Political Status of the Two HOuses-Var1Ou
Elnployments of the Members When a
Home-Twelve Farmers in the Senate ant
Forty-seven in the Hoase-Twenty Law
yers In Both Branches-InterestingN ativ.
ity and Age Statistics-NIore Members Ar.
rive-The Status of the Office Seekers.
Elsewhere in the GLOBE this morning is
presented a table giving in condensed form
biographical sketches of the members of the
two houses of the legislature which is tc
convene at IL NJ. tomorrow. The prepare
ton of this table at this time has been s
work of great difficulty. Before the estab-
the sleepy concerns then occupying the
newspaper field at the capital to issue such a
table any time within two CT three days af
ter the legislature had convened, and
even then it would lack the
great essential of completeness. The
| GLOBE in lis brief existence of less than a
year has wrought several revolutions in the
newspaper business of st. Paul and Mime
apolis, and in so doing has given the people
of the State their first real conception of
what a newspaper ought to be, as the GLOBE
is. This has required energy, vigilence
and work. All these elements were en-
ploy ed in the production of the biographi-
cal sketches presented this morning. But
satisfaction that results from the feeling of
having we'll performed newspa per duty.
In the first place the sketches will serve as
medium of introduction to the members of
the two branches before coming togeth-
or for their winters deliberations
for the good of the State-and
themselves. Still better, it will enable the
poor old fossils of Bill Kings paper to du~
plicate the publication probably during the
week, an unexampled feat of journalistic en-
terprise on their part. Or perhaps, in their
chagrin, they will not publish it at all. Such
child's play is peculiarly characteristic of
the concern. The Dispatch will probably
publish it by Wednesday evening.
AS the members will be particularly busy
to-day responding to button hole approaches,
and further to assist the fossil newspaper
concerns above mentioned, we herewith
summarize some of the more salient points
embraced in the tabulated statement:
The two houses consist of LAT members,
Al Senators and LOG Representatives. They
are divided politically as follows: Senate,
Democrats, 10; Prohibitionist, 1; Republi-
cans, 22-41. Lieut.. Gov Wakefield will
preside with his usual dignity and satisfac-
ton, and the other officers will beam
nounced hereafter. In the House there are
55 Democrats good and true sufficient to
vbDIo ;e@c
and 67 Republicans. This makes very even
thing politically, for Minnesota. But then
Minnesota politically is not so stalwart as in
former days, and another year of the GLOBE
will still further reduce their once boosted
majority. Call at the counting-room and
leave your subscriptions.
In the Senate the professional gentlemen,
the consumers, have rather the better, so far
as numbers are concerned, of the granger
labor element, the producers. Or the pro-
fessional gentlemen, the lawyers lead with
7, then there are physicians, 2 editors, 1
civil engineer, lecturer, l surveyor, pres
ident of water (St. PauD company, steam
boat agent, real estate dealers, 2 bankers.
l lumberman, merchants, 2 miilers, 1
cooper and IL farmers; the latter exceeding
in number those of any one calling.
In the House the producing class go to
the front largely, the hardy tillers of the
soil-the States wealth Notwithstanding
off with ~, while of lawyers there are but
l3. The merchants come next with
~. Next we have 4 physicians,
2 grain dealers, 2 rel estate dealers, and Q
lumbermen, while the following callings are
credited with one each; Laborer, contractor,
dealer in agricultural implements, insurance
agent, farmer and lumber dealer, farmer and
produce dealer, teacher, millwright, railroad
agent, banker and real estate dealer, mason,
machine agent, manufacturer, farmer and
builder, postmaster and agent, builder, drug
gist.
Although Msnnesota will be 21 years old
the coming spring, and this is the twenty
first annual session of the legislature, no ma
tive is sent up to represent the State. New
York, of any State or country, has the honor
of being the birthplace of the greatest num-
Der of members. In the Senate, New York
is credited with IL, Pennsylvania 4, Vermont
4, Massachusetts 2, New Hampshire 2, Maine
2, Connecticut /, Ohio 1, Virginia 1,
Canada 2, Norway 8, Sweden 2, Ireland 2,
New Brunswick 2, Germany 1. In the
House New York has 26, Vermont 6, Indiana
5, Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania and
Ohio each, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Con
necticut and Virginia 2 each, Michigan, New
Hampshire and Illinois each, Germany 10,
Norway TO- Ireland 7, Sweden 2, Canada @
England, Scotland, Luxembourg and Bohemia
each, while one member is so metropolitan
that he credits himself to America at large.
Manageable ladies in st. Paul looking
ahead to possible engagement to an honor
able, have poor encouragement for matri.
monial figuring, the Senate containing out
one unmarried member, and he widower
and the House but seven, one widower.
The youngest Senator is the good looking
member from the Thirtieth district, resi-
dence at Little Falls, Jonathon Simmons
Esq, 80 years, and the eldest, the gentleman
from Goodhue, the well known ex-Statt
superintendent of schools, II. B. Wilson
Esq, with 81 summers and winters to hi
credit. In the House two gentlemen divid,
the honors for being the younges
members. These are j. Oppenheim, thu
member from the First and Second wards 0
ST. Paul, and Mr.. Dan. F. Chamberlin,
lawyer of Hastings, both of whom have bu
rs years to their credit. Both, however, ar
among the married list. The father O
the House is Hon. James Smith, Jr., of ST
Paul, who has passed his 63d mile stone.
good second is Major A. M. Fridley, of Sher
burne county, who has 60 years to his credit
Both of these gentlemen have had considers
bic legislative experience, and the younge
members will find If occasion obonId o,ic,