Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-06
THE LEGISLATURE,
THE GLOBE SCOOPS IN THE BIO.
GRAPHIES AND ST4TIsTICS.

THE GLOBE SCOOPS IN THE BIO.
GRAPHIES and STITISTYCS
Political Status of the Two Houses-various
EmplOyments of the Members When at
Home-Twelve Farmers in the Senate and
| Forty-seven In the Hoase-Twenty Law
yers in Both Branches-Int Nativ-
ity and Age Statistics-More Members Ar
rive--The Status of the Office Seekers.
Elsewhere in the GLOBE this morning ID
presented a table giving in condensed form
biographical sketches Of the members of the
two houses OF the legislature which is to
convene at u M. tomorrow. The prepara-
ton of this table at this time has been a
work of great difficulty. Before the estab-
lishment of the GLOBE it was the custom of
the sleepy concerns then occupying the
newspaper field at the capital to issue such a
table any time within two or three days af-
ter the legislature had convened, and
even then it would lack the
| SFCaC SSS6ntldl Oh completeness. Inc
GLOBE in lis brief existence of less than a
year mas 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 newspaper ought to be, as the GLOBE
is. This has required energy, vigilence
and work. All these clements were en-
ploy ed in the production of the biographi-
cal sketches presented this morning. But
in this case there is more than the ordinary
satisfaction that results from the feeling of
having well performed a 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-
er 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-
terpriss 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,
Il Senators and 1O6 Representatives. They
are divided politically as follows: Senate,
Democrats, Is; Prohibitionist, 1; Republi-
cans, 22-41. Lieut.. Gov. Wakefield will
preside with his usual dignity and satisfac
ton, and the othe- officers will bean
nounced hereafter. In the House there are
So Democrats good and trus--s sufficient to
ieayen the whole lump; 8 Prohibitionists,
ana 81 Republicans. Tnis makes d 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. OF the pro-
fessional gentlemen, the lawyers lead with
Z, then there are physicians, 2 editors,
civil engineer, lecturer, l surveyor, pres
ident of a water (St. PauD company, steam
boat agent, 2 real estate dealers, bankers,
1 lumberman, 5 merchants, 2 millers,
cooper and ID farmers; the latter exceeding
i'll number those of any one calling.
In the House the producing class 60 to
the front largely, the hardy tillers of the
sol-the States wealth producers--leading
off with At, while of lawyers there are but
ID. The merchants come next with
II. Next we have physicians,
grain dealers, 2 re- estate dealers, and Q
lumbermen, while the following callings are
credited with one each; Laborer, con Tractor,
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 81 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 II, Pennsylvania 4, Vermont
4, Massachusetts 2, New Hampshire 2 Maiue
2, Connecticut l, Ohio 1, Virginia l,
Canada 2, Norway 3, Sweden 2, Ireland 9,
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 each, Michigan. New
Hampshire and Illinois each, Germany 10.
Norway 10, Ireland 7, Sweden 2, Canada 9,
England, Scotland, Luxembourg and Bohemia
l each, while one member is SO metropolitan
that be 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 but
one unmarried member, and he widower,
and the House but seven, one a widower.
The youngest Senator is the good looking
member from the Thrtieth district. resi-
dence at Little Falls, Jonathon Simmons.
Esq, 80 years, and the eldest, the gentleman
from Goodhue, the well known ex-State
superintendent of schools, II. B. Wilson.
Esq, with 81 summers and winters to his
credit. In the House two gentlemen divide
the honors for being the youngest
members. These are j. Oppenheim, the
member from the First and Second wards of
st. Paul, and Mr.. Dan. F. Chamberlin. a
lawyer of Hastings, both of whom have but
26 years to their credit. Both, however, are
among the married list. The father OF
the House is Hon. James Smith, Jr., of St.
Paul, who has passed his 63d mile stone.
good second is Major A. NJ. FridIey of Sher-
burne county, who has 60 years to his credit
Both of these gentlemen have had considera-
4 BILE legislative experience, and the younge,
members will find, if occasion should arise
that they lack nothing in vigor, and thai
aided by their experience, they will be diff.
cult to master.
/ More Melnbery,
/ There were but few new arrivals of Nom.