Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-27

da, SewelI of New Jersey and Fair of Nevada, born in Ireland; Jones of Nevada, in Eng land, and Beck of Kentucky. Of course ei- ther of these gentlemen being peers are eh- l gibls to the office of the President pro tem. of 1 the Senate, but in the event of the death of l the President there is question whether
 they could discharge the duties of President, the Constitution requireing that the Presi- dent shall be native citizen. The youngest Senators are German 42, Miller 43, Plumb
 34 and Hall 35. The oldest are Merrill II, l Lapham 67, Anthony and D. Davis 66, Dawes and Sawyer 65, Salisbury 64, Congsr and Hampton 63. Some of the elder Senators
 withheld their age from the directory. Mir. Edmunds, who looks like and is recognized as the sage of the Senate, will be 54 on the l 1st of February. Maine, Delaware and South Carolina are the only States that have
 full native delegation in Congress, and Ar- kansas, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota Kan sas, Nebraska, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado have neither representative born in the State. Of the representatives the birthplace of twenty are not given and fifteen are of foreign birth. The contrast between the na- tivity of legislative representatives is some- what singular. New England, with repre-
 sentation of twenty y-eight, has forty seven of her sons in the House. New York has B representatives and thirty-six members born in that State. Pennsylvania has twekty-sev- en and B, Ohio twenty and twenty-seven, while Illinois, having nineteen representa- hves, has but two sons in the House Mich. igan and Iowa have but one each out of nine representatives. Of two hundred and six American born whose place of birth is given, one hundred and sixty three are of northern birth, one from the Pacific coast and but for ty-two in the South.
 It is understood that when the House com mittee to audit the expenses of the illness and funeral of President Garfield, of which | Judge Taylor, and Garfeld's successor is ! chairman, meets after the recess, Marshal Henry will go before the committee and ask | Tn the name of Mrs Garfield, that Dr. Boyn- ton and Mrs. Susan Edson be included in the l distribution of the rewards to the physicians, and that Steward Crump and the other at- | tendants shall also receive proper recognition. This will be urged on the ground that they l did much to mitigate the Presidents suffer- ings in his last days.
 A curious event took place here today be- | ing boat race on the Potomac by section | of the Potomac Boating club. Two races | were rowed. First single scuH race was | won by s. W. Harrison in 63 minutes. The | second, a mile and one-half race between | light and heavy weights of the club in four | cared boats, was won by the former in 7 | minutes
 Washington has not seen such quiet | Christmas in many years. Besides the usual | Congressional exodus which annually occurs | at this occasion the President and members | of the Cabinet have this year joined the car pet Daggers ana Scarceiy an onclal or any II considerable note is left. At the White | House the desk of Private Secretary Brown was empty, that gentleman having left for | Cleveland to visit the family of the late Pres ident Garfield, after which he will visit his | parents in Kansas. Major Pruden, who has | carried the Presidential nominations to the | Senate for twelve years or more, and whose face IS familiar to every Senator or frequent | visitor at the White House, is in charge of | the office. The President is expected to re- turn Saturday.
 While the day was passed most quietly to- night has been one of the utmost disorder. | No less than five serious fights occurred be- tween negroes and whites, several shots be- ing fired, one negro being wounded in the leg. Several fights also occurred on Capitol Hill and Georgetown, all of 8 more or less serious nature. Two hundred arrests were made during the day and night. On the whole this has been the most 1isorderly | Christmas known here for several years.
 The House Committee on Privileges and Elections has yet done. nothing, but hope to be able to report on several cases soon after the reassembling of Congress. There have been filed before the committee twenty-one contests.