The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-23
THE U. s. SENATE.
olane. a. tn. Men who Compose It
Wash. Corr. Propidoace Star.

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In looking over the Senate one Is surprised
at seeing how many men represent different
States than those of their birth. Most Of The
Western States are represented BY Eastern
men, and many of the Eastern by men from
other States. By careful investigation find
that seven Senators were born In Ohio, -four
In Tennessee, four in Vermont, three In
Georgia, SIX in Kentucky, four in Virginia,
oDe In Indiana, one in Connecticut, three in
North Carolina, two in Delaware, three in
South Carolina, four in Maryland, two In
llinoi, three In Massachusetts, three In
Maine, one in Michigan, six In New York,
three in Pennsylvania, one In Missouri, two
in New Hampshire, two in Rhode Island,
one In West Virginia, one In Scotland, and
one in ireland.
Iowa and Indiana are represented by Ohio
ans; Mississippi, by Georgians; Louisiana, by
q Vernonter and Kentuckian; California,
by Virginian and an Indianian; Arkansas,
by . Tennesseean and Kentuckian; Mime
sofa, by Pennsylvania and Ohioan; Ala
bama, by . Tennesseean and Georgian;
New jersey BY New Yorker and an Irish.
man; Oregon, by men from Maine and ILL.,
nols; Texas, by men from Kentucky and
Virginia; and Wisconsin, by men from New
York and Vermont. Virginia, Tennessee,
South Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,
North Carolins, New York, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, Maryland, Maine, Ohio and
Delaware are represented by natives, while
Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri
and West Virginia are represented by one
native born Senator, and one born elsewhere.
AGES OF SENATORS.
The youngest Senator Is Nelson w. Al
drich, Of Rhode Island, who Is AZ years of
ago, and the Oldest is Senator Morrill,, Of
Vermont, who is 73. Twelve Senators are
under so; thirty-eight between so and 90;
seventeen between go and 10; and only one,
Senator Morrill,, is over 10 years of age.
Senators Sherman, Grover, Henry E Davis,
and Pugh, are just 60. Pendleton, Maxey
and Lamar are 5s; Cameron, Slater, Ransom,
Robbins, Van Wyck, Mcmillan, Hoar and
Hawley are 81; Plat, voorhees,, Window
and Malone, SO; Bayard, George Miller, Ed
munds and Camden, IS; Farley, Allison aad
Coke, "a; Walker, Vest and Vance, SO; Mil
Ter, of California, Kellogg and Frye, 50;
Garland and Jackson, 81; Cameron, Harri-
son and Ingalls,, so years Of age. The Sens.
tors under 80 are Garman, Hale, Jones,
Plumb, McDill, Barrow, Cockrell, Blair,
sewell, Mitchell, Aldrich and Butler; and
those over 90 are Sawyer, johnson, Morrill,,
Lapham, Saunders, Conger, Dawes,
David Davis, Joe Brown and Eli Salisbury.
John A. Logan never gives his age, and the
place is filed with dash In the directory.
EDUCATION OF THE SENATE.
Sixty of the Senators had academic educa-
lions, and twenty seven Of these are college,
bred men. Mine Senators were educated In
shs common schools, four were brought up
under military discipline, and two are put
down as having no education Whatever. Sem
ator Dawes Is q product of Yale; Hoar, of
Harvard; Salisbury, of Dickinson; Cameron,
,f Princeton; Grover and Frye, Of Bowdoin,
Ben Harrison and McDill, of Mlsma Univer-
'ity, and Allison and Conger, of the Western
Reserve College, now located at Cleveland.
Nearly all the Senators sre lawyers by pro-
ession, fifty-three having studied law, and
II al u
If business men, several farmers, and half
lozen brokers, but the lawyers have .
Thirty members of the Senate were. en-
,aged In the armies Of the late war; of these,
wenty-one were rebel officers and zine
Union men. Hawley has been Governor of |
Brown, of Georgia, Hampton,
4 South Carolina; Kellogg, Of Louisiana;
iorman, Of Maryland; Harris, of Tennessee,
md Vance, Of North Carolina.
NOTED MEN.
Fair, Of Nevada, is the richest Senator;
Harris, Of Tennessee, is the poorest; Shsr-
nan, Of Ohio, is the leanest; David Davis,
4 Illinois, the fattest; Butler, Of South Caro-
ina, the handsomest; McDill, of Iowa, the
gliest: Malone, Of Virginia, the most hete-o-
OK; Mcmillan, Of Minnesota, the most
Senator ingalls,, Of Kansas, Is the
est debater; Don Cameron, Of Pennsylvania,
be poorest; Van Wyck, of Nebraska, the
1ittiest; Mitchell Of Pennsylvania, the dull
st; Bayard, the most scholarly; Plumb, the
sast so; Morgan, Of Alabama, talks the most;
Of Virginia, the least; saulbury,
Delaware, the tallest; Sawyer, the short
st; Edmunds is the best lawyer; Davis, of
Vest Virginia, the best business man; Logan
the most noted general, and Frye, Of
Iaine, the most eloquent orator. Bayard
'arted life as counter-jumper; Beck as
lrm hand; Conger as lumber hand; Davis,
West Virginia, Is brakeman; Dawes, As
school-teacher; Fair as bartender; Farley
, hack.driver; Gormaa Is q Senate page;
ones, Of Florida, as carpenter; McDill a.
Department clerk; Morrill,, as q country
orekseper; Plumb as printers devil; Saw
er As q latorer; Sherman rs surveyor, and