Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-21
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ton Of Senators Rollins md Blair In New
Hampshire, after . confined service In
Congress Of twenty yesrs. alFesdy beinss
to the surface some earioW iects shout he
length Of time members Of Congress have
served in tha: capacity. Mr.. Rollins has
served six years in the Senate, and had
been six years in the House before hs b.
came Senator, and Blair four yeara OF
her seventy.six Senators twenty-five had
been members of the Hs1se before THAR
election to Senator. and three OF four had
been members OF the Confederate CONGRESS.
vorhees, Gibson, Allison, Beck, Hoar, La
mar. Van Wyck and Pendlston served Q
probation Of eight years each in the House
before entering the Senate. Sawyer served
ten years in the House. Frye twelve, Nor.
rill twelve, Conger fourteen, and Dawes
eighteen.
Thirty Menbers Of the DesaEe
have been elected more than once to seats in
that body. Ransom, Morrill, and sherman
have been elected three timeJ each, I'd.
munds four times, and Anthony Ave nmes.
Anthony has been in the Senate longer
than any other man alive, having hsd
tweuty-four years OF continuous service In
that body. Three Senators have seen loneer
Congressional service than he, however.
Sherman and Dawes having been twenty six
years in the House and Senate, and Morrill,
twenty eight years. In the House, Kelly
has had twenty-five years OF service Ia that
body, Cox twenty-one years, and Randall
twenty. They are all re elected, too, OF
the seventy.six members OF the Senate.
forty.one have been honored with re.elee.
ton after term in one branch or the other
OF Congress.
In the Next Hesse
there will be lG1 who have served In Coz.
gress before, l3S having been members Of
the last House. Four have been members
Of the Senate; Pryor, OF Alabama, Eaton,
Of Connecticut, Poland, OF Vermont, and
Kellogg, OF louisa: q
II members OF Congresses prior 10 the
Foity-seventh, but not OF that one. are
Nichols, OF Georgia, Wilson, OF Iowa. Nor.
gan, Of Missouri, Phelps, OF New Jsrsey.
Sloeum. BagJey and Mulley, Of New iosk,
Hill and Hurd, OF Ohio, Storm, Lawrence,
cock and Throckmorton, Of Texas, and The
four Senators alluded 10 above. Several
have added to their experi - legisa-
tors by service In the Confederate Congress.
Senator Pugh, OF Alabama, who was Q mem.
ber of the United States Congress when
Alabama seeded, withdrew and was elected
a member OF the Confederate Congress. Hs
served there so acceptably from 1881 70
1868 that he was re elected, serving - long
a. the
Congress Had - Exisseace.
He had had couple of years experience
as q legislator before leaving the HOUSE.
has been in the Senate three years.
Senator Garland of AFknnsaa wa n
member OF the Confederate Provisional
Congress which met at Mon tgomcry In 1851.
and was also elected . member OF the oou-
federate Congress when that organized.
Later on he was elected O member Of the
Confederate Senate, and served there until
the war closed and the Congress disoived.
He was elected United states Senator in
1861, but was not permitted to take his
seat. He was. however. again elected Beti-
ator in 1876. Senator Vest was two years Q
member OF the Confederate House and one
year in the Confederate Senate. lie has
been four years in the Senate Of the United
States. Mr.. Reagen. Of Texas. WA q mem
ber OF the Confederate Provisional Con-
gress. but was made Postmaster General Of
the Confederacy.
Singleton. Of MisstsstpDi,
q white.hsired, pleasant old gentleman.
whom everybody likes, was SIX yeaD In
the United States Congress before the war.
He retired when his State did, and Wss
Immediately elected TO the Confederate
Congress. He was member OF thst body
for four years, and has been Tor the past
eight yesrs n member OF the House Bin.
gleton is q nice old gentleman, . good
Methodist and usually very even tempered,
but he certainly did say q bad word the
other day. He had come all the way from
Mississippi to see the Secretary Of tbs
Treasury about something. He went tO
his door In the Treasury Department, but
was stopped by . saddle colored youth
Nbo informed him that IL was after the
srsciously added that he would take his
card In. The old gentleman. . GOOD deal
disturbed by this exhibition OF red tsos
toward a Congressman OF fifteen year,
Standing acauissced. and. with no. very
good bnmor, seated himself In the hsii %
await the result
sissietss swesss.
Pretty soon, the messenger returned. sd
closing the door behind him, said
ti"Ths Secretary says he hopes you will
snSH.s snS 81" hun this Time Hes very busy
"Yes," said the old gentleman, without
wanting 10 hear more Eyes, and be id 10
him, and I'll not trouble him BY coming
sgain. either" and he stamped on down
the ball, his hot Southern blood boiling un.
III his snowy locks fairly trsmblsd from
the ebullitious beneath.
Singleton 10 the Oldest Congressman In
the new House. that 10, he served earlier
than any other. He was Q member Of ths
Thirty.third Congress. Kelly did not
come until the Thiftyseysnth, and Randall
the Thirty eighth. Nolan, of Maryland,
was here before him, having served in the
Thirtieth snd Thirty first Congresses, but
he does not return next term.