The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-01-16


plane, being confined TO their sena-
torial salaries. Brown OF Georgia.
and Malone of Virginia arc the only
two from the South who are wealthy
| Senator Butler offs. G. is pronounced
the handsonest man IN the Senate,
though Mr.. Riddleberger Of Va. >,
disputes the palm in this respect
Ex-senator Ingalls, Is considered the
! best debatcr and Senator Morgan the
best logicIan. Mcssrs Ednlund> and
Garland are the abIcstlawyers. while
Senator Vance is the fines ihctorit-
ician and best story-tellcr. But to
return to the directory: Both Ma
hone and Riddlcbcr-er make their
confederate records n conspicious
portion of their personal sketches.
Senator Anthony is the Oldest IN ;en-
atOrIal services, and Ednlunds next.
NATIVITY OF TIE SENATOR'S.
Kentucky leads the states in furn-
ishing the present Senate with eight
natrve born senators; Ohio comes
next with seven; New York six.
Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia ard
Pennsylvania each four: Ireland,
three; lJones OF Florida. Fair and
Small:) England, one, Clones of
Nevada) :and Scotland, one. (Beck)
and two tor Iowa. the four gentle
men representing these states having
been born in the Buckeye state.
THE HOUSE IN TIE DiHEcToRY.
There are twenty foreign born
members of the House. The oldes.
is Mr.. Kelley and the Youngest Mr..
Post. General Rosecrans has the
Longest biography, nearly "A page. i
while Mes>rs. Skinner, OF y. 4. and |
Houseman, OF Mich, give simply |
their names and post office address. |
After Rosecrans. cx-Spcakcr kci-
ter INDUCES in Inc longest sketch.
4 grandson OF Henry Clay. who
now sits in the House employs less
than three lines.
SKETCHES.
and Il great diversity of taste IS man
ifested as to what is worth telling OF
thcmselve. For instance, JOHN =.
WISE OF Virginia consider, 1t au
honor that he was CaDtran OF the
Richmond Infantry Blues for several
years" l.. II. Weller. Of Iowa,
known in his state as ''Calamity
,Nellcr,'' inforr.s the country that
though born and reared Il democrat.
ne voted for Fremont. Lincoln.
Grant, Greeley. and then sandwich
ed Tilden IN. and Hext voted fer
Weaver, the Grccnbacker. After
moving TO Iowa he titled the soil in
he day, and studied law. politics
and theology at night; was admitted
10 politics at once. subquentlv 10 the
and finally to the church.
MFR. Weller then details number of
defeats while running for office.
while most congressman conceal
the defeats and make the successes
prominent. Col. "Tom' Ochiltree
saws that he is the first native
Texan ever elected to Congress, and
as the bachelor he omitted to av
when he was born, but gives his age
away when he states that at the age
Of sixteen he engaged in the Indian
OF IS54-55; he istheretore
forty six, or shereabouts.
NATIVITY OF THE MEMBERS.
The only native OF " ash,ngton in
Congress is Gilbert NJ. Woodward. !
Of Wisconsin, whose birth in this
city was accidental. New York
leads in the House with IS native
sons; Pennsylvania. 50: Ohio, 81;
Kentucky and Virginia, II each:
and Tennessee. I3
each; North Carolina. II. OF the
entire Arkansas delegation Cd in
both Houses. but single member
was born in the state. Only two OF
the M;ss,ssippi delegation CD are
natives of the state but she gets even
by having sons in the Arkansas.
Missouri and California delegations.
Of the 4oI Senators and Congress
men ,67 are LAWYERS. while the re-
manning number represent over forty
different trades and professions.
AGAIN AT WORK
Nine ,enths of the senators and