Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
SKETCHES OF CONGRESS.
A Larger Delegation Of Young men
Than Ever Before.
Business and Professions of the VariOI
hembrrs-lreIaad Furnishes Three
Sc ators, Scotland On. and
England One.

Tit Oldest mSn in Congress is Senator
MuiIh., Of Vermont, who is nearly
IL. C.yse to his heels are the three
ps;riarchs of the House, Wait of Con-
ncctjcut, and Shaw of Illinois, who
were both born in 1911, and are in their
I'D year, and Eldridge OF Michigan,
who Is in his I'D. These all seem to be
"stayers," and are decidedly active and
risky for men who have passed the
three score and ten mile post.
old Stagers-
Morrill, has been continuously in Con-
House and Senate since away back In
the fiities, aud Wait has served five
consecutive terms. Both of them are
apparently good for an indefinite time
yet, ana the boys will have to get up
very early ia tine morning to beat them.
Shaw was seventy, the time when most
men are getting ready to quit, when
he first took seat in tue House, hav-
ing lust entered upon his second term.
Ildridge started ia still later, this being
lis .iTst term.
IRs Youngest SenatOr.
The youngest Senator is kenna, of
West Virgins, vino is 35. Riddleberger,
OF Virginia, is 80, and Sabin, of Mime
sofa, ~. 1t is very rarely that the
richly upholstered seats of the Senate
are reached under the age Of As. But
20 of the IS Senators are under 30. The
Youngest member of the House is Post,
of Pennsylvania, who is only %. Others
have also started To tread the thOrny
oath of Congressional life. McAdOo, OF
New Jersey, is only 30. Lamb, of In
diana, IL 81. He is ''lamb' in politics
yet, but the future Is big with possibili-
ties. Perry Belmont, of New York,
Budd, OF CalitOrnia,-that's good
name for one whose leaves are just un-
foldirg-and Iaple, of Michigan, are
81. To these fledgings may be added
thirty-six more who are under 40.
spring Chicks.
Congress has never had 80 many
Young men among its members rs now.
Ire year 1882 was good year for
spring chickens
Tue ages of all in both houses may
be given like this: Under 30, one; 80
to- So, thirteen; 35 to ~, forty-six; A. to
IS, tifty-uine; Is to 80, eighty; 80 to 81,
siXty-niue; % to go, tifty-tive; CD to %,
twenty. four; 10 to 20, fourteen; over
30, four. This aggregate of representa-
tives il l6,O64 years, an average Of forty
nine and half. The senators foot up
4l25 years, their average age being
fity-four and one-third.
Ages or Senators.
The oldest member from Ohio IS
Senator sherman, who is 60; Judge
TAYLOR, of Warren, is also 50, but he
didn't get there until two months later
than Sherman; Geddes is 81 and
Pendletou SIS; FOran is the irfsat OF
the delegation-39 Paige, OF Akron, Is
also 80, but he struck this country seven
months earlier than FOran.
Their previous occupations anu pro-
fessiunS give some items OF interest.
They may be summarized as follows:
l architect, pork-packer, preacher, l
president of canal company, 20
nlogist, ;" president OF n gas company,
| railroad ticket agent, l iRosecrsns)
whose life has been devoted to military
service, > civil engineers, 3 railroad
presidents, 4 lumbermen, 4 doctors
medicine, not divinity, engaged iu
mining 10 bankers, l3 merchants, IA
editors, Is farmers aud planters, u
manufacturers ami $50 lawyers!
Carpet Baxxers-
OF the 80 Senators and 900 Represent
natives, but SO Senators and 100 men,
bers of the House represent the States
in which they were born; the remain
der ~ Senators and 1876 Representatives,
being 'carpet. baggers." The only
States with entire native delegations IN
both Houses are: Delaware 3, Maine
8, Maryland s, South Carolina 9, Yer
mont / and West Virginia, 6. Besides
these the States having two "favorite
sonsu on the floor of the Senate are
Massachusetts, New Hampshire. New
York, North Carolins, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and
Virginia. 1t is . singular fact that the
following States, IL in number, have no
native statesmen In the Senate:
From Abroad.
Irelend Is pretty well represented In
the foreign delegation, giving Senator
each to Florida, Nevada and New Jer-
sew, and eight members Of the
House to various States. There
are some 80 others born IN the United
states of Irish parents. England has
one Senator Jones Of Neyadsl, and
Scotland one. In the House there are
two from England, three from Scot
land, one from Bavaria, three nom
Germany, one nom Prussia, one from
Norway, one from New Brunswick and
one from Brazil. The totsl number Of
foreign birth il IS.
Soldiers sfthe War.
There are seventy-nine members OF
both Houses who served in the Federal
army, and eighty who Were IN the Con-
fedeTate army. The largest Congress