The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-04
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WASHINGTON, January 2.-The new Con
Rressional Directory Is an interesting study
OF the four hundred members Of the ney
Congress, counting both the House an,
Senate, nearly two hundred are new men
Tho feature most likely 10 strike the aver
ags observer in looking over the long list
is the very large proportion OF lawyers. O
the 4Ol members Of the House and Senate
2GO are lawyerr. Perhaps 1t is quite proper
that the law makers Of the nation should
be students Of tho law. That is the genera
impression, and probably the correct one
Next to the law the manufacturers seem
to be the most available Congressional ma,
terial. There are about forty manufacturers
In Congress. Some make pottery, some
iron and some weod pulp. Journalism
comes next in the popular favor, though
the number oi journalists in both branches
ol Congress only reaches about a bakers
dozen, or three per cent. OF the whole,
There are half dozen farmers, q couple
OF doctors, three or four railroad men and
one druggist. There are no preachers in
this Congress, though the preacher element
oil the last Congress seemed TO size up abou,
as well as the average. In the South the
lawyers seem to be more popular as law
makers than in the North, il possible.
scarcely any Of the members from that
section representing any other calling.
1t is rather curious, and fact not es.
pecially pleasant to record, that but one.
third Of the members enjoy that requisite
Tor accomplished law makers, collegiate
education. Out OF the 40l members less
than l50 are graduates OF any college. A
larger proportion Of the Southern members
are graduates than the Northern men, OF
the Southern members nearly forty per
cent. are graduates, while in the North, as
an aggregate, the proportion is little over
thirty per cent Even boasted New Eng.
land only sends 60 per cent OF graduates,
and Massachusetts but So per cent, while
New York has 40 per cent. In the Senate
8 little over 40 per cent Of graduates.
AGGREGATE LEGISLATIVE EXPERIENCE.
While there are nearly 200 new mem.
bers, the aggregated legislative experience
OF even this Congress is something quite
wonderful when taken in such form, There
are many members who have seen as high
as ten years in Congress, in one branch or
tho other, and few who have moro than
doubled that. Randall is entering upon
his, twenty. year in the House, Cox
has had twenty.one years there already,
and Kelly twenty-two. In the Senate
Anthony, Dawes and Sherman boast
twenty-si1 years in Congress apiece, a
part OF them having been in the House be-
fore going to the. Senate, whilo Morrill,
leads with tTenty.eight years service. The
aggregate number Of years in Congress OF
the members Of the Senate is 57l, while
the aggregate service Of the House mem-
bera is over 500 years, making total Of
Congressional experience in House and
Senate OF nearly l,400 years. Beside this
fully half Of the members have served in
State legislatures before coming to Con-
gress, and their aggregate experience there
has been nearly 600years, making q grand
total in both branches OF Congress OF 1000
years. And yet they talk OF this as "new
and one with little legislative
experience 10 gnide it.
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SOLDIERS,
It is very easy and sounds very nice too,
to talk about the North remembering her
soldiers, but the fact is that 80 far as Con.
gress goes the North does not remember
her heroes with anything like the affection
that the South does. OF the Southern
members Of the House over forty per cent.
were in the Confederate army, while
among the Northern members only twenty.
five per cent. were in the Uuion army. In
the Senate the difference is still more nota.
BILE, the per centage OF Southern Senators
who were in the Confederate army being
over sixty, and Of the Northern members
only thirty.three per cent. were in the
Union army. Five members will have
reason to refrain from voting If the bill TO
pension the Mexican veterans comes up,
for that number were in the Mexican war,
Williamp, OF Kentucky, Logan, Of Illinois,
Ma1ey, Of Texas, George, OF Mississippi,
and Morgan, Of Alabama. One Northern
man, by birth, is in the list Of ex-Confed.
crates, Van Eaton, Of Mississippi. He was
born in Ohio, and lived there it appears
until after he became Of age, was educated
there, went 10 Mississippi at the age OF 90,
and when the war broke out thirteen years
later, went into the Confederate army,
serving Through the war on that s;de," as
be puts it.
/ There are Is men in the House who are
over sixty years old, ard three who are
pas. seventy, though Waite, Of Connect.
icut, who is seventy-four, is still the oldest
man there. In the Senate Morrill, is the
oldest man, Is. The average age OF mem
bers OF the House ia IS years, those from
the South averaging As and from the North
81. The average age Of the members when
[irst elected 10 Congress was Al.
CONFEDERATE coNGREssMEy.
Arkansas sends a full delegation OF ex-
Coniederates, and Alabama sends all but
.wn from :he same army. It is worth
while noting that there are six members OF
he Confederate Congress in this Congress,
Dunn. Singleton and Barksdale in the
House, and Pugh Garland and Vest in the
Senate, There ;s also one member Of the
Confederate Cabinet, Reagan, who was
Postmaster General. There are three or
[our who were members Of Congress OF The
United States when the war broke out,
who Withdrew and went with the Con.
federacy, and now are back in their seats.
There are "a foreign born citizens in the
House and Senate; some fifteen OF them
being from Ireland, the remainder repre-.
senting pretty nearly all parts OF the civil
lied world, not emitting our neighbors on
the South, as one Of the new members is
native CT Brazil.
New York is the birthplace Of 50 OF the
Of the Houae, Pennsylvania OF
33. Ohis 81. Kentucky and VIRGINIA II