The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03
MEN IN CON-
GRESS.
Senators, Representatives and Cabinet
Officers Who Are College-bred

Senators, Representatives and Cabinet
Officers Who Are College-bred
Men.
New York Suns Washington Letter.
The number of college-bred men in
this congress is larger than usual, al
though its treatment of great public
questions has not developed any of
the expected results of college breed
ing. AS is well known, the president
is graduate of Union. Secretary
Lincoln was educated at Harvard, and
Secretary Chandler is a graduate of
the law department of that university
The Harvard men in congress are
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts; Rep.
TeSentativeS Adams, of Illinois; Gov
ington, of Maryland; Hunt, of Louis
lana; Burns, of Missouri; Weaver, of
Nebraska, rillman, of South Carolina;
Dorsheimer and Belmont, of New
York; Davis, Long, Collins, Stone
ana Lyman, of Massachusetts,.
Yale is represented by Senators
Dawes, of Massachusetts,, and Gibson,
of Louisiana, and Representatives
Davis, of Missouri; Seymour, of Con-
necticut; Beach of New York, and
Willie Wallie Phelps, of New Jersey.
Union graduated Senator Warner
Miller, as well as the president he so
mnch dislikes, Representative Spriggs
and Wimple, of New York. Milliken,
OF Maine. and Paige, and Camden of
New Jersey, and two Representatives,
Rosencrans and Slocum, were educa-
ted at the expense of the Government
at West Point. Slocum was Sheridan's
room mate. Princeton has in her
alumni, Senators Don Cameron and
Colquitt, of Georgia, Representative
Everhart, of Pennsylvania, Findley,
of Maryland, and Jones of Alabama.
Hamilton educated Senator Hawley
and Representative Van Alstyne, of
New York and Hatch of Michigan.
Dartmouth is represented in the
house by Ranney, of Massachusetts;
Dingley, of Maine, and Brewster, of
New York. The gifted Ingalls, is an
alumnus of Williams, and Represen-
tatives Potter and Willard, of New
York, graduated there also. Amherst
prepared Rockwell, of Massachusetts,,
and Hutchings, of New York, for
public life. Brown university is the
alma mater of Senators Anthony and
Hill of Colorado, and Representatives
Cox and Spooner. Senators Conger
and Allison are graduates of Western
reserve college, Ohio. Senator Pal
mer came from Michigan university.
Senators Harrison and Williams, of
Kentucky, from Miami, Beck and
Vest from Pennsylvania university,
Kentucky, and Senator-elect Black
burn from Danville university, in the
same state.
The sanity Keiter and the lively
Horr were educated at Antioch Col
lege, the institution planted by Horace
Mann. Frank Hurd graduated at
Kenyon at the age of 10, and the lurid
Belford got his learning at Dickinson
College. The University of Virginia
has more graduates in congress than
any other institution, for before the
war it was the Harvard of the south.
The old William aud Mary College
has two congressman among its al
umni, Coke, of Texas, and George d.
Wise, of Virginia.
1t is a singular fact that the ablest
men in either branch of congress did
not have the advantages of a collegi-
ate education. This applies to Ed
mundS, Sherman, Wilson, of Iowa,
Bayard and Pendleton in the senate,
and to Randall, Carlisle, Kelley, Nc
Kinley, Reagan and Curtin, in the
house.