The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-12

In TIC SuAtco states senate
dates from March 4, 1877. The term of
six years, which ne is now filing. would
not properly expire until March 4, 1888.
Senator Lamar Is q f1ne-looking man.
and both 3 hard student and readv-wit.
ted man of affairs. He possesses great in
fuence in his state, and is one of the |
most considerable figures in the senate |
at Washington. His recreation includes |
indulgence among the sweets of polite |
literature, to which is largely due the |
ease and fiGency of hisoratorical efforts. |
THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
Elk Judge Williams CrowninshieId
Endieoit, who was appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland as secretary of
war, was born in Salem about 1927.
His father was William Putnam En-
dIcott and his mother Mary, daughter of
Hon. Jacob CroWninshield, who was a
representative In Congress. He attend
ed the Salem schools and graduated
from Harvard in the class of 1S47. He
married his cousin, a daughter of
George Peabody, and has two children,
q son and daughter. His son
graduated from Harvard College in the
class of 1888, and IS now studying law
in Salem. Judge EndIcott studied at
Harvard Law School and read law in
the Office of the late Nathaniel j Lord
He was admitted to the bar about 1850,
and few years later formed q paIdtner-
ship with the late j. w. Perry and con-
tInued with him until his appointment
by Governor Wsshburn to seat on the
Supreme Bench in 1878. This position
he held until 1882. when her esIgned on
account OF his health. In 1882 he made
an extended tour of the Continent. He
was q member of the Salem Common
Council in 1S52-1S53 and in 1857, when
he was elected President of the
board. He was City Solicitor
from 1858 to 1868. He Ia a member OF
the historical society aud of he board OF
overseers of Harvard college He is {
direct descendant from Governor Joht
Eudicott. Until the Bell and Everet
campaign he was an old-line Wing. A
that time he came into the Democratic
party. AS a lawyer he has been yer!
thorough, and in1pleading case yer.
dignified. AS judge ne stood high il
rank. He has never been prominent il
politics. It will be remembered that b
] was the nominee of the Democratic part
of Massachusetts for governor last fal
J and, although defeated, he received
very handsome vote.
: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Augustus II. Garland, United States
senator from Arkansas, who Wa
, appointed by President Cleveland as al
torney general. was born in Upton couI
ty, Tennessee, June IL, 1882. A year a
: forwards his parents removed into Ii
state of Arkansas, of which Mr.. Garlan
has been resident ever since, with tt
3 exception OF the time he spent in &C qui
t ing an education.
: At suitable age he was remove
, from the freedom of his fathers farm
t the restraints OF school life. He a
: quired his scademlcal training at Bard
e town. Kentucky, where he an was inma
: of st. Mary's and afterwards
:, Joseph's, two Catholic colleges. The
a too he decided upon becoming a lawYe
9 and began to read sheepskin bour
books and to follow the proceedings
courts of justice with the view to futu
t appearance in professional capacity
He was admitted to practice at Was
g ington, Arkansas, in the year 1858, al
g immediate opened an office. In 1856
r removed TO Little Rock, the capital
q he state, where he built up an excelle
= business as lawyer.
i In 1860 he was q Bell and EverC
J. eleclor, and opposed threatened see'
It siod as long as there existed the app
Q ent possibility of preventing 1t. Whe
q however, ii became inevitable he we
= with his state. He was member Of t
q convention in Arkansas which pass
l. the ordinance of secession, and of Il
G provisional congress of the confederac
e which met at Montgomery, Alabam
q Subsequently member of both hOus
4 OF the confederate congress, he did b
g utmost to assist the cause whIC
8, collapsed with the surrend
= of General Lee. In 1865
1t petitioned the supreme court OF q
2. United States for TeadmissIon to pra
tice within It. The iron-clad oath stoC
y in his way, and he accompanied his al
a plicatIon with an argument intended
= show the unconstilutlonality of that II
l. qulremenI. In December, 1857. the g.
m preme court rendered decision agre
I'd ing in three of the four points urged
es Mr.. Garland. Meantime the statesm
was denied the seat IN the United Stat
senate to which the legislature of 4
"a kansas had elected him.
Ia He was elected governor of his sta
e. in the year 1874, without opposite
Is and after giving an administration CHI
O. acterized by wonderful ability, "
IT, again elected to the senate. On Mar
ut 4, 1877, he was sworn in as Senator G
land, the second time six years after.
Garland ranks with our greatest la
Yers and statesmen. He is a man
ne playful and affectlonate disposition.
ia is his happiness to be honored and Re
es erenced for his abilities, and loved
ss his childlike naturalness and OIL
Nv amiable qualities. He is a tremendC
Ia worker, and recreates with the joy
10 abandon of the schOOl-boy.
nd THE POSTMASTER GENERAL
ma William F. Villas, the nominee
he postmaster general Is Wisconsin De
in ocrat of prominence. He was chsirm
in of the Chicago Democratic conventi'
IN THE SECRETARY OF The TREASURY
n Daniel W. Mauning,of New Yol
s. the man whom Mr. Cleveland appoints
en-. secretary of the treasury, is one of
er. most prominent Democrats politicians
lat the country. During the late campaign
in was chairman of the New York Den
he cratic committee and was the right hS
nm man in all the democratic maneuve
IA He Is at present an Albany editor an
stakeholder in the National bank
Albany.
nj THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
for William c. Whitney, the presideI
IN nominee for SECRETARY of the navy. is d
ne. New York man He is very wealt
nd Is not u special friend of Samuel j.
m den, but Is q son-In-lsw OF Senator st
n dard Oil" Payne OF Ohio.
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