Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-07
TWO CONGRESSES.
What the Aennbers Of Tie Last and the
Present CO0IFe0o SAY o1 TAo0ouaV0o.

Present Cs.grsss Say u Themselves.
TKs AuTeDIoGHAPxIn n TIE coNeREss.
IoNAL DIBsoroRY-coMPARATI srATIsrIos
THAT MAKE An INTERESTING sHoWIN0-
OFFICES HxLD BY coNoREssAEM.
The photographed sketches Of Senators
and members of the national Congress afford
an interesting theme for study and comparison.
and the eight hundred articles OF this character
by the two last Congresses, when col.
lected and analysed, present some decidedly
Interesting facts. One u surprised 70 ind that
classical educations do not seem hecoeaary in
either House or Senate. ThS profession OF the
law seems good one TO adopt II We desire con.
gressional honors, and the odioe Of district or
attorney seems . go0d stopping
stone to Congress. The sketches themselves are
saneness about them in 80 far a. construction
and arrangement goes, for the reason that the
newly elected member of Congress 10 instructed
how he mus. say it. Alter ssls Is once done he
does not care, If reelected. 70 change IT, and It
goes on from year TO year, with only the necss-
starts out with date and place Of birth, and then
follows a description Of educational advant-
ages enjoyed, profession or business adopted.
offices held, when elected and reelected, the
politics OF the member, and the number Of
votes he received at the last election.
An analysis Of the latest edition OF the direc-
tory OF the present {Forty-ninthl Congress, com.
pared with dissection Of The last volume Of
esting facts relative 70 the makeup Of the two
bodies.
THE LAST SENATE
or the T6 Senators in the Forty-eighth Con-
gress, 10 were In the forties, 80 In the mites
and Ia in the sixties Senator Lapham, the old
gan, Of Illinois, and Harris. Of Tennessee, each
mention the fact OF having been born and give
The place of birth, but they both persist in
tors were foreign born; Jones, Of Florida, Fair,
of Nevada, aud Sewell, of New Jersey, being
sna In onH and on III En
educations; "a collegiate; % academic; II
common school and one a business educa-
had taught school. The occupations or probes
sions laid down are lawyers, sc; miners, 2;
merchants, 2; civil engineers, .; farmers, s;
Thirty-nine were then serving their nrst term;
% their second; their third; 2 their fourth;
and one (Anthony, Of R. L. his nth. Twenty:
the Capitol before coming to the Senate; A
had been state senators or representatives.; II
district or prosecuting attorneys; Judges; II
governors OF states or territories; and IL presi.
Dental electors. One tCockreli, of Mo.,) has the
distinguished honor OF having never filled an
office of any kind previous to his debut In the
Senate. The war record OF the Senate as a body
Is not extensive. Eleven Senators were soldiers
In the Union army and seven OF these rose to
ranks OF the confederate army, and eight OF
these rose TO the rank OF general. There were
three Senators in this body who served In the
confederate senate.
THE PRESENT SENATE
contains thirteen gentlemen who were not ia
the body at the last session. They are Messrs.
Jones and Berry, OF Arkansas; Stamford and
Hearth, OF California; Teller, OF Colorado; Gray,
OF Delaware; Blackburn, OF Kentucky; Eustis,
Oh LOUISIANA ana WILSON, Of Md Wai.hsi o. Mis-
and Spooner, OF Wisconsin. Eust1s, Of Louisi-
ana, and Teller, of Colorado, are the only ones
OF these who ever served in the Senate before.
the present Senators, as compared with those
OF tue former Congress: Payne, Of Ohio, is 20
and Berry, OF Arkansas, only 80, thus Two of
the new Senators compare exactly with the
Oldest and youngest OF the body ia the Forty
eighth Congress- The entire thirteen new Sem
ators are lawyers, making q total OF "a legal
gentlemen against 56 in the former body.
. The present senate has II Union soldiers. an
increase vi six, but the number of Union gene
rails remain ut eight. The confederate soldiers
are lS, aud confederate generals ., just as Ia
the other Congress. In far as education is
concerned there is but little change. We have
one less OF the classical three less Of the cole
giate, one less OF the academic, two more OF the
common school and one seli-educated man IN
this body.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, occupies more
space In telling of his career than any other
Senator. His sketch of himself consumes thirty
lines OF solid nonpareil, while CALI OF Florida,
confines himself to four aud q hall lines. Sena-
tor Chace, of Rhode Island. uses only six lines,
blackburn, OF Kentucky. only nine, and Evarts,
with MS reputation for long sentences, requires
only twelve lines TO tell his story.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the 4Sth congress there were 20 members
OF foreign birth in the House, and the present
House has %. OF those, in the 4Sth, were
born in ireland, in Germany, 8 in scotland,
l each in England, Brazil, New brunswick and
Isle OF Man. Ot the ~ in the 49th, Z were born
in Ireland In Germany, 3 in England, each
tn Scotland and Canada, and eacn In Norway,
The oldest representatives in the 4Sth Con-
gress were Messrs Aaron Shaw, Of Illinois, aud
J: I. Waite. Of Conneeticut, each of whom were
10 years Of age. The youngest was Geo. A
Post, OF Pennsylvania, 80 years. OF the 325
members and delegates In the 4Sth, 10 re-
ceived classical educations LAB collegiate, 75
academic, 90 common school, were seli-edu.
Gated, educated by the government At West
Point and the other 4O-odd Jailed to give any
Information on this point.
In the 49th there are 3 credited with classical
127 collegiate, 81 academic, "a common school,
S selfeducated and the West Pointers. The
House In the 4Stn had BOT lawyers, ID mer-
chants ,13 farmers, Ii manufacturers, IL bank
ers, . editros, journalists, z ministers, print
ers, physicians, planters, 1 stenographer,
talist, l railroad agent and 40 others
who gave no Information as TO their pro-
LESSONS or occupations. The present House has
21S lawyers, II merchants, 10 farmers, IL
physicians, Z editors, q bank
ers, 8 planters and ministers together with an
II,
veyor, an engineer, a railroad agent, a Journal
ist and u pharmacist. Mr.. Smalls, the colOred
member from South Carolina, Is the sailor.
Twenty-Five members fail TO give any intorma-
ton >su this point.
The were 81 soldiers of the Union army in the
House last session, and the present House has
rs, showing an increase in the federal soldier
element OF Ii. There were 10 Union generals
in the former, as there is in the latter House.
THE PRESENT HOUSE
has 46 ex-confederate soIdiers as against a. In
the Forty-eighth Congress, but only two ex-
mer body.
Comparing the offices held by the members
previous to their coming to Congress, We ind In
the Forty-eighth Congress i've ex-governor, in
the Forty-ninth, seven; in the Eorty-eighth
there were 122 members who had served as
state senators or representatives; in the present
House there are 139 who have served In like
The FOrty-eighth had II members
who had been district or county prosecuting at
torneys; the Forty-nlnth has 70 with like expe-
rence. The former House had 80 presidential
electors and SO gentlemen who had previously
served on the bench; the present body has 10
electors and 3S judges. In the Forty-eighth
Congress there were 16O members serving their
first term; the present House has only 127; in
the former body 81 were serving their second
term, and in the present there are Ill. The
former House had AZ in their third term, the
present has only 35. The present House has 81
members, the former had p. There
are Is hve.term members now, against II in
the former Congress, and there were IL six
term men in the former, against in the pres
ent the latter shows that Of the IL five-term
men in the former Congress were not returned.
There We're only seventeen members in the
House OF the Forty eighth Congress, while the
term men, but the two eight-term men tailed to
reach the ninth term in the Forty Con.
gress, and the present House has TWO nine
termers.