Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-16


Of 0ei fKam England and one from ire
Land. Al Sbama gets her supply from
Georgia and Tennessee, Arkansas from
tisHksikpi and Alabama, California from
IndAna and New York, Colorado from
How'd and New York, Connecticut from
hefsAlf and North Carolina, Florida from
Ireland and Kentucky, Georgia from her.
self AUG south Carolina, Illinois from her.
self Aiia Kentucky, Indiana crossed the
Ana3mfo Ohio, Texas from Kentucky and
Wiraznias West Virginia supplies herself,
but WAen the supply was furnished there
was no West Virginia; Wisconsin got
one 0ubof Vermont and one from Indiana,
Nebraska went to Pennsylvania aud New
4ofk, New jersey took one from New
York and imported one from Ireland,
Nawi York sends seven around the
ealeaTy, keeps one. and takes one from
MAn4seh sets; Oregon finds one in New
X6FNs0nd one la Pennsylvania, Rhode
kataad is only large enough to raise one
and has TO call on Massachusetts, for the
other. Iowa puts up two buckeyes, Kansas
brings one from Massachusetts and one
from Ohio, Kentucky raises one in blue
grass and the other in blue bells of Scot
land, Louisiana takes one of her own and.
appeals to Kentucky for the other, Michi-
gan saws one out of her own forests and
goes TO New York for the other, Minneso.
ia has one Pennsylvania and one Illi-
n0isan, Mississippi gets hers from
Georgia and Virginia. and Missouri raises
one and gets the other from Kentucky.
All the Southern Senators were born
South and all the Northern ones are of
the North, except Senator Hawey, OF
Connecticut. who claims North Carolina
as his place of nativity.
To refer again to ages, two Senator'S
(M0rrill and Payne) were born in 1910.
Senator Payne appearing seven months
later than the gentleman from Vermont;
two We're born In 1916, and from that date
on up to 1912 every year produced from
one TO five Senators, although in 1922 Scot
land had to be called on to nil the record.
In 1925, 1880 and 1884 each, five Senators
were born, every fourth year being pro-
pitious. From 1926 to 1885, inclusive, the
Senatorial crop flourished greatly, Al Of
the TO having been born in those years.
From 1910 to 1913 the yield was slim, 1912,
1916 and 1S47 showing no returns at all.
1t is little early, however, for this crop,
and the harvest will shown later Senates.
Five is the maximum number of births
for any one year.
Senator Logan, of Illinois, and Senator
Harris, of Tennessee, are the only Sena-
tors too modest to tell their ages. but cir
cumstances indicate that they are in the
three-scOre neighborhood and old enough
to be less diffident. The Florida Senators
were born in the same year 1884 J, and the
same may be said of the Oregon Senators,
who came in in 1885. The greatest dis
parity in ages of colleagues appears in the
Wisconsin duo, Mr.. Sawyer having 80
years the start Of Mr.. Spooner, who was
born in 1S45.
In the matter Of occupation 90 Senators
are lawyers, or studied law, and IA Of
them business men. Several OF them
have edited newspapers and taught
school, and one was a carpenter before he
became Senatorial timber. Railroad and
banking have not been neglected, and
mining has paid some OF them. Senator
Stanford is probably the richest Northern
Senator and Senator Brown heads the list
from the South. Several of them, North
and South, are the poorest.
Forty-one are serving their first term,
q their second, 3 their third and 3 their
fourth. Senator Sherman has Just fixed
for his fifth. Forty-three have no war
record, 20 served in the Confederate army
and 10 were Union soldiers. ranging from
private to Major General, inclusive. As
to names, every letter of the alphabet
is called into service to spell them,
and we lind Wilson's, Nit
chells, Millers, 3 Joneses.
Brown, and not Smith. There are 10
Johns, 8 Jameses, Williams. Geore es,
3 Charleses, each of Joseph, Henry,
Thomas and Samuel, while Daniel, Elm
Ephraim, Jonathan, Zebulon, Benjamli,
and Matthew testify to the ScripturaI
training of the Senatorial parentage, as do
Eugene, Dwight, Preston, Omar, Francis,
Arthur, Randall, Warner, Austin, Nelson
and Wade to the patronymic and aesthetic.
Fifty Of the gentlemen are accompanied
by their wives or daughters, or both, and
the only really and completely bald
headed Senator in the body is not. With
one or two exceptions, possibly, every
Senator shows sprinkling OF gray in his
hair. One or two with good heads of
hair part it in the middle. Moustaches OF
the most fashionable cut are worn by
some. Chin Whiskers are not unpopular,
and the smooth face is not entirely absent.
1t would be hard to say VINO is the
handsOmest, and harder Con the sayer)
to say who is the least handsome. Take
it by and large, there is not a Senator
h0mely enough for his face to hurt him,
and there isn't one who doesn't nurse
with tender care stray thought that
there is in his appearance one or two fea-
lures worthy OF more than passing ad-
miration. Whatever else may be said of
them, they are the ablest assembly of men
in America, and the Goddess of Liberty
points to them with pride as the most i'm
portant rs the republic has known since
the original '76 made its initial appear
ance in Philadelphia about ITO years ago.