The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-23


/ self as acting Vics-Presideat and presiding
I officer Of the Senate. He declared Hayes
/ elected He YVES and IS a weak man, and in
t those trying times ]. took the bsst and
/ bravest OF MS party 70 bolster him up 70
[ the final duties Of declaring the
result es the electoral commission had
I found II for 81 %. He was then a senator
I from Michigan, and repUred 70 De a wealthy
man de failed in business sooa after, and
I then was beaten for reelection. After
wart lie went % Europe. ami was prac-
/ tically an outcast from the county Of his
birth, and upon whose history be has made
the impress OF some questionable acts, for
several years. He has now returned to
Grand Haven. on Lake Michigan, and is a
country postmaster. Talk about time set
ting al things even,
Old Senator Christiancy was his colleague
then. but he resigned in a close bargain
with President Hayes, 50 as 10 allow duff
and honest Zach Chandler TO be elected 70
the Senate. Christiancy got e mission 70
South America, as the price Of his resigna-
ton, but ne did not remain there long. He
returned 10 this country IN serious trouble
with tae young girl he had married in
W ashington. She was treasury clerk and
he a senator. An unfair match, and she
got the worst Of il. She died after years of
neartournlngs and sandal He still lives
at lansing, Mich.
10 those days George E. Spencer and G.
GoldWaite represented the state OF Alabama
IN the Senate. Spencer, after bis term ex-
pired, married al actress known as May
NuneZ, and became a mine Spectator in
Nevada. Now he is called a political
tramp. He really nsyer had any residence
In Alabama, aud when his life as carpetbaZ
senator was ended he drifted west Gold
waite was a curious old character, who
looked good deal like the pictures Of a
country parson you find in comic alnanacs.
He wore pair Of gold-rimmed spectacles.
always down On the tip end of his nose, and
was 50 absent-minded that he would nav
his car fare every time the conductor passed
him between mis- boarding house and the
capitol They Ised TO nave TO tell him
when the Senate had adjourned. He is now
on the Golden Shore.
The state Of Arkansas was then repre-
sented by Stephen w. Dorsey and Powell
Clayton. Dorsey was in those days very
prominent man in the Republican party,
and was a still more prominent one il the
moral campaign when Cen Garfield
was elected President. Dorsey has ranch
nov down in New Mexico, having escaped
the clutches Of the law by an accident, but
spends most Of his time in New York as a
prom oter.n Powell Clayton is still brows-
ing around in politics, but has no place in
the high life Of the republic. Five years
ago a negro beat him for chairman of the
national convention. But he makes money
out Of Eureka Springs in his state, and still
has some influence there
Newton Booth and A. A. Sargent were
then in the Senate from California. They
were simply two plant republicans. Sar-
gent was much stronger man than Booth,
although the latter had a good deal the
most polish. Booth has gone back to San
Francisco, and Sargent, after having been
minister to Berlin, was two years ago beaten
for reelection to the Senate by Leland
Stanford.
jerome B. Chaffee and Henry S. Teller
then represented Colorado. Chaffee, who
was power in party management for sew
eral years, is dead. Teller was Secretary
Of the Interior under Arthur, and is back
in the Senate. Connecticut had two demo-
cratic senator's in those days-W. W. Eaton
and w. II. Barnum. Two republicans now
sit in their places Eaton has been i'll the
lower House since then, hut is now in pri-
vate life, living at Hartford. Barnum
remained great figure in his party as the
head of the national democratic committee,
but died soon after Cleveland was beaten.
delaware had Bayard aud Salisbury in
the Senate then. Mr.. Bayard has peen
Secretary Of State since, and has just taken
unto himself a new wife. Salisbury was
beaten last year by a republican. George
Gray and Anthony Higgins are now the
senator's Florida had Jones in the Senate
then. He got crazy over girl and is now
in Detroit looking after her. s. B. Conover,
its republican member of 1876, has gone
back to his original business as a doctor,
and is now in Florida. For several years
after he left the Senate he occupied a minor
position in the Marine Hospital service at
Philadelphia that gave him just about
money enough to keep himself and family
from want. He was simply picking up the
threads of his old life in the army.
From Georgia there were then Gen. J. B.
Gordon and T. II. Norwood, both demo
Gratis Gordon is now governor, after a
few years of effort to get rich developing
his native state. Norwood went back home
when his term expired; kicked out of the
Democratic party, ran as an independent
candidate for governor, and was defeated.
He then wrote some novels, but is back
again in congress. Ben Hill succeeded MIN
in the senate, and after a few years of
brilliant service died from cancer of the
tongue.
Gen. Logan was then in the Senate from
Illinois, and had for his colleague Dick
Oglesby, who has since been governor of
the state. The first is dead and tee latter
looking for new honors j. E. McDonal
and o. F. Morton represented Indiana, and
about equally divided the honors in intel
lectual power. The latter died some years
ago, but Mcdonald still lives in Indian
apolis. AllisonSand Wright were from Iowa
Wright quit politics in disgust at the end of
his term, because he preferred the law; but
Allison is still there.
James NJ. Harvey. dull, ordinary man,
with ingalls,, was there from Kansas
Harvey gave way TO an ordinary Plumb,
who got rich in railroad speculations he
is there now, and 50 is ingalls,.
Who will not remember that curious old
character, T. c. McCreery of Kentucky
He was the LATEST, yet one of the most
brilliant men i'll the Senate. He never
opened his mouth except to vote, only when
a senator died or there was some unusual
occurrence to arouse him from Indifference :
then he always spoke with power, and in
the choicest English. He had for a col
league j. w. Stevenson, now dead. There
is vast difference between these two men
of the past aud Beck and Blackburn, Ken
tucky's present representatives in the
Senate.
In the days of which am writing Louisi-
ana was represented alone by j. r. West
That state had not been reconstructed then,
and there was very decided quarrel going
on over the vacant senatorship and the
status Of tho state generally. 1t was, per-
haps, the worst of all the examples of the
carpet-bag era. West was put out at the
end Of his term, and was made commits
sioner of the District of Columbia, and still
lives in Washington.
The state of Maine, perhaps, shows the
most vvOndarful cbanoaS oP tbar, oil H.