Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-10
Written for THE EVENING STAR
CONGRESSIONAL MUSINGS.

little OF interest CHARLES 4. PILsBuRY.
Written for THE EVENING STAR
CONGRESSIONAL MUSINGS.
kentuckians Who Have Advanced From
the Speakership to the Senate.
WILL JOHN @. CARLISLE BE PRoMoTEp?-PREs-
IDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES IN THE SENATE AND
HoCsE-CoSGREssMES WHO HAVE BEEN IN
SEATED By POLITICAL MAJoRIrIEs.
If John Griffin Carlisle succeeds to the va
cant Kentucky seat in the United States Sem
ate he will not be the first kentuckan who
has advanced from the Speakership to the
Senate. Henry Clay was a Senator both be-
fore and after he Speaker. He entered
the Senate in 1906. being then twenty-nine
years old. The next year he was made
speaker of the state house. He was again in
the Senate from 1909 to 1911 He became
Speaker the day he entered the House in 1871,
being the youngest Speaker elected. He was
i've times reelected. In 1881 he returned to
the Senate, to which he had first been ap-
pointed twenty-five years before, and re-
manned almost continuously in that body until
his death in 1852
The Speakers who had been or who became
Senators were several in number. Mr. Blaine
Is a well-remembered illustration OF a Speaker
who passed to the Senate and became a leader
there at once. Schuyler Colfax crossed to the
Senate, but as Vice President. Galusha A.
GROW has been very anxious always for Sen
ate seat, but has SO far fallen short in his
plratlons. Ex-Speaker Robert c. Winthrop
became Senator the successor of Daniel
Webster. EN-Speaker John Bell became q
Senator half dozen years after he welded
the gavel.
SPEAKERS As PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
The ex-Speaker and prospective Senator is
one Of the few men now remaining in Congress
who have been conspicuouSly mentioned for
the Presidency, and since the death of Samuel
j. Randall he is the only democratic member of
either house who enjoys that distinction. Mr..
Randall was a prominent candidate in the con-
ventlon that nominated Grover Cleveland in
1881 and had been mentioned in connection
with the position III previous years. Mr..
Carlise's name was also formally proposed in
the convention of 1854 but the tide in favor Of
the governor of New York was too strong to be
stemmed by either OF the distinguished House
members.
Gen. n. p Banks was nominated for Presi-
dent thirty-four years ago. He was at that
time Speaker Of the House. a native American
by election, whig by antecedents and a re-
publican by utilization. The regular American
convention met at Philadelphia February o.
1906 The convention nominated Fillmore and
Donelson. Some northern delegates bolted the
convention on account of the language of the
platform On the slavery question and called a
North American convention at New York, June
IL There was sharp contest III the conven-
ton between those who wanted to indorse
Fremont and those who wished to go il alone
After ten ballots Gen. Banks was nominated
for President. AS he had been a delegate to
the republican national convention that nomi-
mated Fremont he telegraphed a declination.
The convention then Endorsed Fremont. This
particular political party was never again heard
OF. Many years afterward IN 1873. Gen Banks
received the vote of one Greeley elector for
President.
VIM. Mckinley stood on the threshold OF
greatness through all the long ballotIng at
Chicago in 1888 and it is generally believed
that II he had not inundated himself for Sher-
man he might have been nominated But
when he reflects on the fate of Foraker the
major Is probably glad he remained loyal,
Banks, Carlisle and Mckinley are the only
House members whose names have been con-
splcuously associated with the Presidency, but
there are several members of the Senate who
nave been "favorably mentioned for many
years.
SENATORIAL PRoBABILITIEs.
The most distinguished of the senatorial pos
| sibilities is Senator Sherman, who was a for
midable candidate in 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1888.
and who is by no means out Of the race for
iooG. oehdtor ALISON was prominent inquire
In the convention OF 1888 and ran a neck and
| neck race with Gen. Russell A. Alger for third
place on most of the ballots
AT the first prohibition national convention
| held at Columbus in 1872, Senator A. H. Col
quit was nominated for Vice President on the
ticket with Judge James Black of Pennsylvania
He afterward declined the nomination and
Rev. John Russell of Michigan was substituted
Colqultt was good democrat at this time and
not party prohlbltionist. When the electoral
college met In 1872 he received the votes of
five of its democratic members for Vice Presi
dent.
coNGREssMEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNsRATEp.
There are several members of this Congress
who know what it is to be thrown out of the
House by an adverse majority and who know
how to keenly sympathize with the late Con-
gressmen Jackson, Pendleton Cate and Comp
ton and the soon-to-be elected George d. Wise
The leader of the republican side, Mr.. McKin-
ley, has himself been there He was thrown
out OF the Forty-eighth Congress at its first ses-
Jonathan ii. Wallace, and only a skilltul redis-
trlbution of districts saved MIR. Mckinley,s seat
In the Forty-ninth Congress.
Henry L. Morey Of Ohio has also had un-
pleasant experience. He was returned as
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress but the
House gave the seat to his cousin and COM
petltor, the present governor Of Ohio, after
MIR. Morey had sat for few months.
On the democratic side there are several gen.
tlemen who have been there and know lust
how it feels to be elected from the House.
MIR. Illlman OF South Carolina lost his seat in
the Forty-seventh Congress before he had got
1t fairly warm. Dibble, Of the same state was
elected to fill vacancy caused by the death of
NJ. z. Conner in the Forty-seventh Congress-
and lost his seat because the House decided
that OConnor had not been elected Gen. Joe
Wheeler had somewhat different experience
He was returned as elected to the same Con-
gress, but was unseated in favor of William M.
Lowe. Lowe died and Gen. Wheeler was
elected to fill the vacancy
Col. Chas. 7. O'Ferrall, who is now an elo-
quent protester against ''outrages of the ma
jority" in election cases, was himself seated bv
his own party in the Forty-eighth Congress in
the chair occupied for brief period by John
Paul