Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-04


SENATOR PROCTOR.
Senator Proctor Of Vermont b another Of
the senatorial debutantes. He puts his history
thuswise:
"Redfield Proctor Of Proctor was born at
Cavendish, Vt, June l, 1881; graduated at
Dartmouth College and at the Albany Law
school; served as lieutenant and quArtermaster
Of the third regiment Of Vermont volunteers
on the staff Of Maj Gen. William F. (Baldy)
Smith and was major Of the fifth and colonel Of
the fifteenth Vermont regiments; was . mem
Der OF the Vermont house OF representatives in
1867, 1868 and in 1883; was q member of the
state senate and president pro tempore Of that
body In 1874 and 1875; was lieutenant governor
from 1876 to 1878 and governor from 1878 to
$780, was delegate to the republican national
conventions Of 1884 and 1888 and Secretary Of
War from March, 1889, to November. 1891; was
appointed by Gov. Page November 2, 1891, to
fill, until the election Of his successor, the va
eancy caused by the resignation of Hon. George
+. Edmunds."
SENATOR WIZ. =. Villas.
The last lin the directory of the new Sena-
tors is William +. vilas, who was successfully
Postmaster General and Secretary of the Inter-
Tor under President Cleveland. His record 10
as follows: William F, Villas Of Madison, was
born at Chelsea, Orange county, Vermont, July
y, 1S40; removed with his fathers family to
wisconsin and settled at Madison, June 4, 1851 ,
was graduated at the State University in 1858;
from the law department Of the University Of
Albany, N. Y. in $780, was admitted to the bar
by the supreme court of New York and by the
supreme court Of Wisconsin in the same year,
and began the practice of the law at Madison,
July 2 1850; Was captain Of company A. twenty
third regiment Wisconsin infantry volunteers
and afterward major and Northumberland Of
the regiment; has been one of the professors Of
law of the law department Of the State Univers-
lty since 1868, emitting four years. 1885 to 1883;
was one Of the regents of the university from
1880 to 1885; was one Of three revisers appointed
by the supreme court Of Wisconsin in 1875, who
prepared the existing revised body of the statute
law adopted in 1878; was member of assembly
In the wisconsin legislature in 1885; was dele
gate to the democratic national conventions Of
1876, lSS0. 1854, and permanent chairman of
the latter; was Postmaster General from March
q, 1886, to January l6, 1888, and Secretary of
the Interior from the latter date to March 6,
1889; received the unanimous nomination of
the democratic legislative caucus and was
elected January %, 1891, United States Senator
to succeed John c. Spooner, republican. Took
his seat March 4, 1891. His term of service will
expire March 8, 1897"
ODDITIES OF IMPRESSION.
Occasional oddities of expression and the
revelation Of facts not looked for make the di-
rectory interesting. For instance, Turpin Of
Alabama says of one of his fights for nomina-
ton that he was defeated by the two-thirds
rule and a dark horse" The horses name ID
not given nor is any reference made to his ped
igree.
Those members who were privileged to receive
collegiate education generally say SO. ]. T..
Hamilton of the fifth Iowa district lays especial
stress upon the fact that he is not graduate
of any college"
Absolutely correct as to dates, but perhaps .
tribe uncomplimentary toward his wife, 10 B.
II. Clover of the third Kansas district. He says
''reCelye6 education in ha nny,
schools of his native state and the school of ex-
perlence; was married on All FOOLS day in 1859
and has seven children"
Representative John Davis Of the fifth Kan
sas has reputation for political and literary
bravery, and he is not afraid to say 30. He
says he ''took leading part in the anti-slavery
movement, and, Through correspondence in
the journal of the Knights OF Labor and other
mediums became widely known as an able and
fearless writer on economic subjects."
REPRESENTATIVE NJ KAIo.
Probably the best alI-around general utility
man in the House will be William McMahon
McKaig, who defeated McComas in the sixth
Maryland district Mr.. McKaig says he started
out as a mariner, having "boated coal over the
to the navy yard in Washington city during the
navigable portions Of the years 1860 81, 80,
63, "a and IS; read law with his uncles, Gen.
Thomas ]. McKaig and W. W. McKaig, and was
admitted to the Allegany bar April 1868; health
failing him in 1878, he went to Colorado terri
tory and lived an outdoor life, ranching, hunt
ing and trapping in the Pixies Peak region;
spring of 1874 went to Manitou and Denver and
engaged in the hotel business until October,
when he went to Salt Lake City, Utah, then 70
San Francisco. Los Angeles and Cajon Pass,
near the Panamint Mines. Cal. where he fol-
lowed gold mining; spring OF 1875 went to AGA
pulco, Mexico, Pont Auranus, Costa RIGA,
Panama. Aspinwall and Savanilla, in the United
States Of Colombia; then to New York; failed
to secure the democratic nomination for state 9
city attorney for Cumberland in 1876, was
elected in 1877 from Allegany county to the
lower branch of the Maryland legislature; was
appointed in 1879 colonel on the personal staff
OF Gov. Hamilton; was appointed chief Of ord
nance on the general staff by Gov. Robert NJ.
McLane in 1884, and reappointed by Governors
Lloyd and jackson; was elected state senator
from Allegany county in 1887; spring of 1880
was elected mayor Of Cumberland"
For ine-pointed accuracy of detail 7. A. E.
Weadock OF the tenth Michigan is trife in the
lead. He says no began to learn the printing
trade, but, disliking it. gave it up to become 9
school teacher,
COL. JOHN E. FELLOWS.
The only northern member Of Congress who
served in the confederate army il John R.
Fellows of the sixth New York district He
says Of his war experience that he entered the
southern army in the first Arkansas regiment;
after the battle of Shiloh was assigned to staff
duties as assistant adjutant and inspector gen.
eral and ordered to report to Gen. Van Dorm at
Nicksburg; was assigned to the staff of Briga-
dier General w. N. Bell, commanding dis
trict in Gen. Van Dorn's department.; vas cap
tured at the surrender of Port Hudson, La,
July 9, 1868, and released June 10, 1885,"
John A. Quackenbush of the eighteenth New
York lie one Of the few farmers who are bound to
make money no matter how the crops turn out
He announces himself as "a fsrmer and specu-
lator in farm products"
LoCKMAKER MEMBER.
The lockmaking business occupies the atten-
toe Of H.. s. Greenleaf of the thirtieth New
York when Mr.. Greenlea. lie not In politics, and
IN ordel that there be NO error as to the kind
of locks ne manufactures Mr.. Greeuleaf specifies
in his sketch tha: they are "time combination
and key locks." The democrets may have some
for Mr.. Greenlesfs professional skill in case
there she lid at any time he q deadlock.
Benjamin +. Grady. who will care for the
third North Carolina district, is emphatic in his
declarations that he "has been q strict con-
structicn democrat all his life, but net ar Office
seeker
Robert E. Doan Of the tenth Ohio states that
he 'heid an important secret position under
Abraham Lincoln connected with the Post
Office Department during the war;
Michael ID. Harter of the fifteenth Ohio 10
club man. He sis member Of the Golden
Club. London, of the Reform Club, New York.
of the Democratic Club of the city Of New York
ard of the Young Mans Democrs tic Cluh ~