San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-04
Congress Convenes.

SohSISSS SOnVeueS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The Fifty
third Congress opens today in first
regular business session, and as its
work has been we'll laid out by the
committees named at the extra
session, the labors of passing the
tariff measure and the new revenue
bill will be at once begun. Two
men promise to assume eXtraordi-
nary prominence at this session.
These are Congressman Wilson and
McMillin. On the shoulders of
these two has fallen the response
bility of defending the reform
measures, and the eyes of the coun-
try will watch their every move
ment with intense interest.
Benton McMillin, of Carthage,
Tennessee, was born in Monroe
county, Kentucky, Sept. II, 1915 :;
was educated at Philomath acad-
envy, Tennessee, and Kentucky
university, at Lexington; studied
law under Judge +. l.. Gardenhire,
and was admitted to the bar; COM
| Celina, Tennessee, i'm 1871; was
elected member Of the House
of Representatives, of the Ten
neSsee Legislature, in NOVem-
Der, 1874, and served out his term :;
was commissioned by the govern
or to treat with the State of Ken
lucky for the purchase of territory
in 1873; was chosen elector on the
Tilden and Hendricks ticket in
1876 was commissioned by the
governor special judge of the Cir
cult Court in 1877; was elected to
the Forty-siXth, Forty-seventh,
FOrty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses, and was reelected to
the Fiftieth CongoesS, to the
Fifty-first to the Fifty-secOnd and
to the Fifty-third Congress.
While Congressman McMillin
will be graphing with opponents of
his revenue measure, Congressman
Wilson will make the battle of his
life for tariff reform. William H..
Wilson, of Charlestown, w. Va,
was born in jefferson County, Va,
May 3, 1913; was educated at
Charlestown Academy, and at Col
umbian College, District of Col
umbia, where he graduated in 1869,
and at the University of Virginia;
served in the Confederate army;
was, for several years after the war,
professor in Columbia college.
but on the overthrow of the law
yers' test oath in West Virginia,
resigned and entered upon the
practice of law at CharlestOwn
was a delegate iE 1880 to the Ma
tiOnal Democratic convention at
Cincinnati, and was chosen an
electOr for the state at large on the
Hancock ticket; was elected preSi-
dent of the West Virginia universe
ty in 1882, and entered upon the
office Sept. Is; but on September 20
was nominated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the forty
eighth Congress, and elected;
he resigned the presidency of
the State University in June, 1883;
received the degree Of LII. ID. from
the Columbian University in 1888,
and from Hampden Sidney College,
Virginia, 1886; was appointed a
regent of the Smithsonian hnstitU-
ton for two years in 1884, and re-
appointed in 1886 ;he was reelected
to the Forty-ninth Congress, and
also to the Fiftieth, Fifty-tlrst,
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
grcss.
In the Senate but little of impOr-
lance will come up until the House
has disposed of its tariff and reve-
nue. measure, unless it be the de-
bate on the Hawaiian question,
which promises to be covered very
thoroughly in the Presi dents mes
sage. The Hornblower appoint
ment to the Supreme Bench will
also be one Of its early subjects for |
executive session, and in view Of |
the defeat of HIPS forces in New
York, by friends of President !
it is likely that the New
York senators will fight its con-