Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-06-16
NESTORS OF THE senate.
Members Of Congress Who Have
Served Long Terms.
Statesmen Who Have Spent Over q Quar-
ter OF Century In the LeEis-
lative Halls OF tho
Nation.

While the celebration of the eighty
Forth birthday of Senator Justin S.
-r.,n. who has been aptly calic., the
-; ..:c; OF congress-" is frCcil IL mind.
il in.:% he of especial interest 10 recall
the terms of Il few other mcn who have
:,c.riy or quite equGlcd him in the
length OF their public career at Wash
inGt%u, says the Washington Star.
senator Morrill,, even, cannot sur
pass the senate record of Thomas Ii.
81, ton, the member from Missouri to
Tic fist congress which convened after
thu. state was admitted to the union.
and who served from October ., 1920. to
M@I"h 4, 1851. He was afterward a
mS,uDer of the house for two years.
:,en;tor Morrill, has been in congress,
however, for thirty-nine years, and in
the senate for twenty-scvcn. William
R.!;us King, who was vice president
under Franklin Pierce, served in the
81" sc for twcnGy-ninc years, bit his
&-rvice was net Continuous. Tic began
his iirSt term in 1870 and ended his last
il ll53. Henry Il. Anthony. Of Rhcdc
iS'::Td, had he HIci! to see the end OF
hi:, last term, u. I'll have eqI:.lCG the
rec I'd of Mr.. MCtrill. He YVES. cl&c:Gd
five times, but only served a year AMI
Il half of his last term. He diaI in
1884. Hannibal IIamlin, OF elaine.
comes next III point Of length Of s2rv-
ice. Practically he was i'll the senate
continuously from 1913 10 1850. Four
year; Of tGiS sine was as VIZ president
under Lincoln. wnen lie VS. i)4u.i.:;.l.r
officer. Mr.. narlul WAS elected - che
upper house in l:"i: again. s., Il.H liz;
service in that hodt- w;:6 tNJoI light
yGarS and ST.: months. and he az. zen
six years in Ihe hJISc bei:,r.. a.; !irst
senatorial election. 1t j. Srr.3 hG re-
"igne.i from the senate il i6.r 20 be
c@lnc Cover O. aiainc, but he re-
turned il LESS than three months to his
seat iii Congress.
Among tlc Massachusetts senators
Charles Sumner has first plna> for
I@.:':th OF con tinuOuS service. ~ = rch,
vi he took his &cat. AMI ". tire
when he died. in 1871: Senator herman
has the congressional record next
best to Mr.. Nlorrills. Had il
not been for the break in his
term, when he was secretary of the
treasury under President Hayes. he
would have been in continuoi:; service
exactly the same length of time rs the
senator from Vermont. Senator Iicr-
rill, it will be remembered, rofr,&ai
cabinet position under the Iay,': Cd
'nini3tration. Mr.. Sherman has :prJ-od
tWcnTy-ninc years in the senate. .Ir.
Allison, of Iowa, has been in congra::%
tlirty-one years, of which tilre TyTS3:-
ty-Onc have been in the upper chamber:
Mr.. Allison is six years the jtinior G..
senator Sherman and eighteen ycGl..
Younger than Vermont's veteran. Nv
Harris, of Tennessee, was In con-
grcss six years before Senator NJ rIrill.
but his terms have not been coIitinu-
Gus. and in point of congressional OK
perience he stands but number GC:2 to-
day. There are two other scna tors
who have served continuously for nero
than twenty years. They are i>hn
Gaillard, of South Carolina, whose tenn
began in 1904 and ended in 1896 and y.
Il. Knight. of Rhode Island, who served
from 1921 to 1841.
1t is remarkable fact that no man
ever served thirty years in tho house OF
representatives Judge Kelley. oE N";;.r.
sylvania, was in his thirtieth yea .,.cr,
when he died. When Mr.. O'Ncil. oI
Pennsylvania, died he had served a.
most Twcnty-nine years. He was once
;oli by MIR. Holman that he was IT,
s.t".';r'" he would beat his rccnri al
:: Il: tt'TGT year.. bat hc ii; g.;
.. ~. .'r!inhn serves out III -. .r1t
..'. e.. !,'s.yrvrr. he will have le"icn tac
:. iiC has met with the house for
a., -. -uine years.