Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
HOUSE CLERKSHIP
The Pennsylvania Candidate Has
Opened Headquarters.
ASPRANT FOR OTHER OFFICES
Some Think the Keystone State
Has Had Sufficient Reward.
INTERESTING STATISTICS

Maj. Mcdowell. the Pennsylvania candi-
date for the clerkship Of the House. opened
his headquarters at Wizards Hotel today.
Mr.. Glenn. the candidate for doorkeeper,
from New York, is expected to open his
headquarters at the same hotel Monday.
1t is said that the Missouri delegation may
not press the candidacy of Russell for SER
geant-at-arms, but will present the name Of
ex-Representative Wade for one of the Of
fees. either sergeant-at-arms or postmas-
ter There is considerable mystery about
Ohio's candidate for the postmastership. 1t
is announced that there is to be a candidate
from that state who is to have the place,
but no one here appears to know who he is.
Some of the Ohio members who have been
asked about the matter say that they do
not know who he is. but that an Ohio man
will get the office.
Mai. Mcdowell Confident.
Major Mcdowell said this morning that
he did not think there was q possible
doubt about his election as clerk, and hs
said also that he did not know anything OF
combination including the other offices.
His friends say that he has already pledged
more than enough to elect him. The sug-
gestion is again made that General Hen
derson. his rival candidate may be given
the place of sergeant-at-arms.' It is be-
Eeved that the only interest Mr.. Reed is
taking in the contests is to induce as much
upon the parties interested not to permit
any bitterness to get into the fight.
Major Mcdowell received good many
callers today, but there are few members
OF the House in town.
Pennsylvania's Record.
One of the arguments against giving the
clerkship to Pennsylvania is that the state
has had quite its share Of the patronage Of
the House since Congress was organized,
and that 1t is now the turn OF some of the
western states. Pennsylvania has had 8
Speakers with 81 terms, covering IL years;
clerks with "a terms, covering 4s years;
sergeants-at-arms with 13 terms covering
26 years, and one doorkeeper with 13 terms.
covering 26 years.
These offices were distributed as follows:
Speakers-Frederick A. Muhlenberg First
and Third; Galusha A. Grow, ,Thirty-seventh,
and Samuel ]. Randall, second session, For
ty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con-
crosses.
Sixth, and J. H. Oswald, part of Sixth; Mat
thew St Clair Clarke, part of Seventeenth
and the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth.
Twenty. first, Twen.y-sssond and Twenty
Twenty-fourth ard Twenty-f1fth; ]. w. For
ney, Thirty-second. Thirty-third and Thirty
SIXTH Edward Mcpherson, Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth. Forty-first Forty
ty-frst. and James Kerr, Flfty-second and
Fifty-thrd.
Sergeant nt-at-arms-Joseph Wheaton, First
to Ninth, inclusive, and A. ]. Glossbrenner
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fifth.
Doorkeeper-Thomas Claxton, Fourth to
Sixteenth, inclusive.
What Illinois Has Had.
1t Is pointed out by the friends Of Gen.
Henderson that the state Of illinois, for
nearly eighty years a member of the Union,
has had two office ers of the House of Rep
Re sentatives Richard NJ. Young, clerk OF
the House in the Thirty-first Congress, who
was Senator from 1887 to 1913, and James
c. Allen, clerk of the House in the Thirty
fifth Congress, he having been a member
of the preceding House.
Share of Other States.
Ohio has furnished two sergeants-at-arms
Thompson and Leedom: Iowa, one sergeant
alarms; Minnesota, Michigan and Wiscon-
sn one postmaster each, while Indiana has
had three SDeakers-John w. Davis Of the
Tw enty-ninth, Schuyler Colfax, Thirty
eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth, and
Michael C. Kerr, first session of the Forty
fourth. The two states of Kentucky and
Virginia have largely monopolized the offices
of Speaker and clerk, having an aggregate
Of fifty-two years to their credit. while no
elective Office has ever gone west Of the Mis-
sissippi river, save Minnesota, which got the
postmaster for two terms. The eastern and
middle state have furnished the Speaker and
clerk for eighty-one years.