The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-04-22
congressional Curios.


Congressional Directory, so far
StomaTy biographies of members
ned, has its curiosities. That
IT, Extraordinary Session of the
n Congress- is no exception.
directory, says the correspond
Of New \ Ork Press, shows that
age of members of the House
W. nd OF Senators 81 years.
he average age Of Senators was
.au So and of Representative
e-- .tu 80 Now, by reason Of the
-a politics of ambitious young
udtors Butler Of North Caro-
- -r Of Pennsylvania and Heit-
]. and like Bradley, Mcclellan
ii New York, Bailey and
.Aas, hitchin of North Carolina
Hefing of Wisconsin as mem
House, the average age of
YI Representatives has been re-
~" 'idlly.
rity of the members of Con-
4~ ae either babies or were not born
.E VII Wan began. Some of them
WIZ aorn until after the war was
4 youngest of them, Thomas j.
1a i New York, who was born in
.-'ia 80. was possibly just learning
@s Nn the recent so-called ''crime
y 9A> committed. Bradley repre-
| ninth District of New York
w. 'e heart of what is Greater New
.a 57 gest Senator is Marion Butler
. '.i, troiina, who had scarcely open
y -s eyes when men from the old North
t@F were giving away their lives on the
-.-l'o' gettysburg. When Butler first
S1 Tie l5ht the oldest member of the
te-'--. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, had
' s q member of Congress many years.
/. U1.empiation of the new directory
ss the melancholy fact that the old
4. .l'. 'faTemen surely are passing away.
by 740 senators and Representatives
oave been soldiers. Three of
We're n the Mexican War-Senators
l., annessee, George of Mississippi
'''ll>, new Senator of Alabama
/ ..r III were in the Civil War. On
he Union who are Senators or
'-r 1tlyes are IS and on the South
-'Ar ere are 81.
lence that the Southern peo-
lc honor to THEN fighting ele-
Nther parts of the country may
tr TACT that of all the Senators
entatives from that part of the
ay two who We're old enough to
un were not in the war on one
other, and these two were at
FROM the Northern States there
-.l now in Congress who were old
'r' Who were not in the fight
OF course, predominant in
ses of Congress. In the Senat :
'r3l lawyers. The other occupa-
de much diversified Editors,
''ATS farmers, manufacturers these
lie the bulk of the remaining. 1t
H. much the same in the House. In
,9uy here are pa lawyers, % farm
EDITORS, Is merchants, Y bankers,
%1 1Jacturers and 10 who seem by their
&gH7pared biographies to have done
h wy all their lives except hold Office.
H. "ael former occupations of House
s, 'S are preaching, teaching, con-
llg and specializing.
taS,. member describes himself as a
b4 eE He is Mr.. Handy of Delaware.
~ member, William H. Fleming
Ea ''igla, credits himself in his bio
ss%, With having received a loan Of
'slil, from Alexander H. Stephens.
was afterward repaid with inter-
d. b. Odell of New York remarks
ka mas been in the ice business and
lo5s mays been active in politics.
p Mcdonald, a Maryland new mem
a ,einS to have spent his life as sol
0D' politician, William ?. Shattuck
tells the world that he has ere
rom business. P. J. Otey of Vir-
Raw %lShes it understood through his
'P"y that he is "a thorough business