The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-27
SENATE IS VENERABLE.

| It is q Body of Mature Men--Averagt Age of the Eighty-Six Members is About Fifty-six and a Half Years 1 Pettus, of Alabama, the Oldest--Con nectcuts Senators Among the Oldest The senate of the United States, that | will meet at the opening of the Fifty sixth congress, will be a body of ma ture men. The average age of its eigh' | ty-six members is fifty-six years and six months, or a little more. The aggregate years of these eighty-six men are 4,S64 | The oldest senator is Edmund Winston Pettus, of Alabama, who is seventy eight and the youngest is Marion But | Ter of North Carolina, who is thirty six.
 Alabama has two venerable senators. Senator Morgan, who is the senior sena- tor, is the junior of Senator Pettus by three years, being seventy-five. Con- nectcut comes next with Senator Haw- ley, aged seventy three, and o. H. Platt, whose age is seventy-two. Iowa keeps her two aged senators, both of whom maintain their efficiency with years,
 Senator Allison being seventy-four and
 Senator Gear seventy years of age. There are no other states represented by
 two senators having more than three
 score and ten years, but Vermont has Proctor at sixty-eight and Ross at sev- enty-three, Ross being about ten years younger than Senator Morrill,, whom he succeeded.
 Several states besides those men tioned have senators more than seventy years old. Cullom, of Illinois, is past seventy, Hoar of Massachusetts is past seventy-three Stewart of Nevada is sev- enty-two, and Bate of Tennessee is sev- enty-four as near as can be ascertained from the data accessible here, as he does not give his birth-year in the autobio- graphy he furnishes to the Congression- al Directory.
 In some of the states the senators have been matched very closely so far as ages are concerned. One of the sena- tors from Florida is fifty and the other is fifty-one. One senator from Louisia- ma is sixty-four and his colleague is six ty-two. In Michigan one senator is six ty-one and his associate is sixty-two. There is but two years difference in the ages of the New Hampshire senators, Chandler being sixty-four and Gallinger sixty-two. The New York senators are but one year apart, Depew being sixty five and Platt sixty-six. The West Vir- ginia senators, Elkins and Scott, are each fifty-eight years of age. Spooner, of Wisconsin, and his new colleague, Ouaries, are about the same age, and each touches the average age, being fif- ty-six.
 The "young men" of the senate, those below the average age of fifty-six years and six months are twenty-two in num- Der. As already mentioned, Butler, or North Carolina, is the "baby" of the senate, at thirty-six. The next oldest is Reyeridge, of Indiana, who is thrty-sev- en. Penrose, of Pennsylvania, and Me- Laurin, of South Carolina, have each just passed thirty nine. North Carolina has the youngest pair of senators in the body. the elder of the two Senator Pritchard, being only forty-two.
 The figures do not always fairly indi- cate the condition of physical and men, tai efficiency of the men In the senate. Some of the senators who have turned seventy are more vigorous than other senators who have five years yet to live to reach the patriarehal age. senator Platt, of Connecticut, who is seventy two, is to all appearance about the same man. in the senate and out of it, that he was fifteen years ago. Senator Frye, of Maine, who has passed sixty-e eight, ages but slowly, and his speech is as earnest and as vociferous when he is stirred as it ever was Senator Jones, of Nevada who is apparently much than his colleague, MT. Stewart, is really only three years younger, but Jones' sixty-nine years have not brought him such a venerable wealth of whiskers as is worn by Stewart, who is hardy and active for a man of seventy | two. The eighty-six senators may be classified by ages as follows:
 75 and 80 ..... 2I50 and 5 ..........18 70 and 75 .......... 9I45 and 50 ......... ..12 i5 and 70 .......... $40 and 45 .......,,. 5 | 30 and 65 .......17I3 35 and 40......... 4 5 and 60 .......11