The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-26

has been a man qualified in his own
right to a snug corner in the clubroom.
The men who in the beginning formed
the club saw the great advantage of
having member as presiding officer
in the farm where they expected to
grow their crops. And it so fell out
Now the man who tails the kite must
have the ''sinews Of war" wherewith
to boost" 1T, or he is of no value.
i Another feature of the senate is the
decreasing age of the members. Not
many years ago it was thought on all
sides that man under fifty years of
age was too young to take the toga,
even with a preliminary course of
training in the lower house. Now SEN
ators just beyond the statutory limit,
with no previous instruction in legis-
lative methods, dawn upon the start
led vision of the graybeards of the old
school Ninety men make up the total
when all the states are represented.
In the next congress only forty-one
Will be more than sixty years of age
or have reached that staid and settled
period in life. Eleven more than one
third only will be of the age which
twenty years ago was looked upon as
the minimum.
1t has been said, and righteously,
that New England and the extreme
south are least prone to depart from
lions have been invaded, and there is
no telling how soon it will be when
the sertuagenarian will drop away as
senator from either. Today neither
region has any monopoly on these aged
statesmen, yet both have men who are
not to exceed one-half the age of their
colleagues or predecessors. Lodge, of
Massachusetts,, and McLaurin, Of South
Carolina, are young men. Clay. of
Georgia, and Butler, Of North Caro-
lima, are also among the young men.
In all other respects a comfortable
age has come to the Southern delega-
ton.
Senator Pettus is the father Of the
senate in point of age. He Is seventy
eight years old. Morgan, seventy five;
Platt, of Connecticut, seventy two;
Hawley, seventythree; Shoup, seven
ty-three; Cullom, seventy; Allison,
seventy; Gear, seventy-four: Hoar,
seventy three, and Stewart, seventy
three, are in the same class. Teller
Frye, Vest, Jones, of Nevada. bunch
together at near seventy. Then comes
Jones. of Arkansas. sixty; Bacon, six
ty; Lindsay, siXty-four, Caffery, six
ty-four; McEnery, siXty-two; Hale
sixty-three; Mcmillan, sixty-one;
Burrows, sixty-two; Davis, sixty-one;
Cockrell. sixty-five; Clarke, sixty; Gal
linger, sixtytwo; Sewell, sixty -four;
IHOIudS fldCC, SlXly-SlX, DepeW, Sixty
two; Hanna, siXty-six; Proctor, sixty
| seven; Ross. sixty, and Foster, sixty.
Turpie. Bate, Pasco and Mallory, but
theS are shy and do not let the rude
public into their secrets.
Berry, Baker Wolcott, Harris, Nc
Comas, Nelson, Hansbrough, Thurs
ton Aldrich, Wetmore, Tillman, Petit
grew, Culberson. Daniel Martin, Scott,
Quarles. Spooner, Warren, C. D. Clark.
Money and Sullivan are between fifty
and sixty. The remainder of the SEN
ate-quite a respectable remainder
is the group Of youngsters who are
holders of togas. They run from but
a few years more than thirty to forty
| nine, the junior-senator from Illinois
being in the last group. Indiana. until
the close Of this session, has one old
| man in the senate.
Two years ago D. w. Voorhees,, well
in the seventies, lost his seat to c. w.
Fairbanks Voorhees, would never
| have used the seat if he had won, but
he was succeeded by man a trifle
over half as old. Turpie, we'll in the
| sixties, yields to A. J. Beveridge, whose
| course has not run over half his. The
Hoosier state will have two sena tors
whose combined ages will be but five
| years greater than that of Senator
Pettus, and but fourteen over that of
| Senator Cullom.
Senator Cullom is colleagued with a
| man twenty-one years his Junior, who
| is one Of the first to cut senatorial red