Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-02-16
MANUEACTuRES.
SENATE FACTS.
compiled by Ex-senator PETER for the North
American Review.

Usually men beyond middle age are
selected for senators. In 1898 the aver
age age in the Senate was So years.
The Oldest member was SO, the young
est SO. The oldest member of the body
at any time Is now tMay, 1889 in Office
Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont. who
was born April IA. 1910, and is there
fore in his S9th year. He has been
longer in the Senate, too, than. any
other man, having entered on the
fourth day of March, 1867, and he has
been returned regularly ever since.
His present term expires March 4, 1902.
Henry Clay entered the Senate at an
earlier age than any other. He was
appointed November 10. 1906. to fill a
vacancy. Mr.. Clay was born April u,
HI.
Nine hundred and seven different
men have been members of the Senate
Among the curious facts connected
with the personal history of some of
them may be mentioned these: Cen
eral James Shields represented three
different states in the Senate. Illinois
from March 4. 1Si9, till March g. 1855; ;
Minnesota from May l., 1858, til
March 8, 1859; Missouri from January
"A, 1879. till March 3, 1879. Three men
of the same family-James A. Bayard,
his son of the same name and his
grandson. Thomas F. Bayar. repre-
sented Delaware-the first from Janu-
airy. 1903. till March, 1873; the second
from April. 1867. till March. 1869. and
the third from March, 1869. till March,
family name also represented Della
ware in the Senate-Joshua Clayton
from January 19, 1898. till his death
the following July; Thomas Clayton
from January S.1S24 till March 3.1S27 and
again from January 9. 1887, till March
3. 1S47; John NJ. Clayton from March 4,
1916, till February 30 1S49, and again from
March 4. 1858, till his death. November
8. 1856. Three men named Bell-tWo of
them brothers, the third a son of one
of them, represented New Hampshire
in the Senate-Samuel Bell from March
4, 1928, till March 4. 1885: his son, James
Bell, from July so, 1885, till May &C.
1859, and Charles Henry Bell, from
March Il, 1879. till June Il. 1879. Nine
teen of the senators names begin with
Me" II of them We're named Smith,
and Johnsons and Browns were repre-
sented by eight each. At one time
during the Cleveland administration
both of the senators from each of three
different states resided in the same
city. and three senators oc-
cupying adjoining seats and rep
resenting two states, We're born
in adjoining counties in one state. In
1892 two senators, representing one
state, had been private soldiers in one
and the same volunteer regiment of the
Union army.
OF the 907 senators. II afterward be-
came Presidents of the United States
Monroe. Adams (J. o.. Jackson. Van
Buren,, Harrison Wm. H., Tyler.
Pierce. Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield
and Harrison (Benjamin).
Two hundred and twenty-eight of
them resigned and 110 died while IN
office.
The first time any part of a deceased
senator's funeral expenses was paid out
of the death of John Gaillard of South
Carolina. who died February 26, 1896
Two other senators died that year
Nicholas Van Dyke of Delaware. May
10. and Joseph McIlvaine of New Jer-
sey, August 19. The average public
expense incurred on account of these
three deaths was $2924I. Within the
next 30 yearS-from 1926 to 1S47, in
elusive, q senators died, and the re-
mains of IL of them We're inferred at
the government expense. The aver
age expenditure in those cases was
$61SS0. From 1S4S to 1867, inclusive,
2S senators died, and Is of them were
buried by the Senate at an average
expenditure of $l365.13. The record
from 1869 to 1S94* shows 80 deaths IN
the Senate, and all but five of these
We're the occasion of more or less out
lay of public money, the aggregate
amounting to $6SS49.96. an average OF
$2754. In ALL up to 1894 there were "a
intermens from and by the Senate
and the last Is cost more. by $4 1882,
than all of the other Al. The total
amount of public moneys expended on
account of senatorial funerals, up 10
1894, is 500, 0,234 is. ranging from $3.50
in one case to $21.322.55 in another.
The average is $1,s56.51.
These funeral occasions are now ac-
companied by a great deal of cere-
monial display. The casket is placed
in the open space in front of the re-
porters' table, and the services are at
tended by the President and cabinet,
the House of Representatives the JUS
tees of the supreme court in their
black robes, and, in full court dress,
the resident ambassadors and minis
ters of foreign countries. Each of these
bodies, as they approach the outer door
of the chamber, is announced by the
doorkeeper. and the senators rise tc
receive them. When the services arc
concluded committee previously ap-
pointed, usually consisting of FIVE SEN
ators and an equal number OF mem
bers of the House, accompany the re-
mains OF the deceased to his home ano
witness the interment there.
At first it was only in cases Oh oeatn
at the Capitol during session OF Con
! gress that the Senate felt called upoi