The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-29

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WASHINGTON. Apr4l A.-Thcsnas -
r~~a has S,ou,raetea three terms as
srenker Of The hogsse ce representatives
He wns elected elser sharp ccnsess -
the ogeninx - H. Fksy-fxss conxrcss'
watch r.arkef the beginning q tho HArr1-
sun aininissrasion. AM aszin. aIsss ss =,
crinw ccnGTcsScs To the speAksfsnsp "a
the Fyfsy-fuursh. The last half % the
Cleveland Administrations NJ Reed mas
thu. h<en speaker under three prestdenss-
Harrtsou. Cleyeians ari Mckinley. he
dtd not IKE Harrisen. very well. and -
supposed to have >ointsd the term An Ee
cart fer him Mr.. Reed hsns less 20 ex-
psct from President Cleveland. ana Per
hxcs on that account liked him bestsf.
a. Al events. taesr relations became fafrsy
cordial, and Mr.. Cleveland. In an inter-
view some dime before the 81 Louis con-
v<nfton q 1855 said. In effect. that he dio
rof see Why the Republican party should
shfnk Of nominating anybody for the prssi-
dency except Mr.. Reed. who In has opin-
Ion. was BY far its greatest man
There have been thirsy-swo speakers o.
the naxiocal house of representatives.
Since the beginning Of the Lincoln admin
istrasion there have been nine--five Repuo-
leans AMI four Democrats Mr.. Grow.
who il now q member of the house. elected
from Pennsylvania ~ large was speaker
in the Tndrsy-eeventh congress. lS6i 70
1854 No speaker before this time Is still
living, and he Is rs years old. He was
followed by Schuyler C,oifax, OF Indiana.
who wa speaker for three congresses
che Tnfrty-eighsh. the Thirty-ninth anc
the Fortleth He was elected vice presi-
dent win Grant In 1858 and so Mr.. Blaine
vas chosen TO take hts place a. speaker
OF the house. This position Mr.. Blaine
held for three terms In succession, from
the opening Of the Grant administration
10 the loss of the house to the Democrats
In 1874 Mr. Kerr. OF Indiana then be-
came speaker. but did not live out nrst
term. samuel J. Randall. M Pennsyl-
vaniA was elected TO nh out the rest OF
ths term. and for the two succeeding con-
greascs These three Democratic con-
gresses covered the last two years Of the
Grant administration and al Of the Hayes
administration. A Republican house was
elected in 1SS0 with Garfield. and John
Warren Kedfer. Of Ohio. was made Its
speaker. The Republicans lost tho three
succeeding congresses. in the Arthur and
first Cleveland administrations. and FOR
these three 3erms John q. Carlisle was
speaker. With tho Incoming Harrison
administration Thomas Il. Reed was
made speaker.
Three terms seem to b q favorite
length OF service Counting fractions a.
full terms. the three term speakers have
been Reed, Carlisle, Randall, BiainA Col
fax. Stevenson ana Macon. Henry Clay
waa speaker during the whole az tho
Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Eigh-
teenth consresses. and In part OF the Tnir-
teenth and the Sixteenth. His record
will hs hard TO break.
The geogrAphical distribution OF the
speakership Is somewhat Significant But
fourteen states have thus been hcs1ored.
Kentucky. Virginia and Massachusetts
have each had four speakers. or twelve OF
the ,hirty-two. New York has had but
one. John w. Tayior. who served two
terms. the latter ending In ISL. vtrgtntA'
four speakers. Barbour, Stayenson. Hunter
and Jones, have been pretty generally
forgotten. while Kcntucky's four. Clay.
White. Boyd and Carlisle. have made a
lasting impression upon the great office.
varnum was the only Massachusetts,
speaker who served two terms. Eedgwick,
Winthrop and Banks were each Iii ofhco
only one term. New England has had.
besides these four, three other speakers.
Blaine and Reed OF Maine and Trunbuil
OF Connecticut. Pennsylvania has bad
three speakers. Muhienburg. Grow and
Randall. New Jersey has had Dayton
ard Pennington. OF the thiTty-two speak
ers, fifteen have come from states south Of
Mason and Dixon's lire. This Includes.
besides Kentucky and Virginia, two each
from Tennessee. South Carolina and
Georgia and one from North Carolina.
The West has had but four speakers, one
from Ohio. Keller. and three from lndi-
ana, Davis. coifax and Kerr. James X.
Polk In the only speaker u the house who
ever became president of the United
States.