The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-04
OLD TIME MEMBERS
OF LOWER HOUSE
Men Who Have Served in Many SEES
sions Of Congress.
THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Its Composition, Ratson d'Etrc. and
the Work II Has Donc-Many Wit
1,csscs Examined and nm In
1ercs,ins Report Made.

WASHINGTON. March s-Special.-
Colonel Pat Dyer, OF St. Louis. was a Wis
gtor at the Capitol the other day, looking
around N vain for q familiar face to
remind him of his two terms in the
: House of Representatives,. Colonel Dyer
was member Of the Forty-first and For
zion OF Senator Allison. he said. there is
not now member of Congress who serv-
ed in the House with him in the early
Seventies
Galusha Grow, CT Pennsylvania. who
was speaker during the war and who Is
now q member, was In retirement then.
Cannon, OF Illinois. first came TO Congress
IN the Th!rty-fourth. though Harmer, of
Pennsylvania, entered in the forty-sec-
6nd. and il is evident that Col. Dyer,s
memory is not absolutely reliable, for
ketcham, Of New York. was In Congress
from the 1'hir,y-ninth TO the forty-second
Inclusive. die was reelected TO the For
1y-tItth and has served ever since. With
these exceptions, however, Colonel Dyer
IS evidently correct.
Other oid-time members are bingham, OF
Pennsylvania, who was first elected to the
1Torty-siXth Congress: Boutelle, of Maine.
who came with the Forty-eighth; Catch
angs, of Mississippi, elected TO the Forty
ninth: Grosvenor, OF Ohio. to the For
iy-ninth; Glout, of Vermont. to the For
1y-sevcnth; Grow, of Pennsylvania, to
the Thirty-second. serving through the
Th:rty-serenth. continuously. and re-
entering the House in the Fifty-th!rd
Congress. Speaker Henderson first APP
peared in the Forty-eighth Congress. and
Hepburn. of Iowa, in the Forty-seventh.
serving three terms and returning In the
1rlfty-third. Hit, of Illinois. was first
elected TO the House in the Forty-seventh
Congress: Hopkins, or the same Stale, to
the Twcnty-ninth; Iauaam. of Texas, to
the Forty-eighth: McHae, Of Arkansas, to
the Forty-ninth; Marsh, of Illinois, to the
Forty-fifth serving three terms and being
reelected 70 the Fifty-third. Nicholas !
Muller. OF New York, came to Congress
in the Forty-ffth session, served IN the
ITorty-sixth, Forty-etghth and Forty-ninth
und was reelected to the present. Payne,
.of New York. entered the Forty-eighth
Congress- as also did Pierce, Of Tennes-
seee, who returned TO the E'ifty-first.
After one term was out during the Fiji
iy-third and F'ifty-fourth Congresses.
Ray, of New York, also served his first
term in the 1Torty-eighth, and was not
'returned TO the next three. but again
reelected to the FiftT-th!rd. Richardson.
tof Tennessee. the Democratic leader. has
served continuously since the Forty
ninth, and Steele, OF Indiana. served from
i1he Forty-seventh to the ITiftieth inc1u7
sive when he dropped out until reelected
TO the TTftyfourth. Wadsworth, OF New
York and General Wheeler. OF Alabama,
both were first. elected to the Forty
seventh Congress.
A SMALL DISTRICT.
CONGRESSMAN Thomas j. Bradley. who
represents the Ninth District Of New
York better known as the Bowery Dis
,rict. has the distinction of representing
the smallest district in area, at the
same time the largest in population. OF
any member of the House. His district
covers less than half a square mile and
tconrprises moro nationalities than any
other Congressional District in the United
States. Germans. Frenchmen. Russians,
lcaglsh, hebrews, Scandinavians, Poles,
Ewedes Irish. Italians, Spaniards ana
Chinese are all represented In his con-
stltuency. Having spent his entire lie
among these various natlonalitleS, MI
Bradley has acquired the fluent use OF
twelve languages, and says he can call
nearly every voter in his district by
name.
Representative Bradley says often dur
ing a campaign he addresses seven or
eight meetings in the course of one day,
and at each meeting speaks in a different
tongue
An interesting and Instructive report
has been submitted to Congress by VIII
liam E. Sackett. Secretary OF the United
States Industrial Commission, on the
work of the commission for the year
ending January J. 1900
The Industrial Commission was created
5,y an act Of Congress June Is, lsss' JUS
chief inspiration was the hope of finding
Fundamental economic grounds upon
which capital and labor can build to-
.sether, side by side, in more restful har-
Inony. 1t was principally for the purpose
of devising legislation, both national and
State, to bring capital land labor into
closer sympathy, that The Industrial
Commission was called into being.
Its creation is the first step ever taken
by the government TO make an inquiry
Of this scope and character for the guild
ance of Congress and the legislatures in
the enactment Of a constantly increasing
Body Of industrial laws.
IFS COMPOSITION.
The act of Congress creating The In
i,ustrial Commission directed that it
should be constituted of five members of
the Senate five members of the House,
and nine other persons. fairly represent
ing the different industries and employ
1nei1ts. to be appointed by the President.
TO serve on behalf of the Senate. Sena-
tors Kyle. OF South Dakota: Pcnrose. of
Pennsylvania: Mantle. of Montana: Nal
Tory. OF Florida. and Daniel OF Virginia.
On behalf of the House. Representatives
Gardner, OF New Jersey: IIorimer, Of
Illinois; Livingston, of Georgia; Bell, OF
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