The age-herald., 1900-06-10
LONG SERVICE OF SENATORS
Twenty-four With Records of Mor1
 Than Twenty Years Each

From the New York Sun.
 There are ninety United States senators, and of the present senate twenty-four members have served more than twnety years. The recent success of the democrat ic primaries in Alabama of John T. Nor gan insures him another term. He took his seat in the senate on March 5, 1877, and at the conclusion of his next term will have been thirty-two years consecutively in office as senator from Alabama.
 Senator Jones of Arkansas will have eighteen years in the senate to his credit on the completion of his term in 1893. Sen ator Teller first entered the upper house in 1876, and his present term does not expire until 1903; but he resigned In lSS2 to become secretary of the interior, an office which he held for three years, at the close of which he was returned to congress. MT. Platt of Connecticut has been more than tWenty-one years a senator his colleague, Senator Hawley, has been in the senate nineteen years; Senator Cullom, whose term expires in March next, and whose successor the next Illinois legislature Will choose, has had seventeen years of ser vice, while Senator Allison of Iowa became senator in 1873, and has been continuous ly in that office for twenty seven years, and his term has still three years to run.
 Senator Frye, of Maine, chosen nine teen years ago, and his colleague, Senator Hale, was chosen at the same time. Sena- tor Hoar, of Massachusetts, was elected in 1877, and has held his seat continuously since then. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, was elected in 1877. and the two Missouri senators, Cockrell and Vest, are both vet erans in service, acy project to displace e.>her with new man being regarded in Missouri as little short of revolutionary. MT. Cockrell, who succeeded Carl Scburz, las been a senator since 1875, and MT. Vest, who. succeeded General Shields, haa been a senator since 1879, twenty-five years and tWenty-one years, respectively. Senator Vests term has three years to run and Senator Cockrell five
 small state which has been very tena- cious in the support of its senatorial rep resentativeS is Nevada, Senator Jones hay ing been first elected in 1S73-about coinci- dent with "the crime of '73,' of which much has been heard in Nevada-and Sem ator Stewart having been first elected in 1884, thirty-six years ago. He was re-elect- ed in 1869, but retired after sixteen years of service to re-enter the senate in 1877, since which he has served consecutvely and has been reelected for another term, at the conclusion of which he will have had eighteen years of consecutive service and twenty-nine years of actual service with only one break. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire has been in office since 1887.
 Senator Sewell of NeSRzdyssey was first elected in 1881; but has not been consecu- lively in the senate. Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island has been senator since 1881. He succeeded General Burnside. Senator Bate of Tennessee was elected in 1887; Sem ator Daniel of Virginia in 1887, succeeding General Malone.
 It is usually to be observed that, with the conspicuous exception of Missouri it is the smaller states which adhere to the policy of successive reelection for their senators. It is found usually that sena- tor of long experience can be of more ser vice politically to his constituents than one who is less familiar with the conditions of Washington life, and in small states the importance of federal patronage is not to be underated.