The daily Republican., 1902-11-18

BAL us Il elerallst IN tne FIItn, S1Stn
and Seventh Congresses. lie was
sent, with Clay, John Quincy
Adams, Gallatin and Russell to
negotiate the treaty of Ghent,
which closed the war of 1912, and
declined the Russian mission in
1915, returning home from abroad
in failing health. He died in Will
mington i'll August Of the same
year.
"Bayard's 3 console tious vote in the
House of Representatives made
Jefferson President over Burr. He
resigned from the Senate in 1873,
and The remainder OF his term, four
Years, was filed out by William
Hill Wells. In 1917 Nicholas Van
Dyk" was chosen as Wells success
Sor, and died in the midst Of second
term, in 1926. Van Dyke was also
Princeton mau, and representa-
tive in the Tenth and Eleventh Con.
crosses, HIS father signed the ar
tlcies of confederation and was
president Of Delaware in 1888. The
vacancy lett by Van Dykes death
was first filled by the gubern atorial
appointment of Daniel Rodney, who
had been Governor of the state--lSi4
-1SlI--anu had received Delawares 5
FederalIst vote for Vice. President
in 1871. He succeeded Caesar A.
Rodney in theSeyenteenthC Congress.
When the Legisl ature met in Janu-
ary, 1871, it elected lIeDry Moore
Ridgely, of Dover. Ridgely was a
noted lawyer and had strved two
terms in the House OF Representa-
tives. john Middleton Clayton, of
Dover was the next senator In class
;, and he served seven years, resign.
ing IN 1896, the year after being
chosen for a second term, to become
chief justice of his native state. He
was Yale graduate. and had
practiced law and held various state
Offices be fore goiug to tn. Senate.
NEGOTIATED TREATY.
'As secretary of state under Tay-
lOr, to accept which office he ter
minatedra second lS+5-lSf9) service
in the Senate, Clayton negotiated
the Clayton -Bulwer treaty, which
was lately abrogated. lie died in
1885, while senator, having served
three years of a third election to
that body. In 1855 he was succeed
ed by Thomas Clayton to whom, |
after ten years Of senatorial service,
succeeded Pressly' Spruance, of
Smyrna, whig and a merchant
Joseph p. Comagys, like most of the
Delaware senators, a lawyer of
high standing, served year by gu
bernatorial appointment after the
death of John NJ. Clayton, who had
been his legal preceptor, but the
Legislature of 1857, being democratic
i'll ajority, ignored the whig ap-
pointee and elected Martin w. Bates
one Of the few Delaware senators,not
to the manor born. Bates came to
the state early in life from Con-
nectcut and practiced medicine and
law at Dover
Senator Bates gained gre at favor
among the Delaware yeomanry, who
'0r years named their boys after
him. The initials IN. B." are pl en-
titul in family nomenclature in the
middle peninsula, and one bearer of
hem Is the present state sdperln-
tendent Of public educ alton in Mary
and. Bates served two years, and in
1859 gave wav TO the Saulsbur re-
!, lime. Willard Salisbury spen: two
.erms in the Sen ate. in which he be-
'ame a noted figure, and was fol-
owed Tor three terms by his elder
brother, lIIl. Cove, the Governor, a
bird brother, was q physician;
Willard, a lawyer and chancellor Of
Delaware, while Eli described him.
elf as farmer. The brothers were
,Orn and raised on farm in The
larshy Hope region Of Caroline
ountv, Nd, SO near the Delaware
inc that their birthplace is Claimed
" Delawareaus to have been in Kent,
n that state. For bout thirty-iye
ears the political coalition OF the
auIsburys and Bayards absolutely
ominatcd the three county common.
'ealth winch the abUrs of William
'enn lost to Maryland"