The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-26

ma, who Was born in 1921. Fourteen
are between 20 and 50, twenty-nine art
between 60 and 20, and thirty-two be.
tween so and 80. The fifteen who have
crossed the threescore and ten line in
clude both Senators form Alabama and
Connecticut, besides Messrs, Teller
Allison. Frye, Hoar, Gibson, Stewart
Platt of New York, Quay, Bates
Proctor and CuIlorn.
The Constitution of the United States
specifies 30 as the age requirement fol
the Senate, but by a safe margin of ten
years all the states have made good
this condition. Only one man in the
Senate does not give his age. Mr.. Bur-
ton Of Kansas, and for the purposes OF
this computation he has been rated al
! so.
| The new House contains not only a
large representation Of new men, but
among them many young men who are
apparently beginning a political career
OF great promise. This general youth
fitness is shown by the number of
| western States which are in consider
able part represented by native sons.
Francis NJ. Eddy, member of the last
Congress. was the first man Minnesota
had ever sent to Congress who was
born within the limits of that State.
This time another of the nine represent
tatives is a native Minnesotan, having
been born there in 1860. Of the other
representatives two were born in
Pennsylvania, one each in Ontario,
Illinois, Massachusetts, Sweden, Ohio
H,s, nt.a 90 lA1 Er.-,r
was born in Indiana and the other in
Norway.
California for the first time has four
representatives born in that State, the
Oldest of whom is not yet A, while the
youngest is 81. All the older men of the
delegation came from the East, one
from Wisconsin. two from New York
and fourth from Scotland. Senator
Perkins was born in Maine, Senator
Bard in Pennsylvania. OF the two
Senators and three Representative
from Colorado, which has been a State
since 1876, none was born there. The
three Idaho Statesmen were born in
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana re-
spectively.
1t is a singular thing that, in so old a
community as Iowa. of the eleven Re-
personalities and two Senators but
three were born in that State, and one
of them, Mr.. Hedge of Burlington, re-
lates that he was born in the Territory
of Iowa, June "a, 1874. Allison came
from Ohio and DoIliver from West
Virginia, Hull and Hepburn were also
Ohioans. The four Representatives and
two Senators of Maine were all born in
that state. In fact, in most of the old
States, native sons seem to be preferred.
Both Massachusetts Senators and ten
of the fourteen Representative were
born in Massachusetts,.
But one Representative of Nebraska
was born in that State, Mr.. Hitchcock
of Omaha, and he is but A years old.
The Nevadans all migrated there, and,
according to the census returns, they
are among the very few who remain.
Both North Dakota Senators We're born
in Illinois. and os the South Dakota
Senators one came from New York and
the other from New Hampshire. Texas
exhibits among the Southern States the
greatest evidence of being new COM
munity. Neither of its Senators was
born in the. State, and but half If its
Representatives The young State Of
Utah has native son in the Senate
in the person off Reed Smoot. None Of
the Representatives or Senators of
Wyoming or Washington Was born in
the State he now represents. This
shows how much of the country is still
new.
The House Of Representatives which
has just assembled is the fifth in sue
cession that has been controlled by the
Republicans, a length of party mastery
that has not been equalled for more
than q quarter Of century. When the
Republicans went out Of power in the
House in 1875 they had been in control
for fourteen years. Since then no party
has had more than six years of power,
and the Republicans never more than
two years at time, until the present
period of preponderance. Mr.. Cannon's
twenty-eight years of Congressional
service have been equally divided be-
tween Republican and Democratic Con-
gresses.-Boston Transcript.