The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18
AVERAGE K
SENATL
In Fact the Upp.
Getting to BE I
Young Mems G
NEW STATES cAUs
They Generally Send Up YounsA
Represent Them-Facts Abo
the New House - Pettus
Only Senator Over 80.

Philadelphia Ledger: In spite Of ali Ell
forts to the contrary, the United States
senat seems to be growing more youth.
full, says the Boston Transcript. III
teen years ago a careful computation, WA
made. from which 1t appeared that thu
average age of its members was 60 years
There was then but eight who were lesi
than 90 year old and one who was lest
than As. Today the average age is 50 years
and 4 months, and in a slightly larger
senate there are fourteen men, instead OF .
eight, who are less than 5O,s and OF these
eight are less than IS. s
This condition is doubtless due to- tbs,
new states which have come into this
union since hat time, whose political
leaders were naturally younger men. The
Delaware o~verturn has also given the
senate two youthful members. 1t is al.
most a rule that the young states have
young senator's. .a
Only one senator is more than so, Mr..
Pettus, the junior senator from Alabama Y
| who was born in 1891. Fourteen are be-
tween 20 and so. twenty-nine are etwee
So and 70, and thirty-two betweent6o and
so. The fifteen who have crossed the
three score and. ten line include both Senss,..
htors from Alabama and Connecticut, be-,
Hides Messrs. Teller, Allison, Frye HoaE.
| Gibson, Stewart, Platt OF ,SRNew York;
Quay, Bate, Proctor and Cullom.
The constitution. Of the United State
specifics 30 asSthe age requirement. ,,ttpr the
senate, but bysa safe margin ofrtknlyeara
Fell the states have made ,gead this condi-t,
Estion. Only one man,ih the senate does not
give his age, MIR. Burton of kansas, and
for the purposes oftthisS computation he
has been rated at so. 81, ~ u.s..
The New House
The new house. contains nol only a,larg.
representative 3pf: new men, but among
them any young rnen,whoia are apparent
" beginning a political career OF great
promise. This general youthfulhes6 siSs,
shown by the number OF western staten
| which are Id considerable part.repreaeiitiSs
ed by native SONS. Franci NJ. Eddy, q
member of the last congress, was thu
FIRST man Minnesota had ever sen to
congress who was born within the limits
Of that state. This time another OF the
nine representatives Is q native Mime.
Hotan, having been born there In lS60. on
the other representatives two were born
In pennsylvania one each In Ontario, ILL.,
nots, Massachusetts, Sweden, OhiD and
Wisconsin. One of the Senators was born
In Indiana and the other In Norway.
California for the first time has. four
representatives born In that state. tho
Oldest OF whom is not A, while the young
est is 81. All the older men OF the deiega-
ton came from the east, one from Wis
consin, two from New York and
fourth from Scotland. Senator Perkins
was born in Maine M Senator Bard In
Pennsylvania. Or the two senators and
three representatives from Colorado.
which has been a. state since 1876. none
was born there. The three idaho s.atates-
men" were born in Illinois, P~ennsyiyanis
md Indiana, respectively.
i Iowa Senators.
1t is a singular thing that, In so old
communityas Iowa, OF the eleven repre-.
sentatives and two senators, but three
were born in that state, and One Of them
MIR. Hedge of Burlington relates that she
was born 10 the territory Of iowa, June
"a, 1874. Allison Came from Ohio ana poI-
liver from West Virginia. Hull and Hep
burn were also ohioans. TIe tour repre-
sentatives and two senator's OF Mafn6
were all born In that state. In fact. Vi
most of the old states, native sons seem
to be preferred. Both Massach1settSs SEN
,ators and ten Of the fourteen representa-
tives were born in Massachusetts.
But one representative of Nebraskn
was born In that state, Mr.. Hitchcock gSf
Omaha, and he is but 40 years old. lTha
NeVadans all migrated there, ana. accord.
ing TO the census returns,@theySar anlonR
the very few who remain. Boths NORTH
Dakota senators were born M Illinois,
NAN y 4s HS 6ElAEQIS ~ Chg
came from New York and the other non
New Hampshire. Texas exhibits among
the Southern states the greatest evidefcS
of being new community. Neither 81 ia
senators was born in the state, and iii
half Of Its representatives. The yoiirp
state of Utah has a native son III fhW
senate in the person OF Reed Srnoof. Note
of the representatives or senators 81
Wyoming or Washington was sbornsf iii fhee
state he now represents. This shows hov$
much Of the country is still new.
The house Of Representatives which haua
just is the fifth In successions
that has been controlled by thesrepubliE
cans, a length of party mastery that has
mot been equaled for more than asduarter
of a century. When the Republicans
went out Of power In the house III IS75
they had been in control for fourteen
years. Since then no party has had mora
than six years of power, and tie repubes
leans never more than two years alta.
time, until the present period OF prepoias
derance. Mr.. Cannon's twenty-eIght Year,
of congressional service have been ecuafs
ly divided between republican and demo.
cratic congresses.