The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-11-25
YOUNG MEN T0fORE
Average Age of Senators
is SO Years.
WAS SIXTY THIRTEEN YEARS AGO
Fourteen Men in Senate Less Than
50 Years of Age-Young States
Have Young Senators.
WAS SIXTY THIRTEEN YEARS AGO

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 25-In
spite of all reports to the contrary, the
United States senate seems to be
growing more youthful. Thirteen
years ago a careful computation was
made from which it appeared that the
average age of it's members was SO
years There were then but eight who
were less than 80 years old, and one
who was less than As. Today, the av-
erage age is SO years and 4 months,
and in a slightly larger senate there
are Il men, instead of eight, who are
less than SO, and of these eight are
less than 49, This difference is doubt
less due to the new states which have
come into the Union since that time,
whose political leaders were natural
ly younger men. The Delaware over
turn has also given the senate two
youthful members. 1t is almost a rule
that the young states have young
senators.
Only One Senator More Than Eighty
But one senator is more than So
Mr.. Pettus, the junior senator from
Alabama, who was born in 1921. Four
teen are between 20 and so, 80 are be
tween 90 and 20. and 80 are between
so and 90. The - who have crossed
the three-s score and ten line include
both senators from Alabama and Con-
necticut, besides Messrs. Teller, Ali
son, Frye. HOar, Gibson. Stewart
Plat, of New York, Quay, Bate Proc
tor and CuIlom. The constitution of
the United States specifies 80 as the
age. RECRUITMENT for the senate but
by 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. Burton of Kansas.
and for the purposes of this computa-
ton he has been rated at so
A curious case of disguised age an
pears among the house members in
the biographical sketch of Mr. Lover
ing, author of the rebate bill. The di-
rectory which has just come out an
nounCed that he was born about so
years ago in Rhode Island" His BIZ
Ographical sketch has said the same
thing ever since he has been in con-
gress, and he was elected for the first
time in 1895. and came here in the
spring of 1897.
Young Men In the House.
The new house contains not only
large representation of new men, but
among them many young men who are
apparently beginning a political career
of considerable promise. This gener-
al youthfulness is shown by the num-
Der of western states which are in con-
siderable part represented by native
sons. Mr. Francis NJ. Eddy, mem
Der of the last congress was the first
man Minnesota had ever sent to con-
greSS who was born within the limits
Of that state. This time another of
the nine representatives, is a native
Minnesotan having been born there
III 1860 OF the other representatives
Two were born in Pennsylvania, one
each in Ontario, Illinois. Massachu-
sets, Sweden, Ohio and Wisconsin.
one of the senators was born in Indi-
ana 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.
on fros Wisconsin, two from New
YORK, ana fourth from Scotland.
senator Perkins was born in Maine
and Senator Bard in PENNSYLVANIA. OF
the two senators and three represent
tatlVes from Colorado, which has been
state since 1875, none was born there
The three Idaho statesmen" were
born IN Illinois, PENNSYLVANIA and In
diana, respectively.
NO Favor to Native Sons.
II Is a singular thing that in so old
a community as Iowa, of the II ranra-
sentauVes and two senators. but three
We're born in that state. and one of
them, Mr.. Hedge. of Burlington. ra-
lates that he was born in the tarri+or,,
OF Iowa, June "a, 1874 Allison c,me
from Ohio and Dolliver from West
Virginia. Hull and Hepburn were al
so ohloanS. The four representatives
and two senator's of Maine We're all
porn IN that state. In fact. in most
or the old states, native sons Seem to
be preferred. Both Massachusetts
senators and ten of the II represan-
tatives were born in Massachusetts
But one representative of Nehra sl< q
was born in that state Mr.. Hitcbcoot
OF Omaha, and he is but "A years old
The Nevadans all migrated there, and
according to the census returns tbav
are among the very few who remain
Both North Dakota senators were born
IN Illinois, and of the South Dakota
senators one came from New York
the other from New Hampshire. Tex
as exhibits among the southern states