The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24

A a leader Nicholas resigned to become collector of customs at Norfolk. show
 ing the difference in private purses in
 those days of pristine honesty. The first Senators from Massachusetts re-
 signed, one George Cabot, "forbear'
 of Henry Cabot Lodge, who might un- tearfully hand in his resignation. He afterward became virtually the first Secretary of the Navy, and stiil later
 was President of the first session of | Congress. better known as the Hart l ford Convention. all of which his duti- ful relative, Senator Henry. has pre- 1 sented In his Life"
 John Quincy Adams resigned from the Senate in 1908, because he had be- come strong anti Federaifst, though his State was Federalist, and the next year President Madison made him Min ister to Russia Edward Everett re- signed because he did not reach the Senate until late in his great career and ill-health had overtaken him. Dan
 iel Webster left the Senate to become Secretary of State. But there are half dozen other resignations in the Sem
 atorial roster of the Old Bay State, though none since Everett's day.
 From Pennsylvania the resignations
 have been: John Peter c. Muhienberg.
 
 Leib, 1874; Isaac D. Barnard, 1881; Will liam Wilkins, 1884; James Buchanan, 1S45 Simon Cameron. In 1861, and again in 1877.
 Muhlenberg was the brother of Fred
 erick A.. Speaker of the first House ot Representatives and whose casting vote saved the Jay treaty. John Petcr Gabriel never served in the Senate, but declined on the first day in order to become Supervisor of Revenue in Penn sylvania, and in 1903 he received the
 berth of collector of the port of Phil- adelphia Buchanan resigned to be- come Folks Secretary of War, and
 Cameron the first time to accept the same portfolio in Lincoln's cabinet. The second time Cameron quit that his son, James Donald, might enter upon the hereditary senatorial estate. Sam uel Maclay, a brother of the more fa- nous William. who was the first Sena- tor, resigned on account of bad health
 William Wilkins. who everybody knows belonged to this community was a great resigner. He was ap- pointed President Judge of the Fifth District in 1920. and resigned in 1924 when he was appointed United States District Judge for Western Pennsyl- vania. In 1928 he was elected to Con- gress, but said his financial circum- stances would not permit him to leave the Federal bench. In 1881 he was elected to the Senate. and then did re- sign the tudgeship, but in 1884 re- signed from the Senate to become Min | ister to Russia. Michael Leib left the Senate to become postmaster of Phila- | delphia.
 It has already become visible that in | other days such offices as revenue col 1 1eator, postmaster, etc. were not per mitted to have their luster dimmed by so imposing position as United States Senator. Those were times that tried mems souls in an ordinary bread and butter way and corporations had no agents in that body.
 William Patterson, not the man who was mysteriously hit but Senator from New Jersey, resigned even 10 be- come Governor of that State. Think of a present-day New Jersey Senator making such a trade. Ohios first Sem ator was John Smith of Cincinnati, and he came within one vote of being ex- pelled on a charge of being implicated in the Burr conspiracy, whatever that was. He resigned seventeen days la ter and was afterward 'rehabtlitated" by his fellow citizens, who knew no more than people of the present day what Aaron Burr's celebrated conspir- acy was.
 Ohio has had varieties of senatorial experiences. Governors have resigned to enter the Senate and Senators have left that body to become Governors, diplomats and in MT. Garfield's case he resigned the Senatorship to which he had been elected, but never assumed to become President Tom Corwin re- signed to become Secretary of the Treasury, and Chase and Sherman did the very same things. The governor ship allured Worthington and Meigs. and the latter resigned his executive place to become Postmaster General
 New York has fair list of resigna- tions. The spectacular quitting os Conkling and Platt will always remain green Seward left to enter Lincoln's cabinet In the early days Rufus King was sent to Great Britain as Minister. Martin Van Buren felt promoted when he left to become Governor.
 Without pursuing the research M al tiresome length the conclusion will = admitted to be fair that Mir Cobuna's spurning of a seat in the Senate Is not unprecedented. but that his act Is who'll l ly commendable in that 1t tends to re- duce the pretensions of that assemb- lage. It is possible for the average American to serve well his fellow man without reaching the Senate and with out disappointed ambition making him like the celebrated invalid:
 Mrs. Grill Is very i'll.
 And nothing will improve her,
 TTnless she sees the Tuilleriee