The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-23
WHAT MEMBERS SAY
ABOUT THEMSELVES
Official Directory OF Sixteenth,
Congress, Just Issued, Is an
Interesting Document.
SOME UNIQUE BIOGRAPHIES.

l "e StStNOG otOGI1HI III u y
senators and Representatives arc
sending out to their, constituents tho
orhcial directory OF tho first session
OF the SiSticti, Congress. which is lust
irom the printer and which Is full OF
interesting and valuable .nformation.
one striking feature readily recog-
ni5ed by those familiar with former
issues of the publication is the grow
ing tendency among members to re-
duce the length of their Biographies.
which are necessarily prepared by
| themselves. Time was when members.
ana especially new ones would con.
sumo as mucn as half a page in set
ting out the details of their past lives.
Now it has come about that the aver.
age biography is abo.t ten lines When
the Hon :Ariosto .ppling Wiley. OF the
S second alabama District, entered the
biographical sketch took up at .least
three-qnarters of a page. lie IS still!
| IN Congress. but he tells his story in
Twelve lines in the new directory. The
Hon. John Wesley Gaines. VINO repre-
sents the famous Hermitage District.
OF Tennessee. was likewise quite vo-
luminous at first. but twelve years OF
cohsressional life have led him to con-
cludc that forty-three words answer
as well as five hunured. The longest
biography in the neei book is that
or Senator Henry Algernon du Pont.
the millionaire powder king of Della
Hobt. Bruce Macon; of the First Ar
kansas District. The former contains
15o words and the latter 81.
), 5, Some n, Of the biographies are unique.
liant humorist and Democratic leader
who represents what is known rs the
Swamp Angel" District Of Missouri.
N-C nS, SI.y, 4
.."1s7a.A was president of Marshall Col
lege. W. Va, and for Twenty-Five years
held the record OF being the Youngest
college president In the United States:
a country store. edited a country news
paper and practiced law.
Are Like School Girls.
In going over the directory. one is
sional bachelors do not seem to regard
the date of their birth as material to
the issue. Anyhow, as n rule, they
do len. no, include this information. Two
found In the biographies OF Congress-
man Harry Delaware Flood, of vir-
GINA, and Hon. Harvey Helm. the new
District. The latter begins his story
this way: Harvey Helm. of Stanford.
was born at Danyle. Boyle county.
KY: never married" etc. etc.
Charles D. Carter Democrat. who |
represents the Fourth District OF the
new State of Oklahoma is the only man
OF mixed blood in either branch. He
writes himself down as "scven-six-
teenths Chickasaw and Cherokee In
dian and nfne-siXtenths Scotch Irish"
Representative Carter has a most |
interesting history. His father was |
BENJAMIN Wisnor Carter. captain in
the Confederate army, and his mother. |
serena j. Guy, ouarter-breed Choctaw
Guy, chief of the Choctaws. He was
born In 1859, and, according to the
sketch given by himself. began life !
lor nimseif as a cowpuncher and bron-
Diamond Ranch, where the beautiful
CITY lof Sulphur now stands" Since
then he has held a number of import
Chickasaw Nation.
AFTER the death. few months ago. OF
senator Edmund w. Pettus. Of Ala !
s hama. Senator VIM. Pnkney Whyte. of
Of either house. He was born in 1tu-
gust. 1924, and is. therefore. over eigh- |
ty-three years Of age Hon Nehemiah
=; ;S ,iet Of the ScGon': Connecticut
July. =. '''''
:, It Is coincidence that Maryland
v ofnlsaes both lhat the Oldest and the
gress. AS has been said, Senator I,
Whytc is the Oldest. and Represen uisti
iHat try B M9f Of the Third District
in June 1880. and is only twenty-se Ven
and half years old.
he and Senator Whyte are both Dem
9crats. and both reside in the city Of
times as old as his colleague at the
other end of the Capitol. and yet he |
is sun active both physically and
mentally He is the greatest criminal
lawyer Maryland ever had, and has
long been the popular idol of the Demo-
cratic masses Of the State.
From vlrsInin.
There, Is nothing peculiar about the
biographies Of the Virginia Represent
t they arn IN G9ng sresss unless It be that
space, as we'll as in what they say
concerning themselves. Here is the
biography of Hon. VIM. A. Jones. of the
ton
oc William u atkinson Jones, DEM
s MSarsaw, Va, March II. ls41: was
third Fifty fourth. Ffty.ffth,
Fifty-sxth seventh. l7iftv
eighth, Fiftv-nintr. and reelected
20 the siNtieth Congress, receiv-
ing 5,173 votes. to 1904 for r. s.
Bristow Republican,
That OF Congressman Maynard is
equally brief. The others take little
W more SPACE s In point Of service the
will stand as follows at the end Of
the present Congress: '"e' "
John ". Daniel, TWENTY-FIVE years: Il
", Nm fo 4, Jones . eighteen: Thos. S. Mar
Twelve Years each: H. L. Maynard and
II. p. Flood. eight years each: Car.
Ter Glass, seven; +. r. Lassiter. i've;
r. w. saunders, three: C. c. Carlin.