White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-11

MAY COME WEST
HENDERSON OF IOWA ONLY MAN
FROM WEST OF MISSISSIPPI To
PRESIDE OVER HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES,.

OF the next mousse ol SpitSehlatifto
he will be the t~hirty-fifth mar chosen
as the regular presiding officer OF the
lower banreh of congress and the
first ever selected from the state of
Missouri.
Representative Clark would also
be the second speaker to hail from
west of the Mississippi river. Iowa
has the distinction of being the only
state west of the Mississippi that has
been honored with the speakership
up to the present time. The late
David B. Henderson of Iowa served
as speaker of the Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh congresses.
Massachusetts, Virginia and Ken
lucky are the states which have been
most highly favored in regard to the
~speakership. Each has had four of
its representatives chosen to preside
over the house.
The four speakers from Masa.
chusetts were Theodore Sedgwick, of
the Sixth congress; Joseph b. Var
mum, of the Tenth and Eleventh con-
gresses; Robert c. Winthrop, of the
Thirtieth congress-, and Nathaniel p.
Banks, of the Thirty-fourth. When
Mr.. Winthrop was elected speaker of
the Thirtieth congress 1t was by a
majority of one vote, which is the
cloest contest known.
The Virginia speakers were Philip
Barbour, who presided over the Seven
teenth congress and afterwards ser
we'd in the senate; Andrew Steven
son, who served from 1927 to 1884;
IAha NJ nrA urha xFn me Enr of
the Thirty-eight congress and died
soon after completing his service, and
r. NJ. T. Hunter, who was speaker
of the Twenty-sixth congress and
afterward served as secretary of state
of the confederate government.
The four Kentucky speakers were
Henry Clay. who presided over five
of the early congresses; John White,
of the Twenty-seyenth congress-;
Linn Boyd, of the Thirty-second and
Thirty-third congresses, and the late
John G.. Carlisle, who occupied the
speakers chair in the or~ty-eighth,
Forty-ninth and Fifth sessions.
In Henry Clay the state of Ken
lucky holds the record for long SER
vice in the speakers chair. Mr.. Clay
served nine and a half years as
speaker, though his service was not
continuous. The next longest record
Is that of Mr.. Cannon, who will have
served eight years when he yields up
the gayel to his successor next March.
Pennsylvania and Indiana have
each had three speakers of the house.
Pennsylvania contributed the speak
er of the First congress-, Frederick A.
Muhlenburg, who was one of the
three brothers who immigrated from
Germany before the revolution and
all of whom rendered distinguished
services to the country of their adj
option. The other speakers from the
Keystone state were of later date
Galusha A. Grow. who occupied the
chair at the beginning of the civil
war, and Samuel J. Randall, who pre-
sided over the house from 1876 TO
1881.
John w. Davis, known as Honest
John" was the first speaker from
Indiana. lie presided over the
Twenty-ninth congress and was after
ward governor of Oregon territory.
Schuyler Colfax of indiana was
chosen speaker In 1865 and served
until 1869, when he became vice
president. The third Indina speaker
was Michael c. Kerr, who was elect
ed in 1875 and died early in the fol-
lowing year.
Maine, Georgia, New Jersey, South
Carolina and Tennessee have each
had two speakers. From Maine came
James G.. Blaine and the equally
famous Thomas b. Reed, from Geo
rgia Howell Cobb and Charles +.
Crisp, from South Carolina. Lang
don Cheves and James l.. Orr, and
from Tennessee John b. and James
X. Polk. The two speakers from
New Jersey were Jonathan Dayton,
of the Fourth and Fifth congresses,
and William Pennington, who presi-
ded over the Thirty-sixth congress.
The only speaker from Conneeti-
cut was Jonathan Trumbull, who
presided over the Second congress.
The only speaker from Ohio was Gen.
j. Warren Keifer, who presided dur
ing the Forty-seyenth congress and
who is a member of the present
house. From North Carolina came
Nathaniel Macon, who became speak
er In 1901. He served as a represen-
tatiye for nearly a quarter of a cen
fury and was known as the father of
the house.
John w. Taylor, who succeeded
Henry Clay in the Sixteenth con-
gress, was the only speaker from New
York. with the exception of Theodore
M. Pomeroy, who served as speaker
for n day at the beginning Of the
Forty-first congress, until Mr.. Blaine
who had been elected, could take his
seat.