Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-04
hOI MANY OLD SOLDIERS ARE
 CONCRESSMEN
Ranks of inc Fighters on Both Sides are Rapidly Grow
 ing Thin
ONLY g OUT OF 39t NOW
(By victo. Euiott)

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The com ing of the Sixty second congress practically marks the passing or the soldier statesman Ever since the close of the Civil War, nearly 50 years ago, the man behind the gun in that memorable conflict has eXer cised a potent influence upon the matters of legislation in both branch es of congress Scores of those who wore the blue and other scores or men wAo wore the grey have repre- sented their states in the senate and house The north has sent re publican veterans and democratic veterans of the Union army. With only an isolated exception here and there, the soldier statesman from the south has been affiliated with the democratic party 1he late Req resentative Slenip. of the ninth dis trist of Virginia. father of Represent ative C. Bascom Slemp. of the same district, was one Confederate who came to congress as a republican. There have been other instances oi the south sending Union soldiers to congress, but they have been former soldiers who settled in that section after the close of the struggle.
 Mere Corporal Guard.
 The rank of the veterans in con gress are now sadly depleted. Their numbers have dwindled to a mere corporals guard, where once they were not only strong numerically. but politically as we'll
 Out of 391 members Of the in coming house. there will be only nine who saw military service during the war between the states Many of the old warriors went out with the Sixty first congress. Of these nine seven are democrats, and two are republicans; six are from the south and three from the north; six served in the Confederate army, and three in the Union army. They are Representative Taylor and Richard son of Alabama. Estopinal of Louis jana, Talbot of Maryland, Gordon of Tennessee, and Lamb of Virginia, democrats who fought for the Con federacy, and General Isaac R. Sher wood, of Oh.a, a democrat who served in the Union army; Thistle wood of Illinois and Bingham of Pennsylvania, who are also veterans of the federal army
 There will be more veterans of our little tilt with the Dons thirteen years ago, in the incoming house, than there are soldier who fought the great battles of the sixties.
 General Sherwood Prominent.
 General Sherwood enjoys the dis tinction of being the only democrat in the new house who served in the union army during the civil war. and as stated he has only two com rades. both republicans He was for merly a republican, and as such was elected to the Forty third con gress, the one in which ex Speaker Cannon began his long service in the house. Then he dropped out of congressional life and did not return for thirty four years when he was re elected two years ago ana agaIn last faI,and has always been assid isus in his labor in behalf of the old veterans He is .he author of the dollar a day" pension plan. On the day following President Lincoln's call for volunteers in 1861 he enlisted in the Fourteenth Ohio volunteer infantry. and served in 'he carly arrangements at Philippi. Laure Mountain and Carricks Ford. H' was promoted until he reached tho rank of colonel and commanded hi regiment in all of the battles of th' tlanta campaign and at Franklin and Nashville He was brevetec brigadier general for conspicuow gallantry.
 Father Of the House.
 General Henry Harrison Bingham of Philadelphia. wno holds the tith Of Father of the House" by reasoi of the fact that he has the recor' for continuous service, entered tn union army as a lieutenant in tn 14eth Pennsylvania Volunteers an was wounded at Gettysburg. He va brevtted for conspicuous service a major, colonel and brigadier general
 Representative Napoleon Bonapart ThistlewoOd, of Cairo, Illinois e listed in 1862, and carried a muske for two years. He was then COT missioned as a captain and fought a Stone River, Tullamoma, Chiekama ga,. Pennington, Mission Ridge an in inc Atlanta campaign, and wa wounded in an engagemen. at Selm Ala.
 Represents the Confederacy.
 General George Washington Co don, of Memphis, Tenn, is one c the few remaining brigadier general