Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-21

4 bers of Congress-; business schools, 10
West Point. g.; Annapolis. 2; ten have
l studied in other military academies, and
three have been educated abroad.
| Aside from the large colleges, several
schools shine particularly in the analysis
| of congressional education. The Cincin-
yates in Congress. including Speaker
Clark, former Speaker Cannon, Senator
Pomerene of Ohio and Representatives
Longworth. Allen and Cooke of the same
state.
The Union College of Law in Chicago.
which graduated Republican Leader
James R. Mann of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. was the finishing school for
seven other lawyers now helping in the
work of molding federal statutes.
II
Colleges in the city of Washington. in
Guiding Georgetown University and the
several law schools. have educated ten
members Of the present Congress. Many
OF these men studied in Washington
while connected with Congress or the de-
partments as employees. returning to their
own districts to practice law and run for
Congress.
Four men now in Congress are wearers
Of the congressional medal of honor,
awarded for distinguished bravery dur
ing the civil war. They are Senators du
Pont of Delaware and Warren of Wyon-
ing. Representatives Bradley of New
York and Bingham of Pennsylvania.
Seven men have followed their fathers
into the halls of Congress. Morris Shep-
pard of Texas and c. Bascom Slemp of
Virginia succeeded to their fathers seats
Senator Bob" Taylor of Tennessee and
Senator Charles A. Culberson of Texas
are sons of former congressman, are
Representative Hubbard of Iowa, Thayer
of Massachusetts and Aiken of South
Carolina.
Representative William S. Green of
Massachusetts was an auctioneer before
he came to Congress; George II. Lindsay
Of Brooklyn was a hotelkeeper, George
KONG of Maryland was a ship calker and
afterward president of the Ship Calkers
Union; Frank buchanan of Chicago is a
structural iron worker, and was for four
years the international president of the
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Union.
James T. McDermott of Chicago and
William ]. Cary of Milwaukee are teleg-
raphers who graduated from the mes
senger service. Carl C. Anderson of
Ohio was newsboy and bootblack. David
j. Lewis of Maryland and William B.
Wilson of Pennsylvania began as coal
miners at nine years of age. The first
acquired legal education by night work;
the second rose high in the councils of
union labor, and has been for eight
years. up to 1908, the international sec
retary-treasurer of the United Mine
w orkerS of America.
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1t is striking fact that there are more
Confederate veterans in Congress today
than there are survivors of the northern
armies. The wearers of the gray number
six In the Senate and eight in the House:
while the Union veterans number five in
each house. The Spanish war has con-
tributed nineteen veterans to the present
Congress.
An unusual history attaches to two of
these Spanish war veterans. Representa-
tives Butler Ames of Massachusetts and
Benjamin G.. Humphreys of Mississippi.
Ames is grandson Of Ben Butler, and
the son of Maj. Gen. Adeibert Ames, a
leading figure in the Union army at the
end of the civil war.
| Humphreys is the son Of Brig. Gen.
+. Benjamin G. Humphreys, one of the
leading soldiers of the Confederacy. At
| the close of the war Gen. Humphreys was
made Governor of Mississippi. moving into
| the executive mansion in 1865, the year
young Humphreys was born Three years
later Gen. Ames appeared on the scene,
commissioned to become the military
governor of Mississippi and with orders
to evfct Humphreys. The latter refused
Ito leave his place, sand was finally forcibly
evicted from the executive mansion by
| the northern officer.
| There are five commercial "drummers'
| in Congress-: Representative William d.
Stephens of California. Humphreys of