The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-17
CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.
SENATOR o,c;ou,lAN.

CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.
SENATOR o,GoRMAN.
thrashed out pretty thoroughly When
/ the presidential bee buzzed near the
{ bonnet of former Mayor Mcclellan, o.
New York. who too. was born Will,
ms parents were touring abroad.
Two Native Sons In House.
| No such doubt befocs the status. IN
TINS respect, of another Pennsylvania
congressman, Michael ponohoe. Nom.
I per OF the House from Philadelphia
! tlis birth in killesha ndra. Ireland was
by deep design OF his Irish parents
VINO would not have mad it otherwise
| W hen Il broth of a lad Michael attend
lea the national schools, aud then I'm
( lshfd his education AT a private elias.
steal school of his native village. which
! AT the age of twenty turned aim our
full-iledsed schoomaster q, the prln-
cipnl national school. hut after wield.
ing the birch there for n couple OF
years his heart longcG for our land
OF the free So, sendins in his resigna-
non 10 the school authorities. he
shipped for America and arrived one
autumn day in '66 at the wharf CT
Philadelphia, where lac built up q bus
mess in glassware. Despite his ma
i!onality he never held public or,cc
uhtil elected TO the present Congress
by the Democrats.
The other native son of Erin in the
House Of Reprcsantatives is George
Francis O'Shauncssy, Democrat -
Providence, II. I. His parents brough,
him from Galway, mis- birthplace. the
year after thc Civil War, and when ne
was at the mischicvous age OF ;,ur.
After he had finished in the Ca,ho,ic
pafochial school III New York. he wen,
through Columbia Law school After
becoming harrister. he served as
deputy attorney general OF tho En-
pre- state, ihen assistant corporation
counsel OF the metropolis
he did not adopt Little Rhodv as
] ms nome until 1907, and that he maze
| iFiehus IN Providence a; rapid rate
Is attested by the fact that his nov
neishbors sent him 10 the Legisia turt
couple of years later and TO Con
gross AFTER nc had lived among them
only three years
Lenders In senate and House.
IN both houses of Congress are
ooIohs VINO wear the shamrock by
virtue or Irish descent, il nor Ir;sh
nativity Notable among thes. =.
Senator James Aloysius OC;ormon nc
New YORK, tho successor of Chauncev
pePeW some time before thcr CIviI
! war there landed at Castle Garden a
7 nkely lad from Munster and as lilse,v
lass from Ulster. The two went be-
inFe the priest and from this union
| Oh the north and south of Erin snranu
the senator. Although his father
area when he was but q biz of n lad
| ms mother saw him through college
| INTO Inc presidency OF his law cIass
ana into barrister's cap and gown
.onl ia" clerk III became a hustline
s, then district judge. then
supreme court Justice of his State.
! 'hen United states Senator and in
accepting the last office, at $500 q
year he relinqulshed salary OF $40
ooV greater per Hnnum. He has been
inc father OF ten children, and is
Roman Catholic.
The Shrcwdes, parliamen+ar;a,
! among the Democrats of the House of
tepFesenta tives, John Joseph Fitz
seiaia, Oh brooklyn, chairman of the
is the son OF irish parents. patric,s an,
Cathcilne McMayon Fitzgerald. He is
member of numerous Catholic So
cietics.
Despite his very Teutonic surname
thut other leader of the House, Chair
man william Sulzcr, OF the Committee
on FoFeisn Affairs, is a wearer OF
INC shiiIrock. for his stanch Prussia n
dad, after aiding in the uttcmp, In
|
iathorihnd' escaped TO America and
married pretty Irish born lass, from
whom the Representative inherits his
celebrated Henry Clay cast Of features
as wen as his ready repartee
But when We get into this category
OF Legislators Of mere Irish descent
we find enough of them in the rank
ana ME to MI decent sized who's
VINO OF their own. And, sufficient he il
to say, that Congress now contains nj.
teen men preiixing to their names the
Celtic Me" besides three Burkes, a
Murray, Reilly and a score or more
OF others with Celtish names.
Oar irish Diplomats.
Promoting our friendship with for
eign powers are two American diplo-
mats hoasiins Of the green on near
limbs of their family trees. Our am
bhssador to Italy, Thomas James
oBrien is the son Of an freshman,
whose given name was Timothy. And
In Denmark We have as minister
Ma"ricc Francis Egan. former profes-
sor of English literature at the Cath
"iic University, Washington. AS a
! young man ne waa i subeditor Of tho