The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-04
REP. SABBATH. 46 TO-DAY. ONE
 OF 22 FOREIGN-BORN SOLONS.
Adolph Joseph sabath, who reprt

Adolph Joseph Sabath, who repre- sents the Fifth Illinois district in the House of Representatives and who is today celebrating his forty-sixth birth day, i5 the only Bohemian in the Six ty-second Congress. There is only one other former subject of Franz Joseph in the House, Victor Berger, the Socialist member from Milwaukee, who is a native of Hungary. Alto gether there are twenty-two Solons of foreign birth enrolled among the law makers at Washington, fifteen of then, being in the House and seven in the Senate.
 s,h owing that Ireland supp 'ies Ameri- ca with something more than police men and-er-brilliant newspaper men. There are six sons of the ould sod in the House and one in the Sen ate. England has given the Unite1 States the raw material for three United States Senators-Lorimer of Illinois, Wetmore of Rhode Island. and Sutherland of Utah-but only one representative was born in John Bulls tight little island. Canada con- tributes two Senators and an equal number of members of the House. Two representative claim Kaiser Will helms empire as their fatherland. Sweden and Scotland have two sons in the House, and Senator Knute Nel- son of Minnesota is a Norwegian by birth.
 Representative Sahath was born in the little town of Babori, Bohemia, drous tales of great land of oppor- tunity beyond the seas. where money, if it did not grow on trees, was at least far more plentiful than in Bohe- mia. The Sabaths listened to these 7tories, with the result that when the ~ 7 found himself in Chicago. He was a youngster with ambition. and in very short time he had lo7t all the marks of a ''greenie." and was fuli- fledged and patriotic American, de- termined to make his mark and get in a business college, and earned enough money to attend Lake Forest University, where he graduated in 1891 with the degree of LL.B. He began the practice of law in that year, and in 1895 was appointed justice of the peace. As Democrat he be- came prominent in local politics. trate, and in 1904 he was given the nomination for Congre0s. He defeat ed his opponent A. M. Michalek. by a narrow margin. He served through the Sixtieth and Sixty-tirst Congresses and was reelected to the Siyty-sec ond getting 13.936 votes to 3.533 cas for his principal opponent. ThoE' figures attest the growing popularit' of Representative Sabath among Iii Chicago constituents
 Congrcsr man Sahath recently be came the grand-uncle of an infan who has what is probably uniq1 distinction. The youn"ster is EdwarC Sa hath, son of William Sabath, nephew of the law-maker, and hi claim to fame is in having four twin great grandm others. kch of whon has lived beyond the Sscriptural three score years and ten.
 Another Democratic Congressman of foreign hirth who has a hirthdaN today is William Fuehes. of the Sixth New Jersey di' trct. who is forty yeare old. The Jersey lawmal<er Is native of Ireland, and. although he now fol, lows the profession of law, Still re- tains his nembershin in the Textile Workers Union. Before he was ad- nitted to the bar and hung out his shinele in Paterson in 1900 he was employed in the I'atorson st'% r.' Like MT. Sabath, Congre 'sman Hughes is now serving his third term
 in the House.