Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-11

 five in the Senate and seventeen in the House. Here is the Senate roll: Senator Albert B. Fall of New Mexico. Senator William Hughes of New Jer-
 Senator James Hamilton Lewis of H. linois
 l Senator John w. Weeks of Massachu- setts.
 The seventeen representatives in Con- gress who served in the war of 1898 are as follows: Wyatt Aiken. third district of South Carolina.
 Sydney Anderson. first district of Minnesota. Samuel B. Avis, third district of West i Virginia. l.. C. Dyer, twelfth district of Missouri. Augustus P. Gardner, sixth district of Massachusetts. Frank L. Greene, first district of Yer mont.
 Richmond F. Hobson, sixth district of Alabama. William Schley Howard, fifth district of Georgia.
 Willis J. Rulings, twenty-eighth dis trict of Pennsylvania
 Cordell Hull, fourth district of Tennes- see
 Benjamin G. Humphreys, third district
 
 James c. Mclaughlin, ninth district of Michigan.
 William F. Murray, tenth district of Ma sSa chuSettS.
 WoodSOn R. OgleSby, tWenty-fourth dis trict of New Yo.k William A. Oldfeld, second district of Arkansas.
 Samuel R. Sells, first district of Ten nessee.
 Claudius U Stone, sixteenth district of Illinois.
 Twenty years ago the F'ifty-third Con- gress was in existence. Like the present, the Sixty-third Congress, it was predom- inantlE democratic. Compare the Con gressional Directory issued February 1, 1855, with the current Congressional Di- rectory. and you will note how signif1- cant is the change that has come to the personnel of House and Senate.
 Tn the 1895 directory, of the total Sen ate membership of eighty-eight, eighteen were veterans of the Union army and twenty-four veterans of the Confederate army To put 1t otherwise nearly AS pc pc cent of the Senate was made up of old soldiers. The southern delegations were predominantly old soldiers. Each of the two senators from Alabama, Arkan- sas. Florida, Georgia, skehtucky Louis lana. Mississippi, North Carolina, Ten nessee Texas and Virginia was man l who had served the lost cause with gal lantry and distinction. Most of these have passed away Two remain still in public life. Edward Doug 1 lass White, who was a senator from Louisiana, is now Chief Justice of the united States Supreme Court, and Jo- l seph C. <. Blackburn is a member of the Lincoln Memorial commission.
 * < Of a total membership of 325 in the House in 1893 sixty-three were men who had worn the blue and ffty-seven men Who had worn the gray. To put it in another form, nearly 20 per cent of the House was made up of Union veterans and nearly IS per cent of Confederate veterans. a total of about 37 per cent of old soldiers Today the combined old soldier membership of tJe House is only 31a per cent of the total membership. Of the civil war veterans serving in Congress in 1893 only three remain there. All were Confederates. John H. Bank head represented the sixth district of Alabama in the Fifty-third Congress; he Is now senator from his state. Rep resentative J. F. c. Talbott then as now represented the second district of Mary land in the House, and Representative William A. Jones then as now repre- sented the first district of Virginia | There are tales of high adventure and l glorious fighting written in the lives of | the nineteen men who make up the com bned Blue and Gray Old Guard now in Congress. They are stories of hot-blooded l youth, flaming enthusiasm for cause. courage and self-sacrifice. In the precise, fauftlessly attired, se- date and quiet-spoken Senator du Pont i of Delaware. it is difficult to imagine the | gallant young artilleryman of 61-65. Sen ator du Pont was graduated at the head