Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-11


 Tn no branch of the public service is this change so marked as in Con- gress. Only three Union veterans are now serving in the House of Represent atives which House contains a total membership of 435. And all these three are democrats. They are Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood of the ninth Ohio district, Sanford Kirkpatrick of the sixth Iowa district and Joseph A. GouIden of the twenty-third New York district
 Not an old Union soldier on the re- publican side of the House, It is a condition that has not existed before in half a century.
 Blk senators make up the Union old guard in the upper house of the nation al legislature, and two of them. Senator du Pont of Delaware and Senator War ren of Wyoming, wear the congressional medal of honor for galantry in action Nine men. out of a combined mem- bership of both houses of 531 then, are the sole survivors of the Union army who retain places in the country's law making body.
 Here is the roll of the Senate old guard that wore the blue:
 Senator ". O'C. Bradley of Kentucky. Senator H. A. du Pont of Delaware Senator Nathan Golf of West Virginia Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyom- ing.
 Senator John D. Works of California. Dwindling just as fast is the roll of men who wore the gray. Five of these sit in the Senate and five in the House Ten Confedates and nine Yankees in all Congress alone have that personal ex- perience that is necessary to deep and profound appreciation of the signif- canoe of Memorial day and it's observ- ance next Saturday.
 To balance, in part, the three Union soldiers who sit as democrats in the House, there Is one Confederate soldier Gif in he Sana tn tnoN II is Thomas Denton Catron of New Mexi- co. who went from the University of Missouri into the thick of the civil war. His fellow -Confederates in the Senate are as follows:
 Senator John H. Bankhead of Alaba ma. Senator Thomas B. Martin of Virginia. Senator J. R. Thornton of Louisiana. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina.
 It is true that Senator Tillman did not have much active service: neither did Senator Bradley, on the other side, for that matter but their intentions to serve were of the best. Senator Tillman, in his Congressional Directory biography. sets forth that he quit school in 1864, when he was a month short of seven teen, to join the Confederate army but no sooner had he joined than he was Str1cken Witn tne iiiness -"iiSn cduSeo him the loss of his left eye and kept him an invalid for two years.
 Senator Bradley, in 1881, when four teen years old. twice ran away to join the Union army, and each time he was followed and dragged home by his father. As Champ Clark says, it is "a dog fall" between Senators Bradley and Tiilman in the matter of war service.
 The five former Confederates in the House are: Albert Estopinal, first district of Virginia.
 William A. Jones, first district ot Louisiana.
 Charles M. Stedman, fifth district of North Carolina.
 Joshua F. c. Ta1bott, second district of Maryland.
 George W. Taylor. first district ot Alabama.
 But a new element of war veterans survivors of the reunited country's first war, the struggle with Spain of 1898. ir