Evening star., 1921-03-04

cupied by the democrats.
A word or two about the new sem
ators, from the personal side. Will
liam Brown Mckinley. the new sem
ator from Illinois. who takes the
place vacated by Senator Sherman. is
a newcomer to the Senate. but not to
Washington. He has served his leg
islative apprenticeship in the House.
matter of fourteen years. though
not consecutiyely-he missed out in
the sixty third Congress, due to the
democratic onrush in that year. AS
an orator. Mr.. Mckinley has not at
tempted to shine in Washington, but
as business man and a sound legis-
lator he has won high reputation
for himself.
Senator Mckinley halls from Cham
plain. ILL.,, and is about sixty-four
years old, a native of the state. He
! was educated in the common schools
and spent two years in Illinois Uni
versity. Then he went to work-and
SO well did he work that he amassed
millionaire class. He is a banker. a
farmer. and a traction magnate. His
friends call him a prince of good
fellows"
Two Former Governors.
There is a brace of former gov
ernors in the new republican outfit
Tasker l.. Oddie and Peter Norbeck.
The career of Tasker LoWndes Oddie
has been picturesque. He was born
in Brooklyn, n. Y. October "a, 1870.
He attended school in East Orange,
N j. He went to work in New York
in the real estate business. At night
he studied law. and after compl citing
a three-year course was admitted to
the bar.
Young Oddie attracted the notice OF
Anson Phelps Stokes, and in 1898 he
went to Nevada, where he was con-
nected with the management of rail-
road, mining and banking properties;
He studied mining in a practical and
scientific way. and began prospect
| ing on his own hook. He cut loose
from the Stokes interests. He was
hard up. He worked his own claims
with his own hands. Finally he be
came a partner of the famous Jim"
Butler in the discovery and develop
ment of the great Tonopah mines in
Nevada For five years he was man.
ager of these properties. Later he
{ became interested in Goldfield and
other mining camps.
Senator Oddie has taken an active
part in the development of Nevada, and
| has been interested in agriculture and
! stock raising as well as mining. He has
several times held public Office. In
| 190l-02 he was district attorney of Nye
| county. an area larger than that OF
! New Jersey. Connecticut, Delaware and
| Maryland combined. In l903-7 he was
i a state senator and from 1911 to 1915 he
was governor of the state.
Senator Oddie's parents were Henry
Meigs Oddie of New York and Ellen
Gibson Prout Oddie. a native of Wash
| ington, ID. c. He is through his mother
! direct descendant of the first Governor
of Maryland, Benjamin Stoddert. and
| also of Benjamin Stodtlert, first Secre-
tary of the Navy. He is cousin Of the
late Lloyd Lowndes. one time Governor
| Of Maryland.
| Two Former Governors.
| Senator Peter Norbeck comes to
Washington from the gubernatorial
chair almost direct. He is native OF
! South Dakota and is fifty years old
At one time he taught school. but later
! became interested in drilling artesian
I wells, and forming the firm of Norbeck
& Nicholson, said TO be the largest con-
Germ of it's kind in the country, made a
considerable success.
! Before he was elected Governor OF
| South Dakota, Senator Norbeck served
as state senator and lieutenant governor
Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge
who succeeds aenator Phelan Of Cali