Evening star., 1944-09-24
Capital Sidelights
By VIII p. Kennedy.

In the Thirty ninth Congress 1855
co. two subsequent owners Of The Star
represented other newspapers in the
press gallery-Croshy s. Noyes, the Phil
adelphia Telegraph, and George w.
Adams, the New York World, while
w. D. Wallace was listed for The Star
Schuyler Colfax Of Indiana was Speaker.
In the Forty-first Congress Mr.. Noyes
represented The Star. The Congressional
Directories then and for more than 80
years were compiled by the famous Ben
Perley Poore. In the Forty first Congress
the chairman Of the District Committee
was Burton c. Cook Of Illinois. who had
seconded Lincoln's nomination in 1860,
nominated him In 1864, and was MEM
Der Of the peace convention in Wash
ington In 1851 to devise means to pre-
vent the impending Civil War. ]. Proc
tor Knott Of Kentucky then on the
committee, later was one Of the House
managers to conduct the impeachment
proceedings against William w. Bel
KNAPP, ex-Secretary OF War and subse-
quently Governor of Kentucky. Also on
the committee was Frederick Stone Of
Maryland, who is years earlier had re-
vised the rules Of pleading and practice
In the State courts, and whose grand
father. Michael Jenifer Stone, had been
a member of the State convention that
ratified the Constitution and had served
in the First Congress.
ofs ~ Tot hal hat
own elected spokesman on the District
Committee, as Territorial Delegate In
the Forty-second and Forty-third Con-
crosses, from April n, 1871. until March
3, 1875, in the person Of Norton P. Chip
man. The territorial form Of government
was provided by act Of February II, 1871.
There were nine other territories: Ari-
zona, Colorado. Dakota. Idaho, Mon
tana, New Mexico, Utah, Washington
and Wyoming. Chapman was brevetted
brigadier general in 1855 "for meritori-
Gus services in the Bureau Of Military
Justice" Upon establishment Of the ter
ritorial government in the District he
was appointed secretary. He later was
elected q Republican delegate. The ter
ritorial government was abolished and
. commission government set up by act
of June 20, 1874. Gen. Chapman moved
to California where he was president Of
State Board of Trade Q895-1906) and
presiding justice Of the District Court
Of Appeals. In Washington he lived on
the southwest corner of First and B
streets Sc, the site of the present Old
House once Building.
Chairman of the District Committee
in the Forty-second Congress was Henry
H. Starkweather Of Connecticut. who
had been appointed. postmaster at Nor
wich by President Lincoln. In the Forty
third Congress Robert S. Hale Of New
York was chairman. He had been an
elector on the Lincoln -Hamlin ticket
and had been counsel for the United
States on several important commits
sions. That was the first Congress in
which appeared Uncle Joe" Cannon,
who served the House longer than any
other man in history. and Gen. Isaac r.
Sherwood who was still serving when he
was 80. Chairman of the Forty fourth
Congress was Aylett H. Buckner Of Mis-
souri,, who was born in Fredericksburg,
Va, and educated at Georgetown. A
member of the committee was Adlai E.
Stevenson, later Vice President. In the
Forty-fifth Congress the chairman was
Alpheus williams of Michigan, who had
served In both the War with Mexico
and the Civil War and been brevetted
major general for marked ability and
energy" J. Warren Keifer Of Ohio,
later Speaker, came into that Congress.