THE DAILY BEE-OMAHA , WEDNESDAY JANUARY , 2 , 1881.
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TUB now year came in like a lion , nnd
will probably go out like a lamb.
THF. Emmn Bond case has gouo to the
jury , and the country will fool nflonso of
relief.
IT is expected that the crank section
will bo fully represented nt the annual
board of trade mooting.
1 THOHK poetic contributions on "Tho
Old and the Now" ixro respectfully de
clined. The old is dead , and wo'll lot
the dead rest.
IT seems that the Omaha bolt liners
have boon transferred to Grand Island ,
whore they nro indulging in their usual
pastime of Sunday track-laying.
the history of Ohio has a U.
S , Senator boon elected by money. But
there are democrats who propose to in
augurate a now era. [ Cincinnati Com-
incroial-Q asdic.
What , never ? Well , hardly over.
ST. Loois la a holiday city. The an
nouncements of Now Year's receptions
filled from two to tliroo pagoa of the
Sunday blanket shoots. In Chicago they
have no time to mnko calls , unless it is
at the call-board.
His accidoncy , the late acting-governor
Nebraska , is disgruntled because Tin
BKK has made disrespectful reference to
him. IIow could THK BKB make respect
ful reference to an individual whom no
body respects ?
PADDY RYAN nays that ho proposes to
whip Sullivan the next time ho moots
him in a saloon. If ho moots him in the
street ho will probably lot him severely
alono. Poddy reminds one of a cyclono.
He's a blow-hard.
Tan only place where the signal ser
vice is a success is in Omaha. The sig
nal officer keeps his wothor-oyo on the
main chance and his prognostications are
regulated by the political barometer ,
which hangs in the editorial sanctum of
The Omaha Herald ,
NOTWITIIBTANUINO the hsavy draft
which will bo raado during the presi
dential campaign upon the nail industry
to nail campaign lies , the nail factories
are to bo closed for six months. The
overproduction of nails must bo some
thing enormous.
boon taken sick and has
resigned the presidency of the Northern
Pacific. When the storm which has boon
ragina on Wall street blows over , Villard
trill probably bo on dock again.
"When the dovll vraa sick ,
The dovll o monk would bo ,
When the dovll got well ,
Dovll a monk WM ho. "
IT is said that it cost one Boston Al.
dorman $3,000 to secure a nomination
from the democrats , and that from $1,000
to $3,000 was ozpondod by other aldor-
tnou to secure an election. < In Omaha
nozt spring it may cost BOUIO councilman
loss than $300. TJiuy may bo able to secure
cure a nomination , but they will not got
within forty miles of an election.
CONOIIKHSMAN L.uuu was a soldier in
Fitz- John Porter's corps at the second
buttle of Bull Hun. From a personal
knowledge of the ovonta that transpired
in that memorable campaign Mr. Laird
has ftlwaya boon of the opinion that Fitz-
John Porter was wrongfully dismissed
from the army. This was the opinion of
nearly the rank and file of the corps led
by Fitz-John Porter , nnd it is the opin
ion of the editor of THK BKB who was
with Pope's staff from the Ilnpldan to
Bull Run. And now the Lincoln Journal
notifies Mr. Laird , who has expressed
himself in favor of doiug justice to Fitz-
John Porter , that it will not do , bopauso
thosoldior Bontimontin the second district
is against Porter. This is decidedly re-
roshing. Mr. Laird , from personal
knowledge , believes it to bo his duty as
congressman to right a wrong , but lie is
asked not to do no , because uomo of his
constituents , who know nothing about
the matter except from hearsay , have
boon prejudiced against Fitz-John
Portor. Thin is on a par with the high
moral standard which The Lincoln Jour-
mil usually maintains. Mr. Laird has hit
faults , and wo are not partial to him , but
wo do not belioyo Itiru capable of such
Hupromo selfishness. General Grant ,
whoso loyalty nobody will dare question ,
lias become convinced that Fitz John
Porter has Buffered great injustice Gen
eral Grant has had the manliness to make
amends for his ovrn short-coming in re.
fusing to grant Fitz John Porter n re-
fawrjng , by asking the American people
to do him juetico even at this late day.
Mr. Laird will have an lllustriousexnmplo
in acting upon his own couvJctioifs of JUR-
tico and right in the promisor ? whether
the apjdlqra in hi0 district npprovo it or
not , v
CAVTWIIKG T1IR JUDICIARY ,
The resignation of Hon. George W.
McCrary , judge of the United Stales cirn'
cuit court , is an event which the people
of this section have great reason to doif
ploro. Judge McCrary is ono of the few
men in America who , through n long
career in public life , has preserved a
name unsullied by oven the tainted breath
of suspicion. In congress , in cabinet
councils , and on the bench , Judge Mc
Crary has always discharged the most re
sponsible of trusts with n rigid honesty
which disarms auanicion nnd inspires un
bounded confidence. In congress hi :
voice and vote wore always against ovorj
job and in favor of every measure that
was designed to further the public wel
fare. On various occasions , when bills
wore pending to restrict monopolies nnd
chock land-grabbing , Mr. McCrary was
nong their foremost champions nnd
upportors. On the bench .Judge Me-
rary has boon the bulwark of the poo-
ilo against corporate aggros-
on and greed. Ho was
judge who , in meting out
uatico , bowed to the line , and lot the
ships Jail where they might. With such
men on the bench there was at least ono
.ribunal to which the people might ap-
eal for justice and equity with con-
donee. And now Judge McCrnry gives
p his life position on the circuit bench
from which ho had every reason to bo-
iovo that ho would in duo tiino bo promoted
meted to the supreme court to become
, ho general attorney of the Atchison ,
Santa Fo & Tojioka Railroad company.
( Vhothor that company has engaged
udgo McCrary because of his high legal
abilities and experience , or whether its
design is to got a man off the bench
whoso decisions it could noit influence , is
problematic. Judge McCrary is no
doubt nnablo jurist , but there are just as
able jurists in the country ready to ontcr
, ho service of n great corporation. Why
.hen should the managers ) of the Atchi-
on , Topeka & Santa Fo take the judge
Tom the circuit in which the greater part
if their road is located , and who doubt-
ess had to pass upon pending litigation ,
involving millions , in which the road
was interested ? Is not the inference nat
ural that Judge McOrary has bean ten
dered a much higher salary than ho now
ocoivcs , n an inducement for him to va-
iato the bench , so that aomo pliant friend
if corporate monopolies may bo elevated
in his placol Judge McCrary is the sou
nd judge of this United States circuit
co.urt who has voluntarily given up n , lifo
position on the bench to become counsel
or of a great railroad corporation. Ilia
predecessor , Judge Dillon , it will bo remembered -
momborod , resigned to accept the posi
tion of chief consulting attorney of the
Union Pacific railroad. In his ca-o there
was no cause for lamenting among the
people.
But the fact that judicial officers in our
highest courts find it their advantage to
eave the bench to become corporation
attorneys is very suggestive. The people
of the United States must place their
judges above such temptation. In the
first place five thousand dollars a year ,
the pay of a circuit judge , islet
lot enough for a man of the highest
ogal ability and approved integrity. The
,
salaries of our judges should bo raised
to correspond with the income of the
most eminent members of the legal pro-
'ossion. In the next place congress
should limit the salary which any public
corporation shall pay to its officers. The
extravagant salaries which railroad cor
porations now pay are demoralizing
other branches of business as well as the
public service. The salary of a congress
man or United States senator is only
? 5,000 a year. The chief justice of the U.
S. supreme court gets onlyt$8,000 a year.
The governors of the states receive only
from $2,000 to $0,000 a year. But a
railroad pool commissioner is endowed
with a twbry of $15,000 , and some rail
way managers are paid as high ns $30-
.
000 A your. Now , it will bo claimed that
the railroad companies may do .
what they ploaio with their
own money. . Wo deny it. The money
which railroad companies pay to their
managers is wrung from the people by
arbitrary taxation in the shape of tolls.
The people have chartered these corpo
rations. The people maintain them , nnd
,
the people should have the right to limit
their expenditure , not only in the inter
est of stockholders , but of their patrons.
A few years ago $5,000 was regarded as
a high salary for any railroad officer.
Now , they range from $15,000 to $30-
000. No wonder , then , that judges -will
resign from the bench , and nonators do-
tort their cushioned scats , as Gordon of
Georgia did , to accept positions ns rail '
road attorneys And managers. If this '
system of hiring judges nnd senators
with the people's money is carried on
,
much longer by the railway barons , this
country will soon bo transformed into n
dominion of the railway kings with the
people as more vassals.
B.vuNint has at last mndu his will , but
in this as in all things , Barnum is bound
to have the greatest show ou earth.
The purchase of the white elephant from
the 15urmoao king is , after all , not to re
main the crowning glory of a well spent
life. Baruum's will is u great curiosity
within itself , It covers nioro than 700
pages of lo al cap cloaoly written , and
disposes of $10,000,000 in real and per
sonal property. His interest in the
show business i estimated nt $3,500,000.
Ouo of the provisions of his will is a deed
to the city of Bridgeport of the only
waterfront in that city not already Boizod
by private corporations. On this water ,
front there is a dock worth $30,000 ,
His executers are forbidden to lease the
wntorfront , hU object being , us the will
rociU'a. "to prevent a monopoly of the
freight and passenger tralllo by any ono
line of etoaiuora between Now York and
Bridgeport \ , and to preserve to Bridge
port nnd others the advantage of reason *
nblo ' rates for freight nnd passage between -
tweon said cities " The boss showman
if anti-monopolist to the last.
T1IK HUniJNOTOX.
The managers of the Chicago , Burling
ton & Quincy do not nppnar alarmed
over the grand combination that 1ms boon
made by the Union Pacific in conjunction
with the Iowa nnd Missouri roads. The
Burlington ayatoin ia n grand combina
tion within itself. It is not in the con
dition in which the Union Pacific finds
iUolf since it has boon cut off from a great
part of the through traffic by the comple
tion of other Pacific railroad * . The
owners of the Burlington system have
not been more Wall street Bpoculators ,
intent only upon immediate gain and in
different to the futuro. They built a
solid foundation for their oyntoin by
adopting a policy that insured for their
road n profitable traffic. Their immense
land grant in Iowa nnd Nebraska has
been disposed of mainly to actual settlers
tlors upon very favorable terms * As n
consequence the whole region which
their lines traverse is dotted with prosperous -
porous towns and cities. The local
traffic built up by this far-sighted policy
is now the back-bone of the Burlington
system , and with that immense traffic
they can defy nil opposition. The rev
enue which , would bo allotted to it by the
Union Pacific poolas its proportion of the
through business would bo a moro baga
telle to the Burlington. It can exist
comfortably without it , and take its
chances of getting whatever traffic
would bo consigned , to it by through
shippers in the east and west. It cer
tainly could not afford to exchange seven-
eighths of its local Nebraska business
for one-eighth of the through Union
Pacific business.
There is another view to take of this
pool problem , which may influence the
managers of the Burlington road. By keep
ing out of the pool , they nro certain of
the lion's share of the business nt com
peting points , because the shippers would
naturally bo in sympathy with the road
that fights its own way. By extending
their system through the northern half
of the state , which covers the greater
area than the section south of the Platt
and is bound to bo moro populous ,
the Burlington will have additional feed
ers from which its main line will secure
n immense traffic at much better rates
than they can got when handling
through freights. They will tap not
only n prolific agricultural region north
of the Platte , but a section that
will graze vast herds of "cattle and sheep.
If they got the haul of one-fourth of the
live stock and grain north of the Platte
they will earn moro than by carrying one-
eighth of the whole Union Pacific busi
ness. It is evident that the Burlington
managers are determined to extend their
system into the North Platte country ,
They have already begun work by locat
ing the extension of their system to
.
Grand Island , and are securing the right
of way through Grand Island itsolf.
From that point they will doubtless extend -
tend into the valley nf the Loup , and
finally into the Niobrara cattle region
with a probable extension through the
Black * Hills into the Laramie valley.
This is only the natural result of the ng-
grossivo policy of the Boston capitalists
who have built the Burlington system ,
slowly but with a solid backing of Iscal
development.
It is also almost a foregone conclusion
that the Burlington system will hnvo its
own outlet to the Pacific coast , whether
it builds an independent trunk line , or
goes into n close combination with the
Central Pacific.
While wo hnvo no moans of knowing
what policy the Burlington will pursue
with regard to Omalm , wo would not bo
surprised if it should bring its eastern
trains directly into this city by way of
Piattsmouth. Such n move would bo a
master stroke iu case it decides to main
tain its independence. While the other
roads would bo compelled to follow -
low , the greater part of the
local business of Omaha would
bo given to the Burlington iu preference
to the pool linos. The good will of Omaha -
ha is worth a great deal to nny railroad ,
and the Burlington never had a bettor
opportunity to secure it.
"J ! CHANGED.
There was a tituo when a high protec
tive tariff was a good thing , It aided
materially in developing and building up
American industries , nnd iu producing n
much needed rovonnu. This was during
the war , nnd the inflation period just fol-
lowing. Times have long since changed.
Our infant industries have become full
grown ; and n high protective tariff only
stimulates over production nnd monop-
oly. As n source of revenue it has become
como unnecessary , und its continuance
would bo a robbery of tha many for the
benefit of the very few. High tariff will
no longer keep the wheels of industry iu
motion , because the stoppagn of our
great factories is duo mainly to over
production. There is a surplus of
$80,000,000 iu the treasury , and it would
not do to abolish the whisky and tobacco
tax , and keep up the high tariff on sugar ,
lumber , and other articles that the
farmer and laborer uro compelled to use.
No sensible man advocates free irndo
Wo want to maintain the tnrifT on lux
uries like diamonds , silks , velvets , jovr-
olry , and articles that are used mainly by
the wealthy. Wo should maintain u
reasonable twill'on orory commodity
vrhoao manufacture ia yet unde
veloped and requires n stimulus.
The general Boutimout throughout the
country is in favor of n modified tariff ,
and thuro is no doubt tint congress will
devote much of its tlmo iu revising the
tariff in compliance with the demand of
the people.
The Dos Moines Jlcgislcr is taking the
Chicago Tribune to task for its ndvocacy
of : n modified tariff. The Jtcyifitt.r , in
order to show the inconsistency of the
Tribune , quotes from nn editorial of that
paper eighteen years old , which said
"every limo the country has tried pro
tection it has enjoyed commercial prosperity
tiP
perity and rapid growth in national
wealth. " In reply the Tribune saya :
"Tho subsequent experience of eigh
teen yean of high protection has forced
the editor of the Tribune to revise that
opinion. When the remarks wcro made
the high protection system was in ita
early youth ; it was then barely begun ,
nnd the country wns feeling n stimulatim
akin to that of n man with n big dram of
whisky in him , the effect of which was
mistaken for strength nnd prosperity.
Wo have learned something fromthosub-
scquent effect of eighteen years of high
protection , If the Jlcrjistcr has not. Wo
have scon the country swept during thcso
years of ultra protection by the
worst panic that has over dcso-
Intod our industries. Wo saw it recover
after six years of prostration , not by pro
tection , but by gond erops hero nnd n
high market abroad for the immense sur
plus which the much-boasted "homo
market" of the protectionists could not
absorb. Wo have soon the recovery of n
few years ngo brought nbout by the
farmers , followed by the relapse in
which our over-stimulated industries are
now trembling , nnd which mny go no
onu can toll how far. The most striking
feature of the present depression is the
stoppage of production and the cutting
down of wa en nnd the discharge of
workingmpn by tens of thousands in in
terests which twenty-two years of high
protection , if it could do anythingshould
hTtvo sot on n basis of enduring prosper
ity. In view of the experience of the
last eighteen years n man s tariff opinion
of 1805 is out of date. "
A LKTTKH from the register and receiv
er of the Beatrice land office which wo
print in another column oxplodcs the nl
legation made in certain quarters that the
Otoo reservation lands wore fraudulently
disposed of through collusion by the laud
office , with an organized ring of land
sharks.
IP Farnam street is. over to become a
grand thoroughfare now ia the time to
fix the permanent grado. If the pro
posed grade is made , it is safe to say that
moro than $1,000,000 will bo spent for
fine business buildings nnd residences 01 :
upper Farnam street within five yoara.
WITH the thermometer below zero the
ice crop is ripening.
SXAl'K JOX'JL'INGS ,
rLATTSMOUTH.
The city schools reopen to-day.
The newly oluctod county officers will
sworn ia to-morrow.
Deacon Buslmoll is now "dishing up" local
history for The llorald.
] legist ration for the county neat election
has commenced. The election takua pl
uoxt Tuesday.
The sovon-yoar-old child of Hon. D. S.
Draper la down with scarlet fever and ia not
expected to live ,
ThoTwico-n-Month Social club gave their
Srst New Year ball lost evening. It wan
largely attended and proved n most enjoyable
affair. There was a larco representation from
Omaha and Glonwood.
The llorald ia billiona. Every time TIIR
Bun mentions the " "
"country press , whether
In compliment or fun , it pjoen off into a state
of mortal ocony only few degree * removed
from the "jira jams. "
Plnttsmouth haa nn institution called the
"Illustrious 1'lvo. " composed of Mtssrs. J. 11.
Strode , Geo. S. Smith , P. K. White. A. W.
MoLauglilin and Dr. Livingston. The object
of the society aa far as known ia to celebrate
the anniversary of the birth of each member.
The .lourmil BUVH the latest celebration was at
the residence of Mr. A. McLaughlin. That
gentleman's anniversary wn ? the 18th of Sep
tember , but having a now house in process of
construction the event was put ou * until last
Friday , when the illustrious live and their re
tainers moved In a body on his now home.
The evening was most joyously upent , and an
elegant cilver punch bowl WAN presented Mr.
Mchaughliu as a souvenir of the otont.
Speaking of the growth of 1'lattamouth the
mat year , The Horiild nays : "Whilo the city
has made little dlnplay in growth and appear-
unco it haa nevertheless made many steps in
advance , nnd all In all the year 1883 has neon
ono of prosperity and growth in solid , sub
stantial improvement. The last nix months
of the year have neon a rigid economy prac
ticed in tlio way of expenditures in improve
ments , which , considering the losit the city
sustained by having the entire country trade
west of ns swept away , as it were , wna both
right and legitimate. Jiuonomy this year
incauH good timou the next , and the city closes
the year , or perhaps rnthor , the IJUHUIOSH men
of the city clivo the year with HHH | furled and
everything eafoaud Bocuro. There has not
been an houont fulluro iu the city during the
paat year.
FREMONT.
The now paaaongor depot i nearly com
pleted.
The Dramntlo association nro studying their
"little piece" to epenk again before the foot-
Tha removal of the Northwestern shops nt
Mlsmiuri Vnlloy to Fremont ia 1,110 of the
iiodrtllillities. They are wortli & ! 5,000 n month
iu cold cash.
Tha latest railway gnulp is thitt the Mle.
aourl 1'aclfio will build to Fi-oniont fromTor-
wt City. With tlia Chicago & Northwestern
the 1) ) . iV M. nnd tlio Docntur road nnxlously
locked for , Froinont Is not only "tho pretti
est , " but n town of great expectations
LINCOLN.
The ice on Salt Crook ii ulna inches thick.
The O. A. U. posts , nro nutating n sol
diers' monument to bo oroctoil In Wyuka
ocinotery.
A. T. Fair hm been appointed nmnufer ol
tko telephone oxohamre. Mr. Smith , the retlr-
I UK nianngor , Imi bean transform ! to Umnha.
The social event uf the your to colored so
ciety waa tlio ball given in thu Acmlemy 90of
miiblo last ovonlnif. About 'JiiO Invitations
were issued aud n lifoh ol J hooilo\vu was the
reoult.
AbhuleryBlrllnTho Journal offlco works
her mauIciM In the moat faacluatinif btylo of
the manly urb It Is said she mojipml the
lloorof tlie establishment , thoothcr Uay\ thin
ono of the "kldi. "
The countv commtisloncrs of Lancaster , in
n report to their colleague * of DoiiK'lns. say tlio
bunliiojs of the latter county is "very looaely
oimilucted. ' " Alotsrs. Gorier , Knight nnd 5
O'Jvcefo have the lloor ,
Tha mayor of Lincoln nyn , iu n icport to
the dry council , that hoMted the liromon
of Ouiahn und found thaw In tha onplne
liouaoa pUylnjf novon up ami euchre , The
mayor la a llttlo joker with "jut" hand.
The matrimonial record of Lincoln nud Knu
rastbr toiinty during the year , f urnlshf * a tow
luterettlug utatUtlcs. The number of liconscs
iitued were a.'H ugoliibt L'WIn 188i The
county juclifo tlo4 the knot for ! ) : > coupe * ,
. . , . . . _ .
nrvnliiuf. Tf4liu
t\.i.
uualiist (0 the * iratloiu mi
( | year. Tim HMIIO offl.
clal out totliti reform school during the year
8 liirarriffllilfii ; legalized the adoption of 4 ,
nnd lias applications for tun morn under ton.
tlderutloji.
IN QtxNKltAC ,
Petty tuning U common Iu David tlty.
A farm of 100 acres live mllej from Hum
boldt ' , IMchardson county , sold tlifl other day
for ? 7,000.
The now opera house nt Dicl City will
cost S3.COO.
.Tho O. A. It. po tntoavcr ! City haa forty ,
five memliorfl and ) li n ilourlshlui' condition.
The 11. k ftl. company nro investing In real
estate near ( Jrand Inland , preparatory to
building in that direction ,
The snpnnlsorH of Hall county tnMod a
petition nuking the governor to commute the
sentence of Hurt , condemned to death.
IMwnnl Hall , an old settler of Douglas
county , died near Klkhorn Btatlon , on Fri
day , from injuries received by the kick of n
hono.
The Fremont Herald fiayn n man \vlio It
continually borrowing hi ! neighbor's paper
and never siuVcrlbos for ono if iiis O\MI , will
pasture n goat on the grave of his grand
father.
Several ntats pnperi gravely assert that a
man was killed nt Odoll whllo "trying to
boan' Mm Cannon Hall when It wai muting. "
XoUuitfuhnnBO nbout that , but it is sphere-
fill tu contemplate.
Tl'o IJutler County Prccc does not profess
to bo n critic , but states that the ' 'David
Dramatic club did nmplo justice to the Llttta
Brown Jug , Iwt night. " Wonder if the bojH
wcro too full for utterance ?
The liacholor'rf club of Wymoro kept open
house Now Year's to receive the Indies. Koch
caller wai presented with n handsome Ixxuiot.
The boya of Wymoro nro taking leap year by
the bang , and may yet harvest n "spit curl. "
Lara C. Sorronsen , a farmer living on the
blufls nbovo Uollovuo , wns arroitcdon Satur
day on complaint of n man named Lnn O.
Blegobron , a neighbor , charging him with un
lawful cohabitation with the lattcr'a wife ,
The man gave bail In $500.
Lincoln county hao five toterans of the
Mexican war in the persons of G. T. A. Nixon ,
Second TJ. S. nrtillery ; Joseph Folk. First
Pennsylvania infnntry ; Lewis Baker Second
Ohio Infantry ; Fred llrau , Second U. S. artil
lery , nnd Thomas Anderson , Second Illinois
infnntry. Three of thu tivo also participated
in the late war.
oumous FACTS.
Interesting I'oints In Connection AVIlh
I ho Now Congress.
The following "curious facts from the
congressional directory" nro published in
the Washington Star : Of the twenty.
six senators who wore sworn in nt the be
ginning of the present session only twelve
nro now to that body. The other four ,
teen were simply continued in the scnn
torial harness by re-election. Mr. Merrill
rill remains the patriarch of tha senate ,
though his colleague , Air. Edmunds
looks older nnd is invariably taken forthi
oldest member in the body. Mr. Ivcnna
of Woat Virginia , ia the junior member
bor , and is , perhaps , the youngest man
who over attained the dignfiod and ex
nlted position of senator. When electee
ho was not 155 years of ago. Senate
Anthony ranks nil others in point of ser
vice , having now entered upon his fifth
term. Senator Edmunds has been ro-
olcctcd three times and Messrs. Bayard ,
ESaulsbury , llansom nnd Merrill have
each been twice ro-olocted. Kentucky
furnishes moro sons to the present sen
ate than any other state. Eicht ; native
Kentuckiana nro now members of that
body ; Ohio cornea next with seven , while
Now York has six ; Gesrgia , Tennessee ,
Virginia nnd Pennsylvania each four ;
Maine , Maryland , Now Hampshire , Now
York , North Carolina , Ohio , Pennsyl
vania , Ilhodo Island , South Carolina ,
Tennessee , Vermont t nd Virginia have
native sons in the senate. Three natives
of Ireland ( Messrs. Jones of Florida ,
Fair and Sewell ) , ono of Scotland ( Bock\
and ono of England ( Jones of Nevada ) ,
are senators. Ohio furnishes two sena
tors for Indiana and two for Iowa , the
four gentlemen representing thcso states
having boon born in the Buckeye state.
The house of representatives contains
twenty adopted citizens : Messrs. Fin
erty , Cullom , Lowry , Collins , McAdoo ,
Barr , Davis of Massachusetts nnd Rob
inson of New York -were born in Ireland.
Messrs. Morse , Broltung , Muller , Deus-
tor and Guonther are Gorman. Crisp and
Spiggs nro English born. Hardy , Bu-
. light in Scotland. Mr. Nelson is a Nor
. wegian , and Stephenson was born
in Now Brunswick. The oldest
member of thu house is Mr. Waito.
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of Connecticut ; the youngest member is
Mr. Post , of Pennsylvania. The only
native of Washington in congress is Mr.
Gilbert M. Woodward , of Wisconsin ,
who was born in this city in 18IJ5. The
. states of Connecticut , Delaware , Maine ,
Maryland , Khodo Island , South Carolina
lina , Tcnno.sseo and VoJmont Bond solid
delegations senators nnd representatives
of native-born citizens. In the house
there are thirty-five native sonu of Now
York , thirty-throo of Pennsylvania ,
thirty-ono of Ohio , and next como
Kentucky nnd Virginia with seventeen'
each , Massachusetts nnd Tennessee next
with thirteen each , North Carolina njxt
with twelve. Of the entire Arknnsas
delegation in both houses but n single
member was born in the stnto. Only
two of thu entire Mississippi delegation
are natives of that state , but she uots oven
by having sons in the Arkansas , Missouri
and California delegations.
Of the 401 members of congress , 207
are lawyers , though several of this num-
dor hnvo practically abandoned the law
for other uurauits.
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