Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — UNITED STATES SENATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UNITED STATES SENATE.

New Representatives Chosen to the Upper Branch of the American Congress. Some New Paces to Be Seen at Washington After the Fourth of >r arch Next. CHARLES B. FARWELL. The New Senator-Elect from Illinois. Charles B. Farwell has been elected by the Illinois Legislature to succeed Hon. John A. Logan in the Senate of the United States. The Democratic members of the Legislature cast their votes for Hon William R. Morrison, while the Labor party members voted for Benjamin W. Goodhue.

Mr. Farwell was born in Painted Post, N. Y., July 1, 1823; was educated at the Elmira Academy; removed to Illinois in 1838; was employed in government surveying and in farming until 1844, when he engaged in the real estate business and in banking in Chicago; was elected County Clerk of Cook County in 1853, and was re-elected, in 1857. He subsequently engagedin mercantile pursuits, and is now the widely known member of the firm •of John V. Farwell & Company. He was appointed a member of the State Board of Equalization in 1867; was chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Cook County in 1868; was appointed NationalBank Examiner in 1869; was elected a Representative from Illinois in the XLIId Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,342 votes against 15,025 for John Wentworth; was elected to the XLIIId Congress and the XLIVth, running against J. V. Le Moyne and receiving a majority of votes, though after Mr. Farwell had served for over a year, the House gave Mr. LeMoyne the seat.

FRANCIS B. STOCKBRIDGE. The Successor of Omar D. Conger, of Michigan. Francis B. Stockbridge, of Kalamazoo, ■will succeed Omar D. Conger in the Senate, having received a majority of the votes of the Michigan Legislature. Mr. Stockbridge was born in Maine in 1826. In 1847 he came to Chicago, and was employed as a clerk at a lumber dock. He saved some money, joined some lumbermen at Saugatuck, Mich., started a mill or two, and in 1850 went to Saugatuck to live. In 1873

he located in Kalamazoo. He is reported to be worth $750,000. Col. Stockbridge is a large, fine-looking man, full of beaming good-nature, and famed for his broad views and whole-souled liberality. One secret of his popularity in Michigan is that he has helped hundreds of men in business, and aided scores in other ways—some, perhaps, who were undeserving. There is a saying in Michigan that Stockbridge is on everybody’s note and everybody’s bond. He began his canvass for the Senatorship last summer, and was ahead of everybody in the field. His only real opponent was Conger. i STEWART, OF NEVADA. The Man Who Will Succeed Millionaire Fair. The Legislature of the little State of Nevada has chosen William Morris StewArt to fill the seat in the Senate hitherto occupied by James Graham Fair. Mr. Stewart was born in Wayne County, New Tork, in August, 1827. In 1833 his parents removed to Trumbull County, Ohio, where his schoolboy days were spent. He went to the Pacific coast with the great tide of ■emigration which swept thitherward in 1849. Reaching Nevada County, California, in April, 1850, he engaged in gold-mining, and was fairly successful. With the proceeds of his digging, some SB,OOO or SIO,OOO, he engaged in the study of law, and was admitted to the bar of Nevada City in 1852.

He removed to Virginia City, Nev., in 1860. In 1863, when Nevada was admitted to the

Union of States, he was one of her leading citizens. He was the first Senator sent to Washington from the new State. He was re-elected, and his two terms lasted from 1864 to 1875. Mr. Stewart possesses large wealth. His residence is in San Francisco, where he entertains handsomely. He married in 1855 a daughter of ex-Gov. Henry S. Foote, of Mississippi.

SENATOR QUAY. Pennsylvania’s New Representative in the House of Eords. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has determined that Matthew Stanley Quay shall succeed John L Mitchell as Senator from that State. Mr. Quay’s residence is in the western part of the State, but as a public man of long standing he is known throughout Pennsylvania, and has many influential friends in all the principal towns and cities of that commonwealth. In 1873 he was Secretary of State under Governor Hartranft, and he advertised the new Constitution in every newspaper of note in Pennsylvania. The office he is now holding is

that of State Treasurer. A eulogist speaks of him as “conciliating in council, and easy of approach to the humblest citizen. Oratory is said not to be one of his strong points, but he is a man of culture and his public address is good. EX-GOV. C. K. DAVIS. The Newly Elected Senator from Minnesota. Cushman K. Davis has been chosen United States Senator from Minnesota for six years from the 4th of March next. Governor Davis attended Carroll an incipient seat of learning at Waukesha, Wis. Carroll College is now a thing of the past, but it once promised to be a large and famous school. It was the first notable instance of coeducation in the United States. The plan worked well there. The girls did the cooking and the boys furnished the meat and groceries, and if the good friends of the institution had been numerous and rich enough to provide salaries for the professors, the experiment might by this time have become one of the marvels of Western civilization. Davis studied law with Alexander Randall, who afterward became Johnson’s Postmaster General. He went to the law school at Ann Arbor, and graduated in 1857. Last July he delivered the address to the graduating class of the Michigan University. He served one term as Governor of Minnesota.

OTHER SENATORS. Hearst Returned from California. [San Francisco special.] The Legislature balloted for a United States Senator on Tuesday. In the Senate George Hearst (Dem.) received 25 and Henry Vrooman (Rep.) 11 votes. In the Assembly Hearst received 38 and Vrooman 40. On Wednesday the two houses formally met in joint convention and elected Hearst. Whitthorne for the Short Term in Tennessee* The Tennessee Legislature, at Nashville, elected Hon. Washington C. Whitthome to the short Senatorial term, he receiving 82 votes to 49 cast for J. A. Nunn. Hawley Re-elected in Connecticut. Both houses of the Connecticut Legislature re-elected Senator Joseph R. Hawley. The vote in the Senate was 12 for Hawley to 10 for Charles R. Ingersoll. The total vote cast in the House was 227. Hawley received 128, Ingersoll 98, and Henry C. Baldwin, Knight of Labor, 1. Cockrell Succeeds Himself. The two branches of the Missouri Legislature voted separately for a successor to Senator Cockrell. In the House the vote stood: Cockrell, 86; Warner, 50; Ford, 2. In the Senate: Cockrell, 25; Warner 8. Subsequently the two houses met in joint convention, and formally elected Senator Cockrell.