Show SENATOR CORBETT SUCCESSOR TO HON JOHN H MITCHELL nit nis selection atlon merlc die ile close clono of a re R mark abl ablo of the fir b A sketch ot of III lilii life second term lu in tho the senate HE most ka kiy ile ble senatorial con 4 test in the history N of oregon was re rc brought to a Z sarh a ity close by governor al 31 W 01 lord ol appointing hon hall henry winslow fw w corbett to succeed john II 11 butchell Ml whose terra term of expired march 4 the case lias has no parallel in the history of 0 the country by the constitution of oregon the legislature convenes biennially and the pay of at members Is limited to forty days which Is ordinarily supposed to limit the session on jan 11 last the legislature con bened the senate promptly organized but the house tailed failed to secure an organization although in session fifty ane ne days there was neither legissa lon jon nor a united states sen senator ater elect id there having been no legal session of at the legislature governor lord holds hat there Is a vacancy which may lawfully be filled by appointment un ler ier that clause of the federal con which says it if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise luring the recess ot of the legislature ot of iny ny state the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature which shall hall the then nil fill such vacancies acting on this supposition he has appointed a man in whom the gold standard republicans ot of oregon have entire confidence mr corbett was born in I 1 augh mass on feb 18 1827 IT he e was the youngest son in a family of 0 eight children ills his early boyhood was spent in washington county new york where he attended the public schools later he ot attended tended cambridge academy taking the regular academy course he then hen held a clerkship in salem the county seat for or one year when at 17 years rears of aged age lie went to new mew york pity and was employed in the dry goods business until 1851 his employers in trusted him with a stock ot of goods which was shipped around cape horn to 0 o portland in 1850 the agreement being that he should devote three years in oregon to merchandising then return tand and divide the proceeds ile he sailed tron from new york on jan 20 1851 via the isthmus and arrived in part portland on march 5 where he found about inhabitants so well did he sue suc eed bed in his venture that his entire stock t f goods was disposed 0 at in fourteen months when he returned to new york with net profits for or divis division loft at er remaining one year in new york he returned to oregon where here the remainder of 0 his life has been spent in arly lile life mr air corbett was a whig and i 1 great admirer of henry clay tle tic assisted at the organization 0 of the republican party in oregon and was sli airman ot of the first state central committee lie he was a delegate to the chiago convention in ISCO but was waa unable to reach there in time so horace greeley represented the state ile he at ended Lincol ns inauguration in ind was a delegate to the republican invention that nominated grant and colfax in 1868 in he was wai elected united states senator to succeed hon I 1 W nesmith and became prominently identified with the financial discussions of the time during and after the war the gold standard was maintained sa an the pacific coast and mr corbett invented the idea ot of national gold banks the first national bank ot of portland was organized in 1865 and in 1868 1968 he with henry falline obtained control ot of the stock and it has ever since been the strongest national bank in the pacific no thweat th west ile he assisted in the organization ot of the board ot of trade and was its president tor for many years tears jle he to is president of the doyal boy and girls aid society and ot of the hotel portland ile he Is it a director of 0 the oregon railroad and navigation company was waa tile the first in the senate to advocate the building of the northern pacific railroad Is an active worker in benevolent I 1 e u t m matters at tera ha has s 1 liberally i b e r a il y endowed d jadlowe v various a r ou s 0 oregon g on i institutions st t u t i 0 n s an and Is interested n te in everything that tends to improve the condition of 0 the community he is one of the history makers ot of oregon having been kroml autly identified with her institutions from their very beginning bee inning and no history of 0 the state can be written without marks ot of his influence on every page in he was married to miss emma L ruggles ot at worcester mass blass a lady ot of high character charming manners and rare intellectual attainments he Is universally respected tor for his hia ability and irreproachable elfei lire r e 9 X SENATOR carbett |