Show AGE DOES MAKE i A DIFFERENCE Members Member of Congress and ad Cabinet Of Officials Officials Who Wo Would Woud Be De Af hi Affected A by Law Lw Washington Post The proposed law reducing the com corn compensation of persons in the classified service serice when they tey shall have attained the age of 65 years and separating them from the service when they have reached three tree score and ten would if extended to members of the cabinet and ad congress deprive the country countr of her most distinguished sons Should the official axe ae be wielded in inthe inthe the cabinet two distinguished heads must fall faU those of the te secretary of the interior Ethan Allen Alen Hitchcock and of the secretary of agriculture James James Wilson Wison These gentlemen would not only be b included among the superannuated but must in that event be classed with wih those unfitted by age for the per performance performance of any public duties dutes since they the r have both reached the three score and ten mark Desolate indeed would the senate appear should such a measure be en enacted enacted acted for some of its is ablest and most vigorous men would then be retired to private life Alabama would be with without without without out representation her grand old vet ver veterans veterans erans John T Morgan and Edmund W Pettus Petus both having passed the dead deadline deadline line lne by more than ten years Senator Pettus who has described himself hims l as years young youn is the old oldest oldest oldest est man in the te body and his colleague Mr Morgan is only a year younger Passed Retiring Mark Colorado would be deprived of the services of a man whom she has ha re repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly honored by electing him to represent her for Senator Teller Teler is 75 years old His colleague Mr Patter Patterson Pater Paterson son who has recently given evidence of the fact that lie he is quite alive alve to what is going goin on about him might still sti be e permitted to serve in some capacity though tough he lie has ha reached the first degree of 65 Senator George C Perkins of Cal fornia is 65 years old and hence would have to take a back seat jumbo senator Morgan T Bulkeley who has recently recent taken his seat scat sat would be reduced to the ranks and quit in a year as a he admits that he is 69 Senator Bacon of Georgia is only two Georga years younger than Senator Bulkeley and would share the same fate Shelby M f Cullom the mentor of ofte the te Illinois Republicans who is 77 7 years i old would leave vacant the seat which he has ha so long lon filled fled to the satisfaction of the Illinois voters and his associate associate associate ate William Boyd Allison Alson of IoVa Ioa ro a ac accounted accounted accounted counted by many the most most astute poli politician pol politician In the senate would follow him into political oblivion as they are the same age James B McCreary the Kentucky i senator would be relegated to the sec see second second ond class of the superannuated being 68 years old and his Louisiana col colleague colleague league leage Samuel I D McEnery who is a year older would be placed in that position Maine would be In a sad plight for though her two senators are among the ablest and most influential men in the body they have both touched the pro proposed proposed proposed posed dead ded line Une Senator Hale being 70 and Senator Frye 75 lands most noted politician Arthur Pue Gorman who pleads guilty gity to being 66 would be shorn of his glory and put upon the mourners bench General Russell Russel A Algers services service to the state of ot Michigan would be brought to a close cose as he is 70 years ear old and his colleague Julius C O Burrows who Is only a year younger could not long remain Neither of these gentlemen shows the faintest signs of senility Senator Hernando D Money oney of f Mis Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi who is 67 would be reduced to the ranks as would his associates Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Clark of Montana and Senator Dryden of New Jersey who have hae both reached his age New Yorks veteran senators Thom Thomas as C Platt Plat and Chauncey M Depew would both pass from the scene of ot their activities leaving their togas to tobe tobe tobe be scrambled for by younger men General William Warner of Missouri who recently defeated younger rivals for the coveted is 65 years old and would soon have to take a aback aback aback back seat Senator Millard of Nebraska is 70 and would be obliged to leave Sena Senator Senator Senator tor Gallinger Gahlinger Galinger of New Hampshire who Is only a year younger could wear his laurels but a little while The thought of placing such active leaders as Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island and Senator Elkins Elkin of West Virginia on the superannuated list 1st seems ridiculous yet they the are both 65 and their duties dute would doubtless be curtailed to suit their advanced age Senator Redfield Proctor is 75 and could not hope to escape the carnage Over In the House The house of representatives would be in almost as sad a plight as the senate The body would have to elect electa a new speaker for though Uncle Joe Joo Cannon lias as given no signs sigs of losing his grip gip he will wi in a few weeks have reached the age of offense 70 Another distinguished son of Illinois Robert R Hitt Hit who is two years older than tan Mr lIr Cannon would have to re remain remain remain main at home What That would become of or Colonel Pete Hepburn the Iowa Iowa Republican war var horse who admits amit that he was born in 1833 What of othis his able asso associates aso elates cates from Iowa John F Lacey and and John John A T Hull Hul each of whom is 65 Georgia would have to submit to see seeing seeIng seeIng ing Rufus E Lester superannuated and Leonidas Leonida F Livingston Livington sent home Connecticut would lose the services of Nehemiah D Sperry and E Stevens Henry Henr one of whom is 79 and the oth other other other er 70 Dr Hiram A Burton the Delaware representative has ha reached the sixty mark So has William Wilam S Greene of Massachusetts while Wil WI William Wi liam lam C Lovering Levering of the same sae state is over 70 Amos L Allen Alen Edwin C Burleigh and Lewellyn Lewelyn Powers all aU of Maine are arc each liable lable to ta Cy Cyrus Cyrus Cyrus rus A of New Hampshire would also come under that head That active veteran General John John H Ketcham of New York who is 74 would have to pack pak his grip gip for home and William Wliam H Draper and John JohnE E Andrus of ot the same state would have to seat et themselves with wih the te superannuated superannuated General Grosvenor of Ohio who was recently defeated for reelection by a ayoung younger young r rival retires to private life still sti as a formidable as of yore though he is 73 His colleague General Kei Kel Keifer Keifer Kelfer fer would have to return with him should such a measure be passed Of the Pennsylvanians General Genera H HH HH HH H Bingham Ellas Elas Deemer and Thad Thaddeus Thaddeus had haddeus deus M 11 Mahon would all al have haye to be regarded as back numbers regarded So would Aldin Aldi B CaprOn Capr n of or Rhode Island and Kitridge Haskins of Vermont and ad John Lamb and Colonel JohI Lamb Campbell Campbel Slemp of Virginia VrgInia As for that tat undimmed light from West W st Virginia Colonel CoW e Thomas homa Ba B Davis D avis he lie would have to hide under a bushel ushel b for he was wa horn born bor in 1828 1828 Few of the house leaders could wear war their heir tl t laurels more than tan a few years year longer l and ad many may of them would have h to t o dolt doff them em in i a few f W months |