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Show M!y the Aver:;;:e 4 se of Senators. More than half of tho constitutional convention of were men who bad not roached tlu age of 45, while there iiro only seven nn :i who aro not, past 15 among (lie ei;.;lify-ei'.:bt members of the Untied States svnat'.; tmlny, aud four of these come iV nn the younger states of tho west, where there aro fewer old men than in the cast, Maine mid Vermont Ver-mont havimr. according to the cen-mis cen-mis returns of age. mora than six times as many males p,it the age of CO propor-ti.it propor-ti.it ally as Colorado and tho Dakota. Xo less than thirty-seven of the eitjhi y-eight y-eight senators, or nearly half of all. are past fin, and nii-e of them beyond 70, aj three others will ho within a few inor.ih?. Mr. Morrill has a colleague f roll' Ohio who, like bun, was born in 110; t wo who were born in 1S1G and three in Three of these have, like him, nought and obtained re-elections after they were past TO. Tho average age of all the senators falls only about a year tliovt of 00. In tho supreme court the chango has been equally remarkable. Since Pierce's day but one man has born placed upon this bench who hud not passed the age of 45, while of the twelve appointees during the past two decades no less than four were inoro than sixty when they took their s'.ts. Of the eight judges left after Mr. Miller's death one is 70 years old, one is 74, and one is 77. Century. |