. The New England magazine . esentative 57-6i, and afterwards THE STATE OF VERAWNT. 697 judge and chief judge ; Charles W. Willard,69-75, leading lawyer, editor and legis-lator; Charles H. Joyce, 75-83 ; andJohn W. Stewart, representative 83-9i,speaker of the state legislature 65-68 and76-78, governor in 71-2. The presentrepresentation in the house is by Wm. \ 81—83 and Sg-gi and Henry 91- and in the senate by GeorgeY. Edmunds and Justin S. Morrill. Amore detailed mention of these two menis in order. Justin S. Morrill is eighty-one yearsyoung. He has been a successful mer-chant
. The New England magazine . esentative 57-6i, and afterwards THE STATE OF VERAWNT. 697 judge and chief judge ; Charles W. Willard,69-75, leading lawyer, editor and legis-lator; Charles H. Joyce, 75-83 ; andJohn W. Stewart, representative 83-9i,speaker of the state legislature 65-68 and76-78, governor in 71-2. The presentrepresentation in the house is by Wm. \ 81—83 and Sg-gi and Henry 91- and in the senate by GeorgeY. Edmunds and Justin S. Morrill. Amore detailed mention of these two menis in order. Justin S. Morrill is eighty-one yearsyoung. He has been a successful mer-chant and farmer, and was first chosen tocongress in 1885, never having served inthe legislature. He was five times re-elected and was then promoted to thesenate, taking his seat in 1867, and hasbeen four times re-elected. If he livesto complete his present term (March 3,1897), he will have been forty-two yearsin public life. He has been prominentalmost from the first, especially in rela-tion to business and finance. He opposed. W. G. Veazey. the tariff of 1857, and the next year wasappointed on the committee of ways andmeans. In i860 he carried through theMorrill tariff and the internal revenuelaw. In 1864 he secured the termina-tion of the Canadian reciprocity land grant college bill of 1858, whichwas vetoed by Buchanan, was his, andLincoln approved it in 1862. The lastcongress, as a result of his effort, voted tothese colleges an annual appropriationfrom the sales of public lands. He waschairman of ways and means from 65 to67, was made a member of the financecommittee when he entered the senate,became its chairman in 1881, and socontinues. He is, and long has been,second on the committee of public build-ings and grounds, and he reported billsfor the new congressional library, themarble terraces of the capitol, the war,navy and state building, the engravingand printing building of the treasury, thenational museum, also for many improve-ments in public grounds and the
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