UNITED STATES SENATORS FROM ILLINOIS.

CULLOM. SHELBY MOORE, (Rep.) of Springfield. United States Senator. Born in Wayne county, Ky., Nov. 22, 1829. His father removed to Tazewell county. Illinois, the following year. He received an academic and university education; went to Springfield in 1853 to study law; immediately upon receiving license to practice was elected city attorney; elected to Congress in 1865; was a presidential elector in 1856 on the Filmore ticket; elected to the House of the Illinois Legislature in 1856-1860-1872-1874, and was chosen speaker in 1861 and 1873; elected to Congress for the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses; was chairman of the Illinois delegation to the national convention in 1872; and placed Grant in nomination; was delegate and chairman of the Illinois delegation to the national conventions of 1884-1892-1904; elected Governor of Illinois in 1876 and 1880, resigning Feb. 5, 1883, having been elected Senator to succeed David Davis; was re-elected in 1889, 1895, and again in 1901. His term expires March 3, 1907.

HOPKINS, ALBERT J., (Rep.) of Aurora, United States Senator. Born on a farm and had all the rugged experiences in his youthful years that are incident to farm life. He graduated at Hillsdale College, Michigan, in 1870, from which institution he has since received the degree of LL. D. He has been practicing law at Aurora, ever since. He was State's Attor ney of Kane county from 1872 to 1876, after which he took up his private practice with marked success. He was elected to Congress in 1885, vice Elwood, deceased, and was re-elected in 1886-88-30-92-94-96-98 and 1900. In 1903 he was elected to the United States Senate, as successor of Hon. William E. Mason. His term expires March 3, 1909.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS CONCERNING ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.

U. S. CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE I.

3. First. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of} two senators from each state, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.

Second. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year; of the second class, at the expiration of the fourth year; and of the third class, at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any state, the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.

Third. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.

REVISED STATUTES OF THE U. S., CHAPTER I.

14. The Legislature of each state which is chosen next preceding the expiration of the time for which any senator was elected to represent such state in Congress shall, on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof, proceed to elect a senator in Congress.

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15. Such election shall be conducted in the following manner: house shall openly, by a viva voce vote of each member present, name one person for senator in Congress from such state, and the name of the person so voted for, who receives a majority of the whole number of votes cast in each House, shall be entered on the journal of that House by the clerk or secretary thereof; or if either House fails to give such majority to any person on that day, the fact shall be entered on the journal At 12:00 o'clock merid

ian of the day following that on which proceedings are required to take place as aforesaid, the members of the two Houses shall convene in joint assembly, and the journal of each House shall then be read, and if the same person has received a majority of all the votes in each House, he shall be declared duly elected Senator. But if the same person has not received a majority of the votes in each House, or if either House has failed to take proceedings as required by this section, the joint assembly shall then proceed to choose, by a viva voce vote of each member present, a person for Senator, and the person who receives a majority of all the votes of the joint assembly, a majority of all the members elected to both Houses being present and voting, shall be declared duly elected. If no person receives such majority on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet at 12:00 o'clock meridian of each succeeding day during the session of the Legislature, and shall take at least one vote, until a Senator is elected.

16. Whenever on the meeting of the Legislature of any state a vacancy exists in the representation of such state in the Senate, the Legislature shall proceed, on the second Tuesday after meeting and organization, to elect a person to fill such vacancy, in the manner prescribed in the preceding section for the election of a Senator for a full term.

17. Whenever, during the session of the Legislature of any state, a vacancy occurs in the representation of such state in the Senate, similar proceedings to fill such vacancy shall be had on the second Tuesday after the Legislature has organized and has notice of such vacancy.

18. It shall be the duty of the executive of the state from which any Senator has been chosen, to certify his election. under the seal of the state, to the President of the Senate of the United States.

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The certificate mentioned in the preceeding section shall be countersigned by the Secretary of State of the state.