President of United States Senate.

WILLIAM PIERCE FRYE, Senator from Maine, and President of the United States Senate was born in Lewistown, Maine, September 2, 1831. He completed his education at Bowdoin College in 1850, and afterwards studied and practiced law. He was elected member of the State Legislature in 1861-62-67. He served as Mayor of his

native city, Lewistown in 1866-67, and also as Attorney General of his state for three years. His Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He has several times been presidential elector, and served as a delegate to the National Republican Convention. He was elected a representative in 42d, 43th, 44th, 45th, 46th and 47th, Congresses and United States Senate in 1881, when James G. Blaine resigned his service as Secretary of State.

He is now completing his third term in the Senate. That he is popular in his native state is proved by the fact that he received every vote except one in both branches of the legislation. On February 2, 1896, he was elected President pro tem. of the Senate, becoming its President upon the death of Vice-President Hobart in 1899. He served with distinction as a member of the commission which met at Paris, September 1898, to adjust terms of peace between the United States and Spain.

Mr. Frye's service in the House and Senate has been such as to necessitate a participation in many important subjects of legislation during the past three decades. In the House he was chairman of the Library Committee; served for several years on the Judiciary, and was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means. During two or three congresses he was chairman of the Executive Committee. It was generally conceded that he would have been elected Speaker of the House in the 47th Congress, without opposition on the Republican side, had he not resigned before the meeting of that Congress, on account of his election to the Senate.

In the House he took an active part in debates, especially on

political questions, having a keen relish for participation in those exciting impromptu debates which frequently occurred in times of intense party feeling. He took part also in the discussion of nearly all important national questions. In the Senate he has for many years been chairman of the Committee of Commerce, the largest and one of the most important of that body, and as such he has had especial charge of all matters relating to shipping, river and harbor improvements, and kindred subjects. He is also a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and by seniority was entitled to its chairmanship on the resignation of Senator Sherman, but chose to remain at the head of the Committee on Commerce.

He reserves his speeches for occasions when they are needed and then speaks forcibly and to the point. Looking over the debates of Congress for the last thirty years one cannot fail to note the fact that Senator Frye has done his part in moulding legislation. His persistent efforts through five Congresses in respect to the Geneva awards, securing at last the rights of the actual loosers, is one of his important achievements. His efforts towards securing the abrogation of the fishery articles in the treaty with Great Britain; his successful work in respect to Samoan affairs, securing an honorable settlement of existing complications; his bill providing for a Congress of American Nations, and another for a Maritime Congress; his Postal Subsidy bill, his Tonnage bill; his important amendments to the Dingley shipping bill; his championship of the Nicaragua Canal bill; his speeches in defense of protective tariff measures; his support of other measures of national importance indicate the breadth of his legislative equipment.

Outside of the halls of Congress his voice is often heard. At many notable public meetings and banquets he has delivered speeches on national topics which have been widely circulated by the press.

As a campaign orator he is considered one of the most effective and his services are much in demand. For the past forty years he has participated in every political campaign and spoken in nearly every state of the North.

Senator from Ohio.

MARCUS ALONZO HANNA was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, September 24, 1837. Mr. Hanna inherited ability and was educated in business. Next to the efficacy of good brains and blood in making up a man comes environment-the circumstances surrounding the boy and man-the conditions upon which are opened in his neighborhood the golden gates of opportunity. Mr. Hanna had a high school education, and a year at the Western Reserve College, one of the multitude of Ohio colleges.

Mr. Hanna's father, on removing to Cleveland, became a wholesale grocer and provision merchant, and the son at 23 years of age was a clerk in the store, and in 1861 his father died and he succeeded to the business. Young Hanna traveled extensively and formed a valuable acquaintance. In 1864 he married Miss Augusta Rhodes, the daughter of his senior partner, D. P. Rhodes, who retired a few years later, when the existing firm of M. A Hanna & Co. was organized. The business of the firm required a great deal of transportation on the lakes, and Hanna, after being interested in several vessels, became the proprietor of one named for his father, Leonard Hanna, and he is now a large owner of ships on the lakes and the head of the Globe Iron Works Co. of shipbuilders. He is active in his personal affairs and has them so organized that when he takes a turn in politics he has only to say "yes" and "no a good deal touching matters not public, and they go as he says. The course of his business is plainly marked as a system of progression. First a grocer, then a shipowner--the ships growing out of and sailing in the requirements of trade; then, as he wanted ships, he became a shipbuilder, and as he consumed iron he developed ores. His handsome residence is famous for hospitality, and it is administered with a geniality and liberality that gain and give pleasure. He has a charming family-a son with a home and household of his own.

He values too highly the blessing of health