Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-15
THE NEW CONGRESS.
Some Of ths Changes Made BY the
Recent Elections.
The Familiar Faces That viii Disappear,
and Those That win Succeed Them
Notes ofSome Strange s.
Transformations
IN TINE PERSONNEL OF THE HOUSE.


WASHINGTON, November 14-Those who
look down from the galleries thirteen
months herce upon the members OF the
House Of Representatives recently elected
will see many changes which will remind
them of the political revolution which has
! Just taken place. More than half Of the
faces will be new ones, many prominent
Republicans now in Congress will not be
there, and there will be another Speaker.
A glance at the list of Representatives
elected reveals some of these changes.
There will be
Only One New Face
in the delegation from Alabama, that OF
Luke Pryor. Gen. Lowe, not long before
his death, was given the seat then occupied
by Gen. Joseph Wheeler, once--a,-famous
cayalryman in the Confederate army, but
man who took even less interest In leglSla-
ton than that other famous Confederate,
Gen. Joseph f. Johnston. 1t is this seat
which MIR. PRYOR will hold. There will be
only one old face in the California delega-
tion-that of Gen. Rosecrans, whose war
record, as set forth at great length by him
self in the Congressional Directory, IS much
more conspicuous than his service on the
floor of the House. Mr.. Pages majority OF
5000 melted away, and
The Candidate He Defeated
in 1880 is one Of the new members at large.
Colorado will send back the impulsiVe,
plain-spoken, but popular Judge Belford,
who seems to have strong hold upon MS
constituents, whom he delights to serve.
Mr.. Wait, an old and faithful member, is
the only Republican who will represent
Connecticut in the next House. Mr.. Buck,
who gives way to ex-senator Eaton, is re-
garded as a gentleman of high character,
but his desire TO serve his constituents and
friends by securing the passage Of the Knit
Goods bill seems to have led him TO sup
port the River and Harbor bill without the
careful examination which he might have
been expected to make. Mr.. Eaton, the
originator of the Tariff Commission bill,
will undoubtedly be given
Prominent Place on Committees.
Two able and influential members, Ham
mond and Blunt, are returned from
Georgia, while Mr.. Speer, the youthful In
dependent, placed by Mr.. Keifer on the
Ways and Means Committee, and who
served his mountain district by attacking
the revenue laws and saying a good word
for moonshners, retircs with his brother
independent, Dr. FELTON,, who has now
been beaten for the second time. MIR.
Speer's 1000 majority suddenly dlsap-
peared. The familiar form of the emaciated
ex.NiCe President OF the Confederacy,
Alexander II. Stephens will no longer re-
cline on a wheel chair in the space in front
of the Speakers table. He has become
Governor of his State.
Among the well known members return
ed from illinois are Messrs. Davis Cannon,
and Thomas, Republicans, and Morris,
Townshend, and
The Irrepressible Springer,
Democrats. Mr.. Cannon is an energetic
member, well acquainted with postal legis.
lation. Mr.. Morrison is generally regarded
as pretty good Pre- idential material, and If
Mr.. Carlisle should be made Speaker he
will probably become Chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee. One OF the
new members is John J. Finerty, who was
here few months ago as correspondent
of the Chicago Times, and who afterward
wrote many entertaining letters to that pa.
per from all parts Of the country. Indiana
will return Judge Holman, the untirng
obieCtor, whose watchfulness has prevent.
ed the passage of many obnoxious bills.
He will be member of the new Appropri.
ations Committee. Mr.. Orth, who believed
that Speaker Keifer treated him very shah
billy, will have
No Opportunity to Complain
of the treatment OF the next Speaker. Mr..
Browne and Mr.. Calkins, both popular and
industrious members have escaped from
the deluge. Iowa's greatest contribution
will be Mr.. Kasson, a parliamentarian of
distinguished ability, member OF the
present Committees on Ways and Means
and Foreign Affairs, who, during the last
session, occupied place i'll the back
ground owing TO the advancement of those
with whom he was not in sympathy. The
three old members returned from Kansas
are all prominent and active in the present
House. Kentucky returns Mr.. Carlisle, an
unaSsuming man OI rare ability, who Will
contend with Mr.. Randall for the Speaker
spip. Mr. Blackburn will retain his seat
but Proctor Knott, an able lawyer and the
author of the famous Duluth speech, viii!
retire.
A Curious Change
Will take place in the Louisiana delegation.
Randall Gibson will go from the House to
the Senate, while William Pitt Kellogg
will come from the Senate to the House.
Maine will return Mr.. Reed, one OF the
leading members of the present House.
Mr.. McClane, polished gentleman of
wide experience in public life, voluntarily
disappears from the Maryland delegation.
Mr.. Crapo, of the Banking and Currency
of our dilapidated Navy, with Mr.. Chand-
Ter, one of the handsomest man on the
floor, will be missed from the MasSachu-
setts delegation, but among those who will
remain are Mr.. Robinson, a man whose
short speeches were always effective and
who displayed exceptional ability as
Chairman of the Committee OF the Whole,
and Mr.. Ranney, a successful lawyer who
has
Won Recognition on the Floor.
Nine of the eleven men from Michigan
will be strangers, and six will be Demo
Gratis. The only prominent Republican re.
turned is Mr.. Horr, distinguished as hu-
morist. supporter of the River and Har-
| Dor bill and large appropriations, and
member of the Civil Service Reform com
mittee Mr. Hubbell, chief of the Assess.
| nent Bureau, was not renomlnated, and
Mr.. Burrows, good speaker and the pos
SCISSOR of a remarkably clear voice, was
beaten. Mr.. Bunnell, of Minnesota, who
rashly incurred the hostility OF many Re-
publicans by vigorously opposing the Tariff
| Commission bill, did not secure renomi-
nation. MIR. Chalmers regains place in
the Mississippi delegation, but il is not the
| seat which the present House gave TO his
opponent, Mr.. Lynch. That seat Mr.. Lynch
| will
| Retain In the Forty-eighth Congress.
Il
Mr.. Money will return and have another
opportunity to support his postal subsidy
! bill. In the Missouri delegation, MIR. Bland,
| of silver bill notoriety, will be able to
laugh at the Republican Greenbackers,
Messrs. Burrows, Hazeltine, Rice and Ford.
now in the House from that State, whom
he so sayagely attacked last winter, for he
| will be there while they will be absent
Mr.. Buckner will support his financial
theories before an audience more sympa-
thetic than the present House. Mr.. Blewer
is the only member of the present House
who will be returned from New Jersey. The
corpulent we'll dressed, red faced and loud
voiced Robson will disappear from the
Naval Committee and the House, and it
should be said that his old enemy, Mr..
Whiuhorne, of Tennessee, the investigator.
voluntarily goes out of Congress, They
will have an opportunity for one more bat
tie when the naval bill comes up this win
| ter.
Among the Familiar Faces
from New York will be those OF Mr.. Bel