Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-26
THE NEXT CONGRESS.


The Fifty-first congress will begin next
Monday. 1t is interesting to look over
the body and see how many men OF
strength it has lost from the Fiftieth
congress it may have gained. In New
England there is one marked departure.
Senator Jonathan Chace of Rhode Island
the good old Quaker who name will al
ways be coupled with the international
copyright bill, and, should it become a
law, will go down to posterity as the
patron saint Of authors in this country,
has stepped aside to make room for ex-
Governor Dixon. From Connecticut
there will be two new members of the
lower house, Mr. Simonds and Mr.. Will
cox, while Mr.. Miles, a member of
former congresses, returns.
From the senate will be missed Sena-
tor Palmer, the millionaire farmer from
Michigan, who is now representing the
country at large as minister at Madrid.
Senator Palmer's successor Is another of
Michigan's Observation-Disclosures
ator Mcmillan. Senator Sabin, of Min
nesota, who rose from treasury clerk
ship to millionaire manufacturer, and
then to seat in the United States sem
ate, has surrendered to Ex-Governor w.
d. Washburn, who has for years been
among the most distinguished statesmen
of the great northwest. Senator Sauls-
bury, of Delaware, takes with him from
the senate chamber one of the oldest and
most distinguished heritages of the coun-
try, ex-senator Bayard's family only ex-
ceiling that ofSaulsbury in handing down
from father to son the most distinguish
ed honor of the Blue Hen state. This
rule has been broken. Bayard is in pri-
vate life, and Salisbury has followed
him, to be succeeded by plain anthony
Higgins. Bowen of Colorado. gives way
to Senator Wolcott, the silver
tongued orator of the Rockies, and the
untamed Riddleberger will be succeeded
by Senator Barbour, of Virginia. Hon.
William Z. Chandler will succeed him
self, despite the predictions of the Dem
ocrats and mugwumps Of New Hamp-
shire.
In the house four seats have been va
Gated by death. Two of these were oc-
cupied by distinguished Democrats,
whose popularity did not depend upon
their partisan enthusiasm. The seat SO
long occupied by the national humorist,
Samuel S. Cox, will be filed by Amos
j. Cummings, the bright young newspa-
per man who has made his way to fame
from the printers case. Hon. Richard
of Illinois, Congressman
Gay, of Louisiana. and Congressman
Laird, of Nebraska, are also among those
whose terms were cut short by death.
Among those who held seats in the
last congress who will be absent in the
next are: General Lloyd Bryce, OF New
Y FORK, who has succeeded the late Allen
Rice as editor of the North
American Review; Hon. Tim Camp
bell, one of the most distinguished of the
awkward squad" on the floor; William
Bourke Corchran, the Tammany chief;
Patrick Collins, of Massachusetts,, the
chairman of the last national Democratic
Martin Foran, the free trade
Democratic laborite from Cleveland, O.. |
William l.. Scott, the millionaire coal
baron from Pennsylvania, who occupied
the unique position of being the only
free trade representative from the great
state: Nathan Golf. who was
cheated out of the election as Republican
governor of West Virginia by the Demo |
Gratis; Ex-Governor John D. Long, who |
might have been one of Massachusetts, |
had he fought for the place. |
William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey. |
who resigned his seat to go to Berlin as |
United States minister; Deacon" S. Y. |
White, of Brooklyn; Leopold Morse. of |
Boston: Rayner, the tariff reformer from |
Baltimore: Ryan, of Kansas, who is now
the minister TO Mexico; ex-senator Nor |
wood, of Georgia; Beriah Wilkins. OF |
Ohio. now one of the editors of the |
Washington Post.
Among the most noted of the new |
members will stand, General Nathaniel |
P. Banks from Massachusetts, who once |
presided as speaker of the house: John
F. Andrews of Massachusetts,. son of the |
old war governor of that state; Mark II.
of Minnesota: ST. George
Tucker from Virginia. son of Randolph |
Tucker, and Roswell p Flower. the per-
ennial Democratic candidate for the pres
dency.
The changes rob the Democratic side
Of the house more than they do the Re-
publican side, which fortunately is not
lacking in men of ability and experience. |
Under the leadership of Reed, McKin-
ley and Cannon the Republicans
will have an opportunity Of put