Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-27
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
Footing Up the Losses in Congress
From the Landslide.
DISRUPTION OF THE BIG FOUR
Some Old Familiar Faces That Will be
Missed in the House.
MANY BLANKS HAVE BEEN DRAWN

WASHINGTON, November 26.-The
kodak pictures that will be taken from the
galleries of the House when the Fifty-sec-
ond Congress organizes will record good
many clean-cut absences. The seats may be
full, but in the roster of noted congressman
the blanks will look a good deal like the
photographs of the Democratic side of the
chamber taken during the Langston-Vena-
bic election contest
Sixty Democrats will have to sit on the
Republican side of the middle aisle, for the
Democratic side will not accommodate
them.
There will not be Republicans enough to
go half way around on the committees. The
go odd seats that will be given to Democrats
over on the Republican side OF the House
will include the cluster where the Big -Four
Reed, Mckinley, Burrows and Cannon
have for so many years sat together. In
that group also, sitting near the middle
aisle, was Governor Gear, OF Iowa, LaFol-
lette, of Wisconsin. Billy Mason and
George Adams, of Chicago; General Os-
borne, of Pennsylvania, Rowell, of Illinois,
and McComas, of Maryland. Reed and
Burrows, of the Big Four, are left, and will
loom up bigger still in the minority.
THEY WILL BE MISSED.
Mckinley, in spite of his responsibilities
as leader, is without an enemy in either par
tv. In all his relations with his fellow
members he has been a perfect gentleman.
No draft on his time or strength seemed ever
too great, and to all comers he was ap-
proachable and considerate.
Joe Cannon will be missed more than any
of the scores that retire next March. Al
ways when anyone ever talks about war
horses the first steed to be mentioned was
Honest Old joe" as everybody called him.
This is his seventeenth year in Congress.
He is one of the peoples kind of men of
that pioneer class rapidly disappearing,
which Abraham Lincoln so well represented.
His downfall Will always be attributed to
his remark about Mr.. McAdoo in the heat
of debate last summer, but it was proba-
bly, very greatly assisted by the tariff ques-
tiop.
Many sigh of regret will testify to the
esteem in which Congressman Billy Mason
has been held This is his second Congress,
and he had become national character
early in the FI:tieth Congress. Mr.. Mason's
short stature, smooth and swarthy face and
wide-open style OF craftsmanship had earned
for him frequent comparisons with Stephen
A. Douglas, and his warm admirers liked
to call him the Little Giant"
The Ways and Means Committee has
suffered a loss in the retirement of Lafollette.
of Wisconsin, and Gear, of Iowa. The
former is prodigious worker and one of the
most adroit politicians in his party. He
was born in a log cabin and educated at the
Wisconsin University, his career linking |
together the pioneer period in the Badger |
State and this, later one OF enterprise and |
progress. He attributes his defeat to the |
local issue of the Bennett law.
Governor Gear hardly knows to what to |
ascribe the majority against him. He |
knows nearly every voter in his district, for |
he floated into it on Mississippi hatboat |
before there were 80 white men living in it |
and has been there ever since. His hard |
headed, sturdy common sense has been at a
high premium in Iowa, but the landslide |
caught him with the rest.
M'CoMAS HAD TO GO.
McComas, of Maryland, is one of the |
Youngest and handsomest men in Congress. |
His retirement will cause regret, although |