The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-14
NEW MEN IN CONGRESS.
MANY OF THE OLD MEMBERS WILL
BE RETIRED.

All Do Not Go Volunterily-Crisp and
Gar Reed WIN Be In the Next Con,
sress 80 AdvisAbility Of Returning
Members Many Terms.
From the Philadelphia Record.
WASHINGTON, Sept 1O.-Most Of the
prominent men on both sides in the House
Of Representatives are likely 20 be returned
10 the next congress; in fact, many Of them
are certain TO be reelected. Speaker Crisp
and ex-Speaker Reed. who are the leaders
of the two sides, are, for example, as good
as reelected now. Both Of them are kept
hard at work in livelier campaigns than
they might have expected to have had, but
with both the real question Of the hour is
as to the size Of the majority which he is
certain to get. Neither of them, by the
way, will get anything like the majority be
had last time he was elected.
The House, unlike the immortal Jsphet,
| is not IN search of a father; but on the con-
trary, is embarrassed with two fathers,
/ riches beyond desire, at least Of the speaker
! and other officers who have to decide ques-
/ tons Of precedence.
TWO FATHERS OF THE HOUSE.
! One Of the fathers, who is indeed the real
| O'Neill, who has served his fourteen terms
| consecuively, except that he missed the
| Forty-second congress; the other Is VIII
lam Steele Holman, who, to be sure,
began in the Thirty-sixth congress,
or two congresses before Mr..
O'Neill, but who missed the Thirty
ninth, the FortY-fifth and the Forty-sixth
congress- and so is at best nothing more
than stepfather or fosterfather for the
J House, although, | am sorry 10 say, the
| speaker grve him precedence at the last SEES
sion by permitting him to administer the
oath Of office. However, both the fathers
will be reelected TO what will be the If
tenth term for each, and no doubt the
| speaker will do the gracious and graceful
thing in giving Father O'Neill, next con-
gress, the honors which we're given to Father
| Holman in this congress.
PHLADELPHIA's BUSINESS WISDOM.
am happy to see that Philadelphia,
which long ago learned the practical bust
ness wisdom of keeping the same men as its
representatives In the House, is going to re-
turn the solid delegation just as 1t was in
the last House. Even if the men in the
Philadelphia delegation were not as intelli-
gent, as sklltul or as Jealous as they are all
we'll known to be, the experience they have
acquired during the time they have been
here is just so much legislative capital on
which their constituents can draw with as
surance that their drafts will not be dis
honored.
When a new man comes to Washington,
no matter how brilliant, how industrious,
how enthusiastic he may be, he has got to
learn what these men have already mas
tered. Sometimes he has the peculiar tai
ents and aptitudes which enabled Repre-
sentative McAleer 10 get two years expert
enoe in one, but oftener he Is of very little
use to his district, to the House or to the
country at large until be has completed his
first term and is well into the second.
The business of legislation does not differ
essentially from any other business and
comes directly under the rule recognized
everywhere by business men, that, other
things being equal, experience multiplies
efficiency almost in geometrical proportion.
WHAT GAVE THE SOUTH AN ADVANTAGE.
1t is trite to say that the disproportionate
influence Of the south in congress before the
war was largely due to the fact that it re-
turned its senators and its representatives
from term to term until they had at times
something like a corner on legislative ex-
perienoe, and were always able to bring
more experience TO bear, when emergencies
arose, than the representatives from the
north.
In Washington, as everywhere else, &C.
quatntance with men, with methods, with
traditions. with all the facts which cannot
sential to success, and IL goes without say
ing that the man who has been here long
enough to get acquainted with the men and
the things he ought to know at the capitol
and IN the departments is better able to
serve his constituents, his state and his
country than the man who has to spend his
time IN gaining this acquaintance.
wAsHINGToN's POPULARITY.
Washington is not to be exhausted, as
some of the tourists seem to think. in a
week or O month Indeed it is not to be- az
hausted in year or decade. 1t is a peren-
NAL fountain. fed by living and constant
streams, 1t is true of it that "a little learn
ing Is a dangerous thing" and that the
deeper a man thinks of it the more valua-
BILE he is TO a newspaper a constituency, a
| political party or anything else that he may
represent. This is more generally recog-
nized now than ever before, and It explains
why so many Of the leaders on bots sides
| are coming back again from congress to
congress.
FOUR WHO WILL NOT COME BACK
So far there are only four men of promi-
hence in the House who seem certain not to
be in the next House, aud one of them NAV
yet get in. James 81. Blount, who has
represented the Macon (fa.) district for
twenty years chairman of the committee on
foreign affairs Of the present House, and
Hilary A. Herbert, who has represented
the Montgomery (Ala.) district for sixteen
years, chairman OF the naval affairs COM
mittee In the present House, and Sherman
Hoar, the brilliant young nephew OF Sena-
tor George Frisbie Hoar, who won
his spurs in his first session last
winter, have declined reelection, and
John J. Hemphill, who has represented the
Chester Is. c. district for ten years, has
been, it is announced, defeated for renomi-
nation by the third party, but proposes to
contest the point, and may establish the fact
that, as he claims, he was really the choice
of the people. he is an admirable man
personally and as a legislator, and il is
generally to he hoped that he will be re-
turned after all but, even II he should not
be, he and the three gen ;lemen who have
declined reelection would be altogether a
small percentage Of the leaders of the
House.
PROMINENT MEN WHO WILL BE RETURNED.
Benton McMillin of Tennessee, the titular
leader of the House under the new system
established by Speaker Crisp, who is now
serving his fourteenth year IN congress, will
be returned as matter Of course. He has,
believe, never had any opposition to the
nomination, which is equivalent to the cleo
tlon, since he was first elected TO the Forty
sixth congress. Thomas G. CatohinRs of Mis-
sissippi, the next member of the committee on
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