Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-14


hung in effigy by an irate silver constituency
for daring to vote against unlimited coinage.
He drew the short term when Wyoming was ad-
mi:ted to statehood. bat has been recognized
AZ forcesul and active possibility in national
legislation.
DAWES WILL Pc MISSED.
An important retirement will be that OF tho
Massachusetts Senator who succeeded Charles
Sumner and who has served his state at Wash
ingtou since the ThIrty-fifth Congress. To
look at senator Dawes now it is hard to realize
the vast amount of national work that he has
gone through. Every Indian village has heard
Of Dawes name, while the nomenclature of
Tho Great Father az Washington is hardly
known. lie the recognized authority on
Indian subjects for years before experts from
the west joined the Senate, and up to the last
b. was able to- maintain his position at the head
Of the committee on Indian affairs. But Dawes
has been more than that. His lite has practi-
caliy been spent in the two branches of Con-
cress. and IN his younger days his fire and
vigor rarely failed 10 hold Congress until his
purpose had been accomplished. At the time
Blame was speaker of the House Dawes was one
OF the most interesting figures in Congress,
and III the stirring events OF that period he
made rel utation that he has sustained through
all the years that have followed.
N CONNECTICUT.
IA chairman of the military committee
Senator Hlvlev has stood behind such
measures as he deemed best calculated to
administer the affairs of the military forces
- ~ 10 make them most effective and at the
-ume time not source of reckless expenditure.
He has prosIded over one OF the greatest mill
tary committees the Senate has known and
had !: been in time of war instead of peace i.
w"u.d have been committee that would have
become historical His reelection will be a
source II great qualification to the republicans.
Wilbur L. Sanders, the vigllante Senator from
Montana WI! be missing. lie has made a re-
liable member.
California finds itself trembling on the verge
OF the democratic ranks. Senator Stanford has
recognized that the state which he suppO-ed
was placed firmly in the hands of the republic
cans Is just now moving the other way as far as
senatorial representation goes. FELTON,. the
millionaire oil man, whom Stanford placed in
II ncle George Hearst ; shoes. il compelled to
yield to democrat Stanford himselfis nearly
seventy years old and has not been robust for
several years II successor had to be elected
now California might add another TO the demo-
cratic cohorts in the Senate. Governor Stan
ford will regard this phase of the possibility
with such dread that his escort OF a democratic
coll aSue to the Vice Presidents desk to take
the oath Of office will be an unpleasant prone
made.
But Stanford is not the only republican Sena-
tor who will find it a mournful march Man
derson of Nebraska will walk up to the desk to
sec the republican G Of this state in the Sem
ate divided With a democrat or third party man
Carey OF Wyoming vii! be apt to have to stand
sponsor for democrat
While this division of representation IN the
Senate works to the advantage of both parties
Il cOInpeIs each member to attend more strictly