Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-15
ROSTER OF THE DEFEATED.

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Prominent Members of the Present Con-
| gress Who Failed Of Reelection Tues
day-The "Father of the House'"a and the
Chairmen of the Most Important Stand
Ing Committees Numbered Among the
Fallen.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Of the 219
democrats in the present house. 146
| will not return. OF this number sixty
| one failed to receive denomination or
were not candidates, and the remain
der, eighty-fve, were defeated at the
| polls. Many of those defeated were
party leaders, had served for many
years and had chairmanships of inn
| portant committees. Among the miss
| ing will be the following: Mr.. Wilson,
| of West Virginia, chairman of the
ways and means committee, who has
represented his district since 1888; Mr..
Springer. of Illinois, who was chair
man of the ways and means COM
| mittee in the uFifty-second con-
| gress and in the present house
heads the banking and currency
committee and has represented the
Thirteenth Illinois district since 1874;
Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, the free silver
advocate, who holds the Craftsmanship
of the committee on coinage, weights
| and measures, and has looked after the
interests of the Eighth Missouri dis
trict since 1872; Mr.. Cummings, of New
York, who has served since the Fifty
first congress, to which he was elected
to succeed S. S. Cox, and who at pres
ent is chairman of the committee on
Go;
the first Missouri district, and who
has served since 1878, has been
chairman of the agriculture commit
tee for number of years, and was
candidate for the speakership in
the Fifty-second congress, and has
championed the ''anti-option" bill for
many years; Mr.. Holman, of Indiana,
''Father of the House," who has rep
resented the Fourth district of his
state, in the Thirty-ninth, Forty
fifth and Forty-sixth congresses, since
1859, and for years was chairman of
the appropriations committee and at
present heading the committee on In
dian affairs, whose economic policy
caused him to be called the watch
dog of the treasury;" Mr.. Cultivate,
of Ohio, a member of the committee
on rules and chairman of the
committee on military affairs, who
began his term in 1855, in
the Forty-ninth congress and has
served the Twelfth district since; Mr..
Henderson, of North Carolina, who has
represented the Seventh North Caro-
lima district since 1885, and been chair
man of the committee on post offices
and post roads for number Of years,
besides serving on other important
committees: Mr.. Heard, of Missouri,
who has represented the Seventh Mis-
souri, district since 1885, and who is
chairman of the committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia: Mr.. James Z. Reilly,
of Pennsylvania, who has served the
Thirteenth district three terms since
1889, is chairman of the commit
tee on Pacific railroads. and dur
ing this congress has devoted his
time to the preparation of a bill
looking to the settlement of the
affairs of the Pacific road: Mr.. Martin,
of Indiana, who looks after the inter-
ests of the Eleventh district, has served
since 1889, and at present heads the
committee on invalid pensions; Mr..
McGann, who has represented the Third
Illinois district since 1891, is chairman
of the la Dor committee, and during this
congress has endeavored to pass some
measure looking to the peaceful set
Element of strikes and labor troubles;
Mr.. Fithian, of Illinois, who repre-
sents the Seventeenth district and has
served since 1880; is the chairman OF
the committee on merchant marine
and fisheries, and the promoter of the
free ship bill; Mr.. Brown, of Indiana,
who has looked after the interests
of the Third district since 1889,
and who heads the important commit
tee on elections. Mr.. De Forest, who
represents the Fourth Connecticut dis
trict, and who has served since 1891
and heads the committee on reform in
the civil service; Mr.. Geissenhainer,
who has represented the third New
jersey district since 1889, and is now
chairman of the committee on immi-
grafton and naturalization; Mr.. Enloe,
of the Eighth Tennessee district, who
made the fight on the republican pen
sion office administration, and who
has served in congress since 1887 and
is chairman of the committee on edu-
cation.
the ways and means committee but
three-Messrs. Turner, of Georgia;
Tarsney. of Missouri, and McMillin, of
Tennessee-retain their seats in con-
gress.
By the defeat of Holman and Bland
and the death of Charles O'Neill, OF
Pennsylvania, who were the three
oldest members of the house of repre-
sentatives in continuous service when
position of Father of the House"
is left almost without claimant. The
honor of swearing in Mr.. Thomas B.
Reed as speaker of the Fifty-fourth
congress will probably devolve upon
Mr.. David b. Culberson, of Texas,
or Mr.. Thomas J. Henders On, of Illi-
nois both of whom entered upon con-
gressional life with the Forty-fourth
congress in 1875, and have served ever
since.
Mr.. Alfred c. Harmer was elected
to the Forty-second congress in 1871,
but lost his seat in the Forty-fourth
congress. Mr.. Joseph c. Cannon, of
Illinois. entered congress in 1878, but
broke the continuity of his service by
falling of reelection in 1890.
Narrow Escape From Suf1ocatfon of Four
Persons.
CHICAGO, Nov. AT an early hour
yesterday morning fire was discovered
by some workmen under the stage in
the Freiberg opera house building on