The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-01

VINO is succeeded by Harry u. Stiles, OF
Allentown. Grant Herring's mantle
falls upon ]. Henry Cochran, of Will
Transport. Ex-State Chairman william
Fl. Andrews displaces the Crawford
county Democratic senator, S. J. Logan.
John j. Coyle, Republican representa-
tive in the last session Is the successor
Of Democratic Senator Monaghan, OF
Schuylkill. The ratio Of thirty three
Republicans to seventeen Democrats is
changed to forty-three Republicans and
seven Democrats, in the senate. The
familiar figures who again appear in
clude all the old Philadelphians, and,
among others, Jesse M. Baker, of Della
ware; Henry D. Green, Berlks; John
Fl. Lands, Lancaster; s. ]. McCarrell,
Dauphin; General Goblin, Lebanon; w.
II. Hackenburg, the Northumberland
champion. of an excise commission; l..
K. keefer, Schuylkill; ex-Auditor Gen.
eral Lemon, Blair; Messrs. Finn and
upperman, Allegheny; and James 8.
Fruit, Mercer.
Old Timers in the House.
Or three conspicuous old-timers. John
Cessna, B. L. Hewitt and George v.
Lawrence, all ex-speakers, who were
leaders In the last house the first two
are dead, but Mr.. Lawrence will be
back to introduce and battle for q con-
gressional apportionment bill giving to
Philadelphia and Allegheny counties
each an additional congressman. The
best known of the other missing states
men of the house, as enumerated by n
sprightly 'old timer" in the press gal
lery, will include Captain Ziegler. of
Adams; Emmanuel Wertheimer, Of
Allegheny, whose efforts at liquor legis-
lation always made stir; Samuel NJ.
Lafferty, of Allegheny, who had a hard
road to travel as chairman of the COM
mittee that handled the Penrose bill to
abolish the Public Building commits
sion; Captain John w. Nesbit, the tow
ering hickory of the Youghioghenv;
David II. Branson, the Chester county
expert on blue blood sheep; School
master Edward Tewksbury, the cham-
pion of nti-discrimination, anti-free
passes and enforcement of all the dead
letter provisions of the constitution;
Samuel NJ. Wherry, the constitutional
eXpounder and leader of the Demo-
cratic side of the house. whose county,
Cumberland, puts Republicans in both
its seats; and George f.. Hepburn, of
Delaware, learned in agriculture, but
unsophistcated in the devious ways Of
the Hill"
Big, eloquent Captain Skinner, of Full
ton, is succeeded by a Republican. The
humorous Henry Butterfield, of Erie,
and the Yankee makeup and address
of j. Russell Thornton, of Fayette, will
be missed, as will also the stalwart
labor exponent, NJ. T. Burke, of Lacka-
wanna. the Public Buildings commits
sioners' catechzer, NJ. N. Bernhard, of
Lehigh; the sprightly young leader and
convincing talker, Walter e. Ritter, of
Lycoming; Mexican county's former
candidate for speaker, w. Il. Burdick
Farmer" Taggart, of Montgomery,
who is dead S. A. Losch, of SchuyIkill,
who was never uninteresting: c. c.
Thompson, of Warren, speaker of the
last house, and II. NJ. Bortner the pas
toral bard Of York.
Other Interesting Notablcs.
With the majority of the most widely
known of the Philadelphians will re-
turn to the house appropriation COM
mittee Chairman Marshall, of ALLIE
gheny; John Kearns, who Is Just as
lonely a Democrat from Allegheny as
John ii. Fow will be from Philadelphia
the red-headed hopeful Armstrong
strategist, S. b. Cochrane; the Brad
ford county son of Plymouth Rock, f.
l.. Kinner; Prohibitionist D. B. Dou-
THEFT, of Butler; Chester county's cham
pion manipulation of sliding boards for
Democrats with contested seats, D.
Smith Talbot; George Kunkel, Dau-
phin's timber for the speakership; the
mild-mannered editor, Ward r. Bliss
Of Delaware; the Huntingdon imam
who looks like Quay" p. NJ. Lytle; the
gigantic local optionist, Noah Seanor
Of Indiana; the persistent advocate OF
compulsory education, John r. Farr
Of Lackawanna; the suave anti-Pen.
rose-bill pleader, II. L. North. of Nc.
Kean; the champion absentee of the
last session, f. A. Comfy, of Montgom-
cry, and his colleague, the Beau Brum-
mel of the house, Editor b. Whitman
Dambly; the shrill-voiced objector and
protester, John A. Kipp. of Pike, the
leader of the rural tax agitators
Jerome b. Niles, of Tioga; the fiowery
Union editor, B. X. Focht. and the oil
reeioh ihou'hpiece' H. H. James, ol
'e',ahso r ~
an us rhiiaoeiphla papers To-Day
cUhtaiheu noolces Oh the nght against
rieitz me Fress had the most accu'
ra,e account. IL salu the Lackawanna
ueleEatiol was evenly divided over the
reauihs c,erhsh'p' part OF II peihg foi
rieLtz ana part ior James T. watkins
whom Representative farf urged. Mr.
Watklhs hau originally been candi-
oate ior cierkship IN the state depart
meht. both General Reeder ana Lieu
tenant-GOVernor-elec Lyon opposed