The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-02
OUR WORST PERIL
The Republican Congress
Assemblies at Washing
ton Today.
SAME OLD DERlsIyE LAUGHTER
Tom Reed Is Speaker and the
Party Juggernaut Is Again
in Motion.
NEW FACES AND OLD MEN
Evidence that the Policy of 1889
Will Be Readopted-Flowers
for Sewell.
NEW FACES AND OLD MEN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. 1Ss5.-The
Fifty-fourth Congress began its public
sessions at noon tLday with crowded gal
leries and many other manifestations OF
acute interest in its proceedings, includ-
ing of course the inevitable floral decor
ations. For the third time in the last
twenty-five years the popular will found
expression in a reversal of political
dominance. and the new Congress was
called tor order with Democratic as
cendaney in the Senate on the point OF
disappearing and the House overwhelrn-
ingly Republican.
There were fifteen new faces among
the Senators. not counting Mr.. Chiffon
OF Texas. who re-occupies a seat he once
held before by appointment and there
were in addition thirteen reelected Sen
ators to be sworn in by Vice President
Stevenson, as their own successors. or
the holding-over Senat tors whose terms
will expire two years from now, some of
the most prominent, including Black
burn Brice, Hill, Voorhees,. Vest and
PETER, took their seats today with the
shades hanging over them of strong prob
ability that their places might be filed
by others when this Congress expires.
SENATE CHANGES.
The T6naDllIdISQ oGldl0 Cld1l1DSA i0N
quite changed appearance. This arose
as much from the rearranging OF the
seats of those who remain as from the
absence of familiar faces of those who
had been retired Suave and courteous
Ransom of North Carolina, transferred
to Mexico; courtly, handsome General
. Butler of South Carolina, succeeded by
the rugged Populist leader Tillman:
Dolph's flowing whiskers, Mandersop's
alert face and sonorous voice, Wash
burne's dignffied presence and McPher-
sons matchiess deportment-the con-
spicuous absence of all these and the
presence of so many new men gave the
Senate an unaccustomed look.
In the House of Representatives the
changes were still more marked. One
of the features which evoked comment
from the galleries was the youth1ul ap-
pearance of many of the new mem
bers Several States have sent as rep
reseutati1nes men who are still in their
twenties. Probably two score OF ~ otiiTIe tL,e
are under forty; IN point OF age GENE tne
Present House is the Youngest Known t30,l
These boyish appearing members, br1gnt
faced. intelligent looking well groomea
well hammered and well creased, co?i,ege
men most of them. presented a striking
contrast in their youthful appearance 70
their veteran associates, such as
heard gives him a venerable appear
ance disproportionate to his age; TO eS-
Speaker Galushu Grow of Pennsylvania,
hale. hearty and vigorous. despite e2S
seventy and odd years. to Culberson
term. and other of the House veterans
whose political prospects We're not tenn
porarily submerged in the November
eieO sl0-'' = New FACES.
There was Mahany of New York, the
successor of Daniel Lockwood, who was
so prominently identified with President
Cleyeland's early political career; Watson
M man, a,'9s3 Who had ID been elected to the House
so repeatedly that it was not thought
possible to defeat him: George B. Nc
family name renowned in American his
tory, filing the seat held in the last
York. Robert ". Taylor of Ohio, his
glasses bringing into. stronger relief the
Intellectual quality Of his face. the pos
SCISSOR also OF distinguished family
name in the western reserve anr repre-
senting the district made famous by Nc
Kinley; Hugh r. Belknap Of Illinois, ]. a
have defeated McGann from the Third
Chicago district; quiet, modest and .un-
Grants first secretary of war; Boyton
of West Virginia, who succeeded VIM.
I: Wilson, now Postmaster General;
young editor of the Boston Advertiser
and late Speaker of the State Legislature
these and others of the younger ele-
SOME OLDER MEN.
But there We're others among the House
ueophyteS, older men who also claimed
were William c. Owens of Kentucky,
who defeated the silver-tongued Breck-
inridge of Lexington for denomination,
typical Southerner in appearance and
in conversation Then there were Ches-
ter I. Long of Kansas, dark complex
persolality, who was repeatedly pointed
out as the successor of Jerry Simpson,
the Populist leader of Medicine Lodge;
j. G. Spencer, the successor of General
Hooker of Mississippi, for many years
conspicuous in the House because of his
long experience smooth and polished or
atory and courtesy in debate; James A.
Connolly, who in size reminds the older
members of stephen a. Douglass, who
takes the place of William NJ, Sprague,
now United States Judge in the Indian
Territory: in representing Abraham Lin
coins old district in Illinois, Walter
Evans of Kentucky, one OF the s3OS,
Artlll1r,s Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue; Frederick Halternan OF Phliadel- lei
paia, representing Samuel j. RandaTs
old district, which never before sent a
Republican to Congress; John M CoWen
of Maryland, the senior counsel OF lhe
Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company
prominently identified with all the po.
litical reform movements in Baltimore OF
late years, and Theodore L. Poole OF
New York. a one-armed veteran soldler
of the late war, who succeeds the Mil
lionaire Belden of Syracuse.
OLD FAMILIAR FACES.
There were also many familiar faces
faces that are wei known to the halp-
itues of the gallery as the bronze god
these we're Cannon and Hit of Illinois,
Henderson and Bolliver of Iowa, Ding
Z lev Milliken and Boutelle of Maine.
T5avne Sherman and Wadsworth of
New York: Wheeler Of Alabama, Rus Rus
from the Speakership to the leadership
Of the opposition, and his colleague
Judge Turner Of. Georgia: Walker Of
M % $50 .cI1qlsetts, Allen and Catchiilgs, of
fsa Mfississippi Doekery of Missouri Her
men Of Oregon. BINGHAM, Harmer. Rey;
McMHlin and Richardson OF Tennes-
see. ,-,, ,roI,or
IN ft,a fInnse Of Representatives, the
crowd Of SPECTATORS was probably s-Se3
largest On record. The floral tributes.
In design. added an attractive background