The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-02
THE FOURTH CONGRESS-
CHANGES IN THE PERSONNEL---MEN WHO ARE EXPECTED
TO MAKE MARK---NOTEwORTHY FACTS


Fourth congress will begin its FIRST SEES
sion in Washington to-day When its
members were chosen, there was a
grave question whether they would be
called together last spring In extra
Urinary session. The president did not
see the necessity for that. so the regu-
lar session OF the congress is its first
session. and the men who will gather
IN the hall Of the house OF representa-
lives and the senate chamber will have
waited IL months for the exercise of
the privileges and powers conferred on
them in the election of 1894
No. not all the privileges. The ser
geant-at-arms has habit, long estab-
lished by common usage, of advancing
newly elected members money on :heir
salaries after the 4th of March pro-
vided there Is no contest for their seats.
The pay of members and senators be-
gins March 4 at noon. though neither
members nor senators are sworn in
until the meeting of congress, which
may not occur. as in the present case,
until nine months later
In at least one instance, which is a
part of the unwritten history of the
house. the experimentation advanced
money to a member who was contest
ing a seat. knowing that the contest
ant was of the same faith as the ma
5ority OF the members of the house
and having no doubt that the contest
would be decided in his favor from po-
litical sympathy, as is the common
rule. And Ii is also recorded in the
memories of many of the older men,
bers that this contest was decided on
its merits. and that the sitting men,
Der was permitted to keep his sear,
which so complicated the accounts of
the officers of the house that a great
scandal resulted. Since that time no
money has been advanced to members
until 1t had been earned, at least con-
structively. Constructively a member
serves his country from noon of the
4th Of March after his election; actual
1y the new member in most cases be-
gins his work after the first Monday
in December.
The Pennsylvania Avenue Parade.
The procession which will move on
the capitol by way OF Pennsylvania
avenue Monday morning. Dec. 2, will
be remarkable chiefly for the absence
OF familiar faces.
MIR. Reed of Maine will be there, no
doubt. He usually walks to the capi-
tol because IL affords him the only ex-
ercise he gets during the long legisla-
tive day, and even Through the term of
his speakershtp, so soon to be renewed,
his slow, swinging gait was familiar to
the pedestrians on the avenue between
10 and IL o'clock of every bright MORN
ing.
His colleague, Boutelle, just back
from Europe, win be another pedestrian
figure. SO will the hard worked Ding
ley and the earnest, thtn-faced Milliken
for the election of 1894 left the Maine
delegation intact.
Dockery of Missouri, cordially hated
by the department clerks for his cru
SADIE in navor of the revision of the list
of government employees. will be one of
the few survivors of the Missouri con-
PreSSonHl COLONY.
Cobb of st. Louis. elected in spite OF
himself; the fiery Tarsney of Kansas
City, Hall and DeArmond are all that
are left to Missouri, but Charles F. JOY
OF St. Louis, who was unseated by the
democratic house two years ago, will
have his revenge as he strolls up tine
avenue, rehearsing the list of men who
voted against him and who are now in
private life.
Private john Allen of Mississippi.
the quaint humorist whose fun Is never
bitter or malicious, and fernando
Money, his colleague, now a hot con-
tesuamt for the senatorship from his
state. are both In the new congress,
but Money will possibly be ait home on
Monday. attending ITO his senator
1al fences.
Ex-Speaker Crisp will join the process
sion at his winter home. the Metropoli-
tan hotel, headquarters of Southern
statesmen, but the Metropolitan no
longer harbors the courtly Ransom, so
dong a member of the senate, now min
lister to Mexico.
Cannon of Illinois, grizled and gray,
Will pull his slouched hat over his eyes
as he turns into the avenue from Fiji
teenth street and maets the rays of the
morning sun. Six years ago he was a
CANDIDATE for speaker against the man
who is now the unanimous choice OF
the republican members of the house.
Burrows of Michigan, another of the
candidates at that political crisis is
now a senator from the state of Michi-
gan, promoted to higher honors at the
last session of congress.
Cobb OF Alabama, best known as the |
author or Where ann / at?' is one OF |
the survivors of the last political revo- |
luton.
Hilborn of California, turned out
ike Joy OF Missouri, returns as he did |
TO serve his full term this time. Catch |
ings of Mississippi, confident of the |
administration. is another of the sur /
vivors. SO II McCreary. ex-governor /
OF Kentucky. but he and Berry are the 1
only members of the old delegation /
left
The face of Breckenridge will be
missing. SO will many another famil-
lar face-Bland of Missouri, father of /
the cart wheel dollar; Holman of In
diana. watchdog Of the treasury for 80
years: Bourke Cochran, New Yorks
famous campaign orator; Byran of
Nebraska. the boy orator of the
Platte:" Springer of Illinois. who in
troduced the famous anti-third term
resolution in the house when Grant
was a candidate. and who has been
sent to Oklahoma 10 fill judges place
side by side with that famous kicker,
KHgore of Texas.
Conn OF Indiana will not be in the
congressional parade, he will eye IL
not enviously from the Office Of his
Washington newspaper. for like that
other ex-congressman. Beriah Wilkins
OF OHIO. he has prospered in the field
OF journalism at the capital.
But the list is too long. II would fiji
a column 10 record all that have gone
and all that still remain. To the stran-
ger eye perhaps the procession will be
much as tx was two years ago. Here
and there a face made familiar by the
oartoon.st VIII appear. but for the I
most part the crowd on the famous
a Vewrro on r1Drrr'a,rr Of h. Il