The times., 1897-03-15
NEW SESSION Of CONGRESS
Continued from First Page.

tG Western Hes' .......... ..:... SO SO 8 10 Il
Totals .......... 242 115 203 154
The new Congress is also quite reniar6
| able for the veterans that come back to
| the House after absence. The most not able
is Judge Holman. the great objector, who
| is once more the recipient of a vote of con
| fidence by his constituents. His service In
| the House antedates that OF any other mem
| Der, except Galusha a. Grow, and if he
| lives until the close of his new term he
| win have seen thirty-two years service in
| the House. He has been twenty-one times
candidate for Congress from the sa me dis
| trict and been five times defeated. Judge
| Holman 5 now seventy-four years old, but
still hale and vigorous.
Another veteran is Jehu Baker, of Hi
| nos. lie has Il habit of making long breaks
! in lis Congressional service, but comes
back whenever he desires. Mr.. Baker was
member of the Thirty ninth and Fortieth
Congresses, heing elected both times over
William K Morrison. Twenty years after
ward, in SS5, he was again elected, this
time again defeating Morrison, who was
then chairman of the Ways n. Means Com
nlttce. Now he comes once more to the
House, as "a Populist and democratic can
didate. Baker is now seventy-five years
Old. He has fine old face, and will be
one of the much-noticed men in the House
today.
Rice A. Pierce, of Tennessee, is another
veteran. He used to be SO radical a silver
man that he was regarded as dangerous,
but he now returns to find that the party
is in danger of galloping past him. Pierce
ig liTr hp lyS ba
Tennessee Congressional veterans He
has always had to fight hard for his nomi-
nations. He was a member of the Forty
eighth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Con-
crosses. He Is fiery speaker and viii
De heard from frequently on the floor.
Andrew j. Hunter comes back from Iii
nois. He is another old-tiner of Sucker
State politics. He is now siXty-six years
old, and has frequently been a candidate
for Congress, and only but once before was
successful, coming then from the State
az large. When the State was redistricted
he was thrown into FIhians district and
was beaten for denomination, but this was
followed by Fithian's defeat for re-elec-
ton
And back comes dear SockIess Jerry
from Kansas. No man ever made more
friends during his service in Congress
than Simpson. Jerry is an aggressive
dchater and made an excellent record in
the House. He is n native New Bruins
wicker, but has lived in Kansas twenty
years. He has been four times a candidate
for Congress, three times against Long
whom he defeated last fan
Sidney Mudd, Of Maryland, is a near
neighbor OF the District, and has now come
to be regarded as next to Wellington, the
big Republican boss OF the State He
served a short term in the Fifty-firSt
Congress, being seated on a contest with
Barnes Compton. Since then he has been
speaker of the Maryland house
Other old familiar faces are those of the
veteran Dick Bland Of Missouri, and
Champ Clark, Of the same State, whose
service in Congress has been brief, but
who became noted as one OF the .5reeZiest
debaters in the body.
From New York return two veterans
Gen. John II. ketCham and James j. Bel
den. The Syracuse statesman had to run
as an independent in order TO regain his
old seat. Gen. Ketcham supposed that his
in 1899 was final, but he liked
his old Congressional life too well, and here
trct. He received 10000 majority. Gen.
Ketcham is now siXty-four years old. He
was first elected to Congress in 1861 |
BE was then thirty-one years old and d
major r-general in the volunteer army. He |
was for three years Commissioner OF the !
District Of Columbia. He served twenty |
four years in Congress.
Delegate Mark Smith is back from the |
land Of the Apache, and the cactus He is !
too well remembe red to need to be |
'ecalled. During his absence OF one |
.erm he has been assistant United States |
attorney for Arizona.
Samuel W. T Lanham of Texas, lost |
5he nomination in 1892 in the Fort Worth
district. His district had been reduced
n size by reapportionment, and he was
beaten in the smaller convention. Judge
Lanham is fifty years old, and has served
n five proceeding Congresses
Jacob Yost, Of Virginia, was in the
Fiftieth Congress. He was then n very
young man, but does not seem a day older
hen he appeared ten years ago. Yost
vas greatly disappointed by his failure to
,e seated ora contest in the last House.
d. 3. Ermentrout is back from Penn
ylvania after ten years absence, during
Which his solid Democratic district was
by Messrs. Brunner and Erd-
nan. And William McAleer has redeemed
he old Randall district once. more. As
sual, the Democratic vote in this district
vas split. Sam Hudson, the well-known
ewspaper correspondent, ran on an in
dependent silver ticket. But even with
his handicap the district gave an old
a Shipnpd Democrat ic ma iorifV
EX-Congressman Epes is back from the
etersburg district, after being out one
arm, and Col Elliot is here once again
rom South Carolina prepared to perform
racefully his part in the now tediously
amiliar performance of being unseated in |
lvor of a coIored brother.
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