The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-18
CHANGES IN NEXT CONGRESS-
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cratic sidll as there will be on the side
where sit the Grosvenois. Grows and
| Grouts of the republican faith The Fifty
sixth congress Win be especially notable
| for the absence OF many we'll known faces
that have been familiar congressional land
marks for many years and also FOR the
number OF strangers who have never be-
fore sat underneath the gaze OF aduiring
constituents and Tom Reed.
The Flfty-sixth congress will have to
grapple with questions OF greater interest
to the country at large than any con-
gross since the old DAYS of reconstruction.
Among those questions may be cited the
settlement of the war with Spain and the
ratification of the treaty of peace. the
vexed question growing out Of the internal
revenue bill whether or not 1t has come to
stay, the Nicaragua canal tho territorial
expansion question and the money ques-
ton. These will give many aspiring young
statesmen splendid opportunity to win their
spurs or lose them. This congress- will also
be notable for the number OF contests that
will be before elections committees. There
will be six from North Carolina. three from
Virginia four or five from Kentucky sew
eral from New York. Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts. as well as from other states.
making an aggregate Of thirty or forty
contested seats. When the curtain rises
on this congress the probabilities are that
we will witness splendid contest for the
epeakershdp. If the administration carries
t,h Nc, tt,,.
rs announced by one of the presidents
closest friends. there is going to be a hall
cyon and voclferous time.
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Among tho we'll known, faces that will
be missed from the Fifty sixth congress-
startling alphabetically with the States, we
come first to Milford w. Howard of Ala
bamu. Mr.. Howard is the popullst who
represented his district in the Fifty fourth
and Fifty-fifth CONGRESSES and who became
famous for his book entitled IF Christ
Came to Congress-" 1t was a vicious at
tack upon tho morals OF congressman in
particular and the City OF Washington gen.
orally. 1t cause him to be tabooed from
Washington society and ostracized by his
thing like Joe Bailey of Texas, whom he
personated several times when it involved
the introduction of a lady for which Mr..
Bailey threatened to shoot his head off, and
it stopped as suddenly rs a fat man falling
DOWN stairs with a cook stove. This man
viii be succeeded by J. l.. Burnett. a DEM
ocrat.
al Il,
among The missing. Senator White has
BEEN noted leader in the democratic party
having been chairman OF the ST. Louis
convention in 1883 and OF the Chicago con-
vsntion in 1896. This distinction came to
him probably on account OF his megalo-
phonous voice, which could be heard all
over the halls. Senator White is also a
big man intellectually having been edu-
Gated at Georgetown college, this city. for
a Jesuit priest. He made a record IN the
last congress in opposition to the anueHa-
ton of Hawaii and the war with Spain.
Judge Mcguire OF California, with his
clear, belllke voice. will also be missed
He declined to be a candidate for con-
gross and ran for governor of has State and
guire is an able man and prominent be-
cause of his adherence 20 Henry Georges
theories and his bitter opposition to the
Pacific railroad subsidies. Judge HiIborn
CT California Will also be absent from the
house roll call The Judge was member
OF the house naval affairs committee and
was crank on big naval appropriations
aud smokeless powder. In him the navy
has lost a good friend.
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Both Senator Gray and Representative
Handy, democrats OF Delaware. viii be
absent from the next congress Senator
Gray is now with tho Paris peace commls-
sion, and Handy looks like twin brother
of DeGnffenreid OF Texas
In Illinois Belknap, the son of President
Grants secretary of war. is probably de-
feated. Buck" Hinrchsen. the big demo-
crat from illinois, Will also fail to occupy
a seat in the next house. Another demo-
crat from Illinois who will also be miss
ing lis Andrew Jackson Hunter. the man
who has the distinction. and tho only Dis
tinction, OF looking like John G. Car
Isis.
In inc lEdlana delegation we will miss
the pasied but brilliant Turpie from thu
senate, and that verbal cataract and
chronic kicker, Henry IT, johnson from
una house. Mr., johnson has always thla
courage OF his convictions. He resigned
from one OF the house elections commit
tees because he differed with his party on
its policy OF urseating democrats by
Wholesale, and declined TO be a candidate
for reconciliation. James Hamilton Lewis.
the populist member from the State OF
Washington, once said OF the Indianan,
THAT the trouble With the republican
side of the house was too much Johnson"
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Bleeding" Kansas gave the democrats
and populists twist In tho late election
by leaving at home Mason Summers Peters.
the representative OF the stock yards dis
tItct of Kansas City. Kan; jeremiah d.
BoJkin, the shouting Methodist preacher,
and sui geperis jerry Slmpson. the Sock
less statesman of Medicine LODGE
Walter Evans. the republican member
from the Louisville, Ky. district and who
was kept here so hong by the whisky IN
tercsts, was defeated BY Oscar TURNER. son
Of an old memoer from chat State Davsa
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