Evening star., 1901-11-23
successor to w. A. Roddhb,,rg. republican,
now civil service commissioner In Wash
Missouri and Kentucky.


now civil service commissioner in Wash
ington usE N.
Missouri and Kentucky.
Missouri contributes but one new MEN,
Der to her delegation, James T. Butler. the
well-known democratic lawyer and capi-
talist of st. Louis, twelfth district, tall,
stout, smooth-faced and isandy-haired sue
ceeding Charles E. Pearce, republican.
Iowa also contributes but one new member
Capt John N. w. Rumple of Marengo a
republican from the second, district, in
place of Joe r. Lane. Nebraska'S only new
member is Ashton c. Shallenberger of
Alma, a populist, from the fifth district.
Kansas sends new republican congress-
man-at-large in the person ,of Charles
Scott of Iowa, succeeding w. J. Bailey
and a single democrat, Alfred NJ. Jackson
of Winfield, third district, succeeding E. r.
Ridgey, populist Scott, who is literary
man and journalist, a college graduate and
a former state senator, is forty years of
age, tall and slender, with light hair and
mustache and blue eyes behind his eye
| glasses. Jackson, handsome and prepos-
sessing, is of equal age, a Georgian by
birth and lawyer by profession.
Kentucky replensheS- her delegation with
five new faces, one republican and tour
democrats. Harvey S. Irwin, the republi-
can, comes from Louisville, fifth district,
vice Oscar Turner, democrat. The new
ton, in place of Albert S. Berry sixth dis
trict; South Trimble, young man of
Frankfort, who succeeds June w Gayle,
seventh; James N. Kehoe of Maysvllle,
newspaper editor, succeeding Samuel J.
Pugh, republican, in the ninth, and John
B. White of Irvine, succeeding Thomas Y.
Fitzpatrick in the tenth. Tennessee's new
contingent is confined to two young demo-
Gratis, Lemuel p Padgett of Columbia. sue
ceeding the venerable N. N. Cox seventh
district, and Malcolm Patterson of Mem
phiS, successor to E. w. Carmack, now
senator. Patterson is a son of the we'll
known Joseph Patterson. is a lawyer and
orator and an ardent Bryan free silver
man, though his father is for. sound money
From the West.
From Texas come three fresh democratic
members-Choice B. Randell of Sherman,
fifth district, succeeding Joseph w. Bailey,
promoted to the Senate; Dudley G. Wooten
of Dallas, sixth district, vice the late R.
E. Burke, and George F. Burgess of Con-
zales, tenth or Galveston district, replac-
ing r. B. Hawley, republican,
North Dakota contributes Thomas F.
Marshall, a thoughtful young man, as her
sole representative, and Utah has made
choice of a gentleman and a scholar in the
person of George Sutherland, republican, of
Salt Lake City, forty years old, who will
certainly not be challenged on the score
of polygamy.
California concludes the list with two
particularly good-looking republicans
Frank l.. Coombs of Napa, vice John A.
Barham, twenty-first district, and Samuel
D. Woods of Stockton, who captured the
democratic second district, lately represent
ed by Marion De Eries, now serving as an
appraiser of customs. Woods particularly
Will be an ornamental ADDITION to the hand
some circle. He resembles the late Walter
Q. Gresham Secretary of State in Cleve-
lands second cabinet.
Solid Delegations.
Solidly republican delegations come from
twenty-one states and territories, namely,
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa,
Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,
New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Yer
mont, Washington, West Virginia, Wiscon-
sin, Wyoming, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Twelve of them, however, are small. On
the other side there are solidly democratic
delegations from ten states and one terri
tory-Georgia, Louisiana Mississippi South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Ala
bama, Arkansas and Arizona. Four small
delegations consist of populists or silver
ites-Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Ne
vada. The delegate from Hawaii, Robert
w. Wilcox, cannot be classified with auy
particular party.
The sixteen new senators were sworn in
on the 4th of March last, and for that ,ea-
son the public interest in their appearance
at the reassemblingS of the Senate is som=-
what discounted Four of them-Senators
Blackburn of Kentucky, Clark of Montana.
Dubois of Idaho and Mitchell of Oregurr-
had formerly served in the Senate, but had
dropped out for a term The other eight
are Joseph w. Bailey of Texas, Murphy J.
Foster of Louisiana, Paris Gibson of Mon
tana, Anselm J. McLaurin of Mississippi,
Furnifold Mel. Simmons of North Caro-
lima and Edward w. Carmack of Tennessee,
democrats; Henry E. Burnham of New
Hampshire, Joseph r. Burton of Kansas,
Charles H. Dietrich and Joseph H. Millard
of Nebraska and r. J. Gamble of South
Dakota, republicans, and Thomas NJ. Pat
terson of Colorado, populist silverite.
JOHN DORLAND CREMER.