The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
CHANGES IN CONGRESS
ALABAMA's DELEGATION KEPT
 NEARLY INTACT.
Richardson of Tennesse, Maddox of Georgia and Dinsmore of Arkan- sas Some of Those Who
 Will Retire.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building.


 Washington, April T.
 Only small proportion of members of the House of Representatives are as yet easy on the question of succeeding them- selves All of the Alabama members have had their cases settled by their eonstitu- ents. and. barring the Fifth District. the nine House members from that State will be the same :n the Fifty-ninth as in the Fifty-eighth Congress.
 From the Fifth District. in place of the late Charles w. Thompson, will come J Thomas Hefin. now serving as secre- tary of States Mir. Hefiin will bring to Washington much local reputation as an effective and entertaining speaker. What he will develop after he gets here will de- pend upon several contingencies. Many great stump speaker has come to the House and been submerged and obscured by other considerations. On the other hand. there have been few who have been able to command attention which is about the hardest of all things for a member to get; but 1t is undoubtedly es- sential that the power of compelling att tention. unless the speaker is an extra ordinary orator must be backed by some thing else than readiness to talk, MT. Hefin. having been elected to the full term for the Fifty-ninth as well as the unexpired term for the present Congress. nomination being equivalent to election. will have abundant opportunity to im- press himself upon the House in the three years of Congressional service assured him
 r Three veteran Democrats of the present House will not be members of the next House. Two of them, Representative James D. Richardson of Tennessee and John W. Maddox of Georgia. will volun- tarily retire. Major Richardson to de- vote himself to the affairs of the South ern jurisdiction of the Masonic order, of which he is the head and Judge Maddox to the practice of his profession. the law.
 Major Richardson will retire after just twenty years as a member of the House. having entered March 4 1885. Judge Mad dox goes out after twelve years service. The third member. Hon. Hugh A. Dins- more of Fayetteville. Ark. has repre- sented the Third District with distinguish ed credit since 1893. Mir Dinsmore was a successful lawyer before he entered pub lie, life. He was appointed by President Cleveland Minister and Consul-General to Korea. serving in that capacity from 1887 to 1890.
 Mir Dinsmore has been one of the Democratic leaders in Congress, not be- cause he ever thrust himself forward, ! but because of genuine merit. wide in- formation, readiness in debate and vail ability to his party when good. courage ous work was needed. He is now the senior Democratic member of the Com mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in the event of the House being in control of the Democrats next Congress, he would undoubtedly be the chairman of that inn portant committee, in the even, of his re- maining in the House.
 Mir. Dinsmore's defeat for renomina- tion, after close contest, was a great surprise to his fellow members. 1t seem- ed hard for them to understand how so popular a Congressman highly esteemed on both sides. of the House and recogniz- ed generally for his superior ability as we'll as for his admirable qualities of heart, should have to give way to any competitor The sentiment here was rather bluntiy. perhaps, summed up in the comment of an admirer of Mir. Dins- more who is unacquainted with the vaga- ries of Arkansas politics. 'He must have either a mighty 'measley lot of constitu- ents or a wonderful sort of fellow to suc- ceed him."
 The defeated Congressman has taken his reverse with a grace and saving hu- l1or worthy of emulation, While he was at home looking after his battered fences and perhaps ruefully contemplating the wreckage, the primary election having just occurred, a friend wired to know when he would return to Washington. Dinsmore replied:
 "I will be in Washington with the re- mains on Monday"
 Hugh A. Dinsmore is too fine a quality of man to be permitted to remain in re- tirement. His numerous friends in and out of Congress are well assured that he Is a man of rare qualifications for emil nefft public service.
 R H Watkins