Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-08
EX-SPEAKER AGAIN
 IN THE SADDLE
THE REMEMBRANCE OF FIX SPEAKER IN WASHINGTON IS OCCASION FOR REMlNISCENCE BY CORRESPONDENT


 Washington, Dec. IA rather tall
 broad-shouldered man, with gold-rim
 glasses and the air of a gentleman
 like western farmer. carrying a small
 leather satchel hardly big enough for
 two packages of tea, walked into. a
 leading Washington hotel the other
 night Approaching the desk he sue
 ceeded in registering before any one
 recognized General J. Warren Keller,
 who wielded the gavel over the
 Forty-seventh congress.
 The former speaker of the house,
 after a lapse of over a quarter of a
 century, was reelected to the Fifty
 ninth congress from the Seventh Ohio
 district, having made his campaign chiefly on the Crumpacker idea of re-
 ducing southern representation in congress. Those in a position to know declare that MT. Refers efforts along this line this winter will be unavail- ing. especial if he is relying on any comfort from the administra- Jion, as bIr Roosevelt has many irons of his own in the fire at present, and will incur no needless opposition among southern congressman. Gen eral Keller re-enters the world of pol itics and begins his career anew. He has received something of that con sideration and respect which was shown to another and older returning speaker, Galuhsa A. Grow of Penn sylvanis.
 Death sweeps away the figures in the moving row of politics so swiftly that an almost forgotten person emerging after a long disappearance is apt to find no welcome. In the senate there are still a few of the men who sat in it when Keller was speaker. Maine still sends Frye and Hale; Platt and General Hawley of Connecticut are dead, as also are sherman, Benjamin Harrison, John A. Logan, Vance, Wade Hampton, John J. Ingalls,, James B. Beck, Justin Morrell, Voorhees,, Isham G. Harris, Ransom, the witty and amiable Vest, | whose eufeebled body tried to punish him for the brilliancy of his mind; Windom, Hoar, David Davis, inde- pendent. who was president pro tenn of the senate and acting vice pres dent, and Malone, readjuster, who was smoked out in dramatic style by Ben Hill of Georgia, who for lofty satire, keen invective and invincible rejoinder rose to those sublime heights seldom if ever equalled on the floor of the senate.
 Among the living senators of that | congress who still adorn the scene | are Morgan, Allison (with his forty | years of public service), Aldrich, Teller and German. And on the re- tired list are that noble Roman, Cock rell. George P Edmunds, Henry Gas saway Davis and Henry w Blair, who breathes great phiianthropies from New Hampshire. which loves him too much to send him to wash l ington again. It was a time of angry debates. close decisions, great partisan bitter ness and still more intense bitterness between the stalwart and the half wings of the Republican party. Ionklin and Platt of New York quar- 2 'eled with Garfield and resigned their c seats in the senate with contempt. q The assassination of Garfield soon followed and Arthur was President 1 The Republican majority in the house was of the scantiest- In the senate it was nip and tuck-thirty- Democrats and thirty-seven Republi- cans
 The so-called tidal wave of 1882 cut down the Republican representation in the house from 152 to 11S and swelled the Democratic side from 130 to 196.
 In view of the conditions, there was nothing to be wondered at in these | changes. Speaker Keller, therefore, 1 had a hard task. But those old ani- mosities, so noisy once, are silent | now. and the words "stalwart" and | ''halfbreed" are almost as hay and | in need of definition as ''locofoco" and | |'know-nothing."
 Of the members of the house in | the Forty-seventh congress Joe Can non has had promotion. Hepburn is l a powerful person; Bingham of Penn ! sylvania is the father of the house" with the longest continuous service, | having been first elected to the Forty | sixth congress and reelected fourteen | times consecutively. General Ketcham | of New York was first elected to the | Forty-third congress, and has served | longer than any other, though broken | by an intermission. J. F. c. Talbot | of Maryland is the only Democrat of | the FOrty-seventh who is a member | of the present house.
 Joe Blackburn, H. D. Money and J. | C. Burrows are now senators. John | c. Carlisle, KeifeT's successor as i speaker and subsequently Cleveland's | secretary of the treasury, is practicing | law in New York. Roger c. Mills, 1 who could not be speaker, rests ia political obscurity, a retired plutocrat and probably glad of it. Horizontal BilI' Morrison is living in Waterloo, III. How soon some great names and issues collect cobwebsi Emory Speer of Georgia is a United States judge. John A. Kasson is a busy diplomat Perry Belmont is a pros porous citizen of New York. Hilary Herbert, secretary of the navy under Cleveland, lives in Washington. Joe Wheeler needs no introduction. It is interesting to recall the names of men who figured prominently in the Forty seventh congress who have passed over the river. Among these are William Mckinley, Nelson Dingley, Holman of Indiana, the great "ob- iacfnr ., Inhn Rananlrh rrllc.l-n- nf