Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-11
New Men in the seth Senate.

IhahSNo M ei'V NlSpiiiCl VI tiO 'h'eNN
States Senate which President RoOse-
welt has summoned in special session
in Washington 10 consider the various
treaties. Half score o. the familiar
figures of the 18th Senate are missing
and in their pl.ICes are men who have
yet to make :htir mark in our highest
legislative body. Some OF them are
well-known TO the country. but large
majority Of the newcomers are very
There are 10 new senators, all but one
Of whom are Republicans. or tina;
number eight succeed Republicans and
one succeeds Il Democrat and one
Democrat succeeds L Republican. Two
states. Missouri and Delaware, have
not yet elected senators. Unless. the
deadlUCkS in these two states continue,
the Missouri senator will be Repub!i-
can. to succeed a Democrat, Senator
can is to be clartcd to succeed Senator
Alice, 4 Republican. This will make a
gain Of one Republican in the Senate.
making that body composed Of So, Re-
pubiicans and 81 Democrats The new
senator's who have been elected arc
Morgan G. Bulkeley. to succeed Sena-
tor Hawley of Connecticut, Rcpresen-
tative Elmer ]. Burket.. to succeed
Senator Dietrich Of Nebraska; former
Senator Thomas II. Carter. to succeed
Senator Gibson of Montana; Frank p.
Flint, to succeed Senator Bard of Cali
f"rnia: Representative James a.
Hcmcnway. to succeed Senator Fair
banks of Indiana: Rober. NJ. Lid Fol-
lettc. To succeed Se.rltO: Quarles of
Wisconsin,; George 5. Nixon, to succeed
Senator Stewart of Nevada, Samuel IL.
Piles, to succeed Senator Foster OF
Washington: Isador Rayner. to sue
and George Sutherland. to succeed
Senator keaIns of Utah. We are in
Ocuttu u lHe NdSiiiio loii t''ai Aoi III
tcresting fats regarding these new
senators.
Morgan G.. Hulkclcy. who was elected
United States senator frcm Connecti-
cut, is one IF the most prominent Citi-
Gems Of tn" state and has been as much
in public life as any ONT ir Connecticut,
unless it be senators Plat and Haw-
ley. He entered the common council Of
Hartford in 1871. and then was for two
the city for eight years. He contested
unsuC cessfuily with P. c. LOunsbur.'
for the republican nomination for
governor and two years later was
nominated unanimously. He was gov
.i'nor in the trying 'hold-Over" err.
and the supreme court sustained his
position. He vas 4 department COM
r'ander of the -. A. X. and a member
of the Loyal Legion, and also Of the
Society of Cincinnati and president Uf
the Sons of thu Revolution i'm Connccti-
cut. besides belonging to various SINH
lar organizations. He has long been
president Of tn: Aetna Life Insurance
Company. He is also connected with
numerous other successful local con-
Germs. AS chairman of the Connecticut
river bridge commission he holds ona
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city and the work he and his assoc
ciates are doing is receiving universal
commentator and will result in the
finest permanent addition to the city
since the capitol was built. His popu-
la.rity is widespread and his public
spirit has dcmonst rated itself on many
occa sions.
Senator Elmer Jacob Burkett, of
Nebraska Is thu youngest member Of
the 59th Senate. and the only member
under 40. He was born in Mills county.
Iowa. On a farm, Dc ,emb-r 1. 1867. He
attended public s"h.,cl and aftcruard
Tabor College. at Tabor. Iowa. from
which institution he was graduated in
1890. Upon his graduation he was
elected principal Of school, at Leigh.
Ncb. which position ne held two years,
when he entered the State University
of Nebraska for a law course. He was
admitted to the bar in Lincoln in 1893,
and has practiccd law there ever since.
He was made I. member of the State
Legislature in 1896. and was elected to
the Fifty-siXin F'fty-scvcnth and
eighth Congresses.
Seultor Thomas II. Carter Of Mon
tana, is we'll known in the Senate. in
which body he served fol the term
1S95-I90i. His last hours in the Sena.e
are memorable in tn" annals of that
body At dawn on the morning of
March /. 1891. lie announced that he
proposed TO discuss the rivers and
harbors bill until noon. which was
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