Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-03
CONGRESSIONAL KIDS
Eighty-0ne New Men to Be
in the House.
UNCLE JOE TALKS
HINTS GIVEN OF COMMITTEE
PLACES DESIRED.
Many of the New Men Will Be Heard
From in Due
Time

| 1lIu0.
| Tomorrow at noon eighty-one congress
sional kids will occupy seats in the hall
| of the House of Representatives and for
! the first time will watch, with varying
emotions. the rise and fall of the Speakers
gavel as he calls the House to order. OF the
eighty-ore only a small proportion have had
! any legislative experience, but under the
tutelage of Uncle Joe" Cannon and the
! other veterans of the lower House they will
absorb wisdom with surprising rapidity.
| There are some men among the eightyone
Congressional kids" who will undoubtedly
! be heard from in the future-perhaps not
this session to any great extent. for 1t Is
| seldom that new member makes his pres
| ence felt so early in the game-but certain
| ly in sessions to come. There are others,
| too, of course who will occupy their seats
| In the chamber of the House, will vote duti-
fully along party lines when CALLED upon
| to do so and who will go back at the end
| of this session and perhaps other sessions
| unhonored and unsung.
Opinion of Veterans.
New members don't amount to much
| save as available material for the leaven--
| in the eyes Of the old wheel horses. They
| get their obscure committee places-most
| of them-and they work and play and occa-
| sionally they make their voices heard on
| the floor They are the plebes Of the lower
| House and their idea of their own impor-
I lance and the idea the veterans have Of
! the same thing are in exceedingly in
/ verse ratio.
| For the past week or so the kids have
| been drifting into the Speakers room in
| ones and twos and threes to say "howdy"
and incidentally to hint that a place on
| the appropriations committee or the ways
and means committee would be acceptable
| If Uncle Joe took all these hints the MEM
| bership of these two great committees
| would be UP in the hundreds and there
wouldn't be a corporars guard left to keep
| the relatively less important committees
| from getting muSty.
Among new members of the Fifty-ninth
| Congress. but who is not in the kid
| class, is Julius Kahn of San Francisco,
member of the Fifty-seventh Congress, who
| was defeated for reelection to the Fifty
eighth by Representative LivernaSh, the
| long haired socialist from the Pacific coast.
| Mr. Kahn, actor and orator and general
| good fellow, was one of the most popular
| members of the F'ifty-seventh Congress, and
| his return to Washington is welcomed by
| a host of friends he left behind two years
| ago.
| Hiram R. Burton of Lewes, Del. is tho
| compromise candidate selected by the reg
| ular and union republican forces of that dis
| sension-torn little state. John II. Foster.
another kid. succeeds Representative Hem
menway of Indiana, chairman Of the ap-
propriations committee in the last Con-
gress, who is now ful-1edged senator
and whose place in the House will be filled
by the elevation of Representative Tawney
to the Craftsmanship.
lockwood Hoar.
One good old Massachusetts, name is re-
vived in Congress this year by the pres
ence in the House of lockwood Hoar,
kid from Massachusetts, and son of
the late Senator Hoar of revered memory.
Mr.. Hoar is a bright and energetic man,
| not so extremely youthful as years go, who
Is expected to make a congressional record
worthy of his distinguished father.
Edwin DENLY, new member from Mich
| igan, is brother Of Charles w. DENLY
| formerly minister to China, and who only
| recently succeeded Colonel Michael as chief
| clerk of the State Department. Edwin
| DENLY, who Is a young man, as ages go
| in the House, saw ten years service in the
| Chinese empire, a good portion of the time
! in the service of the dowager empress
And he would have remained over there,
| being delighted with the service and fond
of the country, but his longing for the
United States and the familiar sights and
sounds of Michigan got too strong for
him and he resigned. But he couldn't stay
out of some kind of government service,
and he made fight and won out, succeed
| ing Alfred Lucking of Detroit.
| BY q long ways the oldest member of
| the kid fraternity in the Fifty-ninth Con-
| gress is Representative Thomas B. Davis
| or keyser, w. Va, septurgenaran and q
! brother of Henry Gassaway Davis, unsuc-
cessful candidate for the vice presidency on
the democratic ticket with Alton B. Par
ker. He succeeds Judge Dayton, who went
TO the federal bench. And the biggest
man physically among the kids Is Andrew
j. Barchfeld of Pittsburg, Pa. According
to some Of his friends Mr. Barchfeld will
run Cy Sulloway, who at present wears the
L. "A hoo yl,f
championship of the House
anthony Michalek is a picturesque figure
from chicago, and the story of the winning
Of his seat is rather out OF the ordinary
Michaiek. who is a steadfast republican.
halls from the fifth Illinois district, which
IS Chicago territory, and up to last fall
was heavily democratic. Michalek got the
nomination for practically the same reason
that Representative Shober of New York
secured ii for the last Congress-no one else
would have 1t. And Michalek. when he ac-
cepted, was so sure that he wouldn't he
anywhere around wen the polls closed that
he made a stipulation that whenever his
name was mentioned in speeches and wher-
ever 1t should be used in campaign litera-
ture he should appear as "Miehalek the
grocer. In that way" argued this canny
citizen Il can't lose, and when the polls
close and have been showed under l Will
at least have gained some good adyertis-
ing for my business. But when the votes
were counted Nichalek was on top, and II
is said that he was the most surprised man
many others.
a Far Southern Republican.
Nathan w. Hale of Knoxville is that rare
thing, far southern republican He is
a colleague and friend OF Representative
| Brownlow OF Tennessee, and is, besides
Brownlow. the only republican in the dele
| cation from that state. Mr. Hale Is a Sc
| rtous, hardworking citizen, who thinks
that President Roosevelt Is just about
right. and who will support the admins
| tration measures.
Oregon has the doubtful honor of hay-
] Ing an indicted delegation of two both
members out of the kid class They are
! Bnger Hermann and John n. Williamson
| both of whom were indicted not long ago
for alleged completely in the Oregon land
frauds. Hermann was for some years COM
missioner OF the general land Office finally
being ousted and leaving Washington under
cloud. The delegate from New Mexico
IS William H Andrews who recently
achieved notoriety through his connection
with. the wrecking OF the Enterprise Ma
tional Bank