The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-11
 JOHNSTON HAS LONGEST TERM Heads Service List of
 Senators. TEDDY IS AFTER F0RAKER Democrats Hope to Win in Coming
 Elections. Gossip story from Washington Says Real Estate Agents Are After Johnston to Sell Him
 Home.

when the Hon. Joseph F. Johnston | walks up to the Presidents desk | to be sworn in as a Senator from Ala l bama, he will have the happy realiza- l tion of knowing that if he lives, he | will have a longer term of service | ahead of him than any one now | member of that august body. com 1 monly styled the highest law-making | body of the land.
 The Senator who has the next long, 1 est service ahead of him is the Hon. 1 Anslem Joseph McLaurin of Mississippi. 1 His term will not be out until March 4, | 1913. Alabama and Mississippi are the | only States in the Union whose Leg | 1afures meet only once in four years. | Most of the Legislatures assemble | every two years, and 8 few meet each | year notably in the latter class being i Pennsylvania, Georgia and Massachu- setts.
 State legislators in Pennsylvania re- ceive more salary than in any of the other commonwealths, it being $1,500 year. while mileage and pickings in- directly. that make it well worth the while of local aspirants to become members of the Legislature. The pay and pickings are also tempting in New York. In both States men have been known to quit the halls of Congress here to go back to the legislative field in their own States.
 As Captain Bankhead was elected first, he will. according to usage here, be designated as the senior Senator from Alabama, although he will doubt less be formally sworn in the same day and at the same time that Governor Johnston takes the oath. Being the successors of the two most aged men in the Senate during the last Con- gress. they will be apt to prove of perhaps more interest than any of the statesmen who have recently earned togas. sI
 The late Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio became a member of the upper branch of Congress just a day after the Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker was sworn in. The latter was regularly elected by the Legislature of his State for a full term, and entered upon his duties the same day that William Me- Kinley became President of the United States. Mir. Foraker succeeded the late Calvin s. Brice, the last Democrat elected by his party in the Buckeye land Mir. Hanna was appointed by Governor Bushnell to succeed the Hon. John sherman, who resigned from the Senate to become Secretary Of State Tn the first Mckinley cabinet. Hanna was not sworn in as Senator until March D. 1897, just one day after Foraker LOOK his seat. The latter was ranked therefore as the senior Senator from ohio. He still holds that rank, as General Dick came to the Senate as the successor of MT. Hanna Ana now if depends largely upon the whims or whether or not the brilliant ForaKer shall continue to represent ohlo Tn the upper branch of Congress.
 Blood Ou the Moon.
 All reports from Ohio which reach washington indicate that there IS cer- tainIy ''blood on the moon." so far as the contest out there IS concerneu' It has long been a political maxim Of the Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker that har- rnonv must exist among the Buckeye Republicans even if they have to fght for it. Most people who have looked into the situation are of opinion that the fight has been started. ana tne Democratic pilgrims to Washington eeam to think that if they do not score a point or two this year at the elec- fiona tnev will miss their calculations. It would not surprise them If the Re- >..hIicans wake up some bright morn ing and realize that the unexpected has happened.
 Tr a nrevious communication to The Advertiser, mention was made of the Senate committees on which Captain Bankhead is likely to serve during this Congress, it being particularly stated that he could not hope to go on any of the big committees of which fine late Senator Morgan was a mem ber during the last Congress. because those places will go to Democratic Senators who have a right to them through the seniority rule that IS ntrictly observed. In view of his long and active work as a member Of the Honsa Rivers and Harbors Committed, and his thorough familiarity with such I~gislation it is possible that some or the older Democratic Senators might be magnanimous enough to step aslde and let the Alabamian have place on the Commerce Committee of the sr In to handle the appropriations for the fnaprovement of the waterways of the limited states. But that would be an act so generous that 1t would surely startle the nation and cause some peo- rle to think that a statesman inv ington is slightly out of his mind Dy giving way to the Alabamian
 "SeIect" Committees.
 There are a number of minor com Ynittees in the Senate which are called .sSelect" From their names II would occur to even casual reader that they do not amount to much In re- aiity they were created to give cer- 4ain Senators chairma nships. Every Republican Senator has a chairmanshlp of some kind, also a clerk of com ulittee, and he likewise has messen- ger and unless in rather bad luck has q sub-clerk. During the last congress fsAneral Pettus was the chairman or s.seIect" committee which was styled 4Disposition ofs Useless Papers in the Executive Departments. If this com nittee had any meetings they were te~ and far between, but it ranked in the Ifst with many chairmanships held by Republicans who were serving their first or second terms.
 k The other committees on which Gen. pettus served in the last Congress were: Judiciary Military Attalrs' priyfleges and Elections. Indian Depte- dations, Private Land Claims, and Rall- Roads and Transportation Routes 10 4he seaboard. Outside of the three first named, all the others were unlrn- portant and Goversor Johnson VIII Surely find himself landing on some such committees when he begins 10 warm his seat in the chamber. It is the fate of all new Senators.
 Here are the other minor commit lees which Democrats were chairman sof in the last Congress, and which seldom or ever had a meeting Nor gan, (Alabana) Public Health and National Qua rantine; Teller (Colorado) Private Land Claims; Tillman (South caroiina). Five Civilized Tribes of indians; Bacon (of Georgia). Woman Suffrage; Clay (Georgia), Revolution ary Claims; Da1sel CVirginlal, Trans nortation and Sale of Meat Products; 6gcEnery (Louisi1na) Corporations Or r4, 70 V11, :, ,1us