Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-11-05
STRANGE FACES
GOTH congress
MANY N0TABLES HAVE RETIR-
ED FROM PUBLIC LIFE-DEATH
AND POLITICAL REVERSES
MAKING WAY FOR NEW MEN.

! the SiXtieth congress assemblies four
weeks from today there will be much
about it strange to those who have
long been familiar with the person
mel of past congresses.
In the house the democrats have
lost their senior member in point
of service, J. H. Bankhead of Ala
bama, who was defeated for renom-
ination by Richmond Pearson Hob
son, the hero of the Merrimac. The
part is not to lose the services of
Mr.. Bankhead, however, for he takes
the seat in the United States senate
made vacant by the death of the
venerable Senator Edmund w. Pet
tus.
Probably the most conspicuous
! loss on the republican side of the
house is General Grosvenor of Ohio.
whose patriarchal and venerable ap-
pearance has for years focused the
attention of the galleries, and whose
wit and disposition to banter have
many time made the hall ring with
laughter when the situation has
been so intense as to seem as if moth
ing but bitter passion could find ex-
preston.
Another picturesque figure has
disappeared with the retirement of
Hon. Joseph c. Sibley, of the Frank
lin, Pa, district, who served ten
years in the house. He was elected
to the fifty-third congress as a DEM
ocrat, and again to tifty-sixth con-
gress, after narrowly escaping nom
ination as vice president on the Bry-
an ticket.
Another old-timer who will be
missed is James w. Wadsworth of
the thirty-fourth New York district,
defeated by Peter A. Porter, a demo-
crat. Mr.. Wadsworth served about
lS years in the house and was chief
ly conspicuous on account of his i'm
portant work as chairman of the
committee on agriculture.
Other members of the house who
viii be missed when the Sixtieth
congress assemblies are Bowie of
Alabama, Smith, Trimble and Gill
bert of Kentucky, Robertson of
Louisiana, McNary and Sullivan of
Massachusetts, Hunt of Missouri.
! Van Duzer of Nevada, McDermott of
New Jersey, Hearst, Towns and Rup-
pert of New York, Patterson and
Gudger of North Carolina, CARRIER of
Ohio lin of -
of Tennessee. Brooks and Field of
Texas, Southall of Virginia, Dovor
and Davis of West Virginia, and
Bishop of Michigan. This disappear
from the house because they failed
of denomination last fall.
Included among the leaders who
were renominated but failed to Sc
cure reelection were such promin-
ent leaders as Babcock of Wisconsin,
Lacey of Iowa, Blackburn of North
Carolina, McCleary of Minnesota,
and Fred Lands of Indiana
In the senate the changes will be
even more noticeable than in the
house. Death has removed from the
ranks the two oldest members of
that body, Pettus and Morgan of
Alabama, whose places will be taken
by former Congressman Bankhead
and Joseph F. Johnston, ex-governor
of Alabama
Berry of Arkansas, who served 20
years in the senate, is replaced nv
Jeff Davis. 'Fiddling Bob" TAYLOR
takes the place of Senator Carmack
OF Tennessee. Joe" Blackburn of /
Kentucky gives way to Thomas H. !
Paynter, and Duboise of Idaho. one
If the best politicians in the senate
s succeeded by William f. Borab,
The baby member of the senate
viii be Elmer E. Burkett of Nebras-
"a. But few months older than
3urkett is Joseph M. Dixon, who
axes the place of w. A. Clark, the
Montana copper king.
Curtis of Kansas. the first Indian
D occupy a seat in the senate, is. by 1
eason of his long service in the
ouse, almost as we'll known among
is new associates as if he had long
cen in the senate. He and Norris
roWn, the new senator from Ne
'aska' who succeeds Willard, have
9th proclaimed in advance their
lrnest support of Roosevelt in the q
FRYING out of his policies, and they +
e therefore looked upon as valua- v
e recruits for the administration. "
lillian Alden Smith, who takes the d
at made vacant by the death of Il
'nator Alger of Michigan, is well G.
lown because of his service in the e
,use. o.
simon Guggenheimer, the smelter
om Colorado, who succeeds Patter- N
n is the only extremely rich man Il
1ong the new senators, and Frank 81
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