The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-10-17
WESTERN MEN
IN j. S. SENATE
IMPORTANT Places on Commit.
tees are Being Sought

WASHINGTON. $ct. IAN un-
usually large number of vacancies on
the more important committees of the
Senate and House of Representatives
will have to be filled when Congress
reassembles in December, and out OF
this vast array the Pacific coast, ana
particularly the Northwest. should re-
ceive, and probably will receive, some
west has never learned the lesson OF
selecting good men and keeping them IN
congress- it has never received that
recognition on committees to which it's
Importance entities it. The East, and
particularly New England, long ago
discovered the advisa bility of sending
strong men to Congress and keeping
them there. and in consequence New
England is stronger on committees
than any other section of the country.
Senator Fulton of Oregon and Sen
ator Piles. of Washington, are we'll
fact that they are serving their first
terms, but both could better themselves
and both will better themselves by rea-
son of the fact that they outrank a
considerable number of senators Of
shorter terms. Senator Ankeny and
Senator Hepburn, have never received
much recognition in the way of COM
mittee places; not such recognition as
they deserve in view of the fact tnat
they have each served through two
congresses. Each should be promoted
in December, for there is ample OPP
the leading committees where they be-
long.
Senators Berah and Bourne.
Considerable interest will center
around Senator Borah, Of Idaho, and
Senator Bourne, of Oregon. the two
new senators from the Northwest who
have not yet, taken their. seats in the
senate. New senators never get much
recognition on committees when they
enter the senate, yet because of the
large number of desirable places the
senate could afford to give each of them
at least one good committee assign
ment. Under the rule, both will receive
chairmanships, but they will be chair
manships of small committees.
OF the really big committees of the
senate, there are vacancies to be filled
on appropriations, agriculture, COM
merce, finance, foreign relations, immi-
grafton, judiciary, public buildings and
grounds, and interoceanic canals. All
these committees are desirable. and
the Pacific Northwest is not repre-
scented on any of them save commerce
and immigration. The probabilities are
that if any of the vacancies on finance
or foreign relations go to the Pacific
Northwest they will be conferred upon
one Of the older senator's; it is hardly
likely that either Bourne or Borah
could secure places on these two COM
mittees; the same is also true of ap-
preparations. But new senators have
been appointed on the other commit
tees heretofore and may be this time.
Borah for judiciary.
Senator Hepburn would like the
vacancy on judiciary, place for which
his new colleague is eminently fitted.
One or the other may succeed in land
ing it. Borah's prominence in the Hay
wood trial and his recognized leader
ship of the Idaho bar will count in his
favor, though his colleagues service in
the senate will handicap him. 1t may
be that Senator Fulton or Senator Piles
may get this vacancy if the Idaho SEN
ators are unable to agree. Some one
of the four should get it, so that the
Northwest could be represented
! In all probability the vacancy on the
/ finance committee will go to Senator
| Crane, of Massachusetts Senator
Bourne has cast longing eyes towards
that mighty place, but the senate does
not give such high honors to new sen
ators, and it is not expected it will do
SO this year, especially as Crane has
| his heart set on the place, and has