The copper era., 1907-11-14
MEMBERSHIP IN
 CONGRESS CHANGES.
Some Big Men Gone and Many Old
 Timers Will Be Absent.

Timers Will Be Absent.
 When the sixtieth congress assem- bles next month 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 ot Alabama, who was defeated for renOmination by Richard Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac. The party is not to lose the services of MT. Bankhead however, for he takes the seat in the United States senate made vacant by the death of the venerable Senator Edmund w. Pettus.
 Probably the most conspicuous loss on the republican side of the house is General Grosvenor of Ohio.
 Another picturesque figure has dis appeared 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 demo- crat and again to the fifty-sixth con- gress, after narrowly escaping nomi- nation as yice-president on the Bryan ticket.
 Another old-timer who will be missed is James w. Wadsworth of the thirty-fourth district of New York, defeated by Peter A. Porter, a democrat. Mr. Wadsworth served about eighteen years in the house and was chiefly conspicuous on ac- count of his important work as chair man of the committed on agriculture.
 Other members of the house who will be missed when the sixtieth con- gress assemblies are Bowie, Alabama; Smith, Trimble and Gilbert, Ken lucky; Robertson, Louisiana; McNary and Sullivan, Massachusetts; Hunt, Missouri; Van Duzer, Ne"ada; MCDer- mott, New Jersey; TOwne and Rup- Gudger, North Carolina; Garber, Ohio; Kline, Pennsylvania; Butler, Tennessee: Brook and Field, Texas; Southall, Virginia; Dovenor and Davis, West Virginia; and Bishop, Michigan. These disappeared from the house because they failed of re- nomina tion last fall.
 Included among the leaders who were renominated but failed to secure reelection were such prominent lead D. XHicCan-iY. Iowa; Blackburn, North Carolina; McCleary, Minnesota; Fred Landis, 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, Alabama, whose places will be taken by former Congressman Bankhead and Joseph F. Johnston, ex-governor of Alabama.
 Berry, of Arkansas, who served twenty years in the senate, is sue ceeded by Jeff Davis. "Fiddling Bob" Taylor takes the place of Sena- tor CarmaCk, Tennessee. Joe Black burn, Kentucky, gives way to Thomas H. Paynter, and Du Bois, Idaho, one of the best politicians in the senate is succeeded by William F.. Borah.
 The baby member of the senate will be Elmer E. Burkett, Nebraska. But few months older than Burkett is Joseph NJ. Dixon, who takes the place of w. A. Clark, the Montana copper king.
 Curtis, of KanS- the first Indian to occupy a seat in the senate, is, by reason of his long service in the house, almost as well known among his new associates as if he had long been in the senate. He and Norris Brown, the new senator from Nebras- ka, who succeeds Willard, have both proclaimed in advance their earnest support to Roosevelt in the carrying out of his policies, and they are therefore looked upon as valuable re- cruits for the administration. Will liam Alden Smith, who takes the seat made vacant by the death of Senator Alger, of Michigan, is well known because or HIS StTVlCG III the house.
 Simon Guggenheim, the smelter magnate from Colorado, who succeeds Patterson, is the only extremely rich man among the new senators and Frank O. Briggs, who succeeds Dry den, of New Jersey, has the distinc- tion of being the only one with whiskers among the new crop Of senators.
 In the senate, more than in the house, the changes will be marked by reason of the character of the men who have retired and of the marked contract in some instances between them and the men who are to take their places.