Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-11-04
CONGRESS TO OPEN A
MONTH FROM TODAY
Special to the Herald.

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the Sixtieth congress assemblies four
weeks from today there will be much
about it strange to those who have
long been familiar with the personnel
of past congresses.
In the house the democrats have
lost their senior member in point OF
service, ]. H. Bankhead of Alabama
who was defeated for denomination by
Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero
of the Merrimac. The party 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 E
w. Pettus.
Probably the most conspicuous loss
on the republican side of the house is
General Grosvenor of Ohio, whose pa
triarchal and venerable appearance
has for years focused the attention OF
the galleries, and whose wit and dispo.
sition to banter have many a time
made the hall ring with laughter when
the situation has been so tense as to
seem as If nothing but bitter passion
could find expression.
Another picturesque figure has dis
appeared with the retirement of Hon.
Joseph c. Sibley of the Franklin, Pa,
district, who served ten years in the
house. He was elected to the fifty
third congress as a democrat, and
again to the fifty-sixth congress, after
narrowly escaping nomination as vice
president on the Bryan ticket
Another old-timer who will be miss
ed is James W. Wadsworth of the
Thirty New York district, de-
feated by Peter A. Porter, a democrat.
Mr.. Wadsworth served about eighteen
years in the house, and was chiefly
conspicuous on account of his import
ant work as chairman of the commit
tee on agriculture.
Others of the house who will be
missed when the Sixtieth congress as
sembles are Bowie of Alabama, Smith,
Trimble and Gilbert of Kentucky,
Robertson of Louisiana, McNary and
Sullivan of Massachusetts, Hunt of
Missouri, Van Duzer of Nevada, Nc.
Dermott of New Jersey, Hearst, Tow
er and Rupert of New York, Patter-
son and Gudger of North Carolina,
CARRIER of Ohio Kiln of Pennsylvania,
Butler of Tennessee, Brooks and Field
OF Texas, Southall of Virginia, Dove
nor and Davis of West Virginia, and
IIssisshnp - Aichigan,- These disappear
from the house because they failed OF
denomination last fall.
Included among the leaders who
were renominated but failed to secure
reelection were such prominent lead
ers as Babcock of Wisconsin, Lacey of
Iowa, Blackburn of North Carolina,
McCleary of Minnesota, and Fred Lam
dis 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
twenty years in the senate, is replaced
by Jeff Davis. "Fiddling Bob" Taylor
takes the place of Senator Carmack of
Tennessee. Joe" Blackburn Of Ken
lucky gives way to Thomas H. Payn-
ter, and Dubois of Idaho. one OF the
best politicians in the senate, is sue
ceeded by William E. Borah.
The baby member of the senate will
be Elmer E. Burkitt Of Nebraska. But
a few months older than Burkitt is
Joseph NJ. Dixon, who takes the place
of w. A. Clark, the Montana copper
king.
Curtis Of Kansas, 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
bis 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 of Roosevelt in carrying out
his policies, and they are therefore
looked upon as valuable recruits for
the administration. William Alden
Smith, who takes the seat made va
cant by the death of Senator Alger of
is well known because of
his service in the house.
Simon Guggenheimer, the smelter
from Colorado, who succeeds Patter-
son, is the only extremely rich man
the new senators. and Frank
D. Briggs, who succeeds Dryden OF
New Jersey, has the distinction OF be-
ing the only one with whiskers among
the new crop Of senators.