Arizona republican., 1907-01-23
Fairbanks that the opposition to Mr..
New as chairman is stirred up.

Fairbanks that the opposition to Mr..
New as chairman is stirred up.
Three members of the house have
been promoted to the senate in the past
few days II is true that they Will
not take their seats for some time yet.
two of them not until March 4th, but
as they have all been endorsed by
cacus of the majority of the legislature
in each instance. their election is as
sured Everyone is pleased with the
selection OF William Alden Smith to
succeed General Alger. Mr.. Smith be-
gan his service in congress with the
54th congress and Is now serving his
sixth term. The last time there was
a contest Mr.. Smith received thirty
thousand votes to twelve thousand for
the democratic candidate. whose name
was also Smith. The last election the
democrats did not think it worth while
to put up an opposing candidate so MI.
Smith was unanimously elected He is
forty-six years old and at present his
only committee assignment is on the
ways and means committee of the
house.
Scarcely less popular with his asso-
ciates is Representative Curtis Of Kan
sas who will succeed Senator Benson,
who was appointed to the vacancy left
by the resignation of Senator Burton.
Curtis has Indian blood in his veins
and has been a leading member of the
committee on Indian affairs. He has
also served a long time in Congress.
, having been originally elected to the
! SD congress. The youngest man of
/ the three is Representative Dixon. the
representative at large from Montana,
who will succeed Senator Clark. He
was born in 1857 and will be forty years
old next July. He is serving his sec
ond term in Congress. 1t is said that
Representative Dixon has been recog-
nized by the speaker for the purpose of
calling UP bills more times than any
other representative during his term OF
service.
| Certain democrats who are not pleas
| ed with the committee assignments
dished out tosthem by Representative
Williams of Mississippi. propose to Gust
him from the leadership of the minor
ity next session. They have selected
Representative Clark of Missouri TO
turn the trick but Clark is not greatly
interested in the proposition. Repre-
sentative Williams is by far the ablest
leader the minority has had in the past
! ten years. AS the republicans have had
about one hundred and thirty majority,
Mr.. williams has been unable to ac-
complish much as leader of the minor
ity. but he has done the best he could.
He will probably be elected to succeed
Senator Money but as that does not
take place for some time yet he Will
remain in the houaI for several years.
Behind the disaffection is the fact that
Representative Williams favors Bryan
and has always been opposed TO
Hearst. Consequently Hearst has
marked him for slaughter.
Many members of congress I'm times
gone by have apparently acted upon
the theory that the District Of Column
bia was created primarily for expert
mental purposes and that this was the
proper place to exploit their fads. The
| latest proposition which is attracting
local attention is that of a member OF
congress named Weber, from Ohio.
Mr.. Weber wants to have prohibition
i'm the District of Columbia. He told
the district W. c. r L. when he APP
peared before them the other day that
his bill to establish prohibition in the
district had a good chance of being
passed. Where he got this idea no one
knows.