The Washington herald., 1907-12-01
NEW MEN IN SENATE
Eleven Will Take Seats
for First Time.
GORE AND OWENS WAIT
Those Who Come from Oklahoma
Have Not Yet Been Formally Elect
and Two Reputed MiIIionafres I'm
the Next ''House of Lords"

There will be thirteen new Senators in
the coming Congress. eleven OF whom will
take their seats tomorrow to sit in the
largest house Of lords" in the history Of
the country. and the first 5000, 600 900
body The other two, Senators Gore and
owen, Of Oklahoma. will not be seated
until after their election by the State leg
| islature, which convenes tomorrow, but
cannot, under the State constitution. elect
/ them until after the second Monday of its
session
| As It viii stand after the two OkIaho-
mans are seated, there Will be among the
newcomers, two Indians although one OF
/ them, Senator Curtis, has served an I'M
expired term. one blind man, Senator
Gore. from Oklahoma, and two Million
aires
Two thirds of the members Of the Sen
ate win be Republicans. so treaties may
be ratified without the aid OF a single
minority vote.
The Democrats. too. must elect a new
leader, and the lot may fall to either
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, or Senator
Culberson. of Texas.
With ninety-two members, each Senator
will almost be one in a million in the to-
tai population of the United States, a dis
tinction over which to ponder.
Only Two MiIIionaires.
Only two of the members are reputed
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Guggenheim, OF
Colorado. and Richardson. of Delaware
| The newcomers, too are much younger
than their predecessors, such men as
Morgan and Pettus having been succeed
ed by Bankhead and Johnson. Senator
TON" Gore. of the new State, is blind
and has been for years. and many are the
stories that have been told about his
achievement in being sent to the greatest
deliberative body in the world. Guggen-
helm, of Colorado. is the seventh Hebrew
to be sent to the Senate. and Ankeny and
Rayner will be two members of his race
in the Sixtieth TO welcome him Bob
Taylor is credited with having flddled his
way into the Senate, and he is expected
as a humorist Of note, to do his share
toward entertaining the big body.
! Jeffries Davis the new member from
/ Arkansas. is expected to show Senator
! Tnlman how to start fire, and the indi-
/ cations are. that he will be put through q
thorough course Of hazing.
II The New Members.
Following is a short descriptive sketch
Of each new Senator:
John H. BAnkhead. Alabama; DemcGat-Born II
Marion (now Lamar County, Ala. September l3
lsi2I Self-educated ard isfa farmer. Served fou
years in the Confederate army: woanded three times
Represented Marion County in the General Assem-
bly, sessions Of rs, 1856. and 1861 member Of tn
State senate, "a and lS77 house Of representatives,
lsSs ISL warren Alabama peniteutisry, 1881 Il
ISIS elected TO the Fftieth Fnty-rSt, F1ftysecond
Kiftythird Ffty-fourth. Fiftysixth. kifty-seventh
Fifty-eighth, and Ffty-ninth Congresses
William Edward Borah. Idaho Republication
June O. 1856. at Fairfield, Wayne County, III. Edu
Gated at the University Of Kansas and is tireles
student: is lawyer Of ability and came out vic
toriously recently II land fraud cases.
Jonathan Bourne. IT, Oregon; Replblican-Bor1
February g 1855. in New Bedford. Mass. EdnczteC
at Harvard is lawyer; IS interested in land anS
mining companies. and Is reputed TO be wealthy
Sened three terms IN Oregon legislature and