Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-07
CONGRESS READY TO OPEN.

be much about 1T strange to those who
have long been familiar with the per-
sonnet of past Congresses.
In the House the Democrats have
lost their senior member in point OF
service, J.. III. 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 Edmund w.
Fettus.
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 he
galleries, and whose wit and DISPOSE
ton to banter nave many a time mad
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 G. 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-tourth New York district, de-
feated by Peter A. Porter, a Democrat.
Mr.. Wadsworth erved about eighteen
years in the House and was chiefly con-
S picuous On account of his important
work as chairman of the Committee OF
Agriculture.
Other members of the House who
will be missed when the Sixtieth Con
gress ASSEMBLIES are Bowie of Alabama,
Smith, Trimble and Gilbert, of Ken
lucky, Robertson, ofLouisiana, McNary
and Sullivan, of Massachusetts, Hunt.
of Missouri, Van Duzer, OF Nevada
M~cDermott, of New Jersey, Hearst
Towan and Rapport, of New York
5 Patterson and Gudger, of North Caro-
lima, CARRIER, of Ohio, Kiln, of Pennsyl
vania, Butler, of Tennessee, Brook.
and Field, of Texas, Southall, of Vir
ginia, Dovenor and Davis, of West Vir
ginia, and Bishop, of Michigan. Thes,
disappear from the House because the.
failed to renominate last fall.
In the Senate the changes will b
ever more noticeable than in tn
House. Death has removed from tn
ranks the two oldest members of tina
body, Pettus and Morgan, of Alabama
whose places will be taken by torme
Congressman Bankhead and Joseph
9 Johnston, Ex-Governor, of Alabama
Berry, of Arkansas, who serve,
twenty years in the Senate, is replace,
by Jeff Davis. "Fiddling Bob" Tay
), lor takes the place of Senator Carmack
of Tennessee. Joe" Blackburn, {
Kentucky, gives way to Thomas b
Payntor, and Dubois, of Idaho, one G
the best politicians in the Senate, i
succeeded by William E. Borah.
Curtis, of Kansas. the first Indian t
occupy a seat in the Senate, is, by rea
son of his long service in the House
almost as well known among his nc,
associates as if he had long been in tn
Senate. He and Norris Brown, the ne,
Senators from Nebraska, who succeed
!, Willard, have both proclaimed in ad
vance their earnest support of Roose
) welt in the carrying of his policies
and they are therefore looked upon a
valuable recruits for the Administra
ton. William Aldon Smith. who take
senator Alger, of Michigan, is we
! known because of his service i'll til
House.
Simon Guggenheimer, the smelte
, from Colorado, who succeeds Patterson
: is the only extremely rich man anon
the new Senators, and Frank 0. Brigg.
who succeeds Dryden, OF New jersey
has the distinction OF being the .onl
: one with whiskers among the newero
of Senators.
} In the Senate, more than in .th
a House, the changes will be. marked b
4 reason of the character of the men VIII
, have retired and of the marked COZ
: trast in some instances between Their
6 and the men who are to take thei
places.
! lex MAYOR POWELL DEAD
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