New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-12-07
NEW FACES In HOUSE
SEVEN WILL BE SEEN.
Because of Dead Predecessors re
ception Will Be Quiet
1rrom The Tribune Bureau.I

TFrom The Tribune Bureau.l
washington. Dec, 6;-seven new Iaces So, +bs
coon in the House a Representatives When uiio
Sneakers gavel falls at on MONDAY anu 90
ell the officers of the body have been cnoS e c.
all the work of the organization done loI ' 80
sion before it begins the chief interest at t
oDening will center about the owners Oh 'Ae
nev countenances. As all OF them aiteF 'aAi'e
the oath of Office Immediately after the IOt
first called will be seated in places maze va
cant nv death or resignation, their itcolLnN
Iii ba rnarzad nv a solemnity that does not OBTAIN
at the opening of a Congress Ihere VIII %
no cheers and handclapping to welcome 4i,os
their arrival will be characterized oy Hea -
and warmth Of good feeling, nevertheless anu 1lo
old friends they meet and the new friends tneS
make Will assure them that they are at nome
MR. MARTIN. OF SOUTH DAKOTA
OF the new members, only one, Eoen "e'er
Martin at large from South Dakota, has seIveu ~
Congress before. He had six years III 'liI
He made an enviabe record FOR cohscleh.i0u9,
Ievel-beaded work in Congress until the rate Oh
politics gave Philo Hall, of BrooKlngs' MS To-
two wears ago. Mr.. Martin was a MEMBER OF the
57tb 18Th and seth Congresses and was one OF the
few Northwestern members TO be cameo IN l'e4LeHt
consultation at the White House. After MT han
was elected to I'll his seat in the o0th congress
Mr. Martin retired TO private life for a Tune Du'
when MI Hall died he presented himself lot inc
vacancy and was rewarded not only with the uieA-
pired term but the seat in the 61st Congress as
we'll Mr. Martin was born more than nly yea
ago. in Iowa, was graduated from Cornel IN INC
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wears later and attended the Ann ArbOr law school
He moved to Deadwood in 1880, and has practised
law there ever since Mr.. Martin Is menoer Oh
the Loyal Legion and the Sons Of the American
Revolution. and for several years president OF
the Deadwood Board Of Education
MR. sWAsEY, OF MAINE.
The Cd Maine District, made famous by Nelson
Dingley and Charles e LAttleheld. Will be repre-
sented until further notice by John P Swasey' Inc
new member is rugged specimen as either OF
cyfF In he
War served in the Legislature and was assessor
for his district. He is nearly seventy years Oh
age but IS as strong and vigorous as many men
OF fifty His home is in Canton. 1t Is an inter
esting fact that the beginning OF his term OF Of
fee in the chair once occupied by Mr.. Dingley
occurs just at the time that Congress is prePar-
ing to supersede the Dingley tariff law with new
arrangement of customs schedules. Charles E. Lit
tlefeld whose vacant place Mr.. Swasey was elect
ed TO FILL is now practising law in New York, where
he went for the purpose Of making money AS
he has already been connected with a number OF
cases in which millions involved. his friends
believe it probable that he will attain his amb-
ton
MR.. GUERNSEY. OF MAINE.
Another stranger from Maine will be welcomed
in the person of Frank E Guernsey, who comes
to succeed the late Llewellyn Powers, Of the 4th
Congress District. Mr.. Guernsey claims Dover
his home and born there october To- 1855.
He was educated at Foxcraft Academy and Bucks
port and Kents Hill seninaries, and when he
struck out for himself popular among his
neighbors that they gave him the county money
to keep-temporaruy After serving Treasurer
of Piscataquis County for about six years. they
thought they needed him in the state Legislature
and elected him for several terms. both to the
House and the Senate. He was delegate to the
Republican National Convention in Chicago last
summer and helped to nominate Mr.. Taft
MIR. FOELKER. OF NEW YORK
When Otto Godfrey FoeIker defed the orders OF
his physicians last spring and left his sickbed IN
order I" appear on the floor OF the Senate at AL
bany and cast his vote for Governor Hughes's anti
racetrack gambling bills he probably had no idea
that the move would land him in Congress. That
act however, shaped his political fate for the peo
pie of his district demanded his nomination when
Representative Charles T. Dunwelrs death created
a vacancy. Besides being a Republican. Mr.. FoeI-
ker is a lawyer and before he served in the New
York Senate a member OF the Assembly.
MR. BARNHART. OF INDIANA
When the political slapstick landed on Indiana in
November the first Democrat to fall into Repub-
leans shoes Harry a. Barnhart. of Rochester,
who elected To I'LL the uncxpired term OF the
late Representative Abraham Lincoln Brick. Nor
maly the 18th Congress District is Republican, but
this time It went we'll the other way that there
was use contesting the result. In consequence
of the remarkable reversal of form shown by the
state whole. there Will be eleven Democrats
and two Republicans in the 6lst Congress. In
the present Congress there are eleven Repub-
licans and two Democrats, there has been
complete somersault. Congressionally speaking.
Whether such turn-about is regarded as fair play
not depends on the point of view Mr.. Barnhart
Is a farmer-edtor and is said
either job He conducts The Rochester Sentinel
in his home town and has served in the Legislature
MR. EsTOPINAL, OF LOUISIANA.
To repeat the titles he has owned and the places
he has held would take Albert Estopinal the
new Democratic Representative from the LIST Louis
District good share of his term of office He
comes the successor OF General Adolph Meyer
and. Ike that genial gentleman, has been a sugar
raiser and prominent man OF affairs IN his state
for many years He carried a musket in the Con-
federate army all through the bloody days OF the
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