Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-24
OLD STATESMEN
SEE BIG CHANGE
Personnel of the Senate Differs
In Many Respects to
Days Agone.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, D. c., April Gothic ru-
NOR that Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island has about determined to quit
Congress at the end of his term and
retire to private life brings one face
to face with the changes that have oc-
CURED in the upper branch of Congress
in the past few years and there is a
distinctive bit of pathos in the deter
mination of Senator Aldrich to quit the
cares of legislation, if il be true. be-
cause he is among the last of the old
guard who performed valiant service
for the country in shaping legislation
during the decade just past
Senator Aldrich has been for years
a power and an influence in the senate
of the United States and while unlike
the reasons given by Senator John c.
Spooner for his retirement. that he
wanted to do some work for his fam
lily before II was too late. he probably
has reached the conclusion that with
the changing conditions In the senate
with the old chivalIy and the old cour-
tesy gone and with a group of young
men pushing for preferment and rough
riding over presidents and practise
Senator Aldrich looks askance upon
continuing in a body whose personnel
has so vitality changed in the past doz-
EN- years.
A LUNCH ROOM TALK.
At one of the tables in the senate
lunch room the other day there sat
three or four of the older representa-
tiyes in the lower house and they dis
cussed' the changes that have occurred
I'm the upper branch of Congress during
their careers. One of the elder states
men said in speaking of the rumor OF
Senator Alduchs retirement: II DO
not wonder at II whatsoever Aldrich
cannot but notice the unusual things
that are happening these days in the
upper branch He cannot help but re-
call the dressing down which Senator
Burkett gave Senator Hale the other
day because Senator Hale had the te-
merity to ask the return of the army
appropriation bill from conference be-
cause certain features OF the meas
ure had been passed during his alb
sence from the chamber and with
which he was not favOrably I'M
pressed The senate gasped for
breath at tho audacity of Burkett
in presuming TO read lecture 10
SO eminent statesman as senator
Eugene Hale and even through the &C
CASTOR might have warranted a gehllc
protest the vitrolIc language of the sen
ior senator from Nebraska made the
entire chamber sit up and take notice
IL was nuts for the Democrats, but II
yyng NORWOOD for the Republicans.
These things go to show how rapidly
the old customs and the old forms, the
quiet dignity, are disinteglating To
make room for pushing, selt-a asserting
group of men who have been raised IN
a wholly different school OF politics
from that Of Aldrich, Hale, Allison and
Daniels Many OF the new men VINO
arc serving their nrst terms in the
senate are I'm the formative period of
their careers as statesmen. They have
not buildcd their foundations, and like
i'm the lower house, tho men who have
bccn longest in the service ana who
have consciontiously worked for TIA"
public veal they arc the mon who WELD
the power and prestige In either branch
of Congress"
is A HARD WORKER.
Sonntor Aldrich rs one ~ this fast
disappearing type OF workers. Himself
a hard worker lac rs helpful to all those
who commend themselves to him along
similar lines, Whlo II rs true he is
austore TO the great mass OF the people
AIdiirh rs warm bloodcd and warm
hearted and his knowledge Of tho bust,
ness Of legislating has been Of the frsl
importance Ia enectlnE legislation.
with Aldrlch's going viii 90 one OF
the bulwarks Of the older senatorial
conception OF that body's place in the
scheme OF things in this government,
and he will be followed shortly by some
who have been an influence in the work
OF Congress FOR a generation aud more
The ranks OF the leaders are thinning
ana within your life you win see a new
order of things come 10 pass In the
senate Of the United states, FOR IL rs
written that the "old order chansoth."
AUTO VS. MACADAM.
Franco has called an International
congress for October 10 be held IN
pn,l. fnr The nurnoRo " discunaInnr -