The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
MANY CHANGES
IN BOTH HOUSES
Twelve Senators and Fourteen
Representatives Retired
to Private Life.
PASSING OF THOMAS PLAT
TELLER OF COLORADO GREAT
EST OF RETIRING STATESMEN.

Washington. Feb. 2S.-Twelve sena-
tors and seventy-seven representatives,
members of the present congress, will
be absent when the Sixty-first congress
assemblies in special session on March
Is. MIR. Hopkins in Illinois and MIR.
Stephenson in Wisconsin not having
been reelected yet, it is possible that
the number of senatorial absentees will
be fourteen.
OF the seventy-seven representatives
who retire on March 8, one, Mr.. Hep
burn Ua.) has served twenty-five years
in congress, and Mr.. Sherman IN. W
who becomes vice president, has served
twenty years. Delegate Smith (ArizJ
has served sixteen years, and Mr.. Coop
er (Tex.) has served fourteen years.
In years of service, Senator Teller OF
Colorado is the Nestor of the retiring
statesmen, having been elected senator
under the admission of his state to the
union, taking his seat Dec 4, 1876,
since when he has been continuously
and prominently in the public eye. He
resigned from the senate in 1882 to
enter the cabinet of President Arthur,
as secretary of the interior, re-entering
the senate March 4, 1885. A Republican
in politics, he withdrew from the Re
publican national convention at St
Louis in June, 1896, because of the
financial plank. He was reelected TO
the senate as an Independent Silver
Republican, and in 1905 was reelected
as a Democrat. His conspicuous abil-
ity as a lawyer and his familiarity with
legislation have given him an eminent
place in the senate, from which ne win
retire voluntarily on March 4, having
declined reelection.
Passing Of Plat.
Senator Plat Of New York served in
the Forty-third and Forty-fourth con-
crosses as a member of the house, en-
terinG the senate in 1881. On May 16
of that year. when Senator Roscoe
COnkling resigned his seat because OF
his difficulties with President Garfield
his colleague, Mr. Plat. Joined him.
thereby gaining the designation of
Me too" Plat. 1t was always under
stood that Mr.. Plat chafed under this
nickname, and demanded to return to
the senate as a vindication of his act.
which he did March 4, 1897.
Senator Foraker has served in the
senate twelve years.
Senator Hemenway succeeded Vice
President Fairbanks, who resigned his
seat in the senate to become It's pre-
siding officer, so that he has had but
four years as a member of that body.
Senator McCreary had a long service
in the house, having entered that body
In the Forty-ninth congress, and after
serving six terms entered the senate
six years ago.
Other senators who will retire are
Ankeny CWash), Fulton (Ore.). Gary
IS. c., Hansbrough On. d., Kittredgc
Is. d., Long (Kan.) and Mitten (Fla.).
Goodbye to Hepburn.
Representative Hepburn 0a) has
been interested in all matters relating
to interstate commerce, his connection
with public affairs going back to ante
bellum days, he having been a delegate
to the Republican national convention
OF 1850 John Sharp Williams, formerly
minority leader of the house, retired to
enter the senate. Bourke Cochran N.
y, who has figured in many OratOrical
contests. also will retire.
Among the retiring representatives
are these
Colorado-COok, Bonynge and Hag-
gott.
Idaho-F'rench.
New York-Waldo. Cochran, Mc9Iil-
len, Sherman. Porter and Ryan.
North Dakota-Marshall
South Dakota-Hail.
Texas-CoOper
observation-disclosures
elegates-Alaska, Gale; Arizona,
Smith