The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-01
CONGRtSSMEN LEAVE
TWELVE SENATORS AND sES ENrh-
 SEVEN REPRESENTATIVES
Senators Teller, Platt, Forakef WI" Leave After Long Service as VIII Representatives Wiliiams'
 Cochran and Hepburn.


 wash,nrton Feb 2S.-Twelve Seha- tors and seyenty-seven Representatives u.ho are members of the present con gress will be absent when the Sixly first Congress assemblies in special seasion on March 15. The reelection of MT. Hopkins in Illinois ana MT Stephenson in Wisconsin, not yet nay ing taken place, 1t Is posslpie that their failure of election will augment the number of Senators to fourteen. The changes in the personnel or une Senate and House include many whose names are bywords to every reader or newspapers ..t,,os Of the seventy seven Representatives who retire on March 5. one, Mr. hep burn of Iowa, has served tWehty-t"o years in Congress, and another MT sherman of New York. who becomes Vice. resident. has served twenty years in the House. MT. cousins oi Iowa, and Delegate Smith Of Arizona have served sixteen years. while Jeh- kins of Wisconsin, Cooper or Iexas. Overstreet of Indiana. Williams o1 Mississippi, and Acheson of PennsyI- yanIa. each have served fourteen years.
 In years of service Senator Teller or Colorado Is the Nestor of the retiring statesmen. having been elected Seha tor upon admission of his State 10 the
  1876. Since this time he has been con tinuously and prominent in the pubic eve He resigned from the Senate Tn 1s82 to enter the cabinet Of Presioent Arthur. as hls Secretary CT the Ih'e rior, and re-entering the Senate March 4 1885. A Republican in politics. he withdrew from the Republican Nation- | al Convention at St. Louis In. Juhe' 1896, because of the financial plank arf,t nd never | since approved 1t. He was re-eIected l to the Senate as an Independent silver | Republican, and In 1903 was reelected | as Democrat. with which party he | has been affiliated since he withdrew l from the Republican convention. lie will retire voluntarily on March 4 nav | ing declined reelection. He Is a mem- Der of the National Monetary Commis- sion and will continue his public ser vice in that connection.
 | Senator Platt, of New York, mas | served in the forty-third and forty l fourth Congresses as a member Of the | House, entering the Senate in 1881. In May 16, of that year, when Senator | Roscoe Conkling resigned his seat be- cause of his difficulties with President | Garfield, his colleague. MT. P!att joined him, and gained the designation of | "Me-Too Platt" It was always under | stood nickname and determined to return to inc Senate as a vindication of his act. which he did March 4, 1897 Although he has been in very feeble health du- ring several years, his attendance in | the Senate on all important occasions generally has been marked With regu- larity.
 Senator Foraker, whose political career is fresh in the minds of every | In a Sonata twAlVa' years.
 Senator Hemenway succeeded Vice. President Fairbanks. Previous to that he had been prominent member or the House since the Fifty-fourth Con gress, being chairman of the Commit tee on Appropriations when he resign ed to go to the Senate.
 Senator McCreary also had long service in the House of Representa- lives. having entered that body in the Forty-ninth Congress, and, after serv- ing six terms entered the Senate six years ago.
 Other Senators who will retire on March are Ankeny of Washington, Fulton of Oregon, Gary of South Car olina, Hansbrough of North Dakota. Kittredge of South Dakota, Long or Kansas, and Milton of Florida.
 Representative Hepburn of Iowa has been conspicuously interested in all matters relating to interstate com merce, his connection with puohc ai- fairs going back to ante-bellum days he having been delegate to the Re- publican National Convention of 1880.
 John Sharp Williams, former minor tty leader of the House, retires to en- ter the Senate two years hence.
 Representative John Adam Bede of Minnesota, who has contributed to the humor of many Congresses.and bourke Cochran of New York. who has ng' used in many oratorical contests, also will retire. MT. Cochran was In the Fiftieth Congress, dropped out one term and reappeared in the Fifty-sec. ond and Fifty third Congresses. H' was then out during eight years, re- turning to the House six years ago.
 Among the retiring Representative are.
 Arkansas-Brundidg
 Florida-Lamar.
 Georgia-Lewis.
 Illtnois-Knopf. McGavin and Cald well.
 Indiana-Foster. Chaney. Holiday Watson. Oyerstreet, Landis, Crum packer. and Gilman.
 Kentucky-A. D. James and Ktmbail
 Louisiana-Favrot.
 Maryland-Jackson and Wolf. Mississippi-Hill. McLain and VII Hams. .x
 Missouri-Ellis, Caulfeld. Smith Russell Hackney and Lamar.
 Nebraska-Pollard and Boyd.
 New York--Waldo. Cochran. McMil' Ian. sherman, Porter and Ryan.
 North Carolina-Hackett and Craw- ford. ~
 Obio-Harding, Bannon, Mouser Ianfnr. Dawes and Weems.
 Oklah ahoma-Fulton and Davenport.
 Tennessee-Hale and Gaines.
 Texas-Cooper
 Vermont-Haskins.
 Washington-Jone
 Winconsin-Murphy and Jenktns. | Delegate Cole of Alaska.
 Two Slight Fires.