The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-05
CONGRESS SOON HOLDS BOARDS Legislators Flock to National
 Capital. INSURGENTS STILL BITTER Freely Predict Cannon's Downfall
 Next Year. Hotels and Boarding Houses at Wasb- ington Filled With Returning Law Makers--AIabama Sena-.
 tors Remain i'm Same Quarters This Session.
RY ALrREn ,. sToFER.

Washington, Dec. 4.-(Specfal.)- Senators and representatives are ar irving on nearly every train. but quite a percentage will not reach the city until Sunday night or Monday morn ing. Both branches of Congress were organized last March when President Taft called it in extra session for the purpose of considering the tariff, and therefore no Senate or House caucuses of the two parties will be held
 If that extra session had not been called, there would have been held night caucuses by both Republicans and Democrats to nominate the var ious officers of the House of Repre- sentatives.
 Not since the winter of 1891 has a real struggle occurred over the selec- tion of a speaker of the House, in either party. The last one was when the, late Judge Crisp. of Georgia. was nominated by the Democrats for speak CT over Roger c. Mills, of Texas. Ever since that tussel things have been on the cut and dried order in the House wing of the capitol.
 The probability is that another live ly contest will occur when the House Is organized for Sixty-second Congress. no matter which party happens to be in control of that body. If the Demo- crats win at the election next year. Champ Clark, of Missouri. will not have a walk-over for speaker by any means, but his friends and packers predict he will win in the event the Democrats are on top in the House.
 Bitter Against Cannon.
 The Republican insurgents in the House are more bitter than ever against Speaker Cannon, and they positively insist that if he Is a candi- date again they will muster votes enough in their caucus to prevent his election, should it turn out that their party retains power In the popular branch of Congress.
 None of the Southern Republicans in the House have yet generally al- lied themselves with the insurgent band. Some of them sputtered around because they did not like all the tariff schedules, but they walked back into camp before the bill was passed on August 9th.
 In spite of the prevailing belief that congressman to large extent own fine residences in Washington, ma jority of the senators and representa- tives live either in hotels or the mod ern apartments. At one of the hotels up on Capitol Hill in close proximity to the House office building there are about forty representatives and their families domiciled.
 This is a new structure that seems to have been built with the idea that 1t would attract the representatives. On stated occasions the wives and daughters of the members who are quartered there have what they call days at home for the ladies of the ,aw wr1a rn eE pleasant social affairs, and much time Is saved when the season is at its height by having a dozen or more of the wives and daughters of members receive their friends together on the same day.
 old Directories Interesting.
 It is interesting to run over an old directory of Washington. Not many years before the civil war 1t was chronicled that all of the justices of the Supreme Court were quartered in the same boarding house. Two or three of the hotels in lower Pennsyl- vania avenue several blocks west Of the capitol quartered more than hali of the senators and representatives In those days.
 For this occasion Senators Bank head and Johnston will be quartereo | again at the Riggs and the Cochran I hotels where they stopped last ses- sion.
 AS the family of Representative | Taylor have gone to Alabama fol an indefinite stay, the member iron the Mobile district will probably To- cate. at a hotel.
 l Representative Hobson maintains 6 residence here. All of the other mem l bers of the House from Alabama witt the exception of Mir. Heflin. whC