Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-03
TWO
MANY CHANGES
 IN NEW CONGRESS
IF Senators and :. Representatives to Step Down and Out Teller is Oldest in Point of Service.


 on March l3. The reelection of Mr. Hopkins of Illinois and Stephenson in Wisconsin not ."t having taken place, it is possible their failure of election will augment the number of senatorial absentees to II. These changes in the personnel of the Sen ate and house include many whose names are bvwords 10 every reader of newspapers.
 Of the - representatives who re- tire on March 3 one. MT Hepburn of and another. Mr. sherman of New York, who becomes vice president, has served 20 years ill the house. Mr. Cousins of Iowa and Delegate Smith of Arizona, have served Is years, while Jenkins of Wisconsin, Cooper of Tex as. Overstreet of Indiana Williams of Mississl .,pi and Acheson of Pcnn sylvania, each have served fl years.
 Teller the Oldest.
 Tn years of service, Senator Teller, of Colorado, Is the ncstor of the re- tiring statesmen, having been elected senator upon the admission of his state to the Union. taking his seat December |, 1876, since which time he has been continuously and prom inently in the public eye He re- signed from the Senate in 1882 to en- ter the cabinet of President Arthur as secretary of the interior. re-enter- ing the senate March 1, 1885. A Re publican in politics, he withdrew from the Republican national conven- ton at St. Louis June, 1896, because of the financial plank adopted by that party, which he has never since ap- proved. He was reelected to the Senate as an Independent Silver Re- publican and in 1903 was reelected as a Democrat. with which party he has been affiliated since he withdrew from the Republ can convention. He will retire voluntarily on March !, having declined reelection He is a member of the National Monetary. Commission and will continue his public service in that connection.
 Me Too" Platt Goes.
 Senator Platt of New York served in the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses as a member of the house, entering the Senate In 1881. On May 16 of that year, when Senator RoSco Conkling. resigned his scat because of his difficulties with President Gar field, his colleague the designation of Me Too" platt. It was always un- derstood that Platt chafeI under this nickname and determined to returntl to the Senate as d vindication of his l act. which he did March 4, 1897 AL 1 though he has been i'll very feeble l health during several years, his at- l tendance on tnc sessions of the Sen |! ate on all important questions having 1 been marked with regularity. ]
 Senator Foraker, whose political ca ! reer is fresh in the minds of every l ohS, lit.o SNi N'Nt III Nl.t ,bttldlt SttlN. |
 Senator Hemenway succeeded Vice . President Fairbanks. Previous to | that he had been prominent mem- ber of the house since the tfty-fourth 1 congress, being chairman of the ! Eommittee on Appropriations when | he resigned to go to the Senate
 St p3tnr Med a1cn I,od lno,r service in the House of Representa- 1 tNes, having entered tha, hody i'll the l torty-ninth GorSress and after sery- ! ing six terms entered the Senate six l years ago.
 Other senators who will retire on 1 March are ;inkcny of Washington i Fulton of Or, gon. Gary of South Caro- :. lima, Hansbrough Of North Dakota, l kittredge of South Dakota. Long of 1 Kansas and Milton of Florida
 Representative Hepburn of Iowa has been conspicuously interested in all matters relating to interstate con- merce. his connection with public af- fairs going hsck to antebellum days, ] he having been delegate to the ! Republican national convention of 1860. John Sharp Williams. former minority leader Of the house retires l to enter the Senate two years hence
 Representative ]. Adam Dede of Minnesota, who has contributed to the humor of many campaigns, and Bourke Cochran of New York, who has figured in many oratorical con- tests, also retire. Mir. Cochran was in the tiftieth congress. dropped out one term and reappeared In the Fifty second and Fifty-third Congresses. He was then out during eight years,