The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-03-01
MANY FAMILIAR
FACES MISSING
Personnel Of Senate and House IS
Changed-TelIer's Long Ca
reer is Ended.

" doutd5tous 01d1Su - UCl'c SCH
ators and n representatives who are
members Of the present congress wiz
be absent when the sixty-nrst con-
gress assemblies in special session on
March Is. The reelection Of Mr..
Hopkins in Illinois and Mr.. Stephen
son in Wisconsin not having taken
place, it is possible their failure Of
election will augment the number OF
senatorial aDsentees to IA. These
changes in the personnel of the SEN
ate and house include many whose
names are bywords to every reader
of newspapers.
OF the n representatives who re-
tire on March one, Mr. Hepburn
Qa), has served % years in con-
gress, and another. Mr.. Sherman (N.
", who becomes vice president, has
served 22 years in the house. Mr..
Cousins Qa.) and Delegate Smith
(Ariz.) have served 16 years, while
Jenkins (Wis). Cooper (Tex). Over
street Qnd.). Williams (Miss.) and
Acheson, tPa.) each have served IA
years
In years Of service, Senator Teller
Of Colorado is the Nestor OF the re-
firing statesmen, having been elected
senator upon the the admission OF
his state to the Union. taking his seat
Dec. 4, 1876, since which time he has
been continuously and prominently
in the public eye. He resigned from
the senate in 1882 to enter the cabi-
net Of President Arthur as secretary
of the interior, re-entering the senate
March 4, 1885. A Republican in poll
tics, he withdrew from the Republic
can national convention at st. Louis
in June, 1896, because of the financial
plank adopted by that party, which
he has never since approved. He was
reelected to the senate as an indie
pendent silver Republican and in 1908
was reelected as a Democrat. with
which party he has been affiliated
since he withdrew from the Republi-
can convention. His conspicuous
ability as a lawyer and his familiarity
with legislation covering long series
of years have given him an eminent
place in the senate, from which he
will retire voluntarily on March 4,
having declined reelection. re is
member of the national monetary
and will continue his pub
lie service in that connection.
Senator Plat of New York served
in the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
as a member OF the house,
entering the senate in 1881. On May
is of that year. when Senator Roscoe
resigned his seat because Of
his difficulties with President Gar
field his colleague, Mr.. Plat. joined
him, thereby gaining the designation
of me Too" Plat. II was always
that Mr.. Plat chafed un-
der this nickname and determined to
return to the senate as yindication
of his act, which he did March 4,
1897, Although he has been in very
feeble health during several years.
his attendance on the sessions of the
senate on all important occasions
ReueTdiiy las Bccu mdiAcI Will reg
Senator Foraker. whose political ca
reer is fresh in the minds Of every
one, has served in the senate IL
years.
Other senators who viii retire on
March 4 are Hemenway (Ind). An
keny (Wash.), Fulton (Ore). Gary
Is. c., Hansbrough On. D.. Kilt
redge fS. d., Long tKan.). Milton
(Fla) and McCreary (Ky.),
The Ohio representatives who viii
withdraw are J. Eugene Harding Of
the Third district Henry T. Cannon
Of the Tenth, Grant x. Mouser Of the
J. r. Laning o. the -Four
teenth. Bemau G. Dawes Of the Fif-
teenth aud capelI L. Veems OF the
Sixteenth. all Republicans. They viii
be succeeded BY James NJ Cox fp.).
A. r. Johnson (H). Carl Anderson
Cd. William G. sharp CO... James
Joyce (R., AID n A HollInssRerth