The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-29
Ernest G.. W alker.

Ernest G. Walker
Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
BEVERLY, Massachusetts,, Septem-
! her l2.-Whatever the issue as to the
congressional elections - whether the
/ Democrats or the Republicans win -
there viii lie an unusual number of new
faces in the next house. 4 new order
! of things is coming there, if not under
one party then under another. The
same IS true of the senate. The pri-
! mares have not wrought any great
! changes vet in the personnel of that
! body, but other political developments
I have made it plain that the old-llners
/ in that chamber are passing cut.
The finance committee, the most pow
erfuI and desirable committee Of the
senate, illustrates the change that is
/ going on Its Republican members, bv
/ the last print of committee lists, are
/ Aldrich Of Rhode Island. Burrows of
/ Michigan. PentOse of Pennsylvania.
! Hale Of Maine. Cullom Of Illinois, Lodge
/ of Massac husetts. McCumber of North
! Dakota, Smoot of Utah and Hlint of
| California Aldrch and Hale have an
nOunced their retirement to private life
! after March next; Burrows has been
defeated for reelection, and Flint has
! also decided to retire. That makes four
vacancies in a membership Of nine after
March next Penrose is now assured
of the most desirab BILE craftsmanship in
the senate. He and Lodge, McCumber
and Smoot will become the influential
men in the fashioning Of future tariff
laws
There are but five Democratic mem
bers of the finance committee, accord
ing to the last committee print. They
were Daniel of Virginia. now dead;
Money of Mississippi, who retires
March next: Bailey of Texas. who
will become the minority leader Of the
committee: Taliaferro Of Florida, who
has been defeated for reelection by
more progressive Democrat, and Sim
mons of North Carolina.
Many Other Changes.
There Will not be as MANY important
changes in some of the other big senate
committees, but the reorganization viii
nevertheless bring many new men to
the head of the long mahogany tables
where the business of the senate is
given preliminary consideration SEN
ator Hale IS chairman Of appropriations.
and new chairman viii come in there
1t may he Senator Perkins of Califor-
MIA. if his health is sufficiently good for
him to undertake to gnide the ouerous
tasks Of that committee. Otherwise the
Craftsmanship VIII probably fall to Sen
ator Warren of Wyoming who, although
a veteran of the Civil War, is still one
of the best-preserved men in the senate
John Kean of New Jersey and Elmer
J. Burkett of Nebraska are fighting for
their political lives in this campaign.
Boht Of them may be supplanted, by
Democrats.
The five Democrats of that committee
are Tillman of South Carolina, very
sick man; Clay of Georgia, who also
has been very i'll; Foster of Louisiana
and Culberson Of Texas. who was so
i'll that he did not attend the last SEES
sion of congress. Daniel, who was the
fifth member, as already stated, is dead.
The minority on that great committee
is accordingly badly crippled.
In the house the committee chalrmen,
who constitute the backbone of Speaker
Cannon 5 organization, have not suffer
ed snanv campaign casualties thus far
although certain Of them are in more
or less stress. Charles +. Scott, of
Kansas, chairman Of agriculture, an
important place, has fallen outside the
breaStworls in the Kansas primaries.
y. u. Sperrv, Of New Haven, Connect
cut. chairman Of alcoholic liquor traf-
fic and one of the last survivors of
the coterie of men, who were instru-
mental in building the Monitor during
the Civil War, has announced his pros
pective retirement James \. Tawney
chairman of appropriations, is having
a very hard time winning a renomina
ton ana may lose. He is the Speak
er 5 right arm in the house of reprcsen
tatives. Edgar d, Crumpacker, chair
man of census. and one of only two
Indiana Republicans who got back TO
congress two years ago, is having
trouble with his constituency. although
his district IS so overwhelmingly Re
publican that he will probably pull
through.
James NJ Miller, of Kansas. chair
man of elections committee number two,
has also fallen. and Benjamin f. How
ell, of New Jersey. chairman of immi-
grafton. is flying signal of great dis
treSs in his campaign for denomination.
Colonel Roosevelt has put a candidate
into the running against him" in the
third New Jersey district. William 4.
Roeder. chairman of irrigation. is an
other Kansan, who went down in the
primary battling and Richard Wayne
Parker, chairman Of the very import
ant Judiciary committee. which the
critical call ''Speaker Cannon's grave
ward for undesirable bills" IS N
..,..,~ ,E;al+ r. ic doubtful ;f he can