The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-21
Senators Have Opposition.


 long continued service, are con. fronting contests in their states, and in the cases of two of them there is real chance that they may be lover come by the enemy"
 Senator Julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan has been in congress in one house or the other for over 30 years. The senator is a candidate to succeed himself, but hard fight is being made by Representative Charles F. Town send of Jackson, Mich, who for a long time has had an ambition to enter the upper house.
 Eugene Hale of Maine has been in the United States senate continuously ever since 1881. For the first time in his senatorial career he is facing a hard fight in the home state. Already a candidate has appeared who rep resents what is called the progressive element of Republicanism in the Pine Tree state
 There are three men in the state of Maine who before long, it Is said, will enter the field against MT. Hale. One
  s. Millikin, who is known as young and active Republican of the Roose welt type.
 Would Succeed Senator Lodge. Tn Massachusetts a representative in congress, Butler Ames a grandson of Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and a son of Maj. Gen. Adelbert Ames, has announced himself as candidate to succeed Senator Henry Cabot Lodge It is admitted by Col Ames' friends (the representative was a lieutenant colonel in the army during the Span ish war; that he has no particularly brilliant chance of getting possession of the toga of Senator Lodge, but it is promised that enough of fight will be put up against the senior senator from the old Bay state to make things somewhat lively during the coming year.
 In Michigan, where Senator Bur- rows is trying to secure permission to hold on to his seat and where Representative Townsend is trying his best to defeat the senator's pur- pose there is primary law, and while the senators are of course chosen by the legislature of the state. the voice of the voter as heard at the primary is supposed to be obeyed In Illinois the primary law did not work much as it was expected 1t would when the time came to elect sena- tor to succeed A. J. Hopkins. The Michigan law is somewhat similar to the Illinois law, but both Senator Bur rows and Representative Townsend have made public declaration that II the majority of the voters in Michigan declare for one or the other of them the wish of the voters must be blnd- ing on the legislature This means simply that if Burrows gets more votes in the primary than Townsend it is thought that he will succeed him. self as senator, and that the reverse will happen if Townsend gets the most votes.
 Means Much to the Senate.
 If by any chance these three Repub. ucan senators of such long service Tn the senate should be compelled to give up their seats. each or them would leave behind him position which can be defined only by the one word. power" Legislation in the senate is done largely through com mittees, for what a committee recom- mends ordinarily is passed by the senate as whole.
 Senator Burrows is member or the finance committee, the most pow erful subsidiary body of the senate, and of the committees on naval af' fairs. Philippines, postoffices and post roads. and is the chairman of the committee on privileges and elections. Four of these bodies are of the nrst rank in importance, and the power that they wield is enormous.
 Senator Hale of Maine is the chair man of the committee on approprla- tions and he is a member of the com mittee on finance. The Maine senator also is the Republican leader on the floor of the senate most of the time, for MT. Aldrich, excepting when tarih bills are up, rarely exerts his right of leadership.
 Senator Lodge is the chairman or the Philippine committee and has a membership in the committee on H. nance, foreign relations and immi- grafton. Burrows, Hale and Lodge are three of the most powerful sena- tors in congress and they are made powerful largely by their committee holdings If any one of them loses out he will drop not merely the sena- torship, but a great bundle of power