Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-03-18
Eliminate
THIRTY SENATOR'S
In LAST YEAR
WILL BE MANY CHANGES IN UP.
PER HOUSE OF CONGRESS
NEXT SESSION.
Twenty-FOur Republicans and Six
Democrats Retire.

WASHINGTON, March Thirty
members of the senate are in the last
year of their present terms. The con-
ventions or elections of the summer
and fall will decide, in almost all
cases, whether the toga wearers shall
return to their law practice or dis
port for six years more in the marble
temple of legislation on the hill.
In regard to several of the senators
the question has already been settled.
The return of Senator Isidor Rayner
has been assured by the action of the
Maryland legislature. Senators Her
nando De Sofa Money, the democratic
leader, will retire to his plantation
in Mississippi They take a senator
ial situation by the forelock down in
Mississippi, and in line with the hon
orable custom John Sharp Williams,
statesman, gentleman, scholar, law
yer and planter, was chosen several
years ago to succeed Money. Will
liams was then leader of the demo-
Gratis and one of the most popular
members of the house. Senator Flint
california; has said he would not
be candidate for reelection.
At the head of the list, alphabet
cally and otherwise, of those who will
toe the mark and take the oath next
March 4 will be one Senator Aldrich,
from Rhode Island. A vagrant rumor
went the rounds last summer that
Aldrich had decided to retire. When
it was brought to his attention he
remarked that he hadn't passed out
authority to anybody to make such
statement. So he'll come back.
They have been trying to build a
fire under Senator Hale in the thirsty
state of Maine but the senator's
friends declare that he'll return
again just as he has for thirty years.
He stands beside Aldrich at the head
of the regular organization in rank
but not in influence. Other members
of the old guard likely to return are
Lodge, Mass, and Kean, N. j., while
Burrows, Mich, and Scott. w. Va,
say they will be here, too, though
they are fighting for the honor in the
face of right lively opposition.
Four of the band of progressiyes
in the senate are under fire of the
interests" and, according to widely
circulated reports, of the regular re-
publicans, but they are fighting on
cheerfully with the expectation of
putting in six years more at the old
stand. La Toilette is, of course, an
object of especial solieitude and ex-
traordinary efforts are being made to
overturn Wisconsin, where he has
no friends but the people. Beveridge,
now the undisputed republican lead
er in Indiana and a strong force in
the senate is up for reelection. Bnrk-
EFT has w. ]. Bryan, among other
issues, on his hands in Nebraska, and
Clapp seeks recognition In Minnesota
where they are up to date and don't
have moss on their political doctrines.
In the group of those who must be
born again as senators If they are
going to help govern the country and
advance the light Of civilization gen.
orally are: Buckley, Connecticut;
Carter, Montana; Clark, Wyoming;
Culberson, Texas; Daniel. Virginia;
Depew. New York; Dick, Ohio; du
Point, Delaware; Frazier. Tennessee;
MeCumber, North Dakota; Nixon, Ne
vada; Oliver. Pennsylvania: Page,
Vermont; Piles. Washington: Suther-
land, Utah; TaIiaferro, Florida, and
Warner, Missouri.
OF the expiring 80 there are "a
and six democrats.