The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-30
CONGRESS WILL HAVE MANY
NEW FACES NEXT SESSION
insurgency and Death Have Played Havoc
With the Old Standbies---Many Of
tlawai'S Friends Go Out.
Rrnsst @. walker.


Der l2.-Whatever the issue as to the
congressional elections - whether the
Democrats OF the Republicans win ~
there will he an unusual number Of new
I faces in the next house. A new order
of things us coming there, If not under
one party then under another The
same is true of the senate. The pri-
maries have not wrought any great
/ changes vet in the personnel of that
body, hut other political developments
have made it plain that the old-liners
in that chamber are passing out
The finance committee, the most pow.
erful and desirable committee of the
senate, illustrates the change that is
going on. Its Republican members, by
the last print of committee lists, are
/ Aldrich of Rhode Island. Burrows of
Michigan, Penrose of Pennsylvania,
| Hale of Maine, Cullom of Illinois, Lodge
of Massachusetts,, McCumber of North
Dakota, Smoot of Utah and Flint of
California. Aldrich and Hale have an.
nounced their retirement to private life
after March 4 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 4 next. Penrose is now assured
of the most desirable Craftsmanship in
the senate. He and Lodge, McCumber
and Smoot viii become the influential
men in the fashioning of future tariff
laws.
There are but FIVE Democratic mem.
beTs of the finance committee, accord
ing to the last committee print. They
were Daniel of Virginia, now dead;
Money of Mississippi, who retires
March 4 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 win not be as many important
changes in some of the other big senate
committees, but the reorganization will
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 ANEW chairman will come in there.
1t may be Senator Perkins of Califor.
MIA, if his health is sufficiently good for
him to undertake to guide the ouerous
tasks of that committee. Otherwise the
craftsmanship will 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 chairmen,
who constitute the backbone of Speaker
Cannon Is organization, have not suffer
ed many 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
breastworks in the Kansas primaries.
IN d. Sperry, of New Haven, Conneeti-
cut, chairman of alcoholic liquor traf-
tie 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 A. Tawney,
chairman of appropriations, is having
very hard time winning a renOmina-
ton and may lose. He is the Speak
er Is right arm in the house of represen-
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 a signal of great dis
tress in his campaign for denomination.
Colonel Roosevelt has put a candidate
into the running against him in the
tlird New Jersey district. William A.
Reeder chairman of irrigation, is an
other Kansan, who went down in the
primary battling and Richard Wayne
Parker. chairman of the very import
Hlil luultlhfN toihVHltLttf winch lH0
critical call "Speaker Cannon's grave
yard for undesirable bills" is in
sorry plight. It is doubtful If he can
win denomination and IL he gets that
ii is still more doubtful whether he
can be reelected. John J. Gardner, of
the Atlantic City district, chairman or
labor. a committee Of no minor rating.
Is likewise in heap Of trouble.
John A. Hull, OF the Dies Moines,
Iowa. district, long chairman Of the
military affairs committee, was one Of
the very first TO fall when the con
gresslonal battling opened George +.
HUFF, chairman Of mines and mining,
Informed bis Pennsylvania constituents
early that be would not run again.
Some Still Fighting,
Mruy strong men, who have been
the Speakers stauneh Fuppours in their
roles Of committee chairman, are stand
ing fm during The fray and have OK,
eellent prospects of being members o.
tho neat house. They include Weeks N
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