Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-04
THE END OF CONGRESS.
Bv FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Jones of Virginia and Jefferson NJ. Levy OF
New York. For the other 224 the expert
ence OF being member of the majority.
with the enteiled responsibilities, will be
absolutely novel.
In the Senate. although the republicans
retain nominal control, ard although
there will be no change in the formal or
gan1zation of the body, the actual changes
are even more sweeping than in the
House.
X *
Today ends the service in the Senate
Of Nelson w. Aldrich of Rhode Island
Reign of "0ld Guard" Hale of Maine.
Ends in the Senate. ~, ~ e~ ra,rn A'o .,
that compact "old guard organization
which they captained and which has con-
troiled the Senate ever since the balance
Of power was wrested from the free sill
yer and populist senators. nearly a score
of years ago.
Seventeen senators retire today at the
expiration CT their terms-fourteen re-
pubNcans, Aldrich, Beveridge, Buckley.
Burkett. Burrows, Carter. Depew, Dick.
Flint. Hale. Kean. Piles. Scott and War
ner; and three democrats, Frazier. Money
ans seven will be succeeded by democrats.
The legislature OF New York at this
writing is still deadlocked on the elec-
ton OF successor to Depew. Three
other republicans cf The conservative
stripe will be succeeded by progressives.
Only two. Aldrich and Buckley. will be
succeeded by men Of their own political
stripe. The three retiring democrats will
be succeeded by democrats.
Several other changes caused by death
n<S drs<S1 1~A 20 hn 20
the Senate. No less than twenty-five new
faces will be seen in the Senate In the
next session that were not there when
the SiXty-first Congress began. Twenty.
two in total membership Of ninety-two
is a very large proportion, and the Sem
ate has experienced no such great change
at one time since the civil war.
In the Senate as 1t stands before ad-
journment today there are fifty-nine re-
publicans. thir-
Republicans Still ty-two demo-
Control the Senate. va ~sS ~"a ~
publican majority OF almost two to enc.
But the republicans are divided into hos
tile camps Of standpatters and insurgents,
so that tie count Is hardly Indicative Of
count will stand somewhere in the neigh
borhood Of fifty-Cne republicans anC
forty-one democrats-a republican major
ity Of only ten. But. as the republican
roster will include dozen or more in
surgents and near-insursents. 1t is ap-
parent that nobody can tell what will
happen when the Sixty-second Congress
meets. 1t is certain, however, that the
old compact and efficient republican or
ganization has gone to pieces. and 1t Is
equally certain that the Senate demo-
Gratis possess no workable scheme or
plan OF action.
For the first time since the country was
on the eve Of the second war with Eng
iand-in 1911. exactly century aso-the
old Congress dies with the country in alb
solute ignorance of who will lead 2ithe.
of the party organizations In the Senat=
Of the United States.
The dying Congress held three SESSIONS
the extraordinary session called BY Pres
ident Taft tor March~9J. 1909. which pass
ed the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill; the frs.
regular session. which met in Dectmoer
1919, and the present session, which
met in December CT 1910. Its politica,
course has been marked by the factionai
quarrel in the: ranks OF the republican
party, by the strange and unaccountable
disappearance of factions among the
democrats and by a general tendency
toward legislative and political revolu-
ton. Few leaders OF either party regret
that It's days are done.
TomorrOw-THE CARNEGIE.