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WASHINGTON, D. c., April 3.-The
interesting situation of Democratic
| House and a Republican Senate meet
ing to consider Taft administrative
measure directs unusual attention to
the convening of the Sixty-second Con-
gress In extraordinary session at noon
tomorrow. The political compilations
of the two branches of Congress will
be as follows:
House-Democrats 22S; Republicans,
160; Socialist, l; vacancies, 2--the Ninth
Iowa and Second Pennsylvania dis
tricts.
Senate-Republicans so; Democrats,
Al; vacancy, from Colorado.
The roll-caIls in the two branches
will show some remarkable changes
from the last session. In the House the
Democrats will show a gain of fifty
four members and the Republicans a
loss of fifty-f1ve the Socialist member,
Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, account
ing for the difference in the equation.
Many Changes In House.
By reason. Of the change resulting
from the election last November new
faces will be seen not only in the mem
bership of one House, but in the whole
organization. Republican employees in
great number will go out and their
places with be filed by Democrats.
Choice rooms in the capitol and in the
House office building. long controlled
by the Republicans. will be surrender
ed to the representatives of the party
which is to gather up the House reins.
Instead of the fifty-nine Republicans
who occupied seats in the Senate .on
March there will be only fifty tomor-
row. The ranks of the minority will
be increased from thirty-two to forty
one and to forty-two when the vacancy
in Colorado is filled. There was one
vacancy in the last session caused by
the death of the late Senator Hughes,
of Colorado.
More notable even than the large num-
Der of new faces in the Senate and the
House will be the absence of so many
veteran legislators. The speaker s
marble rostrum will not resound with
the vigorous whacks of the Cannon
gavel, for Mr.. Canon will appear in
the ranks OF the minority.
Veterans of many legislative strug-
giles will be missed from the House
floor. Chief among those whose alb
sence will loom large will be Tawney,
of Minnesota; Boutell, of Illinois; Scott,
of Kansas; McKinlay, of California;
Bennett Fish, Parsons and Cocks, of
New York; Hull and Smith. of Iowa;
Denby, of Michigan; Keifer, of Ohio.
Four members, Hitchcock, of Ne
braska; Poindexter, of Washington;
Gronna, of North Dakota, and Town
send, of Michigan, have been elevated
to the Senate.
Changes in Senate.
No longer will the Senate roll-call
open with the familiar name of Aldrich,
the Rhode Island leader having volun-
tarily renounced another term to de-
vote himself to leisure, and the study of
monetary reforms. He will be succeed
ed by Henry f. Lippitt Many other
/ striking figures will be missed from
the Senate floor, notably Hale, of
Maine, succeeded by Charles F. John
son; Beveridge, of Indiana, who was
vanquished by John w. Kern; Kean, of
New Jersey, in whise place will be
James E. MARITIME; Warner, of Missouri,
replaced by James A. Reed; Dick Of
Ohio, replaced by Atlee Pomerene, and
Carter, of Montana, succeeded by
Henry L. Meyers. All of these changes
represent Democratic gains, except in
the case of Rhode Island.
The other Senate changes will be-:
Frazier, of Tennessee, succeeded by
Luke Lea, the youngest of all the sena-
tors; Money, of Mississippi, whose place
will be filled by John Sharp Williams,
formerly the Democratic leader of the
House; Flint of California, whose toga
will grace the shoulders of John D.
Works; Bulkeley, of Connecticut. who
gives way to George P. Mclean. for
mer Governor of his State; Burrows. OF
Michigan, whose mantle is to be worn
by former Representative Townsend;
Burkett, of Nebraska, succeeded by for
mer Representative Hitchcock: Scott
and Ell1ins, of West Virginia. the for
mer to be succeeded by w r. Chill
ton, while c. w. Watson already had
taken the place of Senator Elxins. and
Piles, OF Washington, succeeded by
former Representative Poindexter,
while the place of Senator Depew was
filed, after a long struggle. by the
election of Justice James A. O'Gor-
man."
The Iowa Legislature has been dead
locked several weeks over an effort to
elect senator to fill the unexpired