The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-04
SECOND TAI 7
EXTRA TODAY
Republican Senate and Demo
cratic House TO Act Oh Presi-
dents Message.
R0LLCALLS WILL SHOW
REMARKABLE CHANGES
New Faces to Appear in Places
Long Occupied by the
'0ld Guard"

WASHINGTON. April 3.-The inter
esting situation of Democratic house
and Republican senate meeting to
consider Taft administrative meas
ure directs unusual attention to the
convening Of the sixty congress
row. The political complexion of the
two branches Of congress Will be as fol-
lows:
House-Democrats 2ss, Republicans
l60; Socialists l, vacancies 2-the ninth
Iowa and second Pennsylvania districts.
Senate-Republicans so, Democrats,
4l. vacancy from Colorado.
The rollcall In the two branches will
show some remarkable changes from
the last session. In the house the Demo
Gratis will show gain of ffty-four
members and tho Republicans loss of
fifty -one, the Socialist member. Victor
Berger of Milwaukee, accounting for
the difference in the equation.
BY reasons o. the change resulting
from the election last November new
faces will be seen not only IN the mem
bership in the house, but In the whole
organization. Republican employees in
great number will go out and their
places will be filed by Democrats.
Minority Increased
Instead of the ffty-nine Republicans
who occupied seats in the senate on
March there will be only fifty tomor-
row.
The ranks of tn, minority will be
increased from thirty and forty-on and
to forty-two when the vacancy in Colo
RADIO is filed There was one vacancy
in the last session, caused by the death
of the late Senator Hughes of Colorado.
More notable even than the largo num-
Der of new faces in the senate and house
will be the absence of veteran legisla-
tors Chief among those whose absence
will loom large will be Tawney of Min.
nesota, Boutell Of Illinois, Scott of
Kansas. McKinlay Of California. Ben
nett. Fish. Parsons and Cocks of New
of Michigan and Keifer Of Ohio, Mr..
Cannon will appear in the ranks of the
minority Four members, Hitchcock of
Nebraska. Poindexter of Washington,
Gronna of North Dakota and Townsend
of Michigan, have been elevated to the
senate. No longer will the senate roll
call open with the familiar name of
Aldrich, the Rhode Island leader hav'
ing voluntarily rcnounced another term
to devote himself to leisure and the
study of monetary reforms. He will be
succeeded by Henry +. 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 whose place will be James
F.. MARITIME; Warner of Missouri, replac-
ed by James A. Reed; Dick of Ohio, re-
placed by Atlee Pomerene; Carter of
Montana. succeeded by Henry L. Meyer,
Ia, Of
filed by the election of Justice James
A. O'Corman. All of these changes rep
resent Democratic gains except IN the
case of Rhode Island.
Some New Faces.
The other senate changes will be
Frasier Of Tennessee. succeeded by Luke
Lea, tho youngest Of all the senators;
Money Of Mississippi, whose place will
be filled by John Sharp Williams, for
merly the Democratic leader in the
house; Flint of California, succeeded
by John d. Work; Bulkley of Connecti
cut. who gives way to George P. Nc
Lean, formerly governor of that state;
Burrows Of Michigan, whose mantle is
Townsend; Burkett of Nebraska, sue
ceeded by former Representative Hitch
cock; Scott and Elkius of West Vir-
ginia the former to be succeeded by
W. Il. Chiffon, while G. W. Watson al
ready had taken the place of Senator
EIkins, and Piles of Washington, sue
ceeded by former Representative Poin-
dexter.
The Iowa Legislature has been dead.
locked for several weeks over an effort
to olect n senator to ill the unexpired
portion of the term of the late Jonathan
p. Dolliver. Lafayette Young of Des
Moines is sitting as the Junior member
from that state His service will con-
tinue until the Legislature elects or ad.
, iourns without action,