The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-04-06

his position. He has served as chap
lain for nearly a dozen years.
The interesting situation Of a dem
ocratic house and a republican SEN
ate meeting Il consider a Taft ad-
ministration measure directs unusual
attention 10 the new congress. The
political compilations of the two
branches of congress will be as fol-
lows:
House democrats, 22S. republicans,
100; socialist. /; vacancies, 2, the
ninth Iowa and the second Pennsyl-
vania districts.
Senate, republicans. so; democrats,
Al; vacancies, /, from Colorado.
In the house the democrats will
the republicans a loss of fifty}five, the
socialist member, Victor Berger of
Milwaukee, accounting for the differ
ence in the equation.
BY reason of the change resulting
from the election last November, new
faces will be seen not only in the
membership of the house but in the
whole organization. Republican en-
ployees in great number have been
dropped and their places filled by
democrats. Choice rooms in the cap
itol and in the house office building,
long controlled by the republicans are
surrendered to the representatives of
the party which is to gather up the
house reins.
Fifty Republican Senators.
Instead of the fifty-nine republicans
who occupied seats in the senate on
March 4, there are only fifty-one.
The ranks of the minority are in
creased from thirty-two to forty-one
and to forty-two when the vacancy in
Colorado is filled. There was m va
cancy in the last session, caused by
the death of the late Senator Hughes
of Colorado.
More notable even than the large
number of new faces in the senate
and the house is the absence of so
many veteran legislators. The speak
er's marble rostrum will not resound
with the vigorous whacks of the Can
non gavel for Mr.. Cannon will appear
in the ranks of the minority. Veter-
ans of many Legislative struggles will
be missed from the house floor. Chief
among those whose absence 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, DENLY
of Michigan, Keifer of Ohio. Four
members, Hitchcock of Nebraska,
Poindexter of Washington, Gronna of
North Dakota, and Townsend of Mich
igan, have been elevated to the SEN
ate.
Many striking figures are missed
from the senate floor, notably Aldrick
Of Rhode Island, who is succeeded by
Henry f. Lippit, Hale of Maine, sue
ceeded by Charles F. Johnson; Bev-
erldge of Indiana, who was vanquished
by John w. Kern; Kean of New Jer-
sey, in whose place will be John e.
MARITIME; Warner of Missouri, re-
placed 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.
Luke Lea Youngest Senator.
The other senate changes are Fraz-
Ter of Tennessee, succeeded by Luke
Lea, the youngest of all the senator's;
Money OF Mississippi, whose place
mill hn R1nd hu TAhn Chn.n NIY;1lta~a,
formerly the democratic leader of the
house; Flint of California, whose toga
will grace the shoulders sof John ID.
Work; Bulkeley of Connecticut, who
gives way to George p. Mclean, for
Iuerly governor of his state; Burrows
of Michigan, whose mantle is to be
worn by former Representative Town
send; Burkett of Nebraska, succeed
ed by former Representative Hitch.
cock; Scott and Elkins of West Vir-
ginia, the former to be succeeded by
w. E. Chiffon, while c. w. Watson
already has taken the place of Sena-
tor Elkins, and Piles of Washington,
who has been succeeded by former
Representative Poindexter. The place
OF Senate Depew was hlled after a
long struggle by the election Of JUS
tice James O'Gorman.
Senator Hale was the senate eau
Gus chairman, but he will not be in
the new congress. At the caucus SEN
ator Cullom of Illinois will be chosen
chairman by reason of the fact that
after Senator Frye, who has declined
on accoun of i'll health, he is the
senior republican in the senate. Sen
ator Gallinger of New Hampshire will
be made chairman of the senate CON-
niittee on committees.
Representative James r. Mann Of
Illinois is the new minority floor lead
er in the House.
GOUlD'S SUCCESSOR CHOSEN.