The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-07
CONVEYING OF CONGRESS WILL
SHOW RESULTS OF POLiTI-
CAL UPHEAvAL.


TWO STATES STILL IN DEADLOCK
Many Veteran Members of Each
House and Hundreds of En-
ployees Are Among
the Missing.
| Washington, D. C.-The interest.
ing situation of a democratic house
and a republican senate meeting to
consider a Taft administration meas
ure directs unusual attention to the
converting of the sixty-second con.
gress in extraordinary session. The
political complexion of the two
branches of congress is as follows:
House democrats, 22S; republicans
| 100; socialist, /; vacancies, 2, the
ninth Iowa and the second Pennsyl.
vania districts.
oOudlC, OV,
Il; vacancies, 1, from Colorado.
The roll calls in the two branches
show some remarkable changes from
the last session. In the house the
democrats will show gain of fifty
four members, and the republicans a
loss of fifty-five, the socialist member,
Victor Berger of Milwaukee, account.
ing for the difference 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 will go out
and their places will be filled by dem
ocrats. Choice rooms in the capitol
End in the house Office building, long
controlled by the republicans are sur
rendered 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 will be only fifty to-
morrow. 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 Sena-
tor 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 Towsend of Mich
igan, have been elevated to the SEN
ate.
No longer will the senate roll call
open with the familiar name of Aid
rich, the Rhode Island leader having
voluntarily renowned another term
to devote himself to leisure and the
study of monetary reforms. He will
be succeeded by Henry F. Lippit.
Many other striking figures are
missed from the senate floor notably
Hale of Maine, succeeded by Charles
F. Johnson; Beverage of Indiana,
who was vanquished by John w.
Kern; Kean of New Jersey, in whose
place will be John E. MARITIME; War
ner of Missouri, replaced by James A..
Reed; Dick of Ohio, replaced by At
ice Pomerene, and Carter of Montana,
succeeded by Henry L. Meyers. All
of these changes represent democrat
ic gains except in the case of Rhode
Island.
Luke Lea Youngest Senator.
The other senate changes will be
Frazier, of Tennessee, succeeded by
Luke Lea, the youngest of all the SEN
ators; Money of Mississippi, whose
place will be filled by John Sharp
Williams, formerly the democratic
leader of the house; Flint, of Califor-
MIA, whose toga will grace the Shout
ders Of John D. Work; Buckley of
Connecticut, who gives way to George
P. Mclean, formerly governor of his
state; Burrows of Michigan, whose
mantle is to be worn by former Rep
resentative Townsend; Burkett Of Ne
braska, succeeded by former Repre-
scnst tive Hitchcock; Scott and Elkins
of West Virginia, the former to be
succeeded by w. E. Chiffon, while c..
w. Watson already has taken the
place of Senator Elkins, and Piles of
Washington, who has been succeeded
by former Representative Poindexter.
The place of Senator Depew was filled
after a long struggle by the election
of Justice James O'Gorman.
The Iowa legislature has been dead
locked for several weeks over an eff
fort to elect a senator to fill the I'M