The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
REPUBLICAN, HARMONY.
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| piished, Republican Senators would
| have done much to help the party wiz
the next Presidential campaign.
The House insurgents will naturally
be guided In no small degree by what
the Senate insurgents do. The fighting
ideas have come largely from the Sen.
| ate insurgents, who, as a factor in leg
islative matters, will be far more influ.
entail in the next Congress than the
House insurgents. For in the lattel
| body insurgent and regular Republic
cans alike will be overwhelmed by the
Democratic majority. The House in
surgents will have no opportunity tc
! hold the balance of power, as they have
| had for the last year and half.
The Senate in few months will
! cease TO be a body dominated by sea.
l Soned and experienced legislators, as
| that proud term has been applied il
Senatorial circles for quite a genera
| ton. The recent passing of Senator
Stephen b. Elkins, of West Virginia
emphasizes the waning influence at tina,
end of the Capitol of men whose names
at least were recognized outside the
boundaries of their home States as the
names of United States Senators.
| According to the standards of bygone
days, Senator of 10 years service was
Junior. The gray old fellows of 20
years or 80 years in the Senate have
| been accustomed to begin taking the
1O-year-olds into legislative condolences
cautiously and giving them opportuni-
| ties to lead off in matters of considera-
ton and procedure. AS it has been in
times gone by, the choice committee
prizes hardly begun to fall to Senators
of q paitry decade.
But within two months there will re-
main in the Senate only small hand
full of men who were wearing a toga at
the beginning of the present century.
OF those several are incapacirated from
old age and ill health. Hale. of Maine
with an even 80 years in the Senate.
gives way to a Democrat. Frye, Of
Maine, II days younger as a Senator
than Hale, like Cullom, of Illinois, now
serving on his fifth term is in such
poor health that he is able to perform
very little robust Congressional work.
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, will retire
with 29i. years of service. Burrows,
of Michigan, will have worn a toga
about Is years. Perkins, of California.
who succeeded Leland Stanford As
years ago, is in very poor health, and
Tillman (Pitchfork Benz. of South
Carolina, who has served 16 years, is
too feeble to attend the sessions of the
Senate.
"The Continuous Service List"
The top of the continuous service
list" in which Senators take the live
lest personal interest, will be nearly
all cut of to the extent of about "A
score of numbers, and for the first time
probably in half century. the Senate
must yield the palm to the House for
more imposing coterie of Legislative
veterans. Gallinger, of New IIamp-
shire; Lodge, of Massachusetts (if lie
is re-electe0; Clark and Warren, of
Wyoming; Bacon, of Georgia; Martin,
of Virginia: Nelson, of Minnesota; Pen
rose, of Pennsylvania: Culberson, of
Texas, and Dillingham;, of Vermont,
will soon be the only Senatorial Nestors
who can speak out of their own ex-
periences of what the Senate adhered
to 10 years ago.
The situation alone will give the
newer men Of the Senate more oppor-
tunity, for, while individual ability can
not be suppressed, seniority of service
is the very keystone of the arch of
Senatorial recognition. 1t rules in a
thousand and one little matters that
bear upon legislative activities.
The Senate has been accustomed to
lock down upon the House as a place
of brief tenure. where Representatives,
as {, rule. hardly get acquainted before
they are officially snuhed cut. But
with all the seismic tribdiafions to-
which the House membership has been
subjected it will retain a towering CON
tinuous service list' as compared with
the Senate after March 4anext. 1t will
have half dozen gray old legislative
sages whore the Senate has one. In all
there Will be quite 80 Representatives
of both parties who knew their way
around the Capitol more than .19~years
ago. The traditions OF legislation will
pass from the hands of such keepers
of the precedepts as the outgoing hoary
Senators have been to Uncle Joe"
Cannon, who was first a CONGRESSMAN
80 years ago, and Gen. Harry Bing-
ham, with 30 wears to his Congressional
score; Serene T.. Payne, of New York;
John Dalzell, OF Pennsylvania, and W.
A. Jones. of Virginia There viii be
many Representatives who can tell
nearly al the Senate from personal ex-
perience how things were run at the
Capitol before those Senators arrived
upon the scene.
The death of Senator EIlfns Is an
added tribulation, to the Senate Repub-
llcans, because ii whittles down their
slender majority. The West Virginia
Legislature is Democratic, and when ii
assemblies in few days will have the
election of two Senators, one for six
years term and another for two years
and two months to fill out the time
that Senator Elkins had to serve. Ash
the prospects are now the Senate on
March next will consist Of so Repub-
licans and AZ Democrats, a Republican
majority of eight. This will make It'll
all the easier for the insurgent Repub-
licans to hold the balance of powerl
there, as it has been much advertised
they will do. 4
Some observers think it not improb-
able that the Democrats will ACTUALLY
have majority in the Senate beforel
the next or ed Congress has expired
Two Democratic Senators will comet
from Arizona within a few months ifi
Congress and the President approve of
the Constitution of the new State It'll
is claimed that New Mexico will elect
two Democratic Senators, in which,
event the death Of two Republican Sem
ators in States now Democratic would
leave the Senate tied, with As Repub-
licans and as Democrats. Such state1
of affairs would keep the Republican,
Vice President strictly on the job. and
afford him numerous opportunities tol
cast deciding vote on party questions.
Ladies of the G. A. X.
Gilmore Circle So, Ladies of the C.
A. r., of New York City, held theiri
election of officers on Monday
evening, Dec. 10, at their rooms The
following officers We're elected: SV.
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