The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-04-25

SITUATION Is INTERESTING

Democratic House and Republican
Senate in Extra Session to Consider
an Administration Measure-Aldrich
Beverage, Hale and Other NotabIes
Missing From the Senate.
Washington, April 1.-The interest
ing situation of Democratic house
and Republican senate meeting to CON
slider a Taft administrative measure
directs unusual attention to the con-
vening of the Sixty-second congress in
extraordinary session. The political
compilations of the two branches of
congress will be as follows:
House-Democrats, 228; Republic
ans, 100; Socialists, 1; vacancies, 2,
in the Ninth Iowa and Second Penn
sylvania districts. Senate-Repub-
Hcans, so; Democrats, Al; vacancy, 1,
from Colorado. The roll calls in the
two branches will show some re-
markable changes from the last ses-
sion. In the house the Democrats will
show gain of ffty-four members and
the Republicans loss of fifty
the Socialist member, Victor Berger
of Milwaukee, accounting for the diff
ference in the equation.
By reason of the change resulting
from the election last November new
faces will be seen not only in tn
membership of the house but in the
whole organization. Republican en-
ployes in great number will go out
and their places will be filled by Dem
ocrats. Choice rooms in the capitol
and in the house office building, long
controlled by the Republicans, will be
surrendered 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. The ranks of the minority will
be increased from thirty-two to forty
one and to forty-two when the va
cancy in Colorado is filled. There was
one vacancy in the last session caused
by the death of the late Senator
Hughes of Colorado.
Many House Veterans Gone.
More notable even than the large
number of new faces in the senate and
the house will be 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. Veterans
of many legislative struggles will be
missed from the house floor Chief
among those whose absence will loom
large will be James A Tawney OF
Minnesota, Boutell of Illinois, Scott OF
Kansas, McKinlay Of California, Ben.
nett, 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 oil
| North Dakota and Townsend of Mich
| gan have been elevated to the senate
No longer will the senate roll cal
open with the familiar name of Aid
rich, the Rhode Island leader having
voluntarily renounced another term tt
devote himself to leisure and the study
of monetary reforms. He will be sue
ceeded 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 wa:
vanquished by John w. Kern; Kea1
of New Jersey, in whose place will b.
James E. MARITIME; Warner of Nilsson
ri, replaced by James A. Reed; Dicl
of Ohio, replaced by Atlee Pomerene
| Carter of Montana, succeeded by Hen
ry L. Myers, and Depew of New York
succeeded by James O'Gorman. All O
these changes represent Democratic
gains except in the case of Rhode Isl
and.