The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-04
MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS
COMING HOME
THEIR TENuREs OF OFFICES Elk.
PIRE ON ADJOURNMENT OF
CONGRESS.
Senator Williams Has His Grip
Packed-The Retiring Rep
resentatives.

Today marks the close of the ten
ures of four members of the Missis-
sippi delegation in Congress, and when
the present session adjourns they will
return home to resume the pursuits Of
private life.
Money Notable Figure.
The most notable figure in the quar-
tette is United States Senator H. d.
Money, who retires from the upper
body after a continuous service OF
fourteen years. At the time of his
election Senator Money was repre-
senting the old fourth district in the
lower house, and had been a member
of that body for fourteen years. 1t
was in January, 1895 that Senator
Money was elected for the six-year
term beginning March 4th, 1899, and
while still serving in the lower house
he was appointed on Oct. 9Th, 1897
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of the late United States Senator ]. 2.
George.
Senator Moneys return to private
life is voluntary. Four years ago he
announced that he would not be
candidate to succeed himself, and
memorable struggle for his toga took
place between Ex-Gov. ]. X. Varda-
man and Congressman John Sharp
Williams, the latter winning in a pop
ular primary by small majority.
Despite his defective eyesight,
amounting at times to total blindness.
| Senator Money is regarded as one o.
the ablest scholars and best-informed
men on current affairs in either
branch of Congress, and his long Pc
riod of service was rewarded at the
last session by comforting upon him
the rank of Democratic minority lead
er. It is a coincidence, and incident
ally tribute to Mississippi's brand Of
craftsmanship, that his successor,
John Sharp Williams, served for sew
eral years as the Democratic minority
leader in the lower house, and will
enter upon the discharge of his new
duties fully equipped to take part in
| the proceedings of the worlds greatest
deliberative body. In fact, it is the
general belief in Mississippi that SEN
ator Williams will be instantly recog-
nized among the big men of the SEN
ate, and, as he will doubtless be given
all of the committee assignments
hitherto occupied by Senator Money,
he will be in a position to do some
effective work at the very beginning
of his Senatorial career He will need
: no introductions, having a wide ac-
+ quaintance among public men as a
result of his sixteen-year period of SER
vice in the lower house, and it is need
: less to add that it will notVe neces-
5 sary for him to indulge in any special
$ study of national affairs, for during
J. the past two years he has kept closely
O in touch with the trend of legislation
devoting practically his entire time to
reading and study in the seclusion OF
his library in a big, old-fashioned
), country home on the ancestral planta
!. ton near Yazoo City.
> Senator Williams.
= Senator-elect Williams, it Is said
has made all necessary preparations
to go to Washington in event a spe
. cial session of Congress is ordered.
:, According to his close persona
= friends, Senator Money does not in
tend to take an active part in an,
future political contest in the state
unless some crisis of exceptional i'm
portance should develop. He is thor
oughly sick and tired Of every form
n of politics, and to secure complet'
ID rest and seclusion is his chief ambi
tion. He has retired much earlie
than is customary in man who en-
N joys the reputation of being a con
N slant office-holder, being only seventy
as two years of age. His physical condl
lis ton, barring poor eyesight and chroni'
on neuralgia, is fairly good.
he Congressional Changes.
ell Another veteran Of the Mississippi
rs delegation, and the only ex-Confeo
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