The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25
Summary Of Changes in Lower
House of Congress.
Not for Many Years Has Shift
Been So General.
MEN WITH RECORDS.
BOutell and Hull Give Way to
Democrats.
Tawney and Gen. Keller Have
Retired to Private Life.

Washington, D. c., March 25.-The
SiXty-SecOnd congress, soon to be con-
Vened in extra session, will be remark
able on account of the many new men
who will take the places of representa-
tives whose faces have become familiar
after long service. Not since the Fiji
ty-fOurth Congress has tn ere been such
a change. In the election of 1894 the
Demo met with great reverses,
and when congress assembled it looked
like new body. The same was true
of the E1fty-second Congress, when the
Republicans, as a result of the election
of 1890. had but SO members In the
House. Following the election of 1894,
the Republicans have been successful
in every campaign until last year, and
the changes have not been particularly
noticeable Here and there have been
new men, but for the most part it
seemed that the same men and the
same leaders have assembled and been
sworn in every two years.
While the Republicans have a much
larger number of members, even in
proportion to the size of the House,
than they had in the Fifty-SecOnd Con-
gress, or the Democrats had in the Fiji
tyfourth Congress, yet the changes are
more noticeable, because, in many
cases, men long in the service were de-
feated by progressives in their own
party.
In such an election as occurred last
fall it always happens that many
young men are chosen. Often such
men are nominated as compliment to
them, without any idea that they will
be elected, because of the strength of
the opposition, and they are carried in
on the tidal wave.
Another interesting feature found in
the sketches Of many of the new men
is the fact that their success tells the
story which is familiar to all who can
remember their first readers. Boys
without anything upon which to begin
life. who had to work hard in shop,
factory, or on the farm who had to
support widowed mothers and younger
brothers and sisters, have worked their
way onward and upward until they
have achieved the goal of their ambi-
ton. The story of many of the newly
elected members is that of the posi-
biIities in America for the hard-work-
ing, sober and ambitious boy, the story
of Lincoln and many others of lesser
note.
1t is also noticeable that, as usual,
the lawyers predominant among the
new list of lawmakers in the House.
Even those with other avocations have
sought admission to the bar, and as the
larger portion of the old membership
was LAWYERS, that profession, as usual,
y,iI1 have an overwhelming preponder-
ance in the House for the next two
years.
Passing of BOuteH.
Few men will be more missed in the
House than Henry S. BOutell, Repub-
Iican, Ninth Illinois, who is succeeded
by Lynden Evans, a lawyer of Chicago.
Bouten was a close friend of Speaker
Cannon, and besides making compli-
mentary speeches about Uncle Joe in
the House, he placed him in nominal
ton for the presidency in 1908 at Chi
cago Evans is So years ole, native
of Illinois and a graduate of Knox coll
Iege. He has been practicing law in
Chicago for twenty-five years, and,
while a member of several civic or
Plantations, has never before held a
public office.
Claude U. Stone. Sixteenth Illinois.
the Democratic successor of ]. V.
Croft. Republican, is only 81 years old
and will be among the youngest mem
bers of the House. Although admitted
10 the practice of law, he has devoted
most of his mature years to education
al work, first teaching in order to OBJ
tain money to get through college and