The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-04
I2| LAME DUCKS Members Who Leave Con- greSs for Not Less Than
 Two Years
 Ninety-four Are Republi- cans and 20 Are Demo crats - 56 Republicans Succeeded by Democrats, and 5 Democrats by Re- publicans-Many Leaders Among the Lame Ducks.

to wing their weary way homeward.
 One hundred and twenty-one ex- Congressmen they were: one hundred and twenty-one figures of the past; one hundred and twenty-one who by' virtue of the happenings Of Novem- Der last are, for the next two years at least. separated from the dignity. honor and ernoluments of Congress sional representatives.
 The next-to- the e-most-powerful mem Der, the most aged member, the youngest member. the funniest mem Der, and the most horored member were among the throng of lame ducks" who packed their grips to- day.
 James A. Tawney, Rep.. Minn.). chairman of the great Appropriations committee. the next-to-the-most-pow- erful member of the House. and ac- knowledged by all one of the most able represen tatiyes. was the Napol- con of these survivors of the Water loo. Nehemiah D. Sperry, Rep., Conn.). eiehty-four years of age, litte Elvins. (Rep. Mo.), aetat 33. the "kid" member. Gustav Kustermann (Rep. Wis., whose bewhiskered face and German vaudeville dialect used to provoke the House to laughter even on the most solemn days, was there. W Speaker of the House, general in two wars. author and historian, led the ranks, with his famous dress suit looking just the same as it has dur ing the many days and nights of his fourteen @ years service a at & the Capitol; t. last days service in the House to- day. Ninety-four of its members are Republicans; twenty are Demo- crats. Fifty-six of the ninety-four Republicans retire in favor of Dem crats make way for Republicans in the next House. Only three mem bers-all Republicans-volunta left. Reps, Albert F. Dawson, of Iowa. Nehemiah D. Sperry of Connec- vania. Two (both Republicans) re- tire from the House to assume the Senatorial togs-Reps Charles E.. Townsend, of Michigan, and Miles Poindexter, of Washington.
 Many a scared veteran of 1egis- There is Henry s. Boutell. (Rep. Ill.), with twelve years service, who used to be one of the Big Four in the good old days of the Old Guard in the House. with Speaker Cannon, the then-representative James S. sher- tell is renowned for his reading. For years past he has always been se- lected on Washington's birthday, to read Washington's farewell address.
 Frank O. Lowden, one of the rich est men in the House. is another who row. John A. T. Hull of Iowa, chair man of the great Military Affairs Committee, Charles F. Scott of Kan sas, head of the Committee on Agri- sas, who presided over the Irrigation committee. Richard Wayne Parker, of New Jersey, chairman of the Judi ciary committee and De Ava s. Alex ander, of New York; of the Rivers and Harbors Committee, are some of the chairmen of the big committees in the throng.
 Gerrit J. Diekema. of Michigan. known for his remarkable voice, and the man who announced himself as candidate for speaker because of the of that organ, is in the also Harry M. Coudrey (Rep. Mo.), who achieved fame by introducing the following measures: Requiring that no women should wear a hat pin in the point of which pro- truded more than half an inch from her hat; prohibiting railway conduc- 1 tors in Washington from expectorat- ing on their hands or fingers when is- suing tickets or transfers; requiring 1 all merchants who publicly expose 1
 
 not less than two minutes of the cor rect standard, sun time; permitting civil war veterans to take their wives with them into Soldiers Homes; and | making it unlawful to play baseball, 1 cricket golf, tennis, and "other clean 1 day in the District of Columbia.
 Joseph Holt Gaines is another of the Old Guard. For eight years he has been a familiar figure on the floor and in the Ways and Means Commit | tee. With William s. Bennett, (Rep. | weeks of Congressional life with a l forceful fight against Canadian re- ciprocity. Bonnet helped out in the recent filibuster.
 Charles N. Fowler, tRep. N. J.,) | was another theoretically present at the roll-ca1l to-day. although, physi- cally, he hasn't been in the House l the present session. Fow 1 Ter goes down in fame as the fore- l most anti-Cannon member. remem- bered for his vitrioiic. vituperative, wordy assaults on the gentleman from | and his charges of graft in | the framing of the Payne tariff bill. |
 William w. Cocks, tour neighbor" as T. R. used to say when he was in | the White House, is a n-combatant l ives next-door to That Person up at Oyster Bay and was one of the few 1 real, bona fide, really and truly far mers in Congress.
 Then there was Herbert Parsons, (Dem. N. Y.), friend of the chil- | iren, agitator for playgrounds, and l all sorts of Utopian schemes, keen | lawyer and legislator withal; Hamil- [, ton Fish, eRep. N. Y.), of the fa- nous blue-blooded Fish family of New York; J. Sloat Fassett, (Rep. N. Y.), who used to be upstate leader in the Empire State, and Cyrus Durey | (Rep. N. Y), who makes way for Theron Akin, the man without @ par oy Democrats, and refuses to affiliate with either party.
 The meager twenty-seven Demo- ,rats include few characters who will be missed at the next session of Congress. Chief among these is Adam M. Byrd, of Mississippi. He Is one of the few members who have indian blood in their veins, and is 'amous for picturesque speeches. Wiilet, jr., is another, best for. his enrichment of he English language in that famous speech against President Roosevelt, when he dubbed the Strenuous One l "gargoyle." Save for this out given on the same night of the afore- aid speech, willet has not popped nto print in his two years service.
 By all odds Jim Tawney will be most sorely missed in the next Con- yress. He is a perfect walking en- of information as to gov finances. He knows more ,bout the theory of this government han any man in Congress. He has