The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-04-07
CONVEYING OF CONGRESS WILL
SHOW RESULTS OF POLITE.
CAL UPHEAVAL.
STATES %DEADLOCKED
Many Veteran Members OF Each
House and Hundreds of EN-.
pIoyees Are Among
the Missing.

Washington, D. C.-The interest
ing situation of a democratic house
and a republican senate meeting to
consider a Taft administration meas,
ure directs unusual attention to the
converting of the siXty-second con
gress in extraordinary session. The
political complexion of the two
branche of congress is as follows:
House democrats, 22S; republicans,
100; socialist, !; vacancies, 2, the
ninth Iowa and the second Pennsyl-
vania districts.
Senate, republicans, so; democrats,
Al; vacancies, /, from Colorado.
The roll calls in the two branches
show some remarkable changes from
the last session. In the house the
democrats will show a gain of fifty
four members, and the republicans a
loss of fifty-fve, the socialist member,
Victor Berger of Milwaukee, account
ing for the difference in the equation.
BY reason of the change resulting
from the election last November, new
faces will be seen not only in the
membership of the house but in the
whole organization. Republican en-
ployees 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 are sur
rendered to the representatives of the
party which is to gather up the house
leins.
Fifty Republican Senators.
Instead of the fifty-nine republicans
who occupied seats in the senate on
March 4, there will be only fifty to-
morrow. The ranks of the minority
will be increased from t~hirty-two to
rorty-one and to forty-two when the
vacancy in Colorado is filled. There
was one vacancy in the last session,
caused by the death of the late Sena-
tor Hughes of Colorado.
More notable even than the large
number of new faces in the senate
and the house is 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. Veter,
ans of many legislative struggles will
be missed from the house floor. Chief
among those whose absence will loom
large will be Tawney of Minnesota;
Boutell of Illinois, Scott of Kansas,
McKinlay of California, Bennett,
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 of
North Dakota, and Towsend of Mich
Igan, have been elevated to the sen.
ate.
No longer will the senate roll call
open with the familiar name of Aid.
rich, the Rhode Island leader having
voluntarily renounced another term
to devote himself to leisure and the
study of monetary reforms. He will
be succeeded by Henry F. Lippit.
Many other striking figures are
missed from the senate floor notably
Hale of Maine, succeeded by Charles
F. Johnson; Beverage of Indiana
who was vanquished by John w
Kern; Kean of New Jersey, in whose
| place will be John e. MARITIME; War
ner of Missouri, replaced by James A
Reed; Dick of Ohio, replaced by At
ice Pomerene, and Carter of Montana
succeeded by Henry l.. Meyers. AL
of these changes represent democrat
ic gains except in the case of Rhode
Island.
Luke Lea Youngest Senator.
The other senate changes will be
Frazier, of Tennessee, succeeded BY
Luke Lea, the youngest of all the sen
ators; Money of Mississippi, whose
place will be filled by John SharT
Williams, formerly the democratic
leader of the house; Flint, of Califor
MIA, whose toga will grace the shout
ders of John ID. Work; Bulkeley o.
Connecticut, who gives way to George
p. Mclean; formerly governor of hi:
state; Burrows of Michigan, whose
mantle is to be worn by former Rep
re~sentatiye Townsend; Burkett of Ne
braska, succeeded by former Repre-
scnative Hitchcock; Scott and Elkin!
of West Virginia. the former to bs
succeeded by w. K. Chiffon, while G
W. Watson already has taken the
place of Senator Elkins, and Piles o
Washington. who has been succeeded
by former Representative Poindexter
The place of Senator Depew was filled
after q long struggle by the election
of Justice James O'Gorman
The Iowa Legislature has been dead
locked for several weeks over an ef
fort 10 elect a senator to fill the un