The Oakes times., 1911-04-13

his position. He has served AZ chap
lain for nearly . dozen years.
The interesting situation Of a dem
ocratic house and republican sen
ate meeting to consider a Taft ad
ministration measure directs unusual
attention to the new congress. The
political compilations Of the two
branches Of congress will be as fol
lows:
House democrats. 22S. republicans.
l6O; socialist, l.; vacancies, 2, the
ninth Iowa and the second Pennsyl
vania districts.
Senate. republicans. so; democrats.
Al; vacancies, 1. from Colorado.
In the house the democrats will
show gain of fifty-four members and
the republicans loss of fifty-five, the
socialist member, Victor Berger of
Milwaukee, accounting for the differ.
ehce 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 have been
dropped and their places filled by
democrats. Choice rooms in the cap.
itol and in the house office building,
long controlled by the republicans are
surrendered to the Representatives of
the party which is to gather up the
house reins.
Fifty Republican Senators.
Instead of the fifty-nine republicans
who occupied seats in the senate on
March 4, there are only fifty-one.
The ranks of the minority are in
creased from thirty-two to forty-one
and to forty-two when the vacancy in
Colorado is filled. There was one va
cancy in the last session, caused by
the death of the late Senator 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 Townsend of Mich
igan, have been elevated to the SEN
ate.
Many striking figures are missed
from the senate floor, notably Aldrick
OF Rhode Island, who is succeeded by
Henry F. Lippit, Hale of Maine, sue
ceeded by Charles F. Johnson; Bev-
eridge of Indiana, who was vanquished
by John w. Kern; Kean of New Jer-
sey, in whose place will be John E..
MARITIME; Warner of Missouri, re-
placed by James A. Reed; Dick of
Ohio, replaced by Atlee Pomerene,
and Carter of Montana, succeeded by
Henry L. Meyers. All of these
changes represent democratic gains
except in the case of Rhode Island.
Luke Lea Youngest Senator.
The other senate changes are Fraz-
ier of Tennessee, succeeded by Luke
Lea. the youngest of all the senators; !;
Money of Mississippi, whose place
will be filed by John Sharp Williams,
formerly the democratic leader of the
house; Flint of California, whose toga
will grace the shoulders Of John D.
Work; Bulkeley of Connecticut, who
gives way to George P. Mclean, for.
raerly governor of his state; Burrows
of Michigan. whose mantle is to be
worn by former Representative Town.
send; Burkett of Nebraska, succeed.
ed by former Representative Hitch.
cock; Scott and Elkins of West vir.
ginia, the former to be succeeded by
w. E. Chiffon, while c. W. Watson
already has taken the place of Sena.
tor Elkins, and Piles of Washington,
who has been succeeded by former
Representative Poindexter. The place
OF Senator Depew was filled after a
long struggle by the election of JUS.
tice James O'Gorman.
Senator Hale was the senate eau.
Gus chairman, but he will not be in
the new congress. At the caucus Sen.
ator Cullom of Illinois will be chosen
chairman by reason of the fact that
after Senator Frye, who has declined
on account of i'll health, he is the
senior republican in the senate. Sen.
ator Gallinger of New Hampshire will
be made chairman of the senate com.
nI;ttee on committees.
Representative James r. Mann OF
Illinois is the new minority floor lead
er in the House.
GoULD's SUCCESSOR CHOSEN.
3. F.. Bush, Head Of Western Mary
land, Going to Missouri Pacific.