The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-03-07
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Peters, of Massachusetts.
Harrison, Of New York.
Palmer, of Pennsylvania.
Dixon, Of Indiana.
Rainey, of Illinois.
Hammond, of Minnesota.
Hughes, of New Jersey.
WIFI Revise the Tariff.
With the fullest frankness, the
Democrats have announced that after
passing the reciprocity agreement this
committee will proceed to work at
once to devise bills for the revision of
various tariff schedules.
For the purpose the personnel of
the committee was made up with care.
Strong protection Democrats, it is as
serted, we're kept off the committee,
and so were rampant free traders, in
order that the revision might not be
along radical lines.
The senate is still Republican, but
the growth of the insurgent spirit and
so-called progressivism serve largely
to weaken firm calculation of it's po-
litical complexion in regard to the
party questions soon to come. forward
from the Democratic house Even in
the dying days of the present con-
gress there has been tendency of
the minority to test its strength as
big combining factor with the insur-
gents. In the next congress, with a
healthy muster of forty-one, and with
a willing insurgent contingent across
the aisle, there is no telling; to what
extent the minority may have its way,
especially in regard to the burning
tariff questions of the nour.
Wholesale Changes in the House.
Speaker Clark will have many new
faces to learn, for on both sides of the
chamber will be scores of individuals
who have never before appeared in
the national legislative halls. The
sprinkling of changes will run pretty
we'll through the Republican side, for
many members felt the jar cf last No.
vembers election not only from the
Democratic current, but from the in
surgent wars.
Fifteen Editors.
Only six States in the union escaped
with their house delegations, ,unchang-
ed, most of these being communities
from which but one or two congress-
men are sent. Rhode Island, Nevada
and Idaho have brand new delega-
tions. At least fifteen editors of news
papers are numbered among the newly
elected members. T. W. Townsend of
"Chimmie Fadder" fame, will occpy
one Of the New Jersey seats. Martin
". Littleton, who sprung to fame as
a criminal lawyer in the Thaw trial,
Will be on hand to represent the dis
trict where Oyster Bay and Theodore
Roosevelt are located. He is Demo-
crat.
Some Odd Names.
In fact scores of individuals whose
popularity and political ssjgacity led
them to victory i'm the Democratic and
ins7rgent landslide of last November
will be her to answer to their names
as the roll is called in the house on
April 4. Such names as Jacoway,
Mays, Stack, Buchanan, Copley, Pep
per, Prouty, Towner, Rouse, Dupre,
Koenig, Linthicum, Parran, Curley,
Doremus, Wedemeyer, Sweet, Wither-
spoon, Scully, Kindred, ITaison and
Hegelson will be sung forth from the
clerks desk for the first time in
American history.
Missing.
Stricken from the rolls will be many
names which have been heralded
through the public prints for years.
"Jim' Tawney will be missing, and so
will the venerable Keifer the suave
Alexander, the massive Reeder, and
the adroit Calderhead, of Kansas. The
genial Graf, Of Illinois, will be gone,
and so will Bennett, Olcott, Fassett,
Fish, Hull, Mckinley, Fowler, May
nard, Campbell, Parsons, and many
others whose constituents have re-
called them to private life.
Changes in Staff.
Not only will there be changes in
plenty within the house on the 4th Of
April, but there will be an exodus of
clerks of long service, watchmen and
doorkeepers. A new sergeant-at-arms
will make his appearance, a new clerk
OF the house, new postmaster, and
new floor assistants. In coming into
their own the Democrats have plan