The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1911-04-07
VETERANS ARE
CROWDED OUT
Many New Faces Appear In
the Sixty=SeCOnd Congress
PROMINENT MEN ARE NJ SSING

PROMINENT MEN ARE N SSIM(
Remarkable Changes From Last ses
sion Are Shown In Whole Organize
tion-Democratic Majority of Sixty
Eight In House, While Republican
Majority In Senate Is Reduced t.
Nine by November Elections
Washington, April 4.-The inter
esting situation of a Democratic house
and a Republican senate meeting tt
consider Taft administrative meas
ure" directs unusual attention to the
convening of the Sixty second con-
gress in extraordinary session at noon
today.
The political compilations of the two
branches of congress are as follows:
House-Democrats 22S; Republicans
100: Socialists. /; vacancies, 2, the
Ninth Iowa and the Second Pennsyl-
vania districts. Senate-Republican
SO; Democrats, Al; vacancy, l, from
Colorado.
The roll calls in the two branches
will show some remarkable changes
from the last session. In the house
the Democrats will show gain of 81
members, and the Republicans loss
Of ba icf Victor
Berger of Milwaukee, accounting 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-
ployes in great number are out and
their places will be filled by Demo-
Gratis. Choice rooms in the Capitol
and in the house Office building, long
controlled by the Republicans, will be
surrendered to the representatives Of
the party which gathers up the house
reins.
Instead of the SO Republicans who
occupied seats in the senate on March
4 there are only so today. The ranks
of the minority are increased from 80
to Al and will be AZ when the vacancy
in Colorado is filled. There was one
vacancy 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
house is the absence of so many vet
eran legislators. The speakers marble
rostrum will not resound with the
vigorous whacks of the Cannon gavel :
for Mr.. Cannon appears in the ranks
of the minority.
Veterans of many legislative strug-
giles are missing from the house floor.
Chief among those whose absence is
noticed are 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 Michi-
gan, Keifer of Ohio. Four members,
Hitchcock of Nebraska, Poindexter of
Washington, Gronna of North Dakota
and Townsend of Michigan, have been
elevated to the senate.
NO longer will the senate roll call
open with the familiar name of Aid
rich, the Rhode Island leader having
voluntarily renowned another term.
He is succeeded by Henry F. Lippitt.
Many other striking figures are
missing 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 is James F. MARITIME; Warner
of Missouri, replaced by James A.
Reed; Dick of Ohio, replaced by Atlee |
Pomerene, and Carter of Montana,
by Henry l.. Meyers. All
of these changes represent Democratic |
gains except in the case Of Rhode Is
land.
Although the Democrats in the |
house have declared for tariff legisla-
ton during the extra session of con-
gress, the prediction is freely made in
circles that no such leg
islation can be put through the SEN
ate and that the extra session will ad-
journ earlier than has generally been