The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-13
WHO WILL BE
SENATE LEADER?
Next Session Will See AL
most a New Body of
Men
Fifty Members Of the Sen
ate of'1905 Have Been Re-
tired or Died in Office
The Survivors = "Old
Guard" Practically Mus
tered Out Question Of
Republican Leadership.

| It will be a new United States SEN
ate which will come together for the
first session of the Sixty-second Con
gross. There is a feeling that the
Senate changes slowly, yet fifty-five
Senators who We're in office in Deem
Der, 1905, will not appear in the
chamber at the first roll call after
March a, while thirty-four men hold
| ing Senate seats two years ago Will be
absent at the opening of the next
| session.
| The first Session of the Fifty-ninth
| Congress convened on December 4,
1905. Theodore Roosevelt had been
| inaugurated, President in the previous
March. The period subsequent GER
tainly belongs to contemporary rath-
er than ancient history, yet within
this brief space not only the person
mel but the whole spirit and temper
public questions and public affairs
have radically changed. At that
time Senator Allison of Iowa held the
record for continuous service in the
Senate. He was chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations and
ganization that nothing of conse-
quence was done without his assent.
Senator Cullom of Illinois will be
the oldest Senator In point OF, service
in the Senate next December. He
was sixth on the list in 1905. Other
Senators of national reputation and
large consequence IN 1905 who will
not be members of the Senate when it
meets again after the expiration of
the present Congress are: Morgan of
Alabama, Hale of Maine, Aldrich of
Rhode Island, Teller of Colorado,
rows of Michigan, Elkins of West Vir-
GINA, Clay of Georgia, Foraker of
Ohio, Plat and Depew of New. York,
Spooner of Wisconsin, Blackburn of
Kentucky, Dryden of New Jersey,
Hemenway of Indiana, Fulton of Ore
gon, and twenty mine others of lesser
consequence.
81 Survivors of 1905.
Phrased another way, of the nine
ty members of the Senate in Decem-.
Der, 1905, only the following thirty
fCyr will be in service in December
1911; and it is not improbable that
death will cause two or three vacan-
cies before the next Congress assem-
bles: Cullom of Illinois, Ballinger
of New Hampshire, Lodge of Massa-
chusetts, Perkins of California, Clark
Of Wyoming, Bacon of Georgia, Mar
tin of Virginia, Nelson of Minnesota,
Tillman of South Carolina, Warren
of Wyoming, Wetmore of Rhode Is
land, PenEose of Pennsylvania, Gull
berson of Texas, McCumber of North
Dakota, Dillingham; of Vermont,
Clapp of Minnesota, Bailey of Texas,
Burnham of New Hampshire. Foster
of Louisiana, Gamble of South Dako-
Ia, Simmons of North Carolina,
Clarke of Arkansas, Hepburn of Ida
no, Newlands of Nevada, Overman of
North Carolina. Smoot of Utah. Store
of Missouri, Crane %of Massac husettS.
La Toilette of wisconsin,. ~ Nixon. of
Nevada. Raynor of Maryland, Suther-
land of Utah, Frazier of Tennessee.
and Brandegee of Connecticut. Doubt
exists over the retention of lodge of
Massachusetts and the. fate ;of: Bulke-
ley of Connecticut WAS settled Tues
day. -.
The country came to full realiza-
ton about five years ago that the
United States Senate was not proper
ly representative of the people. There
was a good deal. more than mere
words in the charge that some of the
Senators represented business inter
ests rather than their States. The
people woke up, and the lie has been
given to the statement that misrep-
resentative Senators could not be
ousted The maintenance of the pres
ent system of election, however, con-
tinues the danger that misrepresenta- |
tive Senators will continue to be cho-3
sen. Direct elections may do away
with the danger.
"Old Guard" Mustered Out.
The "Old Guard of the Senate has
i'm part been mustered out of service, |
and many of the remaining members
will leave the ranks in March. Death, ]
and election results are |
1T is probable that when the Senate
meets next December there will be |
more so-callled conservatives than
progressives on the Republican side |