Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-04-05
CONGRESS IN EXTRA SESSION.
The Democrats in Control for First
Time in Years.

Washington, April 3.-The inter
esting situation of a Democratic
House and a Republican Senate meet
ing to consider a Taft administrative
measure directs unusual attention to
the converting of the SiXty-second
Congress in extraordinary session at
loon tomorrow. The political COM
p~lexions Of the two branches of Con-
gress will be as follows:
House-Democrats, 22S; Republic
cans, 100; Socialist, l; vacancies. .
the ninth Iowa and second Penn
S%ylvania districts.
Senate-Republicans, so; Demo-
Gratis, Al; vacancy, 1, from Colorado.
Some Remarkable Changes.
The roll calls In the two branches
will show some remarkable changes
from the last session. In the Honse
the Democrats will show a gain Of "a
members and the Republicans a loss
Of 55, the Socialist member, 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 een not only In the
membership Of the House, but the
whole organization. Republican m
ployees In great number will &c out
and their places will be filled by DEM
ocrats. Choice rooms In the Capt.
toll and the House Office building, long
controlled by the Republicans, will be
surrendered to the representatives of
the party which is to gather up the
House reins.
Instead Of the 50 Republicans who
occupied seats in the Senate on March
4, there will be only so tomorrow.
The ranks of the minority will be in
creased from so to Al and to AZ,
when the vacancy in Colorado Is fill
ed. There was II vacancy in the
last session, caused by the death Of
the late Senator Hughes, Of Colorado.
y more notable event than the large
number Of new faces in the Senate
and the House will be the absence of
so many veteran legislators.
Cannon in the Minority.
The Speakers marble rostrum will
not resound with the vigorous whacks
OF the Cannon gavel, for Mr.. Cannon
will appear in the ranks Of the mi
nority. Veterans 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; Mckinley,
Of California; Bennett, Fish, Parsons
and Cocks, Of New York; Hull. and
Smith, Of Iowa; DENLY, Of Michigan,
and Keller, Of Ohio. Four members
Hitchcock, of Nebraska; Poindex-
ter, Of Washington; Gronna, OF
North Dakota, and Townsend, OF
Michigan-have been elevated to the
Senate.
No longer will the Senate roll cal
open with the familiar name Of Aid
rich, the Rhode Island leader having
voluntarily renowned another tern
to devote himself to leisure and the
study of monetary reforms. He vii
be succeeded by Henry II. Lippitt
Many other striking figures will be
missed from the Senate floor. notably
Hale. Of Maine, succeeded by Chas. T.
Johnson; Beveridge. OF Indiana, who
was vanquished by John w. Kern
Kcan, of New Jersey, in whose place
will be James A. Reed; Dick, o
Ohio, replaced by Alice Pomerene
and Carter, of Montana. succeeded b.
Henry l.. Myers. All Of these changes
represent Democratic gains except il
the case OF Rhode Island.