The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-04
Veterans of Numerous Battles Miss
ing This Session-Aldrich and
Other Notables Gone.
SITUATION IS INTERESTING
Democratic House and Republican
Senate in Extra Session to Con-
slider Administration Measure.

Washington, April 4.-The interest
ing situation OF Democratic house
and Republican senate meeting to con-
slider Taft administrative measure
directs unusual attention to the con-
venins of the SiXty-second congress in
extraordinary session. The political
compilations of the two branches of
congress will be as follows:
House-Democrats, 22S; Republic
ans, 100; Socialists, /; vacancies, 2,
in the Ninth Iowa and Second Penn
sylvania districts. Senate-Repub-
Hcans, so; Democrats, Al; vacancy, l,
from Colorado. The roll calls in the
Two branches will show some re-
markable changes from the last SEES
sion. In the house the Democrats will
show a gain Of tifty-four members and
the Republicans loss OF fifty-five,
the Socialist member, Victor Berger
OF Milwaukee, accounting for the diff
ference in the equation.
BY reason OF the change resulting
from the election last November new
faces will be seen not only in tn
membership of the house but in the
whole organization Republican en-
ployeS IN great number will go out
and their places will be filled by Dem
ocrats. 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 is to gather I'D the
house reins. Instead of the fifty-nine
Republicans who occupied seats in the
senate on March there will be only
fifty. The ranks of the minority will
be increased from thirty-two to forty
one and to forty-two when the va
cancy in Colorado is filed There was
one vacancy in the last session caused
by the death of the late Senator
Hughes of Colorado.
Many House Veterans Gone.
More notable even than the large
number of new faces in the senate and
the house will be 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. Veterans
OF many legislative struggles will be
missed from the house floor. Chief
among those whose absence will loom
large will be James A. Tawney of
Minnesota, Boutell of Illinois, Scott of
Kansas, Mckinlay of California, Ben.
nett, 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 Michi-
gan 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 renounced another term to
devote himself to leisure and the study
or monetary reforms. He will be sue
ceeded by Henry F. Lippitt Many
other striking figures will be missed
from the senate floor, notably Hale of
Maine, succeeded by Charles F. John
son; Beverage Of Indiana, who was
vanquished by John w. Kern; Kean
OF New Jersey, in whose place will be
James E. MARITIME; Warner of Nilsson
RI, replaced by James A. Reed; Dick
of Ohio, replaced by Atlee Pomerene;
Carter or Montana, succeeded by Hen
~ l.. Myers, and Depew Of New York,
succeeded by James O'Gorman. All of
these changes represent Democratic
gains except in the case of Rhode Isl.