The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-02
MANY new FACES
IN BOTH HOUSES
FAMILIAR FORMS WILL he MISSED
AT both ENDS OF THE CARL
Toll THIS YEAR
FOURTEEN REPUBLICANS
MINORITY PARTY HAS BUT COR
PORAEs GUARD-ONE INDEPEN-
DENT-IMPORTANT COMMIT
TEE CHAIRMANsHIPs. --..-.

When the General Assembly con-
venes on Wednesday Of next week
much of the work that will enable it
to get down to business Will have
ALREADY been done.
ON TUESDAY night at the Democratic
caucus AIR. speaker BYRD viii be uuiy
Fenoainated without opposition. and
: when he shall .have by tne purely for
mai vote of the House be declared
speaker of the body he will have his
committees In his vest pocket ready to
give out.
Little time will be lost and the
House hon~er will soon be receivin.
Its erist of bills, some of which VIII
run the gauntlet of committee room
and finally reach a vote in the House
while many will fall 10y the wayside
and get lost in the shuttle.
I'm the House membership of one
hundred there are nine Republicans.
one member classed as an Independ
cnt and ninety Democrats. The nine
Republicans are H. Price Webb, OF
Carroll; J. A. l.. Sutphin. OF Floyd: $.
NJ. Fulton, Of Grayson: Arthur f. Rob-
ertsoR, Of Lee: L.. u. Flanagan, OF
Montgomery and Radford: Geo. n.
Earman, OF Rock ingham: N. r. Tay-
tor, Of Scott; j. II. Wfssier. of SHiyth.
and s. +. Mustard, OF Tazewell and
buchanan. James n. Baker. Of
Louisa, is an Independent.
On the Senate Side.
On the Senate side of the capitol
there are five Republican members.
John II. Catron, of Big Stone Gap,
succeeds j. &. Noel. as Senator from
the Second senatorial district. From
the Third district J. Powell Royal.
Republican. succeeds Roland T.. Chase
From the sixth district Edmund Parr
succeeds j. NJ. Parsons. From Rock
inRham John Paul takes the seat long
occupied by Senator keezei. " M
Sowder WAS elected to the vacant
twenty sixth district seat, embracing
Franklin and Floyd. Senator A. r.
Lincoln. one Of the best known and
most popular members OF the Repub-
iiean contingent In previous sessions.
was defeated for reelection In No.
veiao~r by ID. G. Cummings, Jr, OF
Abingdon. Democrat
Fifteen Anti Democrats
On joint ballot the Democrats mus
ter rs votes; the Republicans four
teen votes ard there Is one lonesome
Independent, tie total membership Of
the two branches OF the General AS
senlbIy being 1879.
one OF the men who will be missed
greatly In the Senate will be Aubrey
L.
AIR. STROBE took leading part In the
debates and legislation of the last AS
sernbly and has since his election to
the Senate been & prominent figure
therein. There be those who say that
STROBE Is big enough to survive a de-
feat and that he VIII be heard from
agasn'in the political world. His sue
cessor Bland Massic. liz well equipped
for the legislative fray,
- b.
coin:irItec ass%@Ere,,s i, the Senat
vial be Etiwsrl Echols, OF the Ninth
district. George T. Rlson, OF the
Twenty fourth sis,rie.; A. g, }Iar-
man. OF Richm4nd: saxon w. Ho,t.
or the Thirty-sxtn- district, and C.
Harding Walker. az Northumberland.
Among the men who will be heard
from strongly for reform legislation
IL Senator J. L. West. of Suffolk.
Senator West was q member of the
'sst-44esase- WHEN Senator Tfoflaud
was sent to Congress from the Sec
ond district by one OF those marvellous
| turns of the political wheel Colonel
West. after a whirlw!nd campaign
took his seat in tha Senate H., will
be recalled as the member OF the
subcommittee who did not fan TO
give the State committee what Is
generally believed to have been a
merited tongue-lashing when that
committee failed to adopt the ma
notify repnr, apap the Norfolk roun-
~ situation. West will be heard
from In the Senate--and If there be
any doubling Thomases Mr.. West will
doubtless convince them after few
sessions
New Members In House.
In the House there is considerable
-
the new member from Suffolk. In a
He succeeds ]. e West. sent un 10
the Senate. Z. W. Milstead comes
up from Newport News, succeeding
L. +. Stearnes-and loaded with a
bill to protect unwary investors from
the wiles of the wise ones who have
gold bricks; and similar junk to sell
Another new man from Tidewater Is
j. Il. Christian. of the Matthew'S
Middiesex district What Christian
Goesn's Know, shout, oysters hash, I
been invented vet. He grows 'em on
his farm. He Is expected to fur
nish the House with all the oyster
dope 1t needs throughout tho en-
tire session. He Is the son of the
late Judge J. T. Christian. Of Mathews,
later of West Point
e Another new man from the water
front Is John Newsstand Tabb, son
OF old Gloucester, who unseated that
legislative veteran. j. \. Stubs, In the
last prirnary by "A small y. majority
Major Sfubhx represented the Thirty,
ninth senatorial district for many
years. but when he failed TO vote for
Fftxhugh Lee for the Senate the dis
trict declined to return him. His
people at hNne stuck by him and,
although defeated for the Senate, he
was promptly elected To the House
and has been coming back every two
years with Hnbrekcn regularity. Major
Stubs has been member OF Aone
branch or the other of the Assembly
almost continuously for the past for.
~ years.
Runs I'm Family
From Smithfleld. now in hts Sec
ond term. comes J. X. Jordan, sue.
ceeding W. f. Howle two years ago.
Coming to the Legislature is sort
OF family trait in the Jordan fam
uy Mr. Jim Bob. az they know
him at home. didn't care particular
~ about coming to the House. but he
recalled that his father and grand
father before him had been menu
hers Of the House. no he determined
that It.. was UP Ito him to keep up
the record Of the family--so Howla
had to stay at home while Jordan
paid tho debt due his family and the
Commonwealth by coming to legisla-
eSwA halle