The Washington times., 1913-03-04
HAS ..BEEnS PASS TO
PRIVATE LIFE AGAIN
April Session Of Congress
I'd Bring 156 New Faces
Into Lower House.
Ry fEEopuRE,IIfIER.


the national drama lacked happy
ending Actors who had for years
played stellar roles had recited their
last lines; heroes of other days had
fallen; hopes had been shattered, and
fhet scene shifters pushed aside the old
players to make room for the new.
That part of the nations political
stage known as the House was cleared
forr great transformation when the
.eavel fell adjourntng that body sine die
when the extra session convenes in
.Apfil 156 new faces will be seen in the
flower body of Congress, and among the
misting will be faces which the galleries
have ~seelsar <ee-ssse ny .saaass''y
Less Interest in Senate.
The changes in the Senate, with it's
aimited membership and its more digni-
!5ed atmosphere, lack the human inter-
,est and the heart throbs which are in
tsrwoven with the passing of the old
war horses of the House of Representa-
itives. Men grow to know each other
better in the House. They have their
partisan wranglings and their political
feuds. but every two years each men,
ssr back s,ssss; ,ss s. sss as' Reopis in
sconseHdencc. ssSf OF Sf5t1& feeling
springs Vn<nsns the nlenNwho COM
prise g iYgt unV1slds membershiD
eessfh sesefins fehasns & ses asa
sitnS st o.. sa sRssss. ssSssd rs,s1as @ems
!bers Of the House, when a national au-
ldience recalls from the stage of politics
sthe favorites of other days
A new order of thing swas heralded
when the final sound of gavel fell in
the House today and when the Sixty
Second Congress passed into history.
That new regime is here is written
in the following facts:
The next House will consist of 4s5
lmembers, an increase of forty-one over
the present membership of ssA In
scluding recruit members sent to Wash
,angton under the recent reapportion-
Tment, just 156 legislative ''youngsters''
viii bask in the spotlight when the
tsnSp HssdsL List.
Head6k theNst sm experienced rlegis-
fators Eho ninst give way to noyices is
Uncle sJoe" Cannon, a veteran of
thirty-eiSht years service in the lower
body RA7ar1e cane toScongress forty
years ago, missing one term in the
early nineties. The passing of ''Uncle
joe is tragedy, as tragedies go in
politics.
Despite his outwardly brave de-
meanor, the former Speaker feels keenly
his defeat. He says he is too old &c
come back, as he did twenty-four years
ago. ''Uncle joe is seventy-seven; and
he recently told little gathering o.
his friends that there was nothing left
for hi9ta DE- except to-go hack te
DanvillS ana 1iee afnong the people
who have honpred me 10 the past
John Dalzeli, Of Pennsylvania, a men,
Der Of the" sold Guard" and an un-
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Republican whose political death knell
sounded2 when che eSavel fell in the
House 6OdRSeHe1i1as been a member
Of that body for twenty-six years.
John ]. Gardner of New Jersey and
Samuel W. Mccall of Massachusett.
also said good-by to Washington lif,
today. Each has served twenty year,
and was a believer in old-line Repub
dcanism.
"Cy" Sulloway Going.
, Four members, Republicans, who
; have been I'm the House for the past
eighteen Years are numbered among
file missing in the next Congress. They
are Ebenezer Hill of Connecticut, E. s
Henry of the same State George w
Prince of Illinois, and Cyrus Sulloway
of New Hampshire.
In the sixteen-years-service class are
two retiring Democrats-WilIiam G.
Brantleg of Georgia, and John Lamb OF
Virginia. Mr.. BrantIey retires volun-
tarily; Captain Lamb was defeated In
the primaries. f. ID. Crumpacker of
Indiana, Marlin Z. Olmsted of Pennsyl-
Nvania, and George p. Lawrence of
Massachusetts Republicans-go
out after sixteen years of House work.
Mr.. Lawrence retired; the others failed
TO come hack.
Michael Z. DriscoIl and Edward B.
fVreeland are two more Republicans
from the Empire State who surrendered
their seats after occupying them for
fourteen years.
Seven members with records Of twelve
years consecutive service likewise were
retired by ungrateful constituencies in
November. The "twelve-year-olds" who
. pass out include John w. Dwight, OF
New York: w. II. Draper, of New York
+. d. Currier. of New Hampshire; A.
J.. Bates, of Pennsylvania; c. b. Ran
dell of Texas, and G. H. Lindsay, OF
New York. and William A. Rodenberg,
OF Illinois.
Longworth Lame Duck.
Some of the best-known members in
the House are among those who quit
today, following ten years in the Ma
t9ional legislature. There's Nick Long
worth. of Ohio, who was defeated by
an overdose of Bull Moose and papa
{ Sr-iaw: Dan Lafean. of PENNSYLVANIA
:, one of the wealthiest men in the lower
chamber; Arsene PuJo, the money trust
chaser; Robert Bruce Macon, one who
was the self-constituted watchdog OF
the Treasury, end BILLY" Wilson, OF
Illinois, a member of the powerful
Rules Committee.
Others who make their exits at the
end of decade in public life are George
A. Loud, of Michigan, and G. f. Fuller
and John A. Sterling, of Illinois.
William B. Mckinley, of Illinois
manager Of the Taft campaign, went
down to defeat with his party in No.
vember and is retired as member OF
the House He has seen service during
four terms. L. w. Higgins. of Con.
necticut. and Edward l.. Taylor, oi
OHIO, are two other Republicans who
said good-by to the House today.
Ohioans Pried Goose.
In tAs 9ais@k etske-up in Ohio
Paul HowIand and II. B. ThistIewooc
also were pried loose from the Hous'
seats. They came to Congress si'
years ago William b. Wilson, of Penn
sylvania Democratic chairman Of tn,
Labor Committee, was similarly defeat
ed after six years incumbency of office
He is one Of the few Democrats wht
failed to obtain reelection. A com
bjned Bull Moose and Republican op
position encompassed his defeat
A large number of House members
who have served but four or two year:
will be succeeded by ambitious rivals II
the next Congress. The fellow who hac
seen a brief career In the popular