Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-02-01
Twenty-Three New Members In
That Body.
SEVEN TINES THAT
NUMBER IN HOUSE
Many Members Of the Old Guard win
Vacate Their Seats and Give Way
to Younger Elood-Greatest Change
viii Take Place In the House,
Caused BY Reappointment.
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Especial to The World.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. %
The special session which is expect
ed TO begin soon after the Inaugural
ton Of President Wilson will be an
altogether new Congress, the sixty
third, OF whose members 1874, 20 SEN
+ators and 161 representatives. will be
new to their places. The unusually
large number Of new representatives
Is the result partly Of the re%appoint.
ment which created many new con
gressional districts. But the politi-
cal overturn is responsible almost
wholly for the great change in the
personnel Of the Senate.
The new sesators will take the place
of others, many Of them long and wide
ly known. Such, for example, are
Senators Joseph w. Bailey. of Texas;
Shelyb NJ. Cullom, of Illinois; w. Muir
ray Crane, of Massachusetts,; Joseph
NJ. Dixon, of Montana, Frank 0.
Briggs, OF New Jersey; Morris Brown,
of Nebraska; Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
of oregon and Murphy j. Foster, of
Louisiana.
The fact that an unusually large
number of the, states are sending to
the senate men we'll qualified for the
place by reason of their previous Leg
i%slative experience in the lower house
Of Congress is a subject of much fa-
yorable comment in Washington just
now. A review Of the list shows that
a majority of the new men who will
sit in the senate after March A have
already served as representatives.
The toga of Senator Bailey, of Tex
as, now worn temporarily by Col r. II.
Johnston, an a%ppointee of the COVER
nor, win after March 4 fall upon the
shoulders Of Morris Sheppard, who
has been a representative in Congress
the past ten years and has been look
ed upon as one of the Bryanite lead
ers in that body.
Another prominent member of the
lower house who win be seen in the
senate is John w. Weeks, who has
been named to succeed Senator Crane,
of Massachusetts. Mr.. Weeks, though
a comparatively young man, has rep
resented the Twelfth Massachusetts
district since 1905. He is regarded as
one of the best informed members Of
he house on military All naval mat
It2rs.
Senator Foster, of Louisiana win
be succeeded by Joseph e. Ransdell,
who has nearly fifteen years service
in the house to his credit. Mr.. Rams
dell is widely known as a leader of
the movement for improved water
ways. Since 1907 he has been presi-
dent of the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress,
Edwin c, Burleigh, who has been
selected by the Maine legislature to
succeed Senator Gardner, has had
much legislative experience. though
he is not now a member of Congress.
After fifteen years in the house he
fell a victim to the Democratic land
slide in Maine two years ago,
Ollie II. James. who is to succeed
Senator Paynter. of Kentucky has had
ten years experience in the lower
house. Mr.. James first became ac-
quainted with the business of lawmak-
ing at a very early age, when he serv-
ed as a page in the Kentucky legisla-
ture.
Senator Morris Brown. Of Nebras-
ka will be succeeded by George w
Norris, who for ten years has repre-
scented the Fifth Nebraska district in
Congress. The new senator gained
prominence as one of the original Re-
publican Insurgents" in the house.
Another representative who will be
seen in the senate after March 4 is
William Hughes, the Democratic
choice for the seat of Senator
Briggs, OF New Jersey. Mr.. Hughes
has served four terms as the repre-
sentative of the Sixth New Jersey dis
trict.
Several Of The states have not yet
selected their senators. When the
elections are complete it is possible
that one or more additions will be
made to the foregoing list of present
representative in Congress who will
be seen in the senate when the extra
session ~convenes a few weeks hence
to take up the work OF tariff revis-
ion.