The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-06

luS tHo party complete cOntTOl OF the
Government for the first time in eigh-
teen years and for the second time
since the Civil War. Then, the reor-
ganization of the Senate has been ac-
complished in way paralleling the
overturn of "Cannonism" in the House
by the practical abolition of the Sc
niority rule in making up committees
The results of these two changes, es-
pecially when the personnel of new
leaders is considered, are such as tc
persuade the Brooklyn Eagles Qnd
Dem.) Washington correspondent and
the editors of the Washington Times
(Prog.) and Herald Qnd) that the
Senate is now actually more pro-
gressive body than the House.
The breaking of the Illinois dead
lock, by the election of Col. James
Hamilton Lewis (Dem) and L"Y
Sherman (Rep.), enables the Senate to
meet without vacant chair. There
are fifty-one Democratic Senators
forty-four Republicans, and one Pro-
gressive, Miles Poindexter, of Wash
ington. This will be the party line
up for the next two years, unless death
invades the chamber. And before the
end Of this time, notes the New York
Press (Prog.), the Constitutional
amendment providing for the direct
election of Senators will probably be
in force, 80 that the next Senatorial
elections may be by popular vote.
President Wilson's exceptional OPP
portunity is noted by The Press in it,
Washington correspondence, for he
has both Houses of Congress with him
by ian overwhelming majority" while
in only two years of President
Cleveland's tenure in office did he
have both branches of the national
legislature in political accord with
him. And for only two years did Taft
have Republican majority in both the
House and Senate"
Though Mr.. Poindexter is the only
out-and-out third party Senator, The
Press names as Progressives who still
retain Official connection with the
Republican party" Senators La Fol-
lette, Cummins, Gronna, Bristow,
Clapp, Borah, Crawford, Kenyon, and
Norris.
The new Senate organization Is in
tended, as Senator Kern puts it, to
make that body Democratic not only
In name, but in practical results" 1t
has thrown off, explains the Provi-
dence Journal Qnd), "the customary
control of perpetual succession
based on seniority of service" and the
country is disposed to applaud"
thinks the Springfield Republican
(Ind.), which proceeds to note some
Of the consequences of the revolu-
ton:
Senator Bacon, of Georgia was de-
feated (by Mr.. Clarke, of Arkansas)
in the Democratic caucus for president
pro tenn, which he had set his heart
upon. Senator Martin, of Virginia,
lost the place of leader of the Senate,
which went to Senator Kern
The seniority precedent was upheld
in the choice of Furnifold NJ Simmons,
of North Carolina, as chairman of the
Finance Committee, which will han
die tariff revision. But the chairman
finds himself at the head of a COM
mittee majority made up of progress
sives pledged to radical tariff reduc-
ton. The Committee on Banking and
Currency, nearly as important in
in view of approaching monetary re-
form, is headed by Senator Owen of
Oklahoma
The Republican insurgents, "a hope
less minority" had to see their party
go to wreck, notes the Washington
Times, but
"The Democrats are more fortunate.
Their aggressive liberal element
comes to the top at the very beginning
of Democratic ascendency in the up
per chamber. They are started right
instead of wrong, so far as that body
is concerned. Everything indicates
that the Senate is become the more
progressive, aggressive, radical cham
Der. Conversation must make it's
headquarters in the House."
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