The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-23
new MEMBERS
IN THE SENATE
|Twenty-Three New Faces viii Be
Seen in the Upper House
of Congress
SOME OLD TIMERS TO GO
Many of New Corners Have Serv-
ed In the House
SOME OLD TIMERS TO GO
SEVERAL VET TO Be CHOSEN

W asnlnEtOll, ~ - Jan. Eos---ii ii@
special session which is expected to
begin soon after the inauguration Of
President Wilson will be an altogether
new Congress, the sixty third. of
whose members 1874, 20 senators AMI
16l representatives, will be new to
their places The unusually large
number of new representatives is the
result partly of the reapportionment
which created many new congress
sional districts. But the political over"
! turn is responsible almost wholly for
the great change in the personnel of
the Senate.
The new senator's will take the place
cf others, many of them long aud
widely known. Such for example
are Senators Joseph w. Bailey of
Texas, Shelby NJ. Cullom of Illinois,
w Murray Crane of Massachusetts,,
Joseph NJ. Dixon of Montana, Frank
o. Briggs of New Jersey, Morris
Brown of Nebraska, Jonathan Bourne,
Jr. of Oregon and Murphy j. Foster
| Of Louisiana.
The fact that am unusually large
number of the states are sending to
the Senate men well qualified for the
place Ivy reason of their previous leg
islative experience in the lower house
of Congress Is II subject of much Ia
vorahle comment in Washington just
now. a review of the list shows that
n majority of the -new ruer who viii
SIT in the Senate after March 4 hav-
already served as representatives.
The toga of Senator Bailey Oi
Texas now worn temporarily by Col
Il. NJ. Johnston, an appointee of the
governor, will after March fall upoi
the shoulders of Morris Sheppard
| who has been "a representative IN
Congress the past ten years and has
been looked upon as one of the Bryan
, ite leaders i'm that body.
Another prominent member of tho
lower house who will be seen in tho
Senate is John w. Weeks, who has
been named to succeed Senator Crane
, Of Massachusetts. Mr.. Weeks. though
q comparatively young man, has rep
resented the Twelfth Massachusetts
GRE of the best informed members o
the House on military and naval mat
/, tera.
Senator Foster Of Louisiana will b'
succeeded by Joseph E. Ransdell
who has nearly tifteen years service
IN the House to his credit. Mr. Rams
dell Is widely known as u leader o
the movement for improved water
ways Since 1907 he has been presiden
, of the National Rivers and Harbor
Congress.
Edwin c. Burleigh, who has beei
selected by the Maine legislature t
succeed Senator Gardner, has ha'
much legislative experience, though ll
Is not now q member of Congress. Ar
ter fifteen years in the House he fel
n victim to the Democratic landslid
IN Maine two years ago.
Ollie NJ James. who is to succee
Senator Paynter of Kentucky. has hat
ten years experience in the lowe
Z house. Mr. James first became &C
r uuainted with the business of law
u making at very early age, when IN
o served as page In the Kentucky leg
' islature
8 Senator Norris Brown of Nebrask
e will be succeeded by George w. Nor
rs. who for ten years has represent
. ed the Fifth Nebraska district ]
u Congress. The new senator game
" prominence as one of the original Re
< publican insurgents in the House,
Another representative who will b
seen I'm the Senate after March
William Hughes. the Democrati
J. choice for the seat of Senator Brigs
of New Jersey. Mr. Hughes has serv
i cd four terms as the representative {
y the Sixth New Jersey district
: Several of the states have not "
m selected their senator's. When III
Df elections are complete IL Is possib
" that one OF more additions will l
ii made to the foregoing list of preser
10 representatives in Congress who wi
N be seen i'm the Senate when the exti
" session convcnes "A few weeks hent
fe to take up the work of tariff revision
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