The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-15

ators and 435 representatives
who will make the history OF
the Sixty-third congress, over which
Vice President Thomas r. Marshall
and Speaker Champ Clark will preside.
soon will be in official harness in Wash
ington. The coming session has a ire
mendous lot of work to handle, and
one of the first matters to be taken up,
IL the wish of President Wilson pre-
walls, will be that bugbear, h tarfn.
The Democrats, in view of their am
bilious program, view with concern
their slim majority in the senate. The
Republicans have just as many hold-
over senator's as they (the number Is
thirty, and the Progressives hold the
balance of power, although Poindexter
of Washington is the only Progressive
who keeps his seat for a second con-
secutiye term. The newly elected SEN
ators give the Democrats about nifty
out of the n~inety-six. The Democratic
preponderance of numbers in the house,
however, furnishes consolation to the
Wilson administration, and altogether
the Democrats hope to carry out their
plans without serious hitch.
STANDING OF NEW MEMBERS
Before a man gets to be a United
States senator he usually has been
heard from In some way or other put
side Of his state. None Of the senators
who will serve in the approaching ses-
sion need introduction in their re-
spective commonwealths, and some OF
them already have acquired a national
reputation. Those who have been re-
elected by their legislatures have a
natural advantage over the others, for
the most inactive United States SEN
ator always gets his name in print at
some stage of his Washington career.
But this same publicity does not as
a rule apply to new members OF the
house. We are often surprised to hear
of some laggard pupil of school days,
Of whom track had been lost, becom-
Ing a congressman. while more likely
than not we are only one of the vast
multitude of laggard toilers who have
v come within seeing distance of
the most inconsequential political Of
ice in our locality.
And a successful term as a represent
alive is only a stepping stone. The fu-
ture may hold a governorship, a seat
In the United States senate, perhaps
the presidency. Who knows?
But there's more in making a hit in
Washington than merely being elected.
Shares and pitfalls a-plenty confront
the new member. No time is lost in
sizing up the brand new a They
take his measure, do those veterans
Of the game he has begun TO play, for,
although he may have been "some
pumpkins where he comes from, he
never really qualities as a headliner
until he has stood up under the Cruel
ing initiation at the national capitol.
He is an object of various kinds of
speculation. There always is the
chance he will prove troublesome or
snatch the laurels of some earlier
conner (Which would be troublesome
to the victim). So 1t behooves him to
watch out lest the "goblins get him."
The senate isn't very comfortable for
a bad performer. We say the senate
principally because the senate has an
nexed that impressive term august
body although the house may also
lay claim to being august. The fact
remains. however. that the word is
a senatorial p~rerogative.
NEW, BUT KNOWN
Though new in the senate. we know
something about such men as John +.
Shafroth. Democrat. former governor
of Colorado: Ollie NJ. James. Democrat.
of Kentucky; James X yardaman.
Democrat. former governor of Missis-
sippi: John w. Weeks. Republican.
Of Massachusetts; Edwin c. Burleigh.
Republican. Of Maine: lie Baron Il.
Colt. Republican. Of Rhode Island:
George w. Norris. Republican. of