The Washington times., 1914-10-02
MANY CHANGES DUE
At COMING SESSION
underwood Will Be Transferred
to Senate and Familiar
Faces Drop Out.
By JOHN SNURE.

Regardless of which party control
. House of the next Congress. thcr
n be a large number of changes il
-rsonne! both in the House and Senat;
ter March 4. next. 1t will be not oni!
new Congress. hui there will be moro
IAN the usual number of old faces
Issing from their accustomed places.
ono of the most marked changes VII
@ the transfer Cf Leader underwood
T tho House to the Senate. His victory
- the primaries in Alabama aSainSl
Iobson assures him OF eiection. n
ne same time. Hobson will retire ron
re House. The Democratic side Of
e senate has rot yet developed =
.ader who is able to dominate t.lr
.rurse OF legislation there. Some of tho
n1rnirers Of Mr.. Underwood think he
ay rise to this place. il not in the
.nse of holding the title, at least IL
1fiuence.
Conspicuous Senators who will be
Missing from their places include Sena-
n Bristow of Kansas. one of the fore
1ost of the-Progressive Republicans
renators Burton of Ohio. Crawford OF
s~outh Dakota. Perkins of California
Root of New York, Stephenson of Wis
onsin. and Thornton Of Louisiana.
''Incle Ike" Stephenson will be missed
necause of his piCturesqueness Con-
servative Republicans will lose one OF
leir strongest forces when senator
.oot goes. Senator Burton's recent sue.
essful fight against the pork barrel
liver and harbor bill alone is sufficient
~ give him a prominent place in Con
-~essionaI history Senator Crawford is
&c of the Progressive Republicans OF
re Senate. and lost in the South Da-
lta primary, not because he had not
ado p good record, but because he was
70 victim of big stay-at-home vote. g,
President Wilson has appointed
r7ough Federal judges from the House
: make a considerable change in that
.ody. Clayton of Alabama, Covington
Maryland. and Mccoy of New Jer-
". have been given judgeships. Peters
= Massachusetts, has been made AS
. stan; Secretary of the Treasury.
Red-haired Victor Murdoch, of Kan
as. will be missing from the House. He
running for the Senate on the Bull
loose ticket in his State, and has an
.unc.d that he will win. II may do
81 but on paper the situation looks
ore like the election of a Democrat.
II Murdock wins, it will be because his
yersonality appeals powerfully to the
! -ogressive-minded voters of Kansas
q Ithout regard to party.
Bulkley To Retire.
One of the interesting changes in the
IiOuse will be the retirement of Con-
g-essman Buckley of Ohio. He and Con-
Sressman Crosser were thrown into the
same region by redistricting. In the
primaries Crosser won. Bulkley is a
member of the Banking and Currency
COmmittee. Had he won in the prim-
aries the Cox machine intended to boom
MIN for the governorship, but that is
rast and gone. Crosser is an able citi-
zen. and the foremost advocate in the
ouse Of public ownership of the Dis
LIict street railway system. His re-
election will give impetus to this move
ment.
The entire group of Democrats in the
House from Iowa will drop out This
Congressman Volirnar, Kirk
patrick, and Connolly. Mr.. Vollmer did
not seek denomination, and Mr.. Kirk
natrick was defeated in the primaries.
Hr. Connolly is running for the Senate
the Democratic ticket against Sena-
n Cummins. but will be defeated, ac-
riding to the latest reports on the stu
~n.
Congressman Burke of South Dakota
running for the Senate in his State,
nd EXPECTS TO enter the upper house
s-fter March 4. Congressman A. Mitchell
almer is running for the Senate in
"ennsylvania, but his defeat is prob
BILE, and he will retire from the House
2 nd probably get a Federal job.