The Washington herald., 1915-03-04
HILL To ECHO To
RETREAIINGFE FEET
Senate Loses Nine and the
House Ninety at Noon
Today.
BIG FIGURES TO LEAVE
Men Seen for Years in Congress Halls
Will Retire to Private
Life.
BIG FIGURES TO LEAVE

| upper house. In this group are the uldes
and tine youngest members of the Senate
the Eealthiest as well as men who have
little outside their salaries. great orator.
and silent capitalists.
About ninety members of the Hous'
will retire to private life today. Amont
| them are 4 group of men who's
names have been familiar in Wash
ington news dispatches for years and
a bunch of 'one-termers." who arr
still unknown. Representative Barth
| oldt. OF Missouri. a Republican, ant
Representative Bartlett, of Georgia
each wind up a career of twenty year.
in Congress Representatives Bird Nc
CURE, of oklahoma: Frederick c
Stevens. of Minnesota. and James II
| Burke. of Pennsylva mia. are other old
, timers who will return to the repose
of private life.
Representative Oscar W. Underwood. OF
Alabama, and Representative Robert F,
! Broussard. of Louisiana. will transfer
their belongings from the House to the
Senate. closing long careers in the lower
| branch.
Tired Of the "Game."
OF the nine leaving the Senate only
| three were candidates for reelection.
| Crawford. of South Dakota: Bristow. OF
| Kansas. and Thornton. of Louisiana, all
| SouSnt denomination ana Idlleu III TIE
pariaries. The other siX-Root. of New
| York: Burton of Ohio: Camden. of Ken
| lucky: Perkins, OF California: Stephen
| son, OF Wisconsin. and White. OF West
Virginia-were not candidates for re-
election.
In Root and Burton the Senate loses
two of its ablest debaters and coun-
sellers. Both tired of the game" Bur-
| ton had planned to be q candidate. nut
when opposition developed and politicians
| began making demands upon him he told
them he would not enter into a scramble
| to he indicated for his services to the
State So he quit. He will leave this
month on a years trip around the world.
during which he will write a series of
articles on social and economic condi-
| tions as he finds them in South America.
Australia. New Zealand, China and
Japan. Meanwhile his friends have taken
up his name for the Presidency and are
actively at work to promote his candi-
dacy for the Republican nomination.
Root Past seventy.
Senator Root. in leaving the Senate, re-
moves from that body the ablest lawyer
and most skilled diplomatist i'm Congress.
His most conspicuous service in the SEN
ate has been as a member of the For.
eign Relations Committee. Like Burton.
he has been n consistent advocate of in
ternational peace. Mr.. Root is few
days past seventy. lie has had re-
markable official career experimenting an
unusually distinguished professional ca
reer in the law. AS a Secretary OF War
he brought about reforms that still stand
as a monument to his public service If
he had never done anything else. In the
State Department he was quite as eff
Gent and won even greater distinction
along entirely new lines of action.
Relieved of his duties i'm Washington
Mr. Root will turn for at least the next
six months to the task of revising the
New York State constitution. There is
reason to believe that he will continue
to be found taking a most active part in
public life and especially in the reor-
ganization and rehabilitation Of the Re-
publican party.
Don't Know Their Wealth.
The two richest men in the Senate in
cIuded among the departing nine are
Stephenson. Of Wisconsin. and Camden.
of Kentucky. The story of their wealth
may be told in two words. lumber and
coal" Stephenson is the oldest Senator.
He will be Sc next June. Camden is
the youngest Neither knows exactly
what he is worth. for his holdings are
in undeveloped natural resources. the
value of which is yet to be definitely de-
terrnined.
II am glad to get away" said the ven-
cradle Senator Stephenson yesterday. II
do not like the service in the Senate.
aside from the fine associations. II has
cost me $4,000 to remain In public life
would have resigned three years ago.
but they made war on me and I never
quit under fire. Young man. YOU cannot
get me to talk much for the newspapers.
7 bought a newspaper once at some
body's suggestion. It has cost me $780,
0o0 already. / do not like to give up any
game that ] start. but it is evident that
know more ahout.lumber than about the
newspaper business. n you would offer
TO give me any other big paper. I would
say Shoe fly"
Crawford a Rainmaker.
With the passing of Bristow the Sem
ate will lose a picturesque figure. The
most aggressive Of the band of Pro-
gressives. Bristow had qualities that
everybody i'm politics thought would
land him easily again in the Senate
when his reelection was contested. He
remained in Washington at work on
the currency bin and then learned, to
his surprise. that he had been beaten
and that. too. by a 'reactionary." Eris-
tow's friends shared his optimism and
The prim~ry vote was very light. Bris-
tow himself has not worried. He has
been appointed a member OF the Kansas
Railway Commission by Gov. Capper
and will find official activities to his
liking. He has a newspaper and can be
active in many ways.
Coe / Crawford came into Office as
a Progressive. He has behind him a
record as governor of South Dakota.
He was impaled on the spear of a re-
election.
Crawford had the reputation Of be-
ipg able to talk louder and throw
more energy in his speeches than any
other man who ever talked in the Sem
ate. In South Dakota. years ago.
when Crawford first entered politics a
man named Dyrenforth. who was ex-
perimenting with high explosives in
the air on the theory that he could
bring rain by creating a noise. was
quite the vogue in the West In one
of his political speeches Crawford
fairly shook the building denouncing
the Democratic party.
whats that Teller tryin' to do"
asked a farmer, pausing as he over
heard the commotion.
Its Coo Crawford trying to make
a speech" was the reply.
ugh. I thought he was trying to
make rain" observed 81. as he passed
on. Since then Mr.. Crawford has been
known colloauially as ..the rain max
ing Senator"
Two able lawyers leave the Senate
in the departure of Thornton and
White The former was chief fuaftce