The weekly soliphone., 1916-12-08
MANY CHANGES
AMONG SllLONS

Washington, Dec. 4.-Seventeen
members Of the senate and 70-odd |
lame duck members of the house
today began their final Legislative
duties. When the spotlight fades
March on the aixty-fomtn con-
gress. they will gather up their
togas and start for home and pri-
lvate citizenship.
These "lame ducks" are those
the populace turned thumbs down
upon in the last election. Their
Iservice ranges anywhere from lit
tie less than a year in the case of
Senator Tom Taggart of Indiana, toI
22 years in the cases Of Senator
Clarence d. Clark of Wyoming and
Representative Sparkman of Flori-I
Ida, Clark ranking third in point Of
service in the senate and Sparkman
fourth in continuous service in theI
house
Prehaps the most conspicuous
figure in the line up Of the pros
pective has-beens is Senator John
w. Kern. one time candidate for
vice president and senate democrat
lie floor leader and chairman of
the powerful committee on privi-
Ieees. He went to make way for
Harry s. New, senator-elect from
Indiana with James e. CJim) Wat
son, former whip Of a recently re
publican house, who brought to an
untimefy end the senatorial service
of tom" Taggart.
w. L. Kirby of Arkansas will sue
coed the late Senator Clarke, who
died during the summer. Senator
Chiffon of West Virginia, well
known here for his interest in blood
ed horses as we'll as for his legi5-
lative activities, will make way for
Representative Howard Sutherland,
republican, who fought his way
from the house to the senate in two
sessions
Senator Johnson of Maine car
ried to the senate on the democrat
ic tide of 1910, will be succeeded
next congress by Frederick H3le,
son of the late senator from Maine.
The defeat of Senator Blair Lee
of Maryland sealed two political
fates for the present. He was de
feated in the primaries by Repre-
sentative David ]. Lewis Father
:, Lewis of the parcel post. Lewis in
turn was defeated by a republican
DR.. Joseph /. France.
Another of the old-timers listed
among the missing at the next SEES
sion will be Senator Dupont of Del
aware DUPONT is succeeded by
ID. O. Wolcott, democrat.
Four men among the new ones
are of particular interest. Philan-
der c. Knox, former secretary of
; state and former senator, will re-
place Senator Oliver, republican al
so-in the limelight last session
when he was accused of having big
war bride holdings. He was not a
, candidate for reelection. Peter
Goelet Gerry of the upper strata
of Newport, and a democrat, will
succeed Senator Lippitt of Rhode
Island, republican.
Political interest will center on
Frank B. Kellogg busting
Kellogg of some years bacl,-for-
mer governor and senator-elect from
Minnesota to succeed Senator Clapp,
also republican,; and Senator-elect
Hiram Johnson of California-suc-
ceeding Senator Works, likewise re-
publican, not candidate for re-
3 election. OF Kellogg and Johnson
there is talk that they won't line
up with the hard shelled republ
cans unless the lining up is done on
their side of the street.
The other senators now in their
last session, with their successors,
are:
MARITIME of New Jersey, demo-
crat, succeeded by j. S. Frelinghuy-
sen. republican,; O'Gorman of New
York, democrat, not n candidate,
succeeded by Calder, republican,;
Catron of New Mexico, republican,
not a candidate, succeeded by An
dreus A. Jones, democrat, present
assistant secretary of the interior,
and Sutherland of Utah, republican,
defeated by William II. King, dem
ocrat.
The house, by grace of the chang
ling favor of the country, lost its
two most picturesque members and
gained another who bids fair to sur
pass in popular interest and on rec
ord.
"Cyclone" Davis, foe of rum and
preparedness and friend of prOhibi-
ton and flannel shirts, will make
room for another democrat from
TeXas-Daniel Il. Garrett, Davis,
with flowing whiskers and CONVEX
sation, gained n measure of fame
when in the Congressional Record
a4o4o1 ,,rac not -