Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
SENATE SHAKEN
BY ELECTIONS
Popular Vote RELOCATED Stand
patters and Returned Many
Radicals

Washington, Nov. %. Passing o.
Senators who represented the old sys
tenn of election of State Legislature.
and their replacement by men elected
directly on popular vote is expected
to work extreme changes ii the upper
house of Congress. Many Washing.
ton observes expect it's reorganization
next March will bring it more respon.
sive to the public pulse.
Greatest among the surprises was
the defeat of Henry f.. Reppett, OF
Rnode Island, who inherited his
politics from Aldrich, by Peter Goelet
Gerry. who has already served a term
in the lower house Gerry worked
and to the surprise of his party and
himself. captured the election. Mr.
Gerry is a social favorite of Wash
1ngton and will be the youngest mem
Der OF the next Senate, having been
born September IS, 1879. Although
rlch and conspicuous in society here
and at Newport, Mr.. Gerry also took
great interest in politics. His wife
was Miss Townsend, of Washington. a
granddaughter of the late William l..
Scott of Erie.
Another surprise came in the defeat
OF John w. Kern, of Indiana, Demo-
cratic floor leader. For this vacant
position next March it is not unlikely
that Willard Salisbury of Delaware,
whose term of service does not expire
until March 8, 1910, will be chosen.
His conspicuous service on the cam
palgn committee has earned his party's
gratitude, to say nothing of his ad-
mitted fitness for the position.
The Democrats will control the next
senate by majority of twelve. Walsh,
of Montana, and Cham berlain, of
oregon, are the only other contest
ants for the leadership. The one otner
position to be filled is that of presi-
dent of the Senate pro tempore, a
position held by the late James P.
Clarke, of Arkansas. Salisbury has
already been talked of for this posi-
ton but Pomerene, of Ohio, is also a
candidate.
One of the original Progressives
passes into private life with the con-
vening of the next Congress-Senator
Moses E. Clapp, Minnesota, who fail
ed of the Republican nomination
which he sought last May, and Frank
lin b. Kellogg comes to the Senate in
his place.
trust busting as Assistant ATTORNEY
General, as special counsel for the
government in the cases against the
paper trust, the Standard Oil and the
Hartman railroads, he won a national
reputation.
AnotneT IruSt-DuSter also enters
the next Senate. Philander C. Knox,
who has already had a seat in that
body. won the first great suit under
the Sherman antitrust law - the
Northern Securities case returns as
the junior Senator from PENNSYLVANIA.
with more pronounced ideas for gov
ernmental reforms than he had in
1904. Mr.. Knox, along with Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, may be expected
to assume a leading part in shaping
the nations foreign and domestic
policies. Others of the old system who
become ex-Senators are Thomas Tag
CART. Democratic boss of Indiana: Will
liam e. Chiffon, of West Virginia; !;
George Sutherland of Utah, and David
J. Lewis of Maryland. Sutherland is
to be succeeded by William II. King.
whose election gives the Mormon
church its second representative in the
Senate, the other being Reed Smoot
the senior Senator from Utah.
The Republicans have one live Pro-
gressive in Governor Hiram w. John
son, of California. Mr.. johnson is not
of a type to be suppressed by tradi-
tions. and he is sure to figure con-
spicuously in Senate debates during
the next six years.
Among the other new faces in the