The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-08
NEW FACES IN SENATE
FEW WILL Be MISSED
WEST LOSES ADVOCATE IN RE.
TlREMENT OF CLARK
or WYOMING.

The new senate Will be made up of
AZ republicans and "a democrats,
gain OF one republican over the senate
which is about to expire, and gain
Of two over the senate prior to the
time three vacancies were filled at the |
recent election.
There will be IS new faces in the
rext senate, not counting the three /
senators who took the oath at the be-
ginning of the short session on De-
cember 4. but reckoning them with
the senators about to be sworn In,
the new senate will find in its midst
10 men who were not in the senate
4 prior to the late November election.
Few Will Be Missed.
Among the 16 senators who will re-
tire to private life with the organiza-
ton of the new senate is none who
achieved any particular distinction
during the past six years: few of the
retiring senators will be missed sew
eral will be missed but will not be
nourned None of the big men of
the senate went down to defeat in
November.
Most conspicuous among the retir-
4 ing senator's is Mr. Kern Of Indiana,
conspicuous merely because he has,
for four years been the democratic
floor leader and chairman of the dem
ocratic caucus. As leader, Sena-
tor Kern decidedly failed to make
good" He makes way for republic
can. Harry New.
on the republican side, no retiring
senator attained more notorlety than
Senator Clapp of Minnesota, who was
defeated Tor the nomination, and now
gives way TO Frank Kellogg, who won
renown some years ago as a govern.
ment trust buster Kellogg is today
the better known of the two men, and
is probably the most famous of the
men about to enter upon senatorial
careers. Senator Clapp, in his day,
has made considerable trouble in re-
publican ranks. for he was follower
Of Roosevelt in 1912, and has been not
much of republican since then. He
was. moreover a decided disturbing
element in the senate, and is one OF
those who will be missed but not
mourned.
No Howl for Works.
Nor will there be any howl from
the mourners bench over the depart
llre of Senator Works of California,
senator now famous for his multiple
ity Of swan songs. and for his ill-tem-
pered scolding speeches. delivered at
great length to empty chairs and
equally empty galleries. Senator
Works chief claim to distinction lies
In his authorship of reform legis-
lation for the District of Columbia,
and in his use of the senate floor and
the free mailing privilege for the ex-
ploitation of Christian Science and
his denunciation of the medical pro-
fession. Senator Works makes way
for Hiram Johnson, too well known
to need comment.
The senate Is going to lose Senator
Sutherland OF Utah. but it gains SEN
ator Sutherland from West Virginia.
Both are republicans. Sutherland of
Utah is to be succeeded by demo-
crat, William H. King. once a MEM
her of congress. and Sutherland of
West Virginia displaces democrat,
Senator Chiffon. on the Sutherlands
the senate breaks even. In point of
downright ability, Senator Suther-
land of Utah ranks away above every
other senator who is to retire: his le-
gal attachments are Of an order that
would guarantee him a place on the
supreme bench If republican presi-
dent was coming into office, and he
may land there yet il conte nplated
vacancies occur.
West Loses Friend.
Senator Clark of Wyoming is an
other able senator and able lawyer,
but he had faculty for hiding his
light under a bushel." a fact that
helped bring about his defeat. In the
retirement of Senator Clark. the west
will lose a good friend, for since the
death of the late Senator Hepburn of
Idaho, there has been no man in the
senate more obstinate in opposing the
theories OF Clifford Pinchot than Sen
ator Clark and none more forceful in
the advocacy of legislation which will
turn loose the resources of the west
and open IN an era of development.
Senator Clark gives way to Governor
Kendrick. a democrat
Two of the retiring senator's can
charge their defeat to the opposition
of the administration. Senator Mar
tine of New Jersey and Senator
O'Gorman of New York. Ii was
Woodrow Wilson, as governor of New
Jersey. who forced the election of
MARITIME to the senate, and it was
Woodrow wilson as president, six
years later, who so opposed MARITIME
as TO make certain the election OF a
republican in his stead.
Wilson Defeats MARITIME.
Although MARITIME owed his election
TO Wilson. he maintained that he was