The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-14
FLORIDlAlgS IN
CONGRESS PLAN
HOMECOhlNCS
Members in Congress From This
State Will All Leave WASH
ingt0n in Near Future.
SEN ATORS WILL
RETURN AT ONCE
Fletcher and Trammell Expected
to Leave Capital in Few Days.
Congressman Go.
Washington Bureau,
Psnsacoia journal.
BY GEORGE n. MANNING.

BY GEORGE n. MANNING.
Washington. March lathe Florida
!, members of congress- have left WASH
ington for their homes or are going
home very soon to remain, most OF
them, until the extra session Is called.
The first Of the delegation to leave
was Congressman Herbert J.. Drane,
who left for Tampa the day congress
adjourned. Mr.. Drane has been quite
Ill for some time, being under the care
OF specialist in addition to his fam
lily physician. He intends to take a
long rest and be in good shape and
ready for business when the new ses-
sion meets.
He was closely followed by Con-
gressman J. HI. Smithwick, the new
representative from the third district
and by Walter Kehoe. whose seat he
took in the house. 4f. Smithwick. af-
ter spending the last week OF the ses-
sion about the capital making ac-
quaintances and studying the proce-
dure left for Pensacola to spend a
month I'm winding up some OF his bus
mess affairs. He expects to return to
Washington early in April to remain
until the opening of the session. He
left his secretary. Sam Sanborn. be-
flee building and will keep his office
continually open here to attend to the
many wants of his constituents.
Congressman William J. Sears, Of
the fourth district. after remaining
here three or four days attending to a
number of matters for his constitu-
ents before the various federal depart
ments, left at Kissimmee. Congressman
his home in Kissimmee. CQuereaamau.
Sears intends to travel All over his
district in the three months hefoRe
congress Is again called into session
and meet a lot Of the people whom he
has never seen afthoNgh he has ren..
resented them in congress Tor two
years. In the two years Mr.. Sears has
been in the house congress has been
in almost continual session preventing
him from spending much time in his
district or meeting his people.
Clark Remains.
Congressman Frank Clark of the
second district Is still here and has not
yet decided on when he will go to
Florida.
The two Florida senator's. Senator
Duncan u. Fletcher and Senator Park
Trammell, are expecting to leave for
Florida soon. Senator Park Trammeil
has not decided on the date OF his
leaving and has no plans for the re-
cess but will go home soon, he says.
Senator Fletcher expects to leave In
about ten days. Immediately after
the adiourning OF congress he went to
New York to meet his daughter, Mrs.
Lionel Smith Gordon. who came to this
country on visit after an absence
OF three or four years. She married
Mr.. Smith Gordon. an Engitshman
and has since been living IN England.
At the end of her visit In about ten
days eSnator Fletcher will leave for
Geneva. Fla, to visit his sister. He
expects to stay there several weeks to
recuperate from the long. hard ses-
sions of congress Of the past Few
wears. Senator Fletcher is on some
important committees in congress ano
the tax on his health has been quite
severe.