Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-04
NOTED MEN SOON
TO QUIT CONGRESS
Leaders for Years Will Deliver
valediotories at Coming
Short Session
LAME DUCKS" NUMEROUS
nu a Stnn Correspondcnt

,v,sh,,oto, Dec 4.-Congressiona
't;ons "SS apa over and national lcgiis-
Iotors viii bc here in force Monday lof
tbc ononing of the short session, the lass
of ,bc Sixty sixth Congress. Many OIL
thor, have been here for n week OF
two getting settled in houses ana ho-
t,,s attending committee meetings OF
cleaning IN accumulated corrcsponuehre..
rho ntLers will arrive within the next
forty eight hours.
Congress- in review viii present rev
changes Monday, but many after Martn Ln
4 next. The short session VIII pe
cbicdy noteworthy for its valedictorleSS;;
according to all Indications, for It WI
mark thc passing of some OF the Dig
g%mrcs Of American politics. Among
,bSm are men like Champ Clark whose
names will go down. in history ior
filings done or left undone. Ana along
with these will be noted changes ~
leadership for the tremendous strain
If the war Congress has broken nnmy
man who came to washington ivu ,I
Years ago in the full prime OF hea'th'
President Foremost Example
President Wilson is, of course, the
foremost example of what the war
iii to leaders of American politics,
hmt there are others in Congress who
,.oro bit almost as hard The physical
coIIansc Of members of the Senate and
House has resulted or will result in
almost complete change of leadership,
senator Lodge alone of the four war
Ioodcrs pulled through without break
down or misfortune of some KIND. Even
Senator Lodge is not in robust healtn'
though this may be attributed 10 az.
yancing age as much as to other causes.
In the Senate there will be several az
,cntces. The late Senator Thomas >:
Martin. Of Virginia, was the hrst OF
N" hic leaders to 90. He was the
Democratic leader during the early days
of the war. lie broke down during the
war and died soon after it's conclusion.
JIo was succeeded as Democratic leader
bv senator Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, OF
Nchrosko, who, after conducting the
long drawn out treaty fight, ending in
tbo rejection. of the League of Nations,
was in turn compelled by his physician
n rpIinuuish the rcins of leadership
toward the close of the last session.
and hand them over to Senator Oscar
Underwood, of Alabama.
Noted Figures Retire
Senator John Sharp Williams, of
Mississippi, and Senator Thomas =.
Gore, of Oklahoma are retiring. as Is
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, OF llli-
nos.
Senator Claude A. Swanson, Of Vir-
Cnia, is another figure whose return
Is doubtful. A power in foreign affairs,
sometimes suggested for Democratic
leader, he. too, broke down recently
and may be compelled, by the condition
,Nntf n n
definitely.
In the House other changes are
noted. beginning with James Il.
Mann, of Illinois. whose breakdown
during the war led to his confinement
and absence for more than a year, cost
ing him the speakership Of the House,
the list might be heightened by the ad
dition Of Majority Leader Mondell, Mi
noritv Leader Claude Kitchin, "Uncle
Joe" Cannon and several others Of less
prominence.
Mann q Wounded Veteran
representative Mann will never fully
regain his health, though able to at
tend some Of the sessions of the House.
lie is wounded veteran of legislative
battles. KitChin collapsed following a
speech in the House last spring, suffer
Ing a stroke that laid him up for several
months and even now Compcls him to
exercise extreme caution in attending
to his duties. lie experienced a. Sec
Ond attack this week while on a call
at one of the government departments
and probably will be unable to as
sumo the leadership of the Democratic
side of the House when the new Con-
gr"SS meets next spring, position to
which he would be entitled by reason
Of tho retirement Of Champ Clark.
"Cncle Joe" Cannon didn't break