Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-01-09
I new SENATORS
WILL Be SEATED
IN NEAR FUTURE
POLITICAL LANDSLIDE LAST FALL
GIVEN As CAUSE FOR MANY
CHANGES.
ny ". T. JONES.
Staff CORRESPONDENT,

WASHINGTON. ID. G.. Jan. Sin
the next congress there viii he seven.
teen new senator's. as result of the No
veniber elections The seventeen VIII
he nearly onc.fifth of the entire mem.
bcrshlp of the senate. and In an almost
unprecedented number following one Of
the biennial elections. on which always
one-thlrd II the senate seats are con.
tested for. Usually there are not as
many M seventeen new senators FOL
lowing any congressional election. ono
reason the number II NO large In the
next congress is because ~ the almos,
unpreccndented political landslide last
November
Four of the new senators are demo
~ the new republican senators will take
seats captured from democratic scna.
tors In the November elections and three
of the new senators take seats vacatcti
, by republicans who were either defeat.
I'd In the primary elections or volun.
tarily retired from congress. like Sen.
ator Sherman of Illinois or Senator
Harding. presidentelcct Senator Gron.
na. ~ North Dakota. was defeated fot
reelection by Or. r =. Iadd. Senator
Willis succeeds President. Elect Harding.
and William Mckinley. now n member
of the house. succeeds that old repuh.
ilcan warhorse senator Sherman who
II Voluntarily retiring from the senate
because of dcafness. lie viii be missed
N the senatc because no member of
that body II n better speaker or better
liked thar the Illinois senator. Hts
speeches. bristiing with sarcasm. have
for scveral years been the chief atirac.
tions In the usually dull routine of tho
senate. When Sherman spoke the pco
pie crowded the galleries and even IN
weeried newspaper men crowded In ;hH
press gallery 10 aee the show. for u ~.
ways was n show enjoyed by everybody
Senator Willis. who succeeds Senn
Ohio. and served In the house from 1911
10 1914. Mr.. Willis nominated Senator
Harding nj the Chicago convention and
those who heard him speak 10 the is..
0oo people In the convention auditorium
with his great s,cntorian voice. know
that when he talks In the senate the rat
ters will ring and the sleepy doorkecp'
crs will wake up
DIR I.add has quite reputation as \
scientist and has been for years prcsl
dent q the North Dakota Agricultural
college. lie defeated Cronna rs canil.
date ~ the Non.partlsan League. Iadi
IL said to hc known all over the worii
ss n chemist Ho is particularly strong
with the farming class Most of his In
forests in the senate will be along that
line. hut tho new senator ~ interested
In many other things besides agricul'
turr.
/ senator 5,oflin. ~ Alabama. = dcmo'
crat II already In the senate. lie IL Ill
ling tho urcNpircd term II tho late SEN
ato~ Rankhcad. licflin is a great s,cry
teller. and also something 81 South
rrn firc-eatcr. Some years ago he shot
negro on Washington street car that
hc was trying to throw of the car. But
his Workmanship was 40 poor that h.
hit n hvstandcr on the other side n
Pennsylvania avenue. 'Tcm" Heflir
will undoubtedly cnliven the proceed
lings 81 the senate with many an anec
dotc and story.
TON" Watson. oi Georgia. who a.
Icated Hoke Smith for u senate SCAT. u
another southern democrat with a rep
u,atlon as an orator and story teller
Tom" has been a democrat. pcnulis'
and then a democrat again. !, VA
little though, In Georgia that he coul'
down the powerful Hoke Smith. vh
was a cabinet officer under Cleveland
one of the ahlcst new men In the scn
ate l. u r. Weller, ct Maryland Nj
Weller made a great record as roa
huild,r In Maryland and In an ail roun
carabie public man.
Two os the new senator's republican,
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