Evening journal., 1921-03-05
l28 new FACES
in THE HOUSE
Majority Were Caught in
Republican Tidal Wave
Last Fall
MANY CHANGES
ALSO IN SENATE

WASHINGTON, March 5.-when
gavels announcing adjournment of
the sixty-zxth Congress fell in the
Senate and House at noon yesterday
12S members of the two bodies were
retired to private life. Most of them
were defeated for recollection, a few
declined to run again. but the great
majority were caught in the Re
publican tidal wave that swept
through the country last November.
The number of retiring states
men was 129, but former Speaker
Champ Clark, who died three DAYS
ago, was retired by death, instead
OF adjournment sine die. and so 1928
Representatives and Senators went
out yesterday afternoon.
Maryland's delegation had four
lame ducks" The veteran Senator
John Walter Smith was one of the
Smiths defeated last fall. The next
Senate will have but one Smith
Ellison D.. OF South Carolina. SEN
ator Hoke Smith. of Georgia; SEN
ator Marcus A. Smith. Of Arizona,
and Senator Smith. OF Maryland,
were all bowled over at the last
election.
The fortunes OF politics also re-
tired Representatives Coady, Benson
and Andrews. of Maryland. 1t was
so per cent. sweep in a delegation
of six. an unusual hard-luck per-
centage.
The actual number of House mem
bers quitting was 11S, but three of
these-McKinley OF Illinois; Har-
reid, Of Oklahoma, and Caraway, OF
Arkansas-came to the other end
of the Capitol as Senators. Mr.
Caraway is a Democrat; Messrs
Mckinley and Harreld are Republi-
ems. The new Senate contains SO
Republicans and 81 Democrats.
The House Republican majority is
undoubtedly unwieldy. Its Republi-
can membership is 301. compared
with 1872 Democrats and one Social
ist The minority has sufficient mem
bers to demand roll calls. but that
is about all
For the second time in it's history
/ TIC AAOheN Will AAtANN a MOAAAdM AMtAiA-
Der, Miss Alice Robertson. of Okla
homa. Miss jeanette Rankin, OF
Montana. who was defeated two
years ago, was its pioneer feminine
member
For the first time in House history
the territory east Of the Mississippi
and north of the Ohio river viii
dominate legislation. Republicans
from that region being in full con-
troll and able TO overcome any com.
bination OF Democrats and Repubh.
cans from the South and West.
Among the prominent Democrats
who retired were: Representativ,
Cordell Hull. Of Tennessee. autho
OF the Income Tax law in 1913
Henry T. Rainey, OF Illinois, rankinl
Democrat on the Ways and Means
Committee. with the exception o
Mr. Kitchin; Scott Ferris. forme
chairman of the Congressional Cam
paign Committee; Representative
Isaac Sherwood, OF Ohio, S5 year
old and the only surviving general o
the Union armies in public life
Carlos Bee, of Texas brother-in-lav
or the reurlnB GoStmasteF-Genera
and Charles H. Randall, OF Cali
fornia. the only Prohibition part.
member OF the House. Randall wa
twice defeated. his first successful
opponent having been killed in al
automobile accident last December
which required a second and specia
election last month.
Twelve Democratic and two Re
publican Senators ended their leg
islauve careers yesterday. The list
in addition TO those already named
included Senator sherman, of iii
nois, who did not run for re-elec
: ton; Chamberlain, OF Oregon
, Gronna, o North Dakota; Thomas
, OF Colorado, and Gore, the blini
Senator from Oklahoma.