The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-01
NEW LINEUP NEXT SESSION
 OF CONGRESS
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

Crrespndence) In the next congress there will be seventeen new senators, as result of the November elections. The seventeen will be nearly one-fifth of the entire membership of the sen ate, and is an almost unprecedented number following one of the biennial elections, on which always one-third of the senate seats are contested for Usually there are not as many as sev- enteen new senators following any congressional election. One reason the number is so large in the next congress is because of the almost un- precedented political landslide last November.
 Four of the new senators are Demo- crats and thirteen are Republicans. Ten of the new Republican senators will take seats captured from Demo- cratic senators in the November cleo tions, and three of the new senators take seats vacated by Republicans who were either defeated in the prim- ary elections or voluntarily retired from congress, like Senator Sherman, of Illinois, or Senator Harding, presi- dent-elect. Senator Gronna or North Dakota, was defeated for reelection by pr. E. F. Ladd. Senator Willis succeeds President-elect Harding, and William Mckinley, now member of the house, succeeds that old Republi- can warhorse Senator Sherman Is vol untarily retiring from the senate be- cause of deafness. He will be missed in the senate because no member of that body is a better speaker or bet ter liked than the Illinois senator. His speeches, bristling with sarcasm, have for several years been the chief at. fractions in the usually dull routine of the senate, When Sherman spoke the people crowded the galleries and even the wearied newspapermen crowded in the press gallery to see the show, for it always was a show enjoyed by everybody.
 Senator Willis, who succeeds Senat- or Harding, is former governor of Ohio, and served in the house from 1911 to 1914. MT. Willis nominated Senator Harding at the Chicago con- vention and those who heard him speak to the 15,000 people in the con vention auditorium, with his great stentorian voice, know that when he talks in the senate the rafters will ring and the sleepy doorkeeper will wake up.
 pr, Ladd has quite reputation as scientist and has been for years president of the North Dakota agricul- tural college He defeated Gronna as a candidate of the non-partisan league. Ladd is said to be known all over the world as a chemist. He is par ticularly strong with the farming class. Most of his interests in the senate will be along that line, but the new senator is interested in many other things besides agriculture.
 Senator Heflin, of Alabama, q Democrat, is already in the senate. He is filling the unexpired term of the late Senator Bankhead ~Heflin is a great story teller and also something of a souther nfire-eater. Some years of a southern fire-eater. Some years ago he shot at negro on a Washing throw off the car. But his marksman- ship was so poor that he hit a bystand- CT on the other side of Pennsylvania avenue rom" Heflin will undoubted- ly enliven the proceedings of the sen ate with many an anecdote and story.
 rom" Watson, of Georgia, who de- feated Hoke Smith for senate seat, is another southern Democrat with reputation as an orator and story tell CT Tom has been Democrat, populist, and then Democrat again. It was little thought in Georgia that he could down the powerful Hoke Smith, who was cabinet officer un- der Cleveland.
 One of the ablest men in the sen ate is O. E. Weller, of Maryland MT Weller made great record as road builder in Maryland and is an all round capable public man.
 Two of the new senators, Republi-