The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-12

Washington, July 1.-THE next
congress is going to be a totally diff
| is now perspiring, swearing and wrest-
| ling with the bonus and tariff tangle
! thru these sultry weeks of a Wash
1 ington summer.
That much already is assured by
developments to date. regardless of
what the whimsical voter decides to
do in November.
The leaders of the present congress,
who have been attacked as leaders
| of other congresses seldom have been,
| are going. Some of 'em are already
gone. Familiar figures around the
| legislative halls of congress for the
last two decades will disappear after
| this session, and the frosty winds of
November promise to bring a new
! deal all around at Capitol hill.
Some of them have been cut down
in primaries already held; some will
! suffer the same fate in the primaries
yet to come; others will in all proba-
| bility feel the ak of popular displeas-
ure in November. and still others have
| gone out via the retirement route.
Seldom has an off year in politics
| witnessed SO many upsets and changes
as this year. The best laid plans have
| gone awry. long political shots have
| come home. and favorites have been
beaten. And this is only July. with
| the primaries not half completed
! House Rejecting Changes.
The house already is reflecting the
changes. Frank w. Mondell. of Wyom-
ing, the Republican leader, who has
seen twenty-siX years service, is re-
firing. He win try to come back to
| Washington, tho in the senate. He
will seek the Republican senatorial
nomination in wyoming on August p.
| Should he be successful there he will
have a stiff fight on his hands in No
vember against John B. Kendrfck, the
sitting Democratic senator from Wyo-
ming.
In some political quarters in Wash
lington it is said that Mondell has little
chance of beating a man of Hendricks
| strength next fall. even should he get
by the primaries, but Mondell thinks
he has. Kendrick is a cattleman, born
and bred, and he has a big following
in the state. He was elected governor
in 1914 and served until he resigned
to come to the senate in 1917.
Republicans Retain Control
Who will succeed Mondell as ma
/ jority leader in the house is q question
that already is causing considerable
agitation-for it is assumed that the
Republicans will retain control of the
Hover branch.
There are plenty of candidates
James r. Mann. Of Illinois; Sidney
Anderson, of Minnesota; Martin B.
Madden, of the same slater Philip
| Campbell, of Kansas; Joseph Walsh.
] of Massachusetts, are a Few OF them
all this, of course, being contingent
upon those named being Reelected
| Joseph w. Fordney, of Michigan,
chairman of the all-powerful ways
/ and means committee, author OF
tariff and a bonus bill at this session,
is retiring, and this highly priced post
| ton will go to William R. Green, OF
Iowa, unless Green should unexpect-
| eddy be defeated.
| Fordney is retiring because he is
| tired of congress and of Washington.
He has been in Congress for twenty
/ four years consecutively; he is
| wealthy, he is sixty-nine, and he says
/ he wants to spend some time with his
family in his old age.
His friends say he is a disguised
1 and disappointed man after twenty
| four years service. His bonus bill
future uncertain; his tariff bill was
| rewritten in the senate, and its prin-
cipal feature, the American valuation
| scheme, was eliminated entirely.
| Many Defeats Loom.
Many other members of the house,
| whose-names figures less conspicuously
in the days news, will be missing next
| session. Copley and Ireland, of Illi-
| nois, two prominent members of the
present house, with considerable serv-
ice behind them, already have been
defeated.
Over on the senate side the changes
will be scarcely less conspicuous.
| Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of
/
1 leader, will almost certainly return.
/ his friends say, now that Samuel w.
Mccall, his Republican political foe
| in Massachusetts, has decided not to
contest the primaries with him.
Other changes, however, will be
notable. Boies Penrose, the over
shadowing figure at the start of this
session, is no more, and his successor
in the powerful chairmanship of the
finance committee, Senator Porter J.
McCumber of North Dakota fell in
the primaries of North Dakota a few
days ago-a victim of the Eonparti-
san League, after twenty-four years
continuous service in the senate.
| The diminutive but commanding
figure of PhiIander C. Knox also is
| gone. Senator Knox was an out
standing figure in the early part of
the present session
Senator Harry S. New of Indiana
recognized from the start of the ses-
sion as an administration spokesman
in the senate, likewise fell a victim
to popular disapproval in the pri-
maries, and in ali probability Albert J.
Beverage will come to Washington as
his successor.
i Brookhart New Member.
The brilliant Kenyon of Iowa will
be gone. He resigned to accept a
federal judgeship; and his success.
TRY TO succeed himself. In his place
doubtless win come Smith w. Brook
hart, proclaimed in advance as a leg
islator of the La Toilette type.
/ The spectacular "Jim' Reed may
be among the missing next session.
He is having the fight OF his life in
1 the Democratic primary in Missouri
against Breckenridge Long and, If sue
cessful in this fight, must win again
in November in order to come back.
The volatile John Sharp williams,
of Mississippi, last of the old-style
Southern statesmen, Will be missing.
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ltwenty-eight years of congressional
service, sixteen in the house and
twelve in the senate. There is a
strong possibility that John Sharp