The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-05
NEW FACES TO
BE SEEN IN
NEXT CONGRESS
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"dare devil aviator" - self-styled -
Representative Manuel Herrick, o,
Oklahoma, who, in swan song, an
nounced tlat he was one congress
sional "lamc duck" who would re
frain from "quacking around thu
Presidents corn crib
Two of the three women member:
of the House also end their service
ThcY arc Miss Alice M. Robertson
cf Oklahoma, and Mrs. Winnifrec
Mason Huck, Of Illinois. Thus Mrs
Mae Ellen Nolan remains as the one
woman member Of the new Congress
She fills the place long held by hei
late husband, John |. Nolan, of Cal
ifornla.
Many committee chairmen also are
to give up their places in tne House
Patrick H. Kelley, Of Michigan, who
has drawn the naval appropriation
bills in the last few years, goes out.
Like Mr.. Mondell he sought seat
in the Senate. Otner chairmen are
Clifford Ireland, of Illinois; Commit
tee on Accounts; Isaac Seigel, of New
York, Census Committee; Benjamin
X. Focht, of Pennsylvania, District
Of Columbia Committee, and William
T.. Andrews, of Nebraska, Commit
tee on Election of President and
Vice President.
Among other retiring members are
ire c. Bascom Slcmp, the one Re-
publican from Virginia, who goes out
voluntarily; William A. Rodenberg
of Illinois, who also quit Of his own
selection after eighteen years; Will
liam w. Rucker of Missouri, who
1as been in the House "a years, and
I'll omas u. Ssson, Of Mississippi
whose length of service is fourteen
years.
These are only comparatively
Few Of the small army of national
legislators which marches from Of
fees. While some go voluntarily,
the cold records show that the No
vember 1922. election took a greater
toll Of congressional membership
than any held in recent years. not
excluding that Of 1920 which was
marked by a great Republican land
slide. In all 140 members Of the
House and Senate give up their
places. as compared with the 129
members of the Sixtv-sixth Congress
who retired two years ago.
Actually 1877 members of the
House will sever their connections
with that body. but two Of these
Simon d. Fess. of Ohio, and Frank
L. Greene. Of Vermo ont. will become
rnedinc Senator Pomorene. and Mr.
Greene taking the place Of Senator
Pace
The Rorrhlicans are the harde st
hit ', both houses Tn the next SEN
ntn 'hnre will he E2 Rerrhlicans and
do DOM orrate with one independent
AGAINST 80 Rnnuhicans and 81
Do~,oc~nts whom the present Senate
was o~"anivad two wears ago. The
~o~r ~erkod chnnrn. however. will
he in the Honsp where the Ranub-
lcan majority of 16S will be reduced
to eigA4eeh.
Of all the state delegations, the
greatest change will be in that from
New, York, with twenty new mem
bers, of whom fifteen will be Demo
Gratis. The change in this delega-
ton alone is as great as that in the
whole of the "Solid" South.
Missouri returns only tive of its
present delegation, the new mem
Ders including ten Democrats and
one Republican. There will be six
new faces in the New Jersey delega-
ton, five Of the new members being
Democrats. West Virginia will send
in four new members, all DEMOCRATS,
and Oklahoma five, four of them
Democrats.
There will be fourteen new rep
resentatives from Pennsylvania, six
of them Democrats, while Nebraska
will have five new members, three
of them Democrats. The other DEM
ocratic gains We're scattering over
the country from New Hampshire
to Oregon, six of these being in
Ohio, which elected solid Repub-
lican delegation two years ago.
James A. Gallivan and Peter F..
Tague, Of Massachusetts,, no longer
will stand out as the sole Demo-
cratic Representatives from the whole
of new England. They will be
Joined in the new Congress by four
of their party, Patrick B. O'Sullivan,
of Connecticut; Jeremiah E. O'Con-
nell, Of Rhode Island; William N.
Rogers, of New Hampshire, and Will
liam p, COnncry, Jr, of Massachu-
:etts.