The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-04
HEAVY INCREASE IN
 POST OFFICE RECEIPTS

WASHINGTON, March 3.--Heayy increases in postal receipts leads Postmaster General Work to feel the postal service may close the present fiscal year st the end of June with surplus as compared with de- ficit of s60,S00,000 last year. Sales of postage stamps for the first six months of the fiscal year were $3o,- c00,000 more than the same period last year and receipts for January at 50 selected post offices show an in crease of almost S4 100000 over Jan -uary year ago.. Numerous econ omies effected by Postmaster Gen. eral Work are counted on to help prevent a deficit.
 husband. John I. Nolan of California.
 Many committee ehairmen also are to give up their places in the House. Potrick II. Kelly of Michigan. who has drawn the naval appropriation bills in the last few years. goes out. Like MT. Mondell he sought seat in the Senate. Other chairmen are Clifford Ireland of Illinois. commit tee on accounts; Isaac Seigel of New York, census committee; Benjamin K. Focht of Pennsylvania. District of Columbia committee, and William E. Andrews of Nebraska, committee on election of President and Vice Presi dent.
 House Members Retire.
 Among other retiring members are c. Bascom Slemp. the one republican from Virginia, who goes out volun tarily; William A. Rodenberg of H. nois. who also quit of his own se- lection after IS years; William w. Tucker of Missouri. who has been in the House 24 years. and Thomas U. Sisson of Mississippi, whose length of service is 14 years.
 These are only a comparatively few of the small army of national legis- lators which marches from offices. While some go voluntarily, the cold records show that the November, 1922, election took greater toll of congressional membership than any held in recent years, not excluding that of 1920 which was marked by a great republican landslide. In all 140 members of the House and Senate give up their places. as compared with the 129 members of the Sixty sixth Congress who retired two years ago.
 Actually 127 members of the House
 
 body. but two of these, Simon D. Fess of Ohio and Frank>L. Greene of Yer mont, will become members of the Senate. Dr. Fess succeeding Senator Pomerene. and MT. Greene taking the place of Senator Page.
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 Republicans Hard Hit.
 The republicans are the hardest hit in both houses. In the next Sem ate there will be 53 republicans and 43 democrats, with one independent, as against 59 republicans and g. democrats when the present Senate was organized two years ago. The more marked change, however, will be in the House, where the republican majority of 16S will be reduced to IS.
 Of all the state delegations, the greatest change will be in that from New York, k,~with 20 new members. of whom 15 will be democrats. The change in this delegation alone is as great as that in the whole of the solid" south.
 Missouri returns only five of it's present delegation. the new members including 10 democrats and one re- publican. There will be six new faces in the New Jersey delegation, live or the new nemDeTS DelnP demo- crats. West Virginia will send in four new members. all democrats, and Oklahoma, five, four of them democrats.
 There will be IA new representa- tives from Pennsylvania, six of them democrats, while Nebraska will have five new members, three of them democrats. The other democratic gains were scattering over the coun- try from New Hampshire to Oregon, six of these being in Ohio, which elected a solid republican delegation two years ago.
 James A. Gallivan and Peter F. Ia que of massachusetts,, MO longer will stand out as the sole democratic rep rcsentatives from the whole of New England. They will be Joined In the new Congress by four of their party. l Patrick B. O'Sullivan of Connecticut. Jeremiah D. O'Connell of Rhode IBl- and. William N. Rogers of Now Hampshire. and william P. Connery. Jr., of MassachusottR