The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-09
MANY new FACES
|NNfXT CONGRESS
Several Familiar Figures
Fade Out of Service
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John Sharp Williams, Senator
Hitchcock and Joe Can
non Among Passing
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Washington, D. c., March A.
Many familiar and distinguished fig =
ures in congress fade out with the
falling of the gravels, marking the
Among them are scalwarts in both
OF the major political parties.
From the senate will disappear
sucn personages as John Sharp Will
mans, OF Mississippi, democratic
war horse, with thirty years in con-
sress, Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, OF Ne
Draska, and Atlee Pomerene, of
Ohio, democratic administration
leaders in the memorable Senate
~ugnt over the Treaty OF Versailles.
Missing from the republican side
viii be Porter J. McCumber, Of
North Dakota, whose service record
been chairman OF the powerful nm
ance committee since the death of
Boies Penrose; Harry S. New, of
indiana, close personal friend OF
President Harding, and Frank b.
kellogg, of Minnesota, an admins
tration leader and famous as pros
ecutor or trusts before he answered
the call TO national legislative ser
vice.
CuibcrSon o Retire
Along with these will go the vet
eran senator from Texas, Charles S.
Culberson; Joseph 5. Frelinghuysen,
al friend of the President; Carroll
5. Page, of Vermont; Miles Poin-
dexter, of Washington, who becomes
ambassador to Peru; Charles Z.
Townsend, of Michigan; William NJ
Calder, of New York; Howard Suth.
erland, of West, Virginia; Joseph l..
France, of Maryland, and Henry L.
Myers, OF Montana, who like Sena-
tors Williams and Page. retires vol
UNFAIRLY.
The house is to lose a number OF
members whose length of service
had caused them to become regard
ed almost as fixtures. Among them
are prominent republican party
managers, including Frank w. Mon
dell, Of Wyoming, who has served
exactly a quarter Of a century, and
Phillip p. Campbell, of Kansas,
chairman Of the all powerful rules
committee.
Fordney Steps Out
A quaint character who will be
known no more to the legislative
halls is Joseph W. Fordney, Of
Michigan, chairman Of the ways and
SO4li1itlCCr anu Joiht nolhoA
with Senator McCumber of the new
tariff law. With twenty four years
of service, Mr.. Fordney goes out OF
his own volition, planning to devote
his time to breeding blooded cattle
on his farm in Michigan.
Gone, too, but not to be forgotten,
at least in this generation, will be
Andrew j. Volstead, of Minnesota,
chairman of the judiciary committee,
and author of the most discussed
law ever placed on the American
Minnesota member who goes out
with him is Halvor Stevenson, chair
. man OF the postoffice committee.
But the most picturesque among
all the retiring house members is
Uncle Joe" Cannon, of Illinois: Few
men who have served in Congress
have been the storm center. Uncle
Joe" was in the heydey Of his
power as speaker of the house. Once
the voters Of his district retired him
temporarily, but having established
worlds record for legislative SER
vice-forty years-he goes out this
time Of his own free will to make
way, as he has put it, for younger
man. .....
Berger Succeeds Stafford
William H. Stafford, of Wisconsin,
one of the closest students of cur
rent legislation and long a thorn in
the side OF members seeking ap-
preparations for pet home projects
also retires. He will give way to
Victor Berger, who will be the only
congress, Meyer London, of New
York, the single socialist in this
congress, having failed of reelection.
Congress also will lose its single
dare devil aviator'-self- styled
: representative Manuel Herrick, of
Oklahoma, who, in swan song, an
nounced that he was one congress
sional lame duck" who would re-
frain from "quacking around the
presidents corn crib"
Two Of the three women members
Of the house also end their service.
They are Miss Alice M. Robertson.
Of Oklahoma, and Mrs. Winnifred
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 her
late husband, John !. Nolan, Of Cali
fornia.
Committee Heads Give Up Places
Many committee chairman also are
to give up their places in the 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. Other chairman are
Clifford Ireland Of Illinois: Commit
tee on Accounts; Isaac Sefgel, OF
New York, Census Committee: Ben =
jamin X. Focht, of Pennsylvania
District OF Columbia Committee, and
William F. Andrews, of Nebraska
committee on election of president
and vice president.
Among other retiring members
are c. Bascom Slemp. the one Re-
publican from Virginia, who goes
out voluntarily; William A. Roden
berg. Of Illinois, who also quit of his
own selection after eighteen years
William w. Rucker, of Missouri
who has been in the house twenty
four wears. and Thomas U. Sisson,
of Mississippi, whose length of-ser-
vice is fourteen years.
These are only a comparatively
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