Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-08
Friendship With President to
Give Massachusetts Lead
er Status of white
House, Representative
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
Copyright. 1924, by the Consolidated Pres
ssociation-Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal

to The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-While all
the election returns are not yet in,
enough has been heard from the
great open spaces to indicate that
WaShins ton is to have i mig1rv in
terestinG new crop Of senators after
March 4, next.
No less than three Of the new
solons are veterans of the World
war. One of the wounded III &C.
ton and possibly destined TO be
"missiua also is a World war vet
eran-Colonel Brookhart, of Iowa.
The count may yet show that the
colonel has been defeated by young
fellow who enlisted in the late UNI
pleasantness as a private and came
out captain.
In point of long and distinguished
public service the new crop OF elder
statesmen naturally is headed by
Fred II. Gillett, of Massachusetts,
who graduates from the house uf rep.
resentatiVes after sixteen cOnSecu-
tives terms. or thirty-tWo years as
member Of lAat body---l record
no other member can claim.
He has gone through all the roles
in the houses from cub member to
speaker. He has long been the friend
of presidents, and was a constant
golfing companion of Messrs. Taft
and Harding. Mr.. Harding was par
ticularly fcnG of Gillett, although,
on the surface. the two appeared to
have nothing in common-Gillett be-
ing Of a typical New England fam
lily while Harding had the tolerance
and the breadth Of good fellowship
typical of the middlewest.
To Senate at 13
Gillett goes to the senate late in
life. He is seventy three and his
term will continue for six years. A
wiry little fellow, with close clipped,
gray -streaked beard, he carries his
years lightly indeed. If golf has
helped him in that respect it ought
to be taken up by the multitudes.
President Coolidge is tremendously
fond of Gillett in his calm, cool way.
There is no chance that the two
will golf together, but the man from
Massachusetts will be regarded from
the very first as the White House
spokesman in the upper branch Of
congress. He and Mr.. Coolidge have
minds that go along closely together.
Another interesting figure in the
senate is sure to be tom Schall, of
Minnesota, who killed the giant Mag
nus Johnson, and cut short the lat.
ter's picturesque career here in the
national capitol.
Mr.. SchalI is blind He lost his
sight through an electric shock, his
case being one of the strangest on
record.
Mr.. Schali will be the second blind
senator Washington has known, the
ether being Gore, of Oklahoma. He
has been in the house of representa-
tives for five terms, and while a
faithful follower of the G. 0. P, has
had little chance to show initiative.
He has been chairman of the commit
tee on flood control and member of
the committees on alcoholic liquor
traffic, rules and expenditures in the
department of justice. The rules
membership is a particularly en-
Viable one.
Two Natives of Providence
Oddly enough, the election tumble
brings two natives of Providence, r.
l., to the senate at the same time
from widely separated constituencies.
Jessie Houghton Metcalf, who was