Evening star., 1927-03-05
CONGRESS CHANGES
AFFECT g. SEATS.
Eleven Senators and So Rep
reSentatives Leave-Un-
derWood Ends Service.

by tha Associated Press.
Eleven Senators and 53 Representa-
tives, many CT them wheel horses OF
their party organizations, retired to
private life or went to other public
Office with the death of the Sixty-ninth
Congress.
Eight Senate committees lost their
chairmen, while il the House only
two minor committee chairmen re-
tired
Among tue stalwarts of the Senate
to retire was Senator Oscar w. Under
wood, Democrat. Alabama. who closed
"A 30-year career in Congress, where
as Democratic leader IN both the
House and Senate he held the highest
places his party could offer there. He
plans to take things easy in an effort
to regain his health.
G. O. r. Loses Veterans.
The Republicans lost two of their
veterans in Wadsworth of New York
and Lenroot of Wisconsin, who were
defeated for reelection after serving
in the Senate for L. and nine years,
respectively.
1Nadsworth returns to his farm in
New York. while Lenroot will practice
law in Washington.
In the House, Ogden l.. Mills of
New York, powerful factor on the
ways and means committee, went out
of Office to accept the post of Under
secretary Of the Treasury, and J. n.
7incher of Kansas, the largest man
in Congress and a picturesque figure
in the Republican party for years,
will go back home to engage in the
oil business.
Prohibition Leaders Quit.
Other spectacular Representatives
to leave the House were William d.
Upshaw, Democrat, Georgia, and John
Phillip Hill. Republican, Maryland,
who respectively represented probably
the most outspoken views for and
against prohibition in Congress. Up
shaw, who was defeated for renonina-
ton, will go on the Chautauqua plat
form, while Hill. who failed to win a
Senate nomination, will retire to his
Baltimore home to watch the prOhibi
ton battle from the side lines.
OF the II new Senators listed to pre-
sent their credentials, were drawn
from the ranks of the House. They
are Elmer Thomas. Democrat, Okla
homa, who unseated Harreld, Repub-
lican; Carl Hayden, Democrat, Ari-
zona, who unseated Cameron, Repub-
lican: Alben Barkley, Democrat, Ken
lucky, who will succeed Ernst, Repub-
lican; William S. Ware, Republican,
Pennsylvania, elected to replace Pep
per, also Republican, and Millard E.
Tydings. Democrat. Maryland, who de-
feated Weller, Republican.
Newcomers i'm Senate.
The other seven include Frank l..
Smith. Republican. Illinois. who was
named to replace the late Senator Nc
Kinley, Republican; Frederick Steiwer.
Republican, who defeated Stanfleld,
Republican, Oregon: Smith w. Brook
hart. former Republican insurgent
member from Iowa, who will sue
ceed David w. Stewart, Republi-
can,- who served under a governors
appointment. Four strangers to the
Senate will be: John j. Blaine, Re-
publican, Wisconsin, replacing Len
root; Charles w. Waterman. Repub-
lican, Colorado, succeeding Rice w.
Means, Republican; Hugo Black,
Democrat. Alabama, succeeding Tn
derwood, and Robert F. Wagner,
democrat, New York, replacing
chairmen were: Elections, Ernst; In
dian affairs. Harreld; claims, Means;
printing. Pepper; public lands, Stan
neldi military affairs, Wadsworth:
manufacturers, Weller, and public
buildings, Lenroot.
Changes i'm House.
In the House, Representative Scott,
Republican, Michigan, retired as
chairman Of the merchant marine
committee, and Representative
Swoope. Republican, Pennsylvania,
left the head of the pensions com
mittee.
Other members retired who were
long prominent in House affairs were:
Voigt, Wisconsin; Fairchild, New
York; Patterson, New Jersey, and
Keller of Minnesota, all Republicans.
Democrats lost: Lee, Georgia; Carter,
Oklahoma; O'ConneH. Rhode Island,
and Smithwick, Florida. The Farmer
Labor party lost Wefald one of its
two members.