Evening star., 1934-01-07
trio OF SENATORS
ARE MAKING DEBUT.
O'Mahoney, Wyoming; Hatch,
New Mexico, and Gibson,
Z Vermont, Are New.
Nv GRACE HENDRICK EUSTIS.

Out of the So Senators only 33 have
been in the Senate chamber more than
six years Three of these SO others are
new this session. Two OF these three
are fresh as primroSeS to senatorial
tangleS.
Joseph C. O'Mahoney, erstwhile First
Assistant Postmaster General, has been
appointed by Gov. Leslie Miller OF
wyoming to fill the unexpired term OF
Senator John B. Kendrick, who died
this Summer. He has acquired wagon
load of committee work. He will serve
on Appropriations Post Ohces and
Roads, Public Lands, Indian Affairs and
Irrigation and Reclamation. These COM
mittees are up his alley and through
them he can well serve the interests OF
his stock-raising constituents, whose
State motto, oddly enough, is Let Arms
Yield to the Gown"
Mr.. OMahoney is natural choice
for Democratic Senator from wyoming.
From 1916. when he moved from
Boulder, Colo, to Cheyenne, he has
walked the correct road toward the
Capitol dome In 1917 he came to
Washington as secretary of Senator
Kendrick. In 1924 he directed the State
Committee when Gov Nellie Tayloe Ross
was elected Governor. In 1929 he was
elected Democratic National Committee
man, and on March 6. 1888, he was
appointed First Assistant Postmaster
General.
Bratton Takes Judgeship.
On June "a, 1898, Democratic Senator
Sam G.. Bratton wrote to Arthur Selig--
man. Governor of New Mexico, and
briefly rendered his resignation from
the Senate. Fellow Senators say ne
was weary of the interminable qulb-
bling of his august colleagues and the
! lethargic state to which the governing
body had sunk and preferred the lucid,
| if dry activities of a Federal judgeshlp.
Gov. Seligman died during the sum
{mer and Gov. Hockenhull, took ms
place. He appointed an old associate
| of his, Carl Hatch, to finish Mr.. Brat
( tons term. Carl Hatch is a dark
J haired. slow-Spoken native OF Kansas,
swho has moved about the Middle West
from the time he was IS until he set
! tied in New Mexico in 1916. He was
| educated in Kansas, Oklahoma and
Tennessee. When he came to New
! Mexico he engaged in law practice. In
:19l7 and 1918 he served as Assistant
Attorney General and in 1923 he was
appointed district judge of the ninth
judicial district of the State. He whip
ped to and fro between this appoint
.ment and private practice until Octo-
ber, 1898, when he resigned to MI the
senatorial vacancy.
Has Many Assignments.
Hatch Is also serving on committees
whose central interest is located in the
fWest Agricultural, Public Lands,
Indian Affairs, Interstate Commerce and
{ Irrigation and Reclamation have been
Smeted out to him. He says, on account
! OF his State, he is particularly interest
ed In agricultural problems. However"
he stated, "all legislation should be
designed for furthering the national re-
covery program
we'll versed in legislation. On October
6, 1893, Senator Porter H. Dale died
and Gov. Stanley c. Wilson appointed
Republican Representative Ernest Will
lard Gibson of Brattleboro to finish the
term.
Mr.. Gibson was born, raised, educated
and has conducted a distinguished
career within the rocky walls OF his
State. He has served steadily in six
consecutive sessions of the House as
Representative at Large. He was cap
itain of infantry during the Mexican
.border trouble He fought in the World
FWar and was promoted to rank OF
colonel of the 172nd Regiment. In
Hantry.
! He is q small man with an agreeable
Grnanner, which considering where he
comes from might be considered
overdose. They like him plenty in Yer
shnont Once, when Mr.. Collidge was
President, Gibson voted for a veterans
approximation over g. presidential veto.
gSo great was the loyalty for the man
.Lmho was said to have been "weaned
Aon a pickle" that when the campaign
ssfor the congressional election took place
tfeeling ran high and bonf1res were built
EaIl over the State decrying this treason.
However, when the votes were counted,
[C.ibeoy, uas In and in To Stay