Evening star., 1934-09-02
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

airy NUMBER OF veteran members OF
the House will be among those miss
ing, entirely aside from what is yet
to happen in the November elections
some of the most picturesque and best
loved members have already been
retired by their own wishes or those
of their constituents in the primaries.
Heading the list on length Of serv-
ice is Representative James v. Nc
Clintic of Oklahoma, who has served
20 years consecutively and who is the
only man to ever represent that dis
trict in CongreSs-and he has been
chairman Of the Patronage Commit
tee in the last Congress.
McClintic, with Representatives
Clement C. Dickinson of Missouri,
Shallenberger of Nebraska and Charles
West of Ohio we're members of the i'm
portant Ways and Means Committee
which is one of the most striking indi-
cations of the big changes that may be
looked for in the new Congress.
McClntic was born in Texas and
started work as a dry-goods sales
man. Then he went West, as far as
the last station on the Frisco Rail
road and settled In Snyder, then
Indian Territory. His business was
wiped out by cyclone in 1905 and he
filed on a homestead IS miles from
any railroad. He served as county
clerk and in both branches Of the
State Legislature and then came to
Washington as the first Representative
in Congress from the seventh district.
While in Congress he studied law at
Georgetown University-and recently
got big thrill out of winning his
first case in many years before the
income tax unit.
Then there will be missed Represent
ative william A. Ayres of Kansas,
recently appointed a member of the
Federal Trade Commission. Mr.. Ayres
is universally loved. He has served
Is years in the House and ranks near
the top Of the Appropriations Com
mittee. He never made any big stir
in the House, but he was invariably
consulted on important matters Of
party politics.
Besides Ayres there will be four
other veterans missing on the Appro-
priations Committee-Representative
xbUoS a. NOnkklo Vi N24oo1bo4UpA W1lO
handled the Army appropriation bill,
who was an unsuccessful candidate for
the nomination for the Senate: Rep
resentative william w. Hastings of
Oklahoma, who retired; Representa-
tive Tilman B. Parks Of Arkansas and
Representative Charles L. Abernethy
Of North Carolina.
Mr.. Hastings, who served in the
House IS years consecutively, Is q
Cherokee Indian by blood, was born
in the Indian Territory and attended
an Indian school. He was attorney
general for the Cherokee nation and
represented that nation in winding
up its tribal affairs before the Com
mission to the Five Civilized Tribes
and the department in Washington
since 1890. He was national attorney
for the Cherokees from 1907 to 1914.
Representative Tom D. McKeown Of
Oklahoma, who has served 16 years
in the House, was born in South
Carolina, moved as boy to Indian
Territory, has practived law for IS
years, was member Of the first
State bar commission, district judge
for four years, later presiding judge
and then came to Congress.
Representative Ashton @. Shallen-
berger has served 16 years. He is
banker and stock raiser and o former
Governor Of Nebraska.
Representative Charles L. Aber-
nethy, Alabama; Representative Ross
A. Collins, Mississippi; Representative
Lamar Jeffers, Alabama, chairman OF
the Civil Service Committee; Repre-
resentaive Jacob L. Milligan, Mis-
souri,, an unsuccessful candidate for
the Senate-each served for "a years
consecutively.
Representative Miles c. Algood,
chairman of the Committee on War
Claims, had served IL years, as had
also Representative Loring Black,
New York, chairman Of the Claims
Committee and member of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Education and the
Special Committee to Investigate
Campaign Expenditures; Representa-
tive Gordon Browning Of Tennessee,
member of the Judiciary Commit
tee;- Representative Ralph r. Lozier,
Missouri, chairman of the Census
Committee, and Representative John
H. Morehead of Nebraska, chairman
Of the Memorials Committee, had
also served IL years.
Among the 10-years-of-service men
who will be gone are Representative
Fletcher B. Swank, Oklahoma; Rep
resentative Oscar L. Auf der Heide,
New Jersey; Representative John ].
Cochran of Missouri, chairman of
the Committee on Expeditures, who
made an unsuccessful attempt to win
the Democratic nomination for the
Senate.