Evening star., 1937-10-24
Capital Sideligghts
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Four States - Arkansas Massachu-
sets. New York and Virginia-have made
speed to fill vacancies in Congress,
caused by deaths or designations. before
the special session starts, while one
State, Ohio, has definitely deferred filling
a vacancy, for reasons of economy. until
the next regular election in 1898 for
the Seventy-sixth Congress. That va
cancy is in the fourth Ohio district,
where Representative Frank l.. Kloeb re-
signed on August 10 to accept a judge
ship.
The one Senate vacancy, caused by
the death of Senate Leader Joseph T.
Robinson on July IA. is filled by the
election ON October 18 of Representative
John E. Miller, who has not yet indi-
Gated when he will resign from the House
to qualify as a Senator. He could con-
tinue to serve in the House during the
entire special session. Mr.. Miller was
admitted to the bar 25 years ago and
was member of the State constitutional
convention in 1913 was a prosecuting at
torney before he came to Congress eight
years ago When he resigns from the
House another vacancy will result to be
filled in the session which starts next
January.
A familiar face around the Capitol
comes into the special session, Larry
Connery, who was elected September %
to succeed his brother Billy" who died
June 15-greatly to the sorrow of his
colleagues.
Special elections are scheduled for
November 2, to fill one vacancy in Vir-
ginia and three in the New York delega-
ton In the third Virginia district, where
the late Representative and former Gov.
Montague had served for many years,
Dave E. Satterfleld. jr, is the Democratic
nominee and considered certain of elec-
ton. In the seventeenth New York dis
trict Stanley j. Ossernan, Democrat;
Bruce Barton. Republican, and George
Backer, representing the American
Labor Party, are candidates for the
vacancy caused by the death of Theodore
A. Peyser on August s. That the third
party is making a real fight in this
district is shown by the returns filed by
the American Labor Party with the clerk
of the House, showing a campaign fund
Of s5625, Of which $4,000 was contributed
by the candidate George Backer. In
the twenty-fifth New York district, to
fill the seat vacated by Representative
Charles D. Millard. who resigned on
September % to accept a judgeship, the
rival candidates are Ralph A. Gamble,
Republican, Larchmont. and Homer A.
5tebbins, Democrat, Hastings on Hudson.
In the twenty-seventh New York district,
where the vacancy was caused by the
death of Representative Philip A. Good
win on June 6. the candidates are Nancy
Schoonmaker. Democrat Woodstock and
Louis Rockefeller, Republican.
On October 80 spirited Democratic
primary is to be held to fill the vacancy
in the eleventh Massachusetts, district
caused by the resignation of John P.
Higgins to become chief justice of the
Massachusetts, Supreme Court. Demo-
cratic nomination is equivalent to elec-
tion in this district. The election date
| is December ID. The rival candidates
are Thomas E. Barry, East Boston, who
opposed Higgins in the last election con-
test; Charles S. Sullivan, jr., of Boston
and John F. Cotter, who has served as
Representative Higgins secretary.
Two of the largest framed paintings in
| the Capitol are hanging in the Senate
press gallery, where a few of the sight
seers get a glimpse of them. They are
two notable landscapes-"The Grand
| Canyon of the Yellowstone" and 1.-THE
| Chasm of the Colorado" both the work
| of Thomas Moran. They hang in what
was the north corridor on the gallery
| floor of the Senate wing, but which was
| partitioned off a year ago to give added
space to the press gallery. DR.. Charles
| E. Fairman, curator of art works in the
| Capitol, says that these paintings, as
we'll as the paintings of Bierstadt in the
House wing of the Capitol belong to the
best class of works of the landscape
painters of their period. While the
paintings of Discovery OF
| the Hudson River" and Entrance into
Monterey" in the Speakers lobby-rep-
resent historical epochs relating to dis
| coveries Of portions of this country and
are therefore to certain extent de-
| pendent upon the imagination OF the
! painter, the paintings by Moran are ac-
curate Typographical illustrations of the
scenery of the Western country-through
which President Roosevelt recently
| toured, and he was photographed in the
| very center of the scene depicted in one
| of these paintings. They are said to
approach in accuracy the work OF the
camera without any of the flnicky
sharpness or faulty perspective OF the
| lens Moran in his coloring, as well as
| in his craftsmanship, DR.. Fairman en-
| phasizes, leaves little to be desired.
| Moran's brother Edward was notable
I marine painter.