Evening star., 1937-10-17
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.

Inere are 320 Democrats and 81 Re-
publicans, S Farmer-Labor members
and Progressives In the House,
called back into special session November
Is. There are six vacancies. Lawrence
j. Connery was elected on September %
to NIL the vacancy in the seventh Massa-
chusetts district caused by the death on
June is Of his brother, Representative
William P. COnnery. The vacancies are
Eleventh Massachusetts,, caused by the
resignation of Representative John p.
Higgins on September 80; seventeenth
New York, caused by the death Of Theo-
dore A. Peyser, August g; twenty fifth
New York, caused by resignation of
Charles D. Millard, September %: twenty
seventh New York, caused by the death
OF Philip A. Goodwin, June s; fourth
Ohio. caused by resignation of Frank L.
Kloeb, August 10; third Virginia, caused
by the death Of Andrew j. Montagus,
January a.
In the present Seventy-ifth Congress
three Senators and eleven House mem
bers have either died or resigned Be-
sides Mr.. Connery's election, the Other
House vacancies that have been Fl d
are second Kentucky, Beverly M. Vim
cent; tenth Texas, Lyndon johnson;
tenth California, A. j. Elliott; eighteenth
Pennsylvania, Richard M. Simpson.
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South Trimble, clerk of the House. who
served in Congress from 1901 to 1907 and
then served as clerk in the Sixty second,
Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth and Sixty fifth
Congresses, has gone to Kentucky to try
to save from being RACED the handsome
aFS k,,t1 =
in 1887. The Post once Department sent
two inspectors with him to study several
alternative sites which 1t Is hoped the
city may donate for the new building.
The present structure was secured for
Frankfort by the late Representative
William C. Breckenridge, who was a
captain in the Confederate Cavalry and
bodyguard to President Jefferson Davis.
The Capitol has come back to WASH
ington and is being reassembled, after 4
trip to the Great Lakes Exposition. That
is, the plaster replica of the Capitol has
made another historic journey. Visitors
whose curiosity is piqued by q shield Of
canvas in the area under the rotunda,
peek through folds in the canvas and see
the expert workmen restoring" the model
for display.
There have also just returned from
trips the old painting Of the frigate Con-
stitution, by F. Mallen, which depicts how
when the frigate and the British fleet
were becalmed. the American commander
put out his small boats which towed the
frigate out Of danger. This was sent to
the Century Of Progress Fair in Chicago,
and is now hanging in the historic ONCE
occupied by the clerk of the House. This
room was at one time the office of the
Speaker, and subsequently by various
committees, including banking and cur
rency and enrolled bills. It was part
of the original Capitol Building, built in
1892, the corner stone being laid by
Washington. when it consisted of two
square blocks connected, by q wooden
bridge. This Office looks out on the
east portico where the Presidents are in
augurated
Another heirloom come home has been
placed in the same room-a hair-cloth
covered bench on which John Quincy
Adams died after being stricken in the
House chamber (since known as Statuary
HalD. This bench was for many years
one of the points Of interest in the old
Supreme Court chamber In the Capitol.
While arguing q case before the Su-
preme Court on January rs, 1899, Au-
gustus H. Garland, Attorney General In
Clevelands cabinet, suddenly collapsed
and died on this bench. The incident Is
recalled by Frank Key Green, the present
Supreme Court marshal, who was q wit
ness. In the last Congress, Representa-
tive Fuller of Arkansas introduced q
resolution, which was adopted, which re-
suited in this bench being sent to the
Arkansas Exposition.
There is also In Clerk Trimble's Office
a plaster model of the bronze statue of
Henry Clay.