Evening star., 1937-01-10
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Baby chick raiser, packing plant en-
ploye, city fireman, steel plant and paper
mill workers. collar manufacturer, teach
ers, doctors, lawyers, lobbyists-from all
walks in life and with variant ambi-
tions come the new members of Con-
gress to make this great legislative body
for elf-governing people a true cross
section of American society.
One man has the distinction OF having
his biography printed in the new Con-
gressional Directory, as member who
Is not yet a member-AlphonSe Roy,
Democrat, of New Hampshire, who ran
a dead heat for the seat, the first abso-
lutte congressional tie in some ITO years.
His Republican rival, Arthur B. jerks,
has been sworn in, but Roy is expected
to win the contest for the seat before
the House Committee.
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There is evidence that the new Con-
gress has no leaning toward race sui
eide" as denounced by former Roose-
welt. Santiago Iglesias, resident COM
missioner from Puerto Rico, who quit
school when he was IL to become a
cabinet maker and later was Sam
Gompers' agent for organizing working
men in the Pan-American countries,
seems to carry of parental honors-
with IL children. Senator Vic Donahay
of Ohio quite ably upholdS the paternal
record in the Senate with 10 children
and a background Of five generations
born in Ohio. The two Montana Sen
ators seem to carry of State honors with
six children each for Senator Burton K.
Wheeler and Senator James E. Murray
the latter has six sons. Senator James
j. Davis. Pennsylvania, and Senator
Lynn j. Frazier of North Dakota each
has five children. Quintin Paredes, resi-
dent commissioner from the Philippines,
has 10 children; Representative Louis C.
Rabaut, Michigan. nine Representative
Walter M. Pierce, Oregon; Represent
ative James H. Gildea, Pennsylvania:
Representative E. Harold Cluett. New
York-each is father of six children:
Representative Edouard Victor Michel
Izac, California; Representative Joseph
l.. Pfeifer, New York; Representative
John F. Hunter, Ohio, and Samuel w.
King, delegate from Hawaii-each Is
father of five.
1.-THE man in the wheel chair" at
tracted much attention at the opening
sessions. He is Representative Arthur
w. Aleshire, Democrat, of Ohio, who,
while managing dairy farm, received
an injury which dislocated his back
and paralyzed him below the hips. Being
unable to walk he operated filling
station and a small grocery store while
in a wheel chair He has the diStinc-
tion of being the first Democrat ever
elected to Congress from his district.
The new woman member is Mrs. Nan
Wood Honeyman, first woman Congress
woman from Oregon. She was born at
West Point, N. Y. Her father was a
colonel. During her school days in New
York she became acquainted with Frank
lin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the
friendship has endured through the
years. She has studied music under fa-
nous composers. Her husband is secre-
tary-treasurer of his own pioneer hard
ware concern. Miss June, the youngest
of her three children, has accompanied
her to the Capital. She led the crusade
for prohibition reform in Oregon and
was president of the constitutional con-
vention for ratification of the twenty
first amendment. She was elected to
the State Senate two years ago and
seconded the nomination of President
Roosevelt at the Philadelphia conven-
ton.
'Iest we forget"-the first" woman In
Congress is Mrs. Mary T. Norton, N. j.
first woman Democrat elected free
holden in Hudson County and in the
State, received first degree of doctor of
laws conferred by st. Elizabeth's College,
the oldest womens college in the State;
first woman Democrat to be elected to
Congress, first appointed chairman Of
congressional committee, first woman
chairman of State committee, intro
duced the first resolution in Congress to
repeal the eighteenth amendment.
Representative Usher Burdick, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota, was the youngest
Speaker in any State Legislature when
he was 80 years of age. He was raised
on the border of the Sioux reservation
and talks the Sioux language. He played
right end on the Minnesota University
foot ball team when it was champion of
the Big Ten. He was judge for the
State Senate in the only impeachment
proceeding ever before 1t. He has writ.
ten many books on Western history, in
cluding "The Last Battle Of the Sioux"