Evening star., 1946-11-10
Capital Sidelights
BIZ Will p. Kennedy

The return to the Senate Of Henry
Cabot Lodge, and the election Of his
brother, John Davis Lodge. as successor
to the glamour girl" Mrs. Clare Booth
Luce, again direct attention to the serv-
ice in Congress of founding families
which through the entire life of this
Nation have been the best refutation OF
a captious charge of nepotism on mod
ern tongues. These Lodge brothers not
only gave valiant World War service
themselves, but can proudly trace back
outstanding service in national affairs
in the direct male line since the Reyo-
luton for six generations. They are
grandsons OF the late Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. who led the opposition to
the entry of the United States into the
League of Nations. This Grandfather
Lodge. was the great-grandson of George
Cabot, who was member of the State
Provincial Congress in ITS, of the State
Constitutional Convention and the con-
vention that ratified the Constitution
in 1887, and who served as Federalist
IN the United States Senate. Appointed
first Secretary of the Navy. he declined.
But he presided at the Hartford Con-
vention in 1914.
Other families that have served the
Nation long and well are the Adamses,
the Livingstone-Ar the Harri-
sons, Stocktons. Washburns, Fessendens,
Bankheads and scores of others, perls-
al of whose records is inspirational.
Three of the great States OF this Un-
ion are this year celebrating. Utah sig
palized the golden jubilee Of statehood
by electing a Republican Senator to the
control in the Senate as well as in the
House. President Grover Cleveland by
proclamation on January a. 1896. an
nounced the entry of Utah into the
Union. 1t had been part of the territory
acquired from Mexico 48 years pre-
viously.
Iowa will observe its centennial on
December 49,; 1t has returned an entire
Republican delegation to Congress. Iowa
was part of the Louisiana Purchase"
and successfully had been under turis-
diction of the territorial governments of
Missouri, Michigan and Wisconsin be-
fore the separate Territory of Iowa was
organized on July 4, 1888. y
Tennessee, popularity known as the
Volunteer State" reached its 150th
birthday anniversary on June /, and in
the election campaign saw its formerly
lone Republican House member put in
charge of the ballot revolution" as
chairman of the Republican National
Committee. Its other great political
leader, the veteran Senator Kenneth D.
McKellar, ranking first in continuous
membership since March 4, 1917 after
having served three teims in the House,
is unseated as President pro tempore
and presiding officer of the Senate since
January 6. 1945. Thus the whirligig of
politics!
The election of Newspaper Editor
Charles Russell to the House from
Nevada marks the first Republican
elected to Congress from that State
in q years. The late Edwin E. Rob-
erts, whose daughter married Walter
johnson when he was in his prime as
cannon ball" pitcher for the Senators,
had held that seat from 1911 to 1919,
but was succeeded successively by
Charles r. Evans, Sam S. Arentz and
Charles Richards.
Republican organization of the House
carries with it an Outgoing distinction
for South Trimble, the present clerk,
VINO will preside by law at the open
ing of Congress Mr.. Trimble is 80
years old. He was member of the
Fifty-seventii, Fifty -eighth and Fifty
ninth Congresses, ante-dating any pres
ent member of Congress-, and he has
served as clerk of the House longer
than any man in the history of this
Government-from the Sixty-second to
the Sixty-fifth, and Seventy second
through the Seventy ninth Congresses.
Ills successor PROBABLY will be John
Andrews of Beverly, Mass, veteran
congressional secretary who for sew
ersl years has been Republican en-
pioye on the House floor.
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