Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1929, Page 40

SPECIAL INAUGURAL SECTION. HOOVER HAS BIG ADVANTAGE IN SUPPORT FROM HIS FIRST PICTURESQUE CHARACTERS LEAVE PLACES IN SENATE Several Familiar Faces of Veterans to Be Missing When Rolls Are Called. Many House Changes Noted. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | affairs and pensions. He has been a OME of the most picturesque |Benerous contributor to charities. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. MARCH 4, 1929. 5 : NEW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO COME IN WITH HOOVER characters in Congress have just passad out. Some of them have left the imprint of their wise counsels upon the statute books of the Nation. Some have been re- corded in the annals of fame. Some have focused attention on conditions that must be corrected. Some have re- tired thinking they will rest and read— but_their colleagues know they will be back here later. As some of those who have taken conspicuous roles on the congressional Judge Felix Hebert, Republican, has | succeeded Mr. Gerry. While his State | went for “Al” Smith for the presidency, | | Hebert received 1745 more votes than | | Smith. He is of French-Canadian stock and, like many of his people, took up | ! his ‘abode inone of the manufacturing | | district of Rhode Island, in what is | said to be the most densely populated | part of the United States. Only 54 | | years of age, he is energetic, alert, a | | wholesome partisan, an excellent orator | |and a good family man, with a family | CONGRESS BOTH SENATE AND HOUSE STRONGLY REPUBLICAN President Hoover Takes Office With Friendly Majorities Controlling Votes in Both Houses. RESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER will have & more strongly Re- publican Congress to deal with than any Congress since that which came in with the late President Harding. The Chief Execu- tive of the United States, under the most favorable circumstances, is likely to have difficulty with the National Legislature, which is jealous of its prerogatives. But when a President is faced by a hostile Congress, with his own political party in the minority or holding control by a narrow margin, his legislative program faces almost be able to report a bill as early as April 1 is still a question. Indications from the hearings before the House committee are that there will be a general demand for consid- erable increases in tariff rates. One of Mr. Hoover's jobs as President will be to put the brakes on and to prevent an inordinately high tariff. It has been generally understood that one of the principal features in the farm program of the new administration was a re- vision of the tariff duties on farm products upward. It is expected that the farmers will have the benefit of considerably increased duties. Ameri- stage make their exit, others enter to|of five children. They have organized | take their place who are no strangers|a family orchestra. He was judge of | to Capitol Hill and the legislative | a district court in Warwick for '_'0‘ chambers. They have done their bit|years and is an authority on insurance. before—established records of achieve- |His ancestors were among the original | sure defeat. « ‘The Senate which will respond to Mr. Hoover’s call for a special session of Congress this Spring will be composed of 55 Republicans, 39 Democrats and 1 can manufacturers will not permit this opportunity of demanding more pro- tection to pass in silence, however. Other administrations have suffered ment. | settlers of Montreal. His friends ex- Eight accustomed faces are missed | pect to see him equal the record of from the Senate and another new face | achievement made by the late Nelson is coming to replace Senator Curtis of | A. Aldrich. “The smallest State in the Kansas who resigned, effective yester- | Union 'has furnished one of the most day, to be sworn in today as Vice Presi- | pr nmlsmg new members of Congress. dent. There are 70-odd changes in the | Earie B. Mayfield of Texas has re- House, but the whirligig of political | linquished his Senate seat to “Topper’ fortune has brought some dozen or|Tom Connally, who has just completed | more back who previously served. | 12_years® service in the House. He Is | called “Topper” Tom because of the Dawes Among the Missing. | way he wears a high silk hat tilted The most striking difference disclosed | over his %ufl.\- ?hck lr:iaxnh o]( unulsual S ” height and gracious old-school courtesy, in a first glance at th new Senate is | p€) ) heen a conspicuous figure at that the peremptory voice of Charles | white House receptions and other social G. Dawes, erstwhile presiding officer. | gatherings. = Mr. h{{a_vn:xu has had_a rice ent’s | Stormy life in_national politics. is missing from the Vice President's g, io getivities have been chiefly con- chair, and in his stead we see seated | fned to his work on the committees on there Charles Curtis, descendant of the | agriculture and forestry, banking and Kaw Indians, once a jockey. | currency, claims, interoceanic canals, in- | | | | | Theodore E. Burton, one of the most | terstate commerce and public buildings conspicuous men in national legislative | circles, is back in the Senate as Senator | from Ohio. He was first elected to the House in 1888—40 years ago—and served in that body in the Fifty-first, Fifty- fourth and Sixtieth Congresses. He was in the Senate from 1909 to 1915. and was chairman of the Inland Waterways Commission by appointment of President Roosevelt. After other important public service he came back to the House in the last four Congress- es. His most important recent duties have been as a member of the Debt Funding Commission by appointment | of President Harding and as chairman | of the delegation from the United States | to the Conference for Control of In- | ternational Traffic in Arms. The outstanding figure that has passed from the Senate is the towering form of “Jim” Reed, with leonine head that would adorn a conscript father, and a fluent eloquence, a daring, a person- ality, a tireless vigor that time may re- place but cannot efface. A candid=ce for the Democratic nomination for President against his own desires, ‘or a cause and a principle, whose speech in the Democratic national convention at Houston gave the battle cry of the cam- paign, he has passed from the Senate | after 18 years of prominence. one of | the most admired men in American | public life, missed by his associates ir- respective of party lines. .- ‘Reed Ended Career Amid Glory. During the last short. session, just: closed, Reed of Missouri made several sxceptional speeches—on; the cruiser bill, on the Kellogg multilateral treaty and most recent and famous his debate with Senator Borah of Idaho on the prohi- bition question. In recent years one of his chief undertakings was as chairman of the special committee that considered the cases of Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and Frank L. Smith of Illinois, neither of whom was seated. He 15 succeeded by Roscoe C. Patter- #on, Republican. * Of identically long service in the Sen- ate, George P. McLean of Connecticut, has from the scene. As chair- man of the committee on manufactures, ranking majority member of the im- portant committee on finance and & prominent member of the committee on foreign relations, Mr. McLean’s place in the legislative chamber and committee councils will not be filled easily. He has been ‘a leader in politics in his home State for a half century, and more than a quarter of a century ago was governor. | He is succeeded by another former gov- ernor, Frederick C. Walcott. Although Thomas F. Bayard, Demo- crat, of Delaware, has served only for | -six years and four months, his passing | takes from the Congressional Directory | a name honored in the annals of the | Nation. His father, Thomas Francis | Bayard; his grandfather, James Asheton | Bayard: his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard; his great-grandfather, James Asheton Bayard, and his great-great- grandfather, Richard Bassett, were all United States Senators before him. He has held important committee assignments—claims, expenditures in the | executive departments, finance, foreign relations, territories and insular pos- sessions. He is succeeded by John G.| ‘Townsend, Republican, a former gov- | ernor. Bruce a Leading Wet. ‘William Cabell Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, was one of the leading “wets.” By inclination he is a literateur and author rather than a politician, and yet most of his life has been spent | in political offices for municipality, | State and Nation. He is author of sev- | eral important historical works, notably | “Benjamin Franklin Self-Revealed.” in two volumes, and “John Randolph of | Roanoke,” also in two volumes. He has done important committes work on the Civil Service, District of Columbia, in- terstate commerce and printing com- mittees. Phillips Lee Goldshorough, Republi- can, former Governor of Maryland, suc- ceeds Mr. Bruce. He comes from one of the oldest and most prominent fam- ilies in Maryland, and also is close kin to the fllustrious Lee family of Vir- ginia. His father was an-admdral in.| the Navy. The incoming Senator was | prominent as a young man in politics | on the Eastern Shore, where he was | born, and this led to his selection as| chairman of the Republican State cen- tral committee. He then was made dis- trict collector of internal revenue under Presidents McKinley and Roose- velt. In 1909 he was elected Governor | of Maryland, the second Republican governor since the Civil War. He has| of recent years been at the head of an | important bank in Baltimore. He is| known as a forceful speaker. { Edward 1. Edwards, Democrat, of New | Jersey, an outstanding “wet” has given way to Hamilton F. Kean, Republican. | Mr. Edwards has served one term oli six years in the Senate. He had previ- | ously served for three years as Governor of New Jersey and had the support of the New Jersey delegation for the presi- dential nomination in the Democratic national convention in San Francisco in 1920. Mr. Edwards was a member of important _ committees—banking and currency, District of Columbia, manu- factures, naval affairs and public build- ings and grounds. Gerry Has Great Record. In the passing of Peter G. Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode Island the Senate loses one of its members who has held high social position and done much for society and in welfare activities. He has been in public life for 18 years, served in the House in the Sixty-third Congress and has been in the Senate and grounds. « Connally Squelches Opponents. “Tom” Connally has been an out-| standing figure in the House. With | ready and sarcastic tongue, he has squelched many an adversary with | whom he sought no quarrel. He was | credited with having one of the keenest intellects in the House. He was one | of the real counselors in the foreign affairs committee, although of the mi- nority party. He saw service in two wars, He was an enlisted man with the 2d Texas Infantry in the Span- ish-American War and was captain and adjutant, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 11th Division, United States Army, in 1918. His friends confidently expect that he will soon be a prominent figure in the Senate, as he was in the House. M. M. Neely of West Virginia is an- other Democrat who is succeeded by a Republican. He served in the West Virginia Volunteer Infantry through the Spanish-American War. He was mayor of his home town and clerk of the House of Delegates before coming to Congress 16 years ago to fill an unex- pired term. After 10 years in the House he went to the Senate six years ago. He was most conspicuous in the Senate during the coal shortage and the Senate investigation in urging the advantages of the bituminous coal prod- uct of his State. He rendered faithful service on the District of Columbia, ju- diciary, pensions, privileges and elec- tions, and rules committees. A decidedly picturesque character succeeds Mr. Neely—Dr. Henry D. Hat- field, who comes of a family that for many years carried on a feud with the McCoy family, famous in history. These feudists have written many a lurid page in the annals of West Vir- ginia. Dr. Hatfleld has been State Senator and was president of the State Senate, and former governor with an enviable record. He is a physician and recognized as one of the outstanding surgeons in West Virginia, and has his own hospital in Huntington. Bronson M. Cutting, New Mexico publisher, is back in the Senate again. He succeeds Octaviano A. Larrazolo, who served 10 years ago as governor and who was elected November last to fill the unexpired term of the late Andrieus A. Jones. Finis Garrett to Be Absent. The most conspicuous absence in the new House is that of former Minority Leader Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, who had served continuously for 24 years. He was nominated by President Coolidge and promptly confirmed by the Senate in the closing days of the last Congress to be a justice of the Court of Customs Appeals. He was one of the most brainy men in the House and a speech he made on the Bible a year or two ago has won world-wide praise. He has made not- able addresses on the Constitution and Government. In the last two Con- gresses, he was the unanimous choice of his party for Speaker. Throughout the Sixty-seventh Congress he was acting minority leader during the ill- ness of the late Claude Kitchin. At the age of 18, he was editor of a coun- try weekly newspaper. He learned the printer's trade and worked at it while completing his college course. He is | succeeded in the new Congress by | L. Jere Cooper. There are eight woman members of | the new House—three of whom are Ruths, each with a hard-fought cam- paign to her credit and - each with political inheritance and practical ex- | perience. Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, member-at-large from Il- linois, with the largest vote cast for any member of the House, is the daughter of the noted political boss, Mark Hanna, and widow of former Landis and the U. S. Government with- drew all other charges against him. ‘Willlam H. Stafford, whom Mr. Ber- ger succeeded in Congress, now suc- ceeds him. He was known in the past as “the great objector.” He was & disciple, protege and understudy of the late James R. Mann, Republican leader. Mr. Stafford was a “thorn in the flesh” to many of his colleagues. He was a self-appointed “watchdog of the Treas- ury,” and is expected to promptly as- sume his old role in the new Congress. Ludlow Replaces Updike. in the new House represent defeat of Democratic candidates by Republicans, there are two outstanding exceptions. Louis Ludlow, veteran Washington newspaper correspondent, former presi- dent of the National Press Club and While practically all of the changes | Bryan Owen is the daughter of Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, “The Great Com- moner,” who won the biggest district in’ Florida from William “Joe” Sears, who has served 14 years in the House. She has inherited much of the talent of her famous father, who was known as the “silver-tongued orator.” The third Ruth is Ruth Baker Pratt, widow of a Standard Oil official, who has had extensive training in the world of finance and who has served on the New York Board of Aldermen. The other five woman members who have returned to the Seventy-first Congress are: Mrs. Rogers, Massa- chusetts; Mrs. Kahn, California; Mrs. ‘Norton, New Jersey; Mrs. Langley, Kentucky, and Mrs. Oldfield, Arkansas. All of these, except Mrs. Norton, suc- ceeded their husbands, who had been veterans in service. Volstead’s Congueror Stays. The defeat of Willilam L. Carss of the Duluth district of Minnesota by william A. Pittinger, Republican, leaves only one Farmer-Laborite as the only third-party man in the House. This is O. J. Kvale, an ordained minister, who in 1922 defeated Andrew J. Vol- stead of prohibition law fame. Victor Berger, world-famous Socialist, is ‘again out of Congress. He was one of the pioneer organizers of the Socialist movement in this country. He was the first Socialist ever elected to Congress, 18 years ago. Because of his writings against American participation in the World War he was repeatedly indicted {and tried before Judge Landis in 1919, found gullty and sentenced to serve 20 | years in the penitentiary. The House |refused him admission. He was re- elected in 1919 and again refused ad- | mission. He was elected again to the Sixty-eighth Congress and seated with- In 1921, the Supreme for 12 years. He has been a member of the committees on finance, 1‘\’:} Court reversed the decision of Judge the tables on Cyrus M. Palmer, who de- out opposition. Senator Medill McCormick. Mrs. Ruth | author of several books on Indiana politics and _politicians, comes in as successor to Ralph E. Updike, a World ‘War veteran. Jeremiah E. O'Connell, dog fancier and book lover, replaces Louis A. Monast, Republican, from the third Rhode Island district, who de- feated him two years ago. Mr. O'Con- nell is a popular member and an active one. Mr. Monast was one of the most truly self-made men, with a versatile record. He immigrated to this coun- try from Canada in 1865. He was & textlle worker in cotton mills at the age of 9. At 19 he went to work as {a baker, confectioner, packer of fruit and vegetables, meat cutter and be- came general manager of a department store. ~ At the age of 29, he worked In the building line as stone mason, bricklayer and carpenter; became en- gineer and draftsman, taking charge of construction. Since 1911 he has been in the real estate, industrial pro- motion and banking business. | Among other “comebacks” is James W. Dunbar, who replaces Frank Gacdner in the third Indiana district. Edgar C. Senators (1) Frederic C. Walcott of Conn., (2) John G. Townsend of Del, (3) Phillips Lee Goldsborough of Md., (4) Roscoe E. Patterson of Mo., (5) Hamil- ton F. Kean of N. J. (6) Bronson M. Cutting of N. Mex., (7) Felix Hebert of R. I, (8) Henry D. Hatfield of W. Va., (9) Tom Connally of Tex. Representatives (10) D. D. Glover of Ark., (11) William E. Hess of Ohio, (12) William H. Stafford of Wis., (13) J. C. Shaffer of N. C., (14) Lafayette L. Patterson of Ala., (15) Charles 0°Connor of Okla., (16) Robert Blackburn of Ky., (17) Q. H. Cross of Tex., (18) Lewis L. Walker of Ky., (19) Rowland L. Johnston of Mo, (20) Joe E. Baird of Ohio, (21) W. A. Pittenger of Minn., (22) Thomas J. Halsey of Mo., (23) Ed. H. Campbell of Iowa, (24) Elva R. Kendall of Ky., (25) Charles L Sparks of Kans., (26) Fred G. Johnston of Nebr., (27) C. McClintock of Ohio, (28) John W. Palmer of Mo., (29) William E. Eaton of Colo., | (30) Claude A. Fuller of Ark., (31) Wall Doxey of Miss., (32) J. Lincoln Newhall | of K., (33) G. E. Mouser of Ohio, (34) Donald F. Stiow of Me., (35) Charles E. Swanson of Towa, (36) U. S. Stone of Okla., (37) Victor Chrisigau of Minn., (38) Menalcus Lankford of Va,, (39) James W. Dunbar of Ind., (40) Edgar C. Ellis of Mo., (41) Charles E. Kiefner of Mo,, (42) Charles H. Sloan of Nebr., (43) W. P. Lambertson of Kans., (44) Francis D. Culkin of N. Y., (45) Francis Seiber- ling of Ohio, (46) Jeremiah E. O'Connell of R. L, (47) John M. Wolverton of W. Va. (48) Edmund F. Cooke of N. Y., (49) Hugh Ike Shott of W. Va., (50) Merlin ‘Hull of Wis., (51) William Kirk Kaynor of Mass., (52) Frank M. Ramey of Tll, (53) Charles A. Jonas of N. C., (54) James L. Whitley of N. Y.. (55) Jere Cooper of Tenn., (56) Vincent Carter of Wyo., (57) J. L. Cable of Ohio., (58) George Franklin Brumm of Pa., (59) Charles J. Esterly of Pa., (60) Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen of Fla., (61) Richard Yates of IIL, (62), Louis Ludlow of Ind., (63) Joe L. Smith of W. Va., (64) Robert S. Hall of Miss., (65) Ruth Hanna McCor- mick of IIl, (66) Ruth Baker Pratt of N. Y., (67) Dewey J. Short of Mo., (68) | David W Fiopkins of Mo, (69) Oscar de Priest o Iil, (10) J. Bayard Clark of . C., ames Wolfenden of Pa., (7 V. F. Brunner of N. Y., (73) Geor; | M. Pritchard of N. C. o) 5 feated him two years ago in the thir- teenth Pennsylvania district. Charles | J. Esterly in the fourteenth Pennsyl- vania district comes back to take the | place of Robert G. Bushong. He is | well known as the owner of the Read- ing base ball club in the Interna- | veteran service also are missing in the | House. Daniel R. Anthony, chairman of the House appropriations committee, | quit after 22 years of continuous service. lJflhn N. Tillman of Arkansas has retired after 14 consecutive years. John M. back to the nature studies to which he is devoted. Maj. Alfred L. Bulwinkle is | gone after eight consecutive years, dur- | ing which he devoted his energies for the service men. mes T. Begg of Ohio, right-hand | mdn to the Speaker, one of the most promising younger men in the House, is gone, because he was a candidate for the governorship. He had been in the House continuously for 10 years. Martin L. Davey of the fourteenth Ohto district, who also is out because he ran for the governorship, had been in the House nine years. ‘Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, one of the members who has béen most con- spicuously mentioned in the daily news- papers, known as “the stormy petrel” in the House, who has filled more space in the Congressional Record than any man of his time, conspicuous as an ‘‘investi- gator” and “reformer” while a member of the House District committee, has completed 12 years of continuous serv- Ice, and lost out in trying .for the Senate. 3 « Charles' E. Winter of Wyoming, who served six years as successor to' former House Leader Mondell, lost out in a contest for the Benate. He was formerly a judge and is author of the Wyoming State song and of two historical novels. The biggest turn over in State dele- gations is shown in Kentucky and Mis- souri, where six Democrats were re- placed by six Republicans. without opposition. ‘Andrew Jackson, { | popular margin. Farmer-Labor members ‘There still exists one vacancy from Pennsylvania. Senator-elect William S. Vare of the Keystone State has never been permit- ted to take his seat. It is a foregone conclusion, however, that whenever Pennsylvania fills this vacancy it will be with a Republican. Counting the full Republican strength, therefore, as 56, and the total opposition, combining the Democrats and Farmer-Labor Sen- ator, at 40, the Republicans have a margin of 16 votes in the Senate. Nine Republican Senators would have to de- sert the administration and go over to the Democrats to defeat an administra- tion measure. Mr. Hoover has the advantage also of facing a more friendly Senate than his predecessor. For example, only two of the Republican Progressives, Norris of Nebraska and Blaine of Wisconsin, came .out openly against Mr. Hoover during the national campaign. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, another of the Progressive group, has not been friendly with Mr. Hoover, although he did not announce himself for Mr. Hoover's op- ponent, Alfred E. Smith, during the presidential campaign. On the other hand, strong Progressives like Brook- hart of Iowa, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota, Howell of Nebraska, Norbeck and McMaster of South Dakota, all sup- ported Mr. Hoover during the cam- paign actively and are inclined to sup- port him. as President. “Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the foreign rela- tions committee and one of the most influential figures in public life, played a prominent part in winning the elec- tion for Mr. Hoover, and he. too, will be & tower of strength in the Senate. Watson Becomes Leader. ‘The Senate leadership on the Repub- liean side shifts from Curtis of Kansas, who ‘is now Vice President and the Senaté presiding officer, to Senator James ‘E. Watson of Indiana. During | the_ pre-convention campaign Senator ‘Watsan was an opponent of Mr. Hoover. He was himself a candidate for presi- dential nomination, regarded as a mem- ber- of the Senate combination to prevent the nomination of Mr. Hoover. But Senator Watson is a regular Re- publican—as regular as the clock. . In his new position as Senate leader he is net likely to forego a lifetime of o larity and to oppose the Nor 15 it likely that the' majority in the Senate Going 30, - Sanator Jomes u‘% will be assistant leader of Republicans. He has always been a strong Hoover supporter. ‘The Republican party has an even stronger grip upon the House,” The ?.flmha 260“ un;ubody is divided as follows: Republicans, 166 Demos crats and 1 Farmer-Labor. : o] 5 is majority upon which the Repul President will be able to count strongly at all times. In the House the Republican leader- ship will remain the same as it has been ‘in the past. Speaker Nicholas is to serve his third term as officer of the House, Repre- sentative John Q. Nilsson of Connecti- cut will be the ublican floor leader. With a S r from the Midwest and a floor leader from the East, honors are pretty evenly divided in the House. Special Session Expected. Within & few weeks Mr, Hoover will face this Congress. He is expected to call it into special session not later than April 15 to consider two major subjects of legislation—farm relief and tariff revision. Both are subjects in which the country is vitally interested. Oonirm is inclined to give Mr. Hoover his head in the matter of farm legis- lation. Many of the Senators and Representatvies from the farm States are convinced that he has the interest of the farmer at heart and that he will do his best for agriculture. Doubt~ less the extremist will demand more in the way of farm legislation than Mr. Hoover is prepared to grant. There may even be an effort to revive the equalization fees, the heart of the old McNary-Haugen bill. - But such an effort will be unsuccessful in view of the - recent. national. election. ' Mr. Hoover stood out strongly- aj it this principle in this campaign. ‘The. farm bill, which Mr. Hoover is e: to support, will in large meas- ure follow the lines of the McNary bill : introduced in the last Congress. Senator McNary, chairman of the com- mittee on agriculture, already has con- ferred with Mr. Hoover and obtained his views in regard to the proposed legis- lation. It is expected that the Senator from Oregon have s bill ready for introduction as soon as the special ses- sion meets. The farm bill will be taken up for consideration in the Senate while the House is dealing with the. tariff. ‘Under the provisions of the Consti- tution, the House has the task of in- itiating revenue and appropriation bills. The House ways and means committee began hearings on the tariff as long 2go as January 7. in order to be in a position to draft the tariff bill and sub- mit it to the House at a special session. Whether Chairman ' Hawley = of the House ways and means committee will {fd 7o . . » . Victories in Past Elections George Washington was elected by the Electoral College Democrat, received 647,231 popular and 178 electoral votes, for his second term, wi\ining by a narrow Prior to that popular votes are not available. .Lincoln ‘received 1,866,352 popular votes and as compared Ellls, who comes and goes rather regu- | tional League, and has been in charge larly from the fifth Missouri district and | of the sales department of a big hosiery Wwho now succeeds George H. Combs, | the “baby member” of the House; Charles E. Kiefner again is in from the thirteenth Missour! district, succeeding Clyde Willlams; Charles H. Sloan, who 10 years ago voluntarily retired from Congress after having been a member of the important ways and means com- mitte, returns in place of John N. Nor- ’tun from the fourth Nebraska district; jJohn N. Cable, recent candidate for | Governor of Ohlo, is back as successor |to Dr. William T. Fiizgerald from the fourth Ohio district. Cable voluntarily | quit Congress four years ago. He was | the author of the corrupt practices act ,and also the law restoring the citizen- ship of American women who married alfens. George P. Brumm has again turned ‘Washingtonian, comes back to the city of his birth, where he was educated at Georgetown University, and where he did important legislative duty after his service in the Marine Corps during the World War. In a hectic battle for ballots he defeated Everett Kent, for- merly a member of the House District committee. A machinist by trade be- fore he became a lawyer, who pressed the opposition to seating James E. Beck, former solicitor general, and who was accused during the recent campaign of circulating scurrilous and bigoted docu- ments. John M. Wolverton returns again from the third West Virginia district in place of William S. O'Brien. Many faces familiar on account of mill. Maj. William R. Coyle, a native ! Morin of the thirty-fourth Pennsylvania district, chairman of the military affairs | committee, is gone after 16 years of | continuous service. Willlam D. Boies of | Iowa had served 10 years. Ralph Gil- bert, former judge in Kentucky, has re- tired after eight years in the House. Ira G. Hersey of Maine is gone after 12 years in the House. Bill G. Lowrey is replaced after serving the second Mis- sissippl district eight years continuously. T. Webber Wilson had represented the sixth Mississippi district six years. ‘Clement C. Dickinson of Missouri had | been a prominent legislator for 16 con- |secutive years and had previously ; {served one term a decade earlier. Ash-| ton C. Shallenberger had served the ' fifth Nebraska district 12 years. Zebu- lon Weaver had been in the House for | 10 consecutive years from the tenth | North Carolina district and now goes' with-a combined vote for his opponents of more than 2,800,000, but his electoral vote was 180 compared to the combined electoral vote of his opponents of 123 for his first term, and a hig ma- {?flt both in popular and electoral votes in 1864 for re-elec- on. X Wilson in 1912 received a popular vote of 6,286,214, com- pared with the combined popular vote for Tatt and Roosevelt, who split the Republican party in twain, of 7,610,122, but 435 electoral votes went to Wilson, compared with only 96 for his two g’flnclpll opponents combined. ince then tge voting for President has been as follows: Electoral Popular Popular vote vote plurality 277 9,129,606 590,385 16,152,200 17,004,847 15,625,003 7,339,445 ..1928 444 21,429,109 6,423,612 NOTE—Minor candidates for the presidency have not been included in figuring these totals. in the past because of tariff revisions. This was the case in 1909, when the Payne-Aldrich tariff act was put through soon after Willlam Howard Taft became President. It is expected that President Hoover will seek to avoid the embarrassment which might com: to him at the beginning of his admin- istration from the passage of an un- wise tariff bill. Not all will be plain saliing when the | new Congress gets down to work. Tie Democrats will naturally seek to em- | barrass the new administration when it | can and to make political capital for the congressional election which comes next year. There is also the questior how long the Republican Progressives in the Senate will trot along with tihe administration. While it is true tha: some of the Senate and Progressives look upon Mr. Hoover as more pro- gressive than any President that has entered the White House in a long time, it is unlikely that he will go as far along progressive lines as they desirc him to do. Appointments in Senate Today. President Hoover may have an op- portunity to test the temper of the Senate immediately. His list of ap- pointments to the cabinet goes to the Senate today. The Senate has been called into special executive session to receive such communications as the President may desire to send to the upper house. The call for the special session of the Senate was issued some | weeks ago by President Calvin Coolidge. | It was obvious that President Hoover would not be in a position to call the } Senate together until after he took the oath of office today, and action by the retiring President was necessary. In the past it has been held that a | President of the United States was en- titled to select any one he desired to form his’ immediate official family—the heads of the executive departments of the Government, who together compose the President’s cabinet. The confirma- tion of their nominations came as a matter of course at the hands of the Senate. In more recent years, however, the Senate has been inclined to scrutinize the appointments of cabinet officers more carefully. Challenged in Past. Some of the appointments have been squarely challenged by the Senate. One during the Coolidge administration was | flatly turned down—the appointment of Charles: Beecher Warren of Michigan to (be Attorney’ General. Mr. Warren was ;i been prominent in councils of the and served for party. years as Republicany national committee- man _from higan. But it was charged in the Senate that Mr. Warren had represented certain interests in- Yolved in cases either likely fo come into the Federal courts for trial or already ted for trial, and also that he was an fier: of stock in ‘eorporations so involved!” When the vote on his nomina- tlon was taken it was a tle, and Vice President Dawes was absent ‘from the chamber and did not return until the vote had beent announced. Had he been sent and’ yoted for confirmation, as would have done, Mr. Warzen would have beem confirmed. As it was tho Senate, on a tie vote, rejected his nomination. Whether any of Mr. Hoover's ap- | polntees’ will face o serjous an ordeal | remains to be seen. It is not necessary under. the law to send to the Senate the appointment of any cabiuet officer | who may be a holdover from. the pre- ceding A®inistration, as, for example, §ecretary Mellon—except when a Post- master General is reappointed who has served a full term of four years. The law compels the resubmission of the name of a Postmaster General, for his tstanding lawyer € | term is specifically fixed at four years by law. Threats have been made to fight the reappointment .of Secretary Mellon, but Mr. Hoover is not compelled to send his name to the Senate. Presi- dent Coolidge did not resubmit the names of the cabinet officers who stayed on after he became President four years ago. Likely to Come Under Fire. There are indications, however, that the Senate will examine carefully the appointees to the offices of Attorney General, Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Interior. There was a determined fight waged in the last Congress against the appointment of Secretary Roy O. West of the ‘Interior Department, and Senators interested in the water power question are likely to demand a full statement with regard to the incoming Secretary of the In- terior Department. The man who heads the Department of Justice also is likely to be scrutinized carefully. If President Hoover’s ideas are carried out, the pro- hibition enforcement unit is to be trans- ferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, and the duty of enforcing the dry laws will be taken from the Secretary of the Treas- ury and handed over to the Attorney General. The drys in Congress and out of it are insistent that an Attorney General who is personally in sympathy with the eighteenth amendment be appointed. Prohibition, by the way, and its en- forcement is looming as a real issue for the new administration. Presi- t Hoover has declared prohibition a noble experiment which must be worked out constructively. He has declared himself in favor of the eighteenth amendment and against its repeal. He will have a Congress which is strongly dry in both houses. Many of the Demo- cratic Senators and Representatives are dry and will not only back up Mr. Hoo- ver in his demand for prohibition en- forcement, but are Ttkely to go even fur- ther in their demands than the admin- istration may be willing to go. Senate to Organize. The Senate not only will deal with the nominations to the cabinet in its special session which opens today, but it is expected to perfect its own or- pnhatllon before it adjourns, electing its standing Senator Moses of New mmrshlre is slated for re-election as dent pro tempore. Senator Watson, who becomes Repub- lican leader of the Senate, has been (chairman of the committee on inter- state commerce. This is one of the most active committees of the Senate. He is to resign as chairman of the committee and that office will go to Senator Couzens of Michigan. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the present Democratic leader of the Senate, i3 ex- pected to be re-elected leader.