Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1916, Page 11

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 19, 1916. 11—A Next Congress Will Be Bipartisan; What Changes Portena in Senate Some Veterans Displaced and Unknowns Substituted in the Upper Branch by Voters. By EDGAR C. SNYDER. Washington, 18.—(Special Correspondence.)—" rotary conclusiveness of American politics,” a characterization of our folks made by Sidney Brooks, an Englishman | who about a decade ago came over here and made a study of congres- sional and presidential campaigns and their results, appears quite amply to be justified by the variant phases of this year's election. Approximate- Iy 18,250,000 ballots were cast, o which more than 1,500,000 were the votes of women. The number of men voting in proportion to the pop- | ulation was about the same as in 1912, Yet this great wide-spread ex- ercise of free will, with the suffrage better protected than ever, witnessed no decisive victory for any party. The administration won insofar as con- cerns the executive household, but lost as to control of the legislative branch. While the senate remains by a substantail working majority in the hands of the democrats, they have apparently definitely lost organized domination of the house. On the face of the returns they cannot elect a speaker or .rganize the principal standing committees. H Partisan Legislation Impossible. With the two houses thus of con- trariwise complexion, partisan legis- lation is well out of the question. It was for no party a nation-wide vic- tory. The administration, in order to carry out cherished policies, in which Mr. Wilson has indulged himself more than any other president we ever had, and with results flattering to his pride ! of opinion, must consult congressmen in a manner somewhat different and more respectful to them than he has hitherto employed. The senate, ad- herent as it is to the administration, must consider and make terms with the house. With party power so near equally divided, wise and sensibly expedient legislators, having a decent regard for public opinion, will keep personal am- bition and partisan zeal subjective to carnest endeavor and energetic work for the general good. Only those who are bound by selfish personal inter- est, involving a bit of evanescent au- thority, are disturbed by this condi- tion. The masses of millions who were swayed one way and another by the issues of the campaign are not uncomfortable because of the perils of anybody's political future. What will most interest and commend it- self to them will be a united effort on the part of congress and the pres- ident to add to what prosperity we have and diffuse it as far as legisla+ tion may throughout the country. Hence, in such a situation, the per- sonnel of the houses of the new con- gress is of engaging importance. Change in the Senate. Nineteen new senators have been elected, bringing notable changes in the personnel of the body. Eight democrats and eleven republicans, re- placing ten democrats and nine repub- licans, will supply the new faces. The most notable and at the same time the most unexpected exchange of parties made by any state was when Wyoming retired from the sen- ate Clarence D. Clark, sending in his place John B. Kendrick, the gov- ernor and a democrat. Mr. Clark is now serving his twenty-second year as a senator. His length of serv- ice is exceeded by only two others— Messrs. Gallinger and Lodge. His career in the senate has been highly honorable. During his entire serv- ice he has been a member of the judiciary committee, of which he was chairman in four congresses. He has been almost equally prominent as a member of the finance committee, and has shared in the work of that com- mittee on all the tariff measures that have passed since and including the Dingley act of 1897, Able Republican Missing. Little less of a loss to the repub- licans, in ability and experience, came with the defeat by William H. King, democrat, of George Sutherland of Utah, who, like Mr. Clark, was a valued member of the judiciary com- mittee. Two other surprises were sprung in the election of democrats when Henry F. Lippett of Rhode Isl- and was succeeded by Peter Goelet Gerry and Harry A. DuPont was re- tired for Joseph O. Wolcott. Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, now serving his sixteenth year of highly creditable service as an able and conscientious legislator, is to be succeeded by Frank | B. Kellogg, a republican, | Maine elected on October 11 Fred-| erick Hale, about 40 years old, a son| of former Senator Eugene Hale, who | is a lawyer, and was admitted to the| bar in 1901. He served thirteen weeks in the state legislature; is a bachelor and inherits a fortune, and is known as Colonel Hale through appointment on the staff of the governor of the state. Celonel Hale is a man of pleasing address, and, while not re- garded as an overvealous student, is credited with possessing much of his distinguished father’s facile diplo- macy of manner. He made a few speeches in the recent campaign, con- fining himself mainly to the tariff and declaring that while he favored a tariff commission, being for a pro- tective tariff, he was opposed to a non-partisan tariff. His remarkable frankness will be long remembered. Colonel Hale succeeded Charles F. Johpson, democrat, whose popularity was such as makes his defeat one of the surprises of the year. I'ormer Governor Bert M. Fernald, who succeeded Edwin C. Burleigh, de- ceased, is described as a substantial business man, who has been success- fully engaged in the canning indus- try, making a specialty of preserving sweet corn. He is 58 years old. He makes a goo dspeech, it is said for him, and will prove a useful member of the senate as a worker. Little Rhody’s Swith. One other change took place in New England's membership of the senate. Peter Goelet Gerry, who succeeded Henry F. Lippitt as senator from Rhode Island, 1s known to Washing- ton as having been a member of the house in the Sixty-third congress. He is a lawyer and a graduate of Har- vard. He was defeated for re-election to the Sixty-fourth congress. In his seeking re-election, the nomination of campaign agaiust Senator Lippitt he showed himself a “growing man.” Mr. Goelet married Miss Mathilde Town- send of this city six years ago Senator O'Gorman, democrat, of Vew York, voluntarily retired, not his party going to William F. Mc- Combs, former chairman of the dem- ocratic national committee, who was defeated by William M. Calder, re- publican, most agreeably remembered in Washington as a member of the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first congresses. An old-time New Jersey senatorial name reappears with the election of Joseph F. Frelinghuysen, who suc- ceeds James E. Martine. Mr. Freling- huysen appcars not to have devoted as much time to study of statecraft as his forebears, having been contin- uously engaged in fire insurance un- derwriting, except for a time when he was a member of the state senate. He is 47 years old. The man he de- feated, Mr. Martine, will often be re- called here on account of the fervent- ly solenm elocution with which he addressed himself to all public ques- Younster From Delaware. What is ascribed to a quarrel in the du Pont family defeated the ven- erable senator of that name, the prize being awarded to a young man, a lawyer, recciving a modest salary as attorney general of Delaware, Joseph Oliver Wolcott. He will be one of the youngest members of the senate, being now but 39 years old. Maryland, having to choose a sena- tor, showed it didn't like one of the democratic-socialistic brand, as the candidate of the democrats, David J. Lewis, now a member of the house, wds regarded. Joseph I. France, the successful candidate, and a republican, is a physician and denoted by those who know him as “a fine gentleman.” Old line democrats of Baltimore ap- pear to have enjoyed the defeat of Lewis as at the same time they re- turned a victory for the national dem- ocratic ticket. West Virginia proved herself de- pendable for the rgpublicans by de- feating Senator William E. Chilton by electing Howard Sutherland, now serving as congressman at large from the state. Mr. Chilton has been a popular member of the senate and one of the ablest supporters of the admin- istration. Knox Back in Senate. Pennsylvania, upon the voluntary retirement of George T. Oliver, a use- ful member and a staunch party man, turned to Philander K. Knox, a states- man who is so well known and ad- mired here that he will be assured a hearty welcome. None of the new- ly-elected senators has had so dis- tinguished a career. He became first best known as attorney general in the McKinley administration and held the same office in the Roosevelt regime. He was appointed to the senate in 1904 upon the death of 'Matthew S. Quay “and elected afterward, but re- signed to be secretary of state, serv- ing as such in the four years of the Taft administration. While in the senate Mr. Knox was a conspicuous member of the judiciary committee. The republicans will need him again there, having lost Messrs. Clark of Wyoming and Sutherland of Utah. welve years ago when Missouri joined for a moment the republican electoral column, the state was car- tooned as the “mysterious stranger.” There are several of that ilk this year in the democratic column of winners, |- the most notorious of which is Ohio. For the common judgment was that Myron T. Herrick, the republican can- didate, would be elected over the democratic incumbent, Atleet Pome- rene. But Mr. Pomerene is not a new member. Indiana Also Changes. Indiana presents a pair of new sen- ators with familiar names. Harry Stewart New, who succeeds the vet- eran democrat and chairman of the democratic caucus, John W. Kern, has beem active in_politics and as a news- paper man in Indiana since his youth, having for a long time published the Indianapolis Journal, The defeat of Thomas Taggart, the popular junior senator, by James Eli Watson, was something of a surprise. Mr. Watson is rccalleg as a member of the house for several terms before the democratic revival that won the Sixty-second congress house. He was his party’s whip in the house, and was famously effective. The next change is the election in Minnesota of Frank B. Kellog, first crowned with distinction by President Roosevelt as his “chief trust buster.” Mr. Kellogg will bring to the senate an exceptional reputation as a suc- cessful lawyer. He will be 60 years old December 22. Veteran Republicans Lost. John B. Kendrick, democrat, who who has been an eminently successful business man, and is reputed the owner of one of the biggest range ranches in the west. William H. King, who defeated that other veteran republitan senator, George Sutherland of Utah, is a fromer member of the house. He was elected when Brigham Roberts, the Mormon member, was ousted in the Fifty-fifth congress. It appears by his election that the democratic end of the Mormon church, of which Mr. King is a member, is now geting the better of the Smoot-Republican branch. The new senator has been holding some kind of office ever since he was grown—some twenty-five years, California, in contributing a new figure, has in Hiram W. Johnson, who, although never a member of congress, has achieved national repu- tation by exceptional force of charac- ter and vigor of assertion, especially as one of the founders and leaders of the progressive party. He is serving his second term as governor of his state. That element of the progres- sive wing of the republican party, who are still suspicious of the “reac- tionaries,” look upon him as without an equal as a fearless leader. Some Additional Democrats. Andriacus Aristicus—modestly oth- erwise, designated as A. A.—Jones is the new democratic senator from New Mexico, replacing Thomas B. Catron, republican. Mr. Jones, who is a na- tive of Tennessee, a lawyer and banker, is not unknown to this city, having been in official life here since 1913 as assistant sccretary of the in- terior. He was voted for but defeated when New Mexico chose its first sena- tors in 1912, In the southern tier of states only three new senators are forthcoming. One is William Fosgate Kirby, suc- cessor to the late James P. Clarke as LEARNING TO MANIPULATE TYPEWRITER TO MUSIC—Girls at the Omaha Commer- cial High school beat the keys to tune on Victrola. Front row, left to right, Hazel Larson, Ellen Stilling; second row, Florence Jensen, Gladys Larson. There are indications that Miss| Typewriter Lady will be transcribing | her notes on her machine to the la(rsl} waltz, one-step, march and fox trot| tunes. The trend is in that direction. | At the High School of Commerce | the victrola has been introduced into the typewriting department. The click of the typewriters is a | panied by lively airs from a victrola | One might drop into a classroom and | hear “In Lilac Time.” “Too Much | Mustard,” “Old Comrade,” “Over lhe‘ Waves,” “Perfect Day," “Uni accom- has the effect of students “up with | ‘The keeping all of the the procession™ in Omaha is one of Fox Trot,” “Very Good, Eddie,” or music also any of a hundred selections. These musical exercises are merely for practice and it is not intended that they shall be continued in practical | typewriting h ] speed of 100 words a minute to the [used in commercial schools. Victrola accompaniment of music. music for writing exercises was in- practice exercises three cities of the “The musical accompaniment has|augurated at this school a year ago. | the value of removing monotony of | During the recent state teachers practice drills. We 1 « the march will go farther with less | typewriting department gave a dem- fatigue if they step to the tune of a onstration at the school for the com- march,” the school senator from Arkansas. Mr. Clarke[ had been elected for the term expiring | in 1921, Mr. Kirby has achieved dis- | tinction in his state as a lawyer, l::v-! ing been attorney general of the state | and associate justice of the supreme | !court, and being the author of a much- | consulted digest of Arkansas laws. He | was tendered appointment as senator | on the death of Jeff Davis, but de-| clined. Tennessee has elected Kenneth D. McKellar, a young democrat from the house, who supplants Luke Lea, fa- mous as the youngest member of the senate. Mr. McKellar is serving his third term as a member of the house He last year defeated Mr. Lea and| former Governor Malcolm R. Patter- son in a spectacular contest in lhe\ democratic primaries, and this ycar‘ was elected over one of the ablest re- publicans in Tennessee, former Gov—l ernor Ben W. Hooper. | Nathan P. Bryan is another com- paratively young democrat who must | give way to another young democrat | as senator for Florida. The new mem- ber is Park Trammell, serving as gov- ernor of the state for the term, 1913-| 1917. He has been a member of both | branches of the legislature and at-| torney general. His Florida admirers | advance the claim that he will be the handsomest man in the senate. What Changes Portend. | Thus it is to be observed that the| political kaleidoscope is evolving in- teresting phases of character to the view. The democrats have lost griev- | ously in the death of Benjamin F. Shively and James P. Clarke. The lat- ter was chairman pro tempore of the senate. ‘]ohn W. Kern of Indiana, defeated for re-election, was chairman of the democratic caucus. Mr. Clarke was also chairman of the'committee on commerce. Mr. Kern was chair- man of the committee on priviliges and elections. Mr. Chilton, also de- feated for re-election, was chairman ! of the census committee, and was an | active member of the judiciary com- | mittee. Mr. O'Gorman was chairman | of the committee on interoceanic | canals. | As far as democracy is concerned in | the senate, the star of empire is beam- | ing westward. Pomerene of Ohio, | Lewis of Illinois, Husing of Wiscon-f sin, Reed and Stone of Missouri,, Thomas of Colorado, Johnson of | South Dakota, Hitchcock of Nebraska, | Kendrick of Wyoming, Walsh and | Myers of Montana, Newlands and Pittman of Nevada, Lane and Cham-| berlain of Oregon, Phelan of Califor- | nia, King of Utah, Smith and Ashurst | of Arizona, Jones of New Mexico, Owen and Gore of Oklahoma. Counting the senators from Arkan- sas and Texas as more likely to share | the western-influence sentiment as against the effeteful east, herein-is likely to lodge in these twenty-six sen ators from the states named the mas- tery of the democratic party in the next congress's senate. Outside of the | old south and these named, there are | only three democrats in the senate | east and north—Smith of Maryland, | Hughes of New Jersey and Hollis oii New Hampshire. Then there is a strong savor of progressive flesh and | muscle and nerve still animating the body politic in the west as affects the republican party. In any event the | prospect is pregnant with opportuni- ties for the imagination. Hot Lunches for School ; Children Get Attention Washington, Nov. 1.—Many schools throughout the country are supply- ing a regular hot luncheon to school children, or are providing a single hot dish with which children coming from a distance can supplement the | cold food in their lunch baskets. To | assist schools undertaking this| activity, either through teachers or groups of co-operating mothers, the home economics specialists of the De- partment of Agriculture has prepared | a report, which has just been pub- lished and is being distributed to peo- | ple asking for it, on economical and | easily prepared bills of fare for the school lunch. ! | | Her First Ride on Train. Miss Amanda Bonness, 20 yeurs old, of Butternut, was somewhat excited during her first ride on a passenger train from Butter- nut to Ashland. 8he came to the city to | visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Bonness, who was being trealed at the St Joseph | hospital Misx Bonness lives with her parents o a farm wboul three milex from and the firet opportunity khe has on a train came to her the oth «he desired to visit with her She enjoyed the trip, but while she ted that was curious to peer out of the car window, she did not do 8o, fearing some- thing might happen.—Milwaukee Sentinel the ship on the rope fenders, and |doctor and the padre were busy bury NO PARADISE NO |ing or restoring the victims of the | night. Two more graves were being dug in the British cemetery across the Euphrates. I heard a man in a | gunboat hard by belowing like a heifer. He was unconscious and they were wrapping him in ice. We would have given days of our life, lumps of our pay, for one long, bubbly iced drink. The padre told me that three times during the night he had en- T the tirely evaporated, but that toward L P 5 {dawn the humid atoms had collected world, but you will find little or noth-| {hemselves by some miracle of attrac- ing that is old in it within 350 miles | tion. Thus he had survived to min- of the sea, writes Edmund Candler [ister to minds and bodies in greater peril of dissolution Confused Traditions. movement of the air is Now that a tiny breeze had sprung up it was not too hot to Sand Flies Beset Travelers and Fierce Heat Makes Night Hideous. TEMPT WITHOUT SERPENTS the oldest country in in the London Times. On the Euphrates side, Ur, of the Chaldeans, has left some perceptible undulations in the mud. Up the Tigris the Arch of Ctesiphon is the only monument of antiquity that|dicoyie the identity of the Biblical stands. Ezra's tomb is not really Ez-| ree The S and T. man said that it ra's tomb and the Garden of Eden, if | (. {he trunk to which our paddle there is any truth in legend. iS|gieamer was moored, and such was changed heyond recognition. Five of | (e general opinion. But this tree us—a padre, a doctor, a regimental | \as 3 “Sirig" with yellow bean pods, officer, a supply and transport man ;.4 [ fearned, too, that a gnarled and and myself—ought to know, for we |00 bush down stream wi were motored to the Tree of Knowl- ky & edge of Good and Evil for the greater part of the last week in June. We were all bound for Nasiriyeh, on the Euphrates, and waited, at first ex- pectantly, afterward with little hope, for a problematical general in whose existence we had ceased to believ Qurnah, Kurna, or Gornah, as it is variously called, - the reputed Su- merian dise, lies at the junction of the Tigris and the old channel of the Euphrates. The new channel flows into the Shatt-al-Arab at Gar mat Ali, a few miles above Basra, but it is the old channel that serves for our line of communication with the Euphrates force. The water is clear and sluggish as a Norfolk river: there seems to be no current at all The palm tree and the fig leaf were the only paradisical things we found in Eden. Even the serpent was invisi- ble, though his works remain and the knowledge of evil thrives preposter- ously. Man is still chastised in this spot, and we had reason to be thank- ful that the longest day was followed by the shortest night. Our pyjamas began to sweat before we put them on. They were wet, not with the dew, but wtih the perspiration of the night the exudations of the palm groves. We neither slept, nor were we thor- oughly awake. We flung open our mosquito curtains and threw off our pyjama jackets, for the air seemed too heavy for insects. But the hour of the | sandfly was only postponed. They| came toward midnight and perished in our sweat like flies in marmalade Praying for a Breeze. We pulled down our nets and prayed for a breeze. At 5 the sun came licking over the horizon again to recharge the atmosphere that had lost nothing of its retained heat dur- ing the night. A message came early in the morning that the general had | not left Ali Gharbi. We could not start that day, and it was very im- probable that we should go away the next The great argument for Providence is that there is always a term to un- provoked evils, when the menacing hand is removed, and we remember that it is God’s will that we should he chastened, but not utterly destroyed At 10 o'clock a breeze sprang up, and our interest in things revived. Threc Sikhs slid down the burning side of A Real, Live Business For Sale I am contemplating leaving the city at once and will sell my busi- ness, located in the heart of Omaha for $2,000. 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Any morn- ing as you drive down- town in your motor car, your wheels may flounder along a pavement slippery with mud of prickly plum, with a telegraph pole in 1. This, 1 argued, bore somg kind | Commercial Club of fruit, far from seductive, it R\tu}‘ T N B f hut it might have deteroriated.* Eyi o Now Boost for dently Eden is not what 1t was ¢ A inquired of the people, but found local Interurban Lines tradition confused or indifferent s We explored the streets up to Rib — r i ,_“|‘ ;?l‘\ walk leads ”.“.) Charing I'he Commercial club will now | Cross, and Serpent's alley, of course, | seek to arrange for the introduction mto Temptation squize, a small insct [in the coming session of the legisla- n the houses by the quay where half fure of an intectirban bill. [For vati: 1 dozen bencliey are protected from | o, reasons it was considered inad- | the sun by watting on reed supports. | isapie 1o draft such a bill before elec- Femptation for the Arabs takes the | o0 " rhe committee on interurban formed of tnned 1‘;-’.‘;m.lr~ Eden | 214 pipe lines will hold a meeting cigarettes, canned salmon, and - the) poce “Week to arrange for providing like, which repeat the unhealthy pro-{ . “ivverirban bill. cess of sophistication that was so dis- | QU A A M astrous to our first parents The little | ywwmwwen market was almost deserted. 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