Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — UNCLE SAM’S WISE MEN CALLED BACK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UNCLE SAM’S WISE MEN CALLED BACK.

throng than there has been for many a day, for all roads do not lead to the capitol, and Pennsylvania avenue is the chief thoroughfare to that Mecca of the politician. The Meeting of the Senate. The number of new faces in the Senate chamber when the Vice President called that body to order was comparatively few. Mr. Ransom’s was missing. Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, another relic of the age of chivalry in the South, is also gone into retirement Georgia sends Augustus O. Bacon to take the seat held for a brief space by Patrick Walsh, the editor of the Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Gear, an old-time member of the House, best known as “Gov. Gear,” fills the seat of Wilson, of lown. Ex-Gov. Knute Nelson, known not so long ago as a member of thd House, takes the place of Washburn, of Minne-

sota. Mr. Dixon, of Rhode Island, gives way to George Peabody Wetmorc. W. J. Sewell, once a member of the Senate, takes the seat of Mr. McPherson. Ex-Secretary E 1 - kins succeeds Johnson Camden, of West Virginia. ExSenator Warren, of Wyoming, returns to take the place of Mr. Carey, and

Thomas S. Martin, of Virginia, displaces Eppa Hunton. Not many changes. But the Senators serve for six years and are reasonably sure of re-election. Mr. Morrill has been in the Senate twenty-eight years, Mr. Sherman thirty years, Mr. Allison twen-ty-two years. Mr. Ransom had served for twenty-three years continuously when he retired. Because there are so few newcomers among them the gathering of the Sena-

tors was like the reunion of a big family. No party distinctions were drawn as they grouped themselves on the floor of the Senate chamber. Personal friendships obliterate for a time that imaginary line which separates Democrat from Republican, and the representatives of the parties and of all sections of the country mingle freely, shaking hands, exchanging congratulations on Improved health, swapping a little gossip of the late election perhaps.

complished quickly. Announcement was shortly made that the President would send his message the following day, and adjournment was taken; but not until a flood of bills had poured in, for the Senators were well loaded with business. In the House. The House was a far more entertaining place than the Senate. The new Congressman is all excitement as he sits in a

group of admiring friends who have tome to see him installed. His wife and children are in the gallery perhaps, and he tries to look less conscious than he feels for their sakes.

The older member has much to say to old friends on the floor—reminiscences to exchange and regrets to express for the departed. But the beginning of the session is an old story to him. Perhaps he feels a momentary uneasiness about that committee chairmanship which was half promised to him, but he keeps lps own counsel about it. He does not get flurried, because he knows that it will do no good. He has put in all his hard work in advance of the meeting of the caucus, and he knows nothing will help him now.

It is more than likely that the rules adopted by the House in the Fifty-foarth Congress will be those prepared under the supervision of Mr. Reed when he was Speaker before. The Bnslness of Congress. There wiU be $o lack of bills and resolutions. For example, the new Congress will' have to consider the question of providing revenue adequate Government’s expenditures. Then there is the financial problem. Two important foreign matters are to be considered again duriag this Congress—the Beliriug Sea award and the Nicaragua Canal. Mr. Gresham agreed with England on a payment of $425,000 to the sealers in Behring Sea, but the last House refused to accept this adjustment of the question. Cuba will also come in for early attention, for there is no doubt a proposition to recognize the rebellious natives as belligerents will be made in both House and Senate, and the discussion of it will give the Rejmblieans more campaign material. In home affairs there is the bankruptcy bill, which has come so near adoption in two Congresses, but which still hangs fire. It passed both House and Senate three years ago, hut never git through conference. In the last Congress it n&gsod the House.

KNUTE NELSON.

THOS. B. REED, Speaker of the House.

VICE PRESIDENT STEVENSON, President of the Senale.