NOTE. The Fifty-seventh Congress opens with two vacancies in the United States Senate, caused by the failure of the legislature of Delaware to elect successors to George Gray and Richard R. Kenney. Alfred B. Kittredge, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., has been appointed Senator, pending action by the legislature, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James H. Kyle, which occurred on the 1st of July, 1901. In the House the membership lacks one of being complete-Nicholas Muller, Representative from the Seventh district of New York, having resigned November 20, 1901. The following changes, caused by death, have occurred since the issue of the last previous edition of the Directory: Llewellyn Powers, elected Representative from the Fourth district of Maine, vice Charles A. Boutelle, resigned, and subsequently deceased, May 21. Charles L. Knapp, elected Representative from the Twenty-fourth district of New York, vice Albert D. Shaw, deceased, February 8. H. Burd Cassel, elected Representative from the Tenth district of Pennsylvania, vice Marriott Brosius, deceased, March 16. Henry H. Aplin, elected Representative from the Tenth district of Michigan, vice Rousseau O. Crump deceased, May 1. Dudley G. Wooten, elected Representative from the Sixth district of Texas, vice Robert E. Burke, deceased, June 5. Asbury F. Lever, elected Representative from the Seventh district of South Carolina, vice J. William Stokes, deceased, July 7. Contests have been filed in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives for seats in the Fifty-seventh Congress, as follows: Alabama, Seventh district-N. B. Spears v. John L. Burnett. Kentucky, Third district-J. McKenzie Moss v. John S. Rhea. Missouri, Twelfth district-William L. Horton v. James J. Butler. North Carolina, Third district-John E. Fowler v. Charles R. Thomas. Ohio, Twelfth district-John J. Lentz v. Emmett Tompkins. South Carolina, Seventh district—A. D. Dantzler v. J. William Stokes (now Asbury F. Lever). Virginia, Fourth district-C. E. Wilson v. Francis R. Lassiter. By the death of James A. Walker, the contest instituted by him for the seat from the Ninth district of Virginia, occupied by William F. Rhea, has been abated. III |