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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
THREE CAUCUSSES
Different Political Parties Hold Meeting
Concerning Committees

Washington. December 5.-Caucuses were
held in the senate end of the capitol to-
day. They were under the auspices re-
spectively of the republican, the demo-
Gratis and the independent senators, the
last named including the silver republic
cans and the populists, and each consld-
cred the reorganization of the senate COM
mittees In each instance the detail work
was referred to special committees.
Senator Allison was empowered by the
republican caucus to select committee
of nine to confer with the opposition and
make the apportionment of members.
There was, however, a general under
standing that the republicans should nave
q clear majority on all committees.
senator Hale moved a committee on the
insular movements of The United States,
and upon the suggestion of Senator Lodge
agreed to amend his motion so as to pro-
vide for two new committees, one to cover
Cuoa and the other to include the affairs
OF Porto Rico and the Philippines.
The motion was referred TO the proposed
committee on committees, but no dispo-
siton was made of a suggestion made soto
voce, by Senator Mason, that he, Senator
IiOdF ana oeHdIOT HAZE SHOulu ne SlNG4
places on the proposed Philippine commit
tee. The conference really relegated the
Wtaole subject to the committee on COM
mittees, which Senator Allison is to APP
point promptly.
The democrats transacted no business
beyond the unanimous selection of Senator
Jones of Arkansas .as chairman of the
caucus to succeed Senator Turpie on the
authorization of the chairman to appoint
a committee to confer with the republic
can committee on the reorganization of
the standing committees. The independ-
ents agreed to act with the democrats in
the organization of the senate, and Sena-
tor Pettigrew was appointed to act as a
member of the minority committee on
committees. This conference was attended
by all the silver republicans and populist
senators, of whom there are eight.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06


cities had May festivals, but the Birming-
ham chorus was the best drilled of any,"
The Investigating committee of the execu-
tive committee of the University Alumni as
soeiation was in session in Birmingham
yesterday. This committee has to do with
the sale of the lands granted to the uni
versity by act of congress. The meeting
was private. and nothing was given out for
publication.
Hon. Sidney ]. Bowie. of Admission, is in
Birmingham.
Judge L. C. Hudgins, of Piekens county,
was in town yesterday
Rob ert Stringfellow of Montgomery, is in
town.
Technical education is coming to be more
and more appreciated in the SOUTH said
well known manufacturer. I'm ethis busy
iron center there should be, and there viii
be, first-elass technical school, where the
higher mathematics and applied mechanics
will be taught. There are many bright
boys in this community who are eager TO
get a scientific education here at home"
1.-The year 1900 will be a great cotton
planting years." said a cotton merchant
This years crop is short and prices, there
fore are high. 1t is this high price of cot
ton that will induce planters to overdo
themselves next season."
Frank L. Morayne, of Gadsden, is at the
Morris.
DR.. Tucker Brown, of Riverside, who has
been visiting his brother, Morgan Brown,
in this city, returned home yesterday.
Whit Collier is in town.
Business is booming tremendously said
Passenger Agent r. NJ. Ellis, of the Ala
bama Great Southern railroad. Last year
was great year for passenger traffic re
cepts on our road, but the receipts TINS
year will be nearly double those OF lass.
Our passenger increases are from $4OOo TO
s. 900 a week. Mr.. Ellis left last night for
Mississippi.
Colonel w. w. Brandon, acknowledgement
of the state, was in town last night.
Charles E. Wilson, of Russellville, Is IN
town.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
Treasury Estimates For Next Year

Under continuing contracts Secretary of
the Treasury Gage asks for an appropria-
zion of 100000 for the Improvement of the
Warrior and Tombigbee rivers in Alabama
and Mississippi, and $4,000 for the i'm
provement of the Black Warrior In other
words he asks for $4,000 only for the locks
and dams needed above Tuscaloosa This
would add one more dam and lock. Under
this plan a generation would pass before
a waterway would be secured from the
mines and furnaces of this district to the
sea
1t is true he asks for an appropriation of
S500,0O0 for the improvement of Mobile har-
Dor, and also $4,000 for the Improvement
of the Tombigbee above Demopolis--all of
which is very much needed; but the appro-
priaton of $4,000 for the Black Warrior
should be at least Implicated If any man
now living is to see slackwater navigation
from this city to the sea. The total appro-
priation is large, but a great and rich ma
ton should not hold back when money will
unlock the mineral deposits of Alabama,
giving its product to the export trade of
the country, thereby promoting a favorable
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
General Wheeler's Seat.

The Huntsville Mercury thinks the COVER
nor of the state should assume that there
is a vacancy in the Eighth district. should
order a special election, and should send
the choice of the district on to Washington
armed with Certificate No. q The Mercury
goes on to say:
The duty of the governor of Alabama is
not dictated and ought not to be governed
or influenced by what probable action con-
gress might take if a congressman-elect
under social election, ordered by the COVER
nor should appear at the bar of congress
and claim to be the legal representative of
the Eighth district. The question then that
congress would have TO pass on would be
whether General Wheeler on the 4th of De-
cember held commission in the United
States army and was at that time actually
engaged in the service.
AS a special election cannot be held before
General Wheeler's return, and as such an
election would involve considerable expense
to be borne by the people and not by the
general government, would it not be best
to let the question come up when General
Wheeler takes his seat in the house of rep
resentatives? The Mercury should not
strive to crowd General Wheeler out, when
he is absent in the service of his country.
The old soldier deserves better treatment
than that. and The Age-Herald believes
that If the Mercury's plan should be tried
he would receive better treatment at home
in his own district. Altogether it is better
to let the case take the regular course.
This means that a vacancy cannot occur
until congress acts, because General Wheel
err holds the certificate of election. When
the house declares the seat vacant then 1t
should of course be filled. To fill it sooner
would but invite snarl before a house
controlled by republicans, and the Mercury
must see that good would not probably
come out of it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
LONE, TWO, THaEE."

II. c. Bunner.
1t was an old, old, old, old lady,
And boy that was half past three,
And the way that they played together
Was beautiful to see.
She couldn't go running and jumping
And tho boy, no more could he;
For he was thin little fellow,
With thin little twisted knee.
They sat in the yellow sunlight,
Out under the maple tree;
And the game that they played I'll tell Won
Just as it was told to me-
1t was Hide-and-Go-Se they were playing
Though you'd never have known it to be
With an old, old, old lady
And a boy with a twisted knee
The boy would bend his face down
On his one little sound right knee,
And he'd guess where she was hiding
In guesses one, two, three.
"You are in the china closet"
He would cry and laugh with glee-
1t wasn't the china closet
But he still had two and three.
"You are up in papa's big bedroom,
In the chest with the queer old key"
And she said: You are warm and warmer
But you're not quite right" said she.
'It can't be the little cupboard
Where mammals things used to be-
So it must be the clothes'-press, Gran'ma,"
And he found her with his three
Then she covered her face with her fingers,
They were wrinkled and white and wee,
And she guessed where the boy was hiding
With a one and q two and three.
And they never had stirred from their
places,
Right under the maple tree
This old. old, old, old lady
And the boy with the lame little knee
This dear, dear, dear old lady
And the boy who was half past three.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
OF Much Interest In Chattanooca

Chattanooga, Tenn, December 1.-THE re-
cent decision by the supreme court of the
question as to whether the combination of
the Addyston Pipe Works, the Chattanooga
Foundry and Pipe company and other cas-
iron pipe-making concerns was in violation
of the antitrust law, in which it was held
that such combination was in violation
of the Sherman law, has revived interest in
the criminal procedure begun by the in
dictment of the officers of the company in
volved in the federal court of this city.
These indictments have been hanging in the
court awaiting the final decision of the SUI
preme court, and are now set for hearing
in this city at the January term of the
federal court. Lawyers for the defendants
are preparing for the trial. d
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STAY WHERE you ARE

From the Mobile Register.
We believe that if old man Morgan could
find the time to swing around a circle of the
counties of this state he would arouse an
him, All he would have to say would be:
Boys, here | am, as 1 have been since the
war and before, devoting my time to public
service, filing a place in the senate, but
not yet a rich man. I fought for you in the
field and on the hastings, and we know one
another My record is an open book. Shall
I continue to serve you or shall step down
and let some keener man for the place sue
coed me?" There would be but one reply.
and that would be, NO Morgan. Stay
where you are. The other man can wait"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

trade belanee and degree of general pros
perity. Congressman Underwood will work
effectively and increasingly for an adequate
appropriation and he should have the
warm support of every. Alabama member
and for that matter of every other member
wherever located; for the opening of the
Warrior is In every sense a national UNDER
taking, having national bearings, involving
a national trade of great possible proper
lions.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
REFLECTIONS of A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
The worst thing about being fat is that
you are so much in your own way
The only thing a man won't forgive a
woman he loved for is being able to live
without him.
Probably the original idea in giving Love
wings was so a man could use them after
he got married.
Women love men for one of two reasons
either for what they see in them or for
what they don't see in them. The accent
you put on 1t makes the difference.
The man who gets his rights isn't the
one who always insists on having them;
he is the man who insists on other peoples
insisting on his having them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

From the Augusta Chronicle.
Governor Johnston's statement that his
reason for entering into the sena torial cam
paign in Alabama was that he did not be-
lieve Senator Morgan was quite true to
Bryan is not a platform likely to chal-
lenge the high admiration of the public
Personal admiration for Mr. Bryan is
praiseworthy enough, but is rather a sen-
der senatorial platform.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
IN ETOWAH

From the Gadsden Times News
We have talked with many farmers the
past ten days, both democrats and popu-
lists, and they all state that Senator MGR
gan will carry Etowah, as they do not want
to swap brains for mush. The pops are for
Johnston but Morgan will get three-fourths
of the democrats and some republicans and
popuiSts.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
SAW MANY THINGS

From the Talladega News Reporter.
Birmingham is the only town whose peo-
pie saw the shooting stars" Their water
is so bad, however, over there that nobody
drinks 1t and as for a substitute-well, no
wonder they see a commotion in things ce-
lestial occasionally. Talladega visitors to
the late fair say they could see most any
thing in the way of stars there.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
Trouble Feared Duckto,vn

Chattanooga, Tenn, December "a spe-
cial from Benton, Tenn, says Sheriff Camp
bell has received telegram to send twenty
deputies to Ducktown. as trouble is feared.
The Ducktown Coal Copper and Iron com
pany intends to start its furnaces with non
union labor and the union men declare they
Will not permit it. Sheriff Campbell has the
men picked and will repair to the scene.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
| BOOK MRS. STEVENSON HASN'T READ

Robert Louis Stevenson, now in Indian
apolis, says that there is one book of Mr..
Stevenson's she has never read. 81 simply
refused to read it and held to my refusal =
she confessed II make it a rule never to
read novel the scene of which is laid in
a bygone age. The author always deems it
his duty to make his characters talk in
what he considers the language of that
period; and I am always sure that he
doesn't know positively how they did talk,
so l won't read such books. I would never
read the Black Arrow" and Mr. Stevenson
thought it such a good joke that he insisted
upon dedicating it to me-"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
GROSVENOR THANKED
Citizens of Chattanooga are Grateful to
the Congressman

Chattanooga, Tenn, December 5.-The
chamber of commerce in a special meeting
held this evening passed strong resolutions
Thanking Congressman Grosvenor for the
interest he has taken in the Chickamauga
National park and especially for his eff
forts to secure a grand memorial arch for
this city, as outlined in his bill just PREF
sented to congress.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
From the Nashville American.

From the Nashville American.
The Alabama Steel and Shipbuilding
company, operating the Ensley furnaces at
Ensley, Ala, after extensive repairs, thor
ough overhauling and building of new fur
naces, tested one of the furnaces last Fri
day and made run of some forty tons or
good merchantable basic steel, made from
southern ores. The company has ten fur
naces ready for use and orders booked for
the output OF all of them.
Until recent years steel has not been
made in the south. Northern plants had a
monopoly, and pig iron and products of
iron were considered the only furnace out
nuts southern ironmas ters could. success
fully handle.
This is we'll called the Steel Age, and
the increased demand for steel to take the
place of iron resulted in the attempt by the
Tennessee Coal and Iron company to make
on a large scale steel out of southern pig
iron. The attempt was a succuss, and good
basic steel was produced, which is in de-
mand. That this demand is great and that
it is believed by men of means will be
greater are shown by the undertakings of
the new company at Ensley and by the
announcement that the Republic Iron and
Steel company will erect a mill at Thomas,
in the Birmingham district.
The growth of tnis industry in this dis
trct dates back only to July, 1897, and the
Birmingham rolling mill first turned out
basic steel in that month The success of
the venture was followed up until now the
Birmingham district is not only noted for
iron production, but for Inc conversion of
the iron into steel.
Millions of dollars have been invested,
thousands of men given employment, BUSH
ness of all kinds increased, railroads given
more freight to haul and greater markets
opened for food stuffs. The tillers of the
soil come in for share of the increased
business, for the great aggregations OF
Workingmen required in the operations of
mines, furnaces and mills and their fam
lilies must be fed, and the farmers of Ala
-bama, Tennessee and other states must
furnish the food.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

SCRAP IRON is BOOMING

From the Troy Messenger
At the central depot for shipment is a
carload of old scrap iron, gathered up all
about the city. This old iron heretofore has
been a total loss. Since the boom in iron
in the Birmingham district demand has
been created for this old waste and that
city has agents buying up scrap at all
available points. This car is the second one
loaded at this point within the last three
months.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
NOTHING TO sRAG ABOUT

From the Detroit News.
There's nothing remarkable about lone
robber holding up a southern express train;
this country has seen one man steal
whole railroad.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat does not
hesitate to say that Morgan is one of the
most creditabe men whom any southern
state has had in either branch of congress
since the war"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

From the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
If Mr. Roberts has become to some extent
a national figure he can truthfully say that
whatever of prominence he has attained he
owes to his wives.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

John l. Blair stayed a good while in this
world and accumulated a great deal of
stuff. but he took none of it when he de-
parted shrouds are not made for that
purpose,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

There is widespread desire that the old
firm of Gilbert and Sullivan shall resume
productiveness at the old stand. clean,
clcar-cut comic opera would now be a treat
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

From the Atchson Globe.
Nothing pleases a woman more than to
have a ne4ghbor girl who paints come over
and ask to use her COW as study"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

The court journals explanation of the
vote in Limestone assumes that the people
of that county have not sense enough to
mt their sentiments in the ballot box.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

guarantee is now wanted that the pop
,lists of Marshall will not now turn about
and defeat the legislative candidate they
al least assisted in nominating last Sat
urday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Eel Caney is sbll the bloodiest battle of
the period. General Methuen was mis-
taken.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Lieutenant Gilmore should get hero
points from Hobson before he comes home,
for he is booked to serve awhile as one.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Aguinaldo may as we'll surrender, for he
cannot shake off General Young, who has
followed many a trail of a craftier foe
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Gneral Methuen is recuperating. He will
soon be as full of fight as he ever has been.
He will reach Kimberley on schedule time.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Agulnaldo is running so fast he cannot
find chance to surrender.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Washington, December 5.-Today's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, s2S6, 110, 1O4
gold reserve, $23S, 056977.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

General Kitchener has opened the Sou
dan, and in due time General Butler will
do the like in South Africa.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

When Lieutenant Gilmore returns, his
sketch of Aguinaldo will be good reading.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

The British soldiers at Ladysmith be-
leve they will eat Christmas dinner un-
molested by Beers
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
PIXIES POLITICAL WAR CRY

From the Troy Messenger.
Rah. rah, re!
Who are we?
We are the people
Who want John L.
We're for Morgani
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Clark's senatorial chair cost 100000. No
other piece of furniture outranks 1t in
price, whatever It may do in honor.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

Aguinaldo has only his own running rec
ord to beat.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06

The republicans would like to make Rob-
euse horror.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
CONSIDERED A COMPLIMENTS

The new driebund is still Dutch.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-06
THE STEEL ERA
IN ALABAMA

From the Mobile Register.
almost without attracting any public atA
tention the Ensley steel plant made run
of steel on Thanksgiving Day, the first run
of Importance ever made in Alabama.
Previous efforts at steel making in this
state have been experimental and spas
modlc. The present effort is by a Million
dollar concern, amply able to take care Of
all its processes. The steel run was made
without hitch the product was rolled and
pronounced of the highest grade. Alabama
has definitely entered upon The era OF
steel making. What this means to the
iron industry of the state We can best
discern by observing what great progress
followed The making of steel in the Pitts
burg district, where for many years simply
iron was the product but later with steel
came a development of the industrial life
that was little short of marvellous. We
shall see like results in Alabama. We have
all thought the growth of Birmingham
wonderful. The people called 1T the
Magic City" a title that was at once
accepted by outsiders, but we are sure that
hut the beginning of greatness for that
city has been recorded. With steel making
comes with equal step the manufacture of
steel goods, rails, Orders, wire, nails and
hundreds OF articles for which there is
always the greatest demand. Already we
see the neighboring industries starting up
alongside the steel mill. But there will
be more steel mills, and each with its CO.
terie of associate factories, each contrib
uting to the wealth of Birmingham and off
the state of Alabama.
From the Philadelphia Record
The announcement from Birmingham.
Alabama, that the great steel plant at Ems
ley will be in full operation within the next
thirty days, with a capacity of 1000 tons of
daily output, is of more than ordinary i'm
portance. The southern iron ores contain
too much too little phosphorus to ad-
NIT of being successfully treated by the
ordinary Bessemer processes On making y
steel. This fact has heretofore practical
ly kept the southern products out of the
steel market. -
But the great plant at Ensley has been
especially constructed, at a cost of 81, 200,-
600, for the purpose of treating the refrac-
tory Acknowledgement ores by what Is
called ''the open hearth process" which In.
sures the production of steel of the finest
quality. 1t is said that the entire output
for a year to come has been sold ahead in
the European markets.
No doubt the south may hereafter sue
cessfully compete with the north, as well
as in foreign markets, for the production
of steel in advanced forms of manufacture
With gradually increased output consum-
ers may reasonably expect gradually de-
creasing price The present high level of
prices, if maintained would lead to check
in important business ventures, and the
new departure in the south may be, there
fore. deemed a matter of general advant-
age.