The times., 1899-12-23
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Mr.. Green's Grievance.-Raprsssnta

POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Mr.. Green's GrievRnce.-Represen
tive Henry d. Green of the Ninth district
of Pennsylvania has grievance. His
committee assignment is distasteful to him.
He asked the Speaker to appoint him on
one of four committees. but his request
was not needed and he was assigned. he
has said, to a committee the work OF VIII b
he least likes-Elections Committee No. ,.
Mr.. Green, who is a Democrat, while a
member Of the Pennsylvania Legislature,
sat on a committee which occupied forty
days in hearing witnesses in an election
contest He has said that he formed an
aversion to the work then. Mr. Green was
elected to the Fifty-siXth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel
ErmentroHt.
Mr.. Grosvenor Anxious. - General
Grosvenor, of Ohio, is inclined to be
wrothy with his fellow party managers
over scheme which has developed to
leave him of when the slate for the Phila-
delphia National Convention is made up.
He represents Congressional district
which is a hotbed of Forakerism, and the
men in power in the district do not like
him. There is no chance. it is said, for
the general to get into the convention as
a district delegate, and no chance for him
at all unless the State convention selects
him one of the four delegates at large.
1t is said to be certain that the two Sena-
tors and Governor Nash viii be three Of
the big four. Mr. GrosvenOr has been TAX
ing it for granted that he would be the
fourth, but he has just begun TO realize
that there is grave danger of his being set
aside In favor of Col. Charles Dick, who
has become the great power among the
younger Republicans of the State. He is
greatly worried over the outlook, and Il IS
said has carried his troubles to the Presi-
dent The young men have made Co. onel
Dick their idol and there is no disposition
on their part to give way
Mr.. LIQUIDS representative
Loud of California, the only Republican
to vote in favor of allowing Mr.. Roberts
to take the oath of office, has received sew
eral hundred letters commenting upon his
course. One of these began by expressing
the writer's hope and belief that the news
papers must have been in error in put
ting Mr. Loud on the list of those who
had voted to let Roberts take the oath Of
office. IT, however, the account were cor
rect. the writer said he would have eternal
cause for regret that he had been partly
instrumental in sending such a man to
misrepresent the people OF the Fifth Cali
foruia district To this letter Mr.. Loud
did not reply He also received quite a
number OF letters from clergymen and
others. written in a friendly spirit. ask
ing what were his grounds for voting as
he did. These he has answered, setting
forth the constitutional argument I'm favor
Of hfg Duf bp . m l.
jority Of his letters have been of COM
mendation. and they have come from nearly
every State in the Union. A great many
persons believe the House was carried
away by fit of excitement and has really
established dangerous precedent They
think Roberts should have been admitted
and then expelled. Mr. Loud is used to
voting in the minority. He was one Of
the three Republicans to vote first last,
and all the time against the Spanish war,
He and Mr. WadswOrth of New York have
many times stood together as the only
Republicans in opposition to private pen
sion bills In fact Mr. Loud has a record
as an objector that may in time equal that
acquired by the late William s. Holman.
Smith on Good acknowledgements
tive J. w. Smith of the First dis
dTict of Maryland, Governor-elect of the
Oriole State, is profoundly interested in Che
good roads movement. He said yesterday
that figures gathered by the State geological
survey in Maryland as preliminary to the
work of road Improvement in that State
show that of the II 4S3 miles of public road
in the State only $50 miles are improved
The road laws are not Of a character to en-
sure good roads, and, as a result the roads
are badly located, badly graded, badly
drained. and badly surfaced. causing a very
heavy tax on all hauling. The average dis
tance each ton of freight is hauled TO or
from the Maryland farms is 67 miles; the
average cost is &c cents q mile per ton,
or $l.74 a ton for the whole haul There
are about 5000 600 acres of farm land in
Maryland, and there is about one ton Of
freight hauled annually per acre TO or from
each farm. The total cost, therefore, OF
The cost of hauling in New Jersey has been
reduced one-half where the roads are i'm
proved Therefore, by improving Maryland
roads one-half of this sum could be saved.
Making a liberal allowance for the fact
that part Of the hauling is done over toll
roads, and that some of it goes over IN
important roads that could not be immedi-
ately improved it is estimated that at least
50 600 600 a year could be saved by improv-
ing the main roads of the State similar
estimate is reached by considering the re-
duCtion in the number OF draft animals
necessary, and the saving In the wear and
tear on animals, wagons, and harness by
good roads.