The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-11
THIS STATE
 FARES WELL Representatives Get Good
 Assignments. OATES IN WASHINGTON He Has No Interest in the Republican Squabble. Believed That Capt. R. F. Kolb as Ready and Anxious to Flop
 If He Can Dispense
 the Pie.

washington, Dec. -(SpeciaD-Alaba- ma fared well in committee assignments considering the fact that the reduced membership on the Democratic side com pelled the Speaker to provide for an ex- tra number of Republicans. The Alaba- ma members are placed as follows: George W Taylor, Appropriations; A. A. Wiley. Militia, Pensions: Henry D. Clay ton, Judiciary; Sydney J. Bowie, Elec- tions No. 1; Charles W. Thompson, War Claims, Expenditures in the Navy De- partment John H. Bankhead, Rivers and Harbors, Public Buildings ana Grounds; John L. Burnett, Public Lands, Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Railways and Canals; William Richardson. Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Pensions; Oscar w. Underwood, Rules and Irrigation of Arid Lands
 The changes so far as the older mem- bers are concerned are: Burnett gives up Expenditures in the War Department and gets Public Lands and Alcoholic Liquor Traffic Richardson gains Interstate and Foreign Commerce, one of the most im- portant committees of the House; un- derwood lost Ways and Means because ot the reduction of the Democratic member ship on the committee and succeeded MT. Bailey of Texas on the Rules Committed. He also gets a place on Irrigation Of Arid Lands which is likely to be an i'm portant committee in this Congress, in view of the Presidents message.
 Representative Wiley introduced today a bill providing for the sale of 5O,O0O acres of unoccupied lands in the State Of Ala bama, the proceeds of which are to go to the support and. maintenance oI the State Normal College at Troy and the colored Normal School at Montgomery, also bill appropriating $50,0OO for the enla1 cement of the government building at Montgomery.
 MT. Wiley and other Representatives were entertained at dinner last night by Colonel R. G. Erwin of New York. Presi- dent of the Plant System of Railways.
 Representative Clayton introduced a bill today to repeal the national bank ruptcy law. s...
 Claude Drake of New Decatur arrived today to take hand in the fight over the postoffice of that town.
 Former Governor w. c. Oates arrived this morning to spend day or two while on his way to New York. Gov ernor Oates says he is not interested in the row of Alabama Republicans over the Federal patronage and that his only wish Is that the President will appoint good, clean men. He said he was positive that neither General Shelley nor Governor Toha iOit1 fhp movement tO or ganize a new Republican party in Ala bama.
 MT. w. l. Wellman of Huntsville has complied with the request of the Presl- dent to prepare a statement setting Iorth the conditions existing in the Republican organization of Alabama and the paper Is now in the hands of the President, Mr. Wellman having presented 1t today. Mir. Wellman entertains well denned views regarding the methods common to Republican bosses in Alabama and other | Southern States and he was emphatic Tn his statement that a change in the man. | ner of distributing patronage must be l made if the party is ever to become a | respectable political factor in the State. He has no political ambition himself and does not desire to be an arbiter be- tween the contending factions. but hopes | that the President will relieve the party | of some of the endorsements under
 which it labors now because of the politi- clans who have been conducting affairs l there in the past There is reason for 1 the belief that the President will attach
 great weight to MT. Wellman's statement and it need surprise no one if the | scramblers who have been hocking to
 Washington lately are nearly all pushed | aside.
 Alabamians are eagerly awaiting the
 return of Captain Kolb to see what the
 result of his recent conference with the
 President will be. The delegation be-
 lieves that the Captain Is ready to flor
 and undertake the organization of a new
 party if he can handle the patronage
 MT. Bowie today introduced bill ap-
 prcpriating $1OO,OOO for public building al | Selma.
 Nominations Confirmed. | Washington, Dec. l0.-The Senate to- d,,. oor drmed these nominations: