The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-21
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

- + AsHNGToN, December 20
~ When congress reoonvenes after
- the holidays there Will. remain
only about forty working legislative days
Of the season. This fact alone precludes
the possibility Of the passage Of the i'm
nortant remedial legislation which was
promised so confidently when the cleo.
lions were pending last fall It may be
that some amendments viii be made to
the Sherman antitrust laws. and the
Subcommittee Of the house judiciary
committee, which for the present has
the matter in charge, is hard at work to
that end. But when it has agreed upon
some policy or other. the whole question
viii have to come before the full COM
mittees which is not likely to accept
without discussion and investigation of its
own. whatever may be proposed to 1t.
Then will come the battle in the house
and the senate, the end of which no man
may forsee In the meantime the inter-
ested corporations will not sleep the an
gelic sleep of the innocent. Non-action
Is, Of course, their policy, and 1t is the
side on which all the odds are now
staked. with an excellent prospect that
they win come out the vietors when the
gavels fall for the last time on the
4th OF March in both houses.
A great light has dawned on Mr.. Roose-
welt in the three weeks since the meeting
of the national legislature, namely, that
he cannot control It's action-that the
supporters upon whom he counted to car
ouf his Fuauda lions haWa viox,-o
of their own, and are becoming cold ana
distant In their attitude toward his adj
ministration. 1t is q light that many oc-
cupants of the white house have beheld,
so that history Is only repeating itself
Il the President had the patronage that
falls TO one In his position every four
years, he could succeed in making some
impression on the lawmakers. but he is
precisely in the place that Arthur was in
everything had been disposed of before
he took the oath of office Again, Mr.
Roosevelt lacks many of the elements OF
political leadership in dealing with the
chiefs who are the potent forces in their
party.
Although Senator Hanna resolutely dis
claims all idea of being a candidate for
the Presidency, his name invariably
comes up whenever a few republicans
Dt6ll TO UiStuhS the question OF the next
nomination. The friends OF the late Pres
ident from every section, all tie to him
with the utmost tenacity, and would
gladly support him If he were to enter
the race One enthusiastic admirer
makes the prediction that, in 1904 the
republican national convention will be
two-thirds in his favor, and will make
him the nominee despite all his protests.
Trouble fc brauvfppr for 4ba Drasg1opt
in many Of the southern states over the
question of the organization of the lily
white republican party and the appoint
ment of the negroes to office. 1t is diff
cult to see how a republican president,
who expects a denomination in 1904, can
consent to throw the eolored people over
board, and that Mr.. Roosevelt must do
or lose the support In the next national
convention of men like Senator Pritchard,
the lily white leader in North Carolina.
Even now the prediction is made that
two years hence the President will get
little support from that quarter, that
three-fourths of its delegates will have
have some other candidate for the Presi-
dency.
What" said visiting western con-
sutuent to his representative the other
day, will congress do this session."
I can't speak for my colleagues" was
the reply, but the most important thing
I shall do will be to draw my pay regu-
larly up to the fourth of March, and
then make for home on my railroad
passes"
When Victoria died King Edward i'm
nledately ordered a general overhauling
OF Windsor Castle before taking up his
residence in the palace to the memory
OF John Brown, and which. while the
Queen lived, no one not specially favored
was allowed to enter, were converted
from sort of shrine into smoking and
card rooms, and the eurios sent to her
Majesty during her long reign, We're sent
10 the auctioneer. What the king did
not like In her decorations or furniture
was banished out of sight No one would
have known the old palace the interior
Tuscan, when the alterations were all
finished. The changes made in the White
House during the present administration
are equally radical The famous portraits