The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-08

N@s%@1t ~@t%@% prosecution undertaken by the postal sii- thorities here. When the crookedness of the government official was SO closely interwoven with that of . non-ofzice-hoid- ing citizen that the evidence concerning the two could not be separated effective ly, the Washington authorities took 1t upon themselves to make out the cases against the outsiders. MT. Bristow pe- lieves that there is abundant material for development by the Department of Justice.
 An interesting question after all is whether the full Bristow report will l.e brought to the light of publicity by q congressional Investigation Most Demo crats ara Inclined to doubt whether the Republicans under the initiative taken by the Senate Committee on Postuftice and Pos, Roads will make the full re- port public. It Is said at all events that this will not be done at the present stage of the prosecution of the alleged vfuia tors of the postal laws.
 President Roosevelt has ali along been reported as anxious for puhlicit. as well as a vindication of the law to the limit. His course in agreeing not to disturb Perry Heath in his place as secretary Of the Republican National Committee. whom he as well as Bristow criticised tCE EftUNfn9A fGEAlES8klS9S &&k 4BA<f[G H4AtkES provokes doubt as to the Presidents sin- .;cri.y in his ostensible anxiety for '.civic righteousness" throughout his administra- ton.
 Anyhow the question of publicity prom ises to arise again through several reso- lutions already introduced In Congress asking for the printing of the full Bris- tow report.
 The Late W. M. Springer.
 The late Judge William M. Springer. who died In Washington ThurEd ". serve ed twenty years or ten sncc .ssive terms as representative from the Springfield. Ill.,. district. He came to ronsress : t the age of 3s. in 1875 when the De:nocras ss for the flrst time after the Civil War got long service he had attained conspicuous rank among Democrats IT Congress- The Democrats carried after the FIfty-nrst Congress. the Fifty-second Congress House. and Mir. Springer was so prcmi- nent as to be 60 prominent candidate foi speaker that In the three-cornered race between Crisp, of Georgia Mills of Texas and McMiliin of Tennessee. the throwing of his following, which faciudcd William J. Bryan, to Crisp. elected the Georgian. The reward of the Illinois member was appointment as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee He was its chais- man only one term. his successor in the F,ifty-third Congress being William l.. Wilson.
 The rough current of occasion has eliminated from the House all but forty eight representatives who served with Judge Springer in his last term in Con- gress.
 Tn the Fifty-eight Congress who were members of the Fifty-tnird are only these:
 Bankhead of Alabama: Dinsmore and Little of Arkansas; Lester. LivIngston Maddox and Tate of Georgia; Hit. Sraith. Marsh and Cannon of Illinois: .Cousirs. Hull, Lacey and Hepburn of Iowa; Cur tis of Kansas; Davey. Meyer and Robert son of Louisiana: Taibott of Maryland: Gillett and Mccall of Massachusetts; Tawney of Bfinnesota; Williams Of Mis- sisaippi; Clark De ArTnond and BaFth- olat or Missouri: IsoudenelageF. and Gard ner. of New Jersey; Grosvenor end Van Voorhis, Wadsworth and Payne of New York; GrosvenDr and Van yeorhis of Ohio; Herman Of oregon; Bingham. Dat- sell, E5sbley and Adams of PennsyIvaHila; Richardson of Tennessee; Cooper of Tex as; Jones and Swanson of Virginia; Bab- cock and Cooper of Wisconsin.