The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
WASHINGTON CITY GOSSIP
Notes of Timely Interest-Summer Politics
 What the Republicans and Democrats Say.
BY W. T. MANNING.

4 third class will be saved from the penitentiary by the statute of limita- tions. In the opinion of at least one democratic congressman there should be no legal shield between the official who swindles the government, that is the whole people, and his crime He thinks 1t an outrage that the people should tie up their own hands in this way, and in order to remedy it will introduce bill repeating this absurd statute in the case of public officials.
 A democrat who expects to be on the foreign committee of the next house. as he was in the last one, has an arrow in his culver which he has resolved to let fly at President Roosevelt as soon as 1 congress is convened. It is in the form of a joint resolution to the effect that in- reference in the internal affairs of an- other nation is a violation of the tradi- tional policy of the government from it's foundation down and dangerous to the peace and welfare of the republic. If passed, it will be equivalent to vote of censure on the president. How the republican majority will receive it will, it is thought, be interesting.
 The erection of a statute of George Washington in London is not without in- terest here for the reason that 1t may lead to the honoring of the late Queen Victoria In a similar fashion in this city. l know one gentleman who is already moving In the matter. He has no doubt that the money can be raised without the slightest trouble among the million aires whose daughters have married English aristocrats. The only question is as to the popularity of the project and that rests mainly with the newspapers. Congress would have to authorize the placing of it in the public grounds or in the Hall of Statuary in the capitol Not many members, it Is believed would vote in the negative in deference to cer- tain element among their constituents
 The argument in favor of Victoria will be- of course, her well known friendli- ness to the union during the civil war.
 Judge Parker is now the only man named in connection with the democratic nomination for the presidency next year by influential democrats and political leaders in this city. The warm welcome given to him in the Empire state of the south the other day and honors paid to him are to them convincing proof of his availability in every respect. Ex-Presi- dent Cleveland has a certain following, but it is not insistent with respect to his candidature. They admit that age. the third term objection and the fierce ! not to be surmounted Judge Parker ful- ly satisfies them in every particular. With him as the candidate the feeling is universal that MT. Roosevelt has no chance of getting the independent vote which will decide the result in this state
 New Jersey and Connecticut.
 I heard a suggestion in one of the clubs the other night which I will venture to repeat for the benefit of the St. Louis ex- position managers The topic of conver- sation was President Loubet's visit to England. "Why," said the well known lawyer, would 1t not be a good idea to invite the president of the French re- public to come and see us next year?9 | Everybody agreed that 1t would be. We shall then have a national election on hand and 1t might prove interesting to | him to see how we manage it. Congress should give the invitation and nationalize it.
 l member of the Union League club tells me that two or three of the friends | of the President in that holy of holies of 1 aristocratic repubcanism endeavored to get up some sort of a demonstration in l his honor while he was on his way to 1 Oyster Bay last week. Their Idea was | that reception and speech in New York in which the President should tell all 1 about his western tour, would be a fitting close to the greatest presidential stump | ing tour on record. The attempt was a rank failure. No" said one member to whom appeal was made. T am very weary of Roosevelt's speeches. I am l tired of his perpetual advertising of him 1 self, and I will not be a party to his devices in that respect. Roosevelt should attend to the business for which he is paid. The Union League, take 1t, Is not a cowboy club"