The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-26
THE ITEMS RESTORED
MONEY TO PURCHASE SITE FOR
 BUILDING.
7,5O0 to Be Expended in Tuscaloosa $7,50o in Florence and $12,Ooo in Bessemer is Plan of the
 House Committee.

Washington, Feb. 25.-(Special.)-S for Government buildings at Tuscaloosa, Bessemer and Florence are to be pur- chased immediately if the House Commit tee on Public Buildings and Grounds has it's way.
 This committee today amended the on- nibus public buildings bill as it passed the Senate by the insertion of these Ala- bama items, the price for the sites in Tus- caloosa and Florence being fixed at S5Oo each, and the price for the Bessemer site being $l2,000.
 At the same time the Senate's provision increasing the appropriation for the An niston public building from s75,000 to $50 900 was amended to the extent that Anniston is to receive nothing but the original $75000. Congressman Bowie, who represents the Anniston district is con- fident that the full sum to that city will be restored if the bill passes the House and goes to conference, MT. Bowie's reputation as a hard and successful work CT is sufficient guarantee in this particu- lar.
 Great interest attaches to the caucus of House Democrats called for tomorrow morning to consider the Butler contested election case from Missouri, since the purpose of the call for the caucus is to inaugurate filibuster against the Re- publican majority ol account of its meth ods regarding contested election cases.
 Many of the leading and most infiuen- tial members will oppose in the caucus the adoption of any extreme methods un- less 1t be made clear that good would come to the party from the extra session. of Congress which such methods would certainly entail.
 As foretold in these dispatches, the Statehood measure as a rider to the post office appropriation bill was today with drawn without a division, the Democrats refusing to stand for such a precedent.
 The best of all the days doings as far as th4 South Is concerned, was the pas- sage by the Senate of the postoffice bill with the provision for the fast Southern mail intact.
 Some minor disagreements between the two houses on this bill remain to be ad- justed in conference, but that work will be cleared without difficulty and the bill will go to the President with the fast Southern mail provided for.
 President Roosevelt this morning &C., corded unusual honors to a party of noted Alabamians who were presented to him by Congressman Thompson of Tuskegee. The President holds Colonel Thompson in the highest personal regard, often inviting this Alabama Congressman to the White House and asking his advice as to South ern matters.
 The Alabamians whom Colonel Thomp- son presented to the President were Rev. Dr. A. L. Andrews and Mrs. W. F. Van- diver of Montgomery and Mrs. L. E. Whitfield of Opelika, and so delighted was the President that he gave the Alabama party special invitation to return at noon and inspect the new interior of the White House under his own guidance President Roosevelt has never before accorded such an honor to any visitors and this instance he desired the visitors to know that he was doing honor to his "dear friend, the enemy" as he called Colonel Thompson.
 The visits of Colonel Thompson's guests to the President brought out a fact of | national historic interest, inasmuch as | 1t developes the fact that the mother of I Rev. Dr. Andrews, the Montgomery pas | tor. and the mother of President Roose- Welt, who was a Miss Bullock of Georgia. kin of our Alabama Barbour County Bull | locks. were schoolplates. When this fact was made clear to the President he threw | his arm about Dr. Andrews and Ayitli manifest emotion expressed joy in meet ing the eminent Alabama Methodist min | ister.
 | Dr. Andrews, who is the guest of Con- gressrnan Thompson, reports that his | young daughter, who recently underwent a surgical operation in Philadelphia, Is progi essing well and her entire recovery | is almost assured.
 Lucien Julien Walker.