The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-18

te-vene. What 1t may disclose and develop Is as uncertain az Is what Kind of crops will turn out in the fall of l9o4 excellent condition. The enemy is sorely on the defensive and so must continue until the elction, barring biunders py Democrats in the coming Congress. Cannon and Economy.
 Your Uncle Joe Cannon is just now pos ing as retrenching reformer. He mas given it to be understood that the coming | session of Congress is to practice tne
 most rigid economy. There Is 10 pc no appropriation in the lump, such as mas been in late Congresses. admitting of iav- ish and unscathed use or the puplc
 moneys. No rivers and harbor bili, no
 public buildings bill. no financial ieslsia | ton, no tariff tinkering. no legislation or any kind that will spend money or pro- yoke political discussion, except the pro- yiding of the essential oil for the ma chinery of the government.
 But will MT. Cannon succeed in manag | ing the boys as he contempiates he VIII! | The Fifty-eighth will be the largest con gress ever assembler. Ninety senators
 and sSs Representatives, with large per centage of them new members and ilany of the old reelected on pledges to do something immediately for their consult uents, constitute what appears to De a very considerable positive force to butt against the nothing doing .o 6arricade srsct
  Former Chairman Burton. for instanee, who has just come from Europe where he has been studying river and harbor work, is anxious to demonstrate anew ms aptness for the position in which it Is generally allowed that he has displayed signal ability. The per centage of Con gressmen who do not want river and har- Dor money for their districts has always been small. There is no end to the par liamentary dickering that usually goes on with this measure for leverage. It would therefore be quite remarkable if the Fifty eighth Congress proves an excep- ton.
 It is almost the same way as regards public buildings bills, Undoubtedly there has been so marked a growth In the volume oi business, especially in postof- flee receipts, as shown by the recent ad- vance statements from the report of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department: that 1t is altogether likely hat there will come a more than usually earnest appeal for more room in which to do the busi- hess of the government. This does not in clude not a few cases of absolutely ~eed- ed new public buildings. Even the de-
 partments in Washington are excessively crowded in their quarters. The new De- partment of Commerce and Labor has and Secretary Cortelyou has plans which will involve the outlay of about seven millions in this item alone. Then, again. notwithstanding the dizzy times in the Postoffice Department and Mir. Cannons insistence upon hugging the shore of economy. there Is the great and growing system of rural free delivery which to the average Congressman Is the greatest in- stituton for keeping up district fences since the discovery of the seed -distrib- uting attribute of statesmanship. There Is nothing comparable to 1t Tn the esteem of the general run of members this side of their mileage allowances.
 On the whole it looks as though from this distance that your Uncle Joe is go- the arrows of initiative business in the session which begins Monday, Novem- Der 9.