The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-05
ALABAMA FARES WELL
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 For government building at Selma, s75, 5,OOO.
 For an addition to the government building at Anniston, $75,O00.
 For an addition to the government building at Montgomery, $65.O0O.
 For sites for government buildings in Tuscaloosa and Florence, S,5O0 each, and for a site for a government building in Bessemer, $12.0O0.
 Credit Due Them All.
 Thus all these items, and, what they will ultimately involve in the way of na- tional expenditures, result in more than three million dollars of government money secured for Alabama through the efforts of Congressman Bankhead laboring for his own district and on behalf of his colleagues without whose earnest aid he could not as a matter of course have succeeded. So the credit for all this huge sum of money appropriated to Alabama is due to the entire Alabama delegation, confessedly the ablest delegation as a whole that any State now has in Con- gress.
 The item for the Bessemer government building is solely attributable, as a mat ter of fact, to the extraordinary personal influence of Congressman Underwood
 While he had the active aid of Colonel Bankhead, 1t was himself who achieved the remarkable victory of getting $l2,00 for a site for a government building within twelve miles of and in the same county, Jefferson, where there is already $4OO00O government building. that is, in Birmingham, procured by Colonel Bank head in his first term of Congress.
 It is of further great interest to note that the Alabama delegation is the only large delegation returned unbroken to the next Congress and the only delega- tion that works as a band of brothers. The Alabama delegation labors as one man for Alabama, and therefore they are the most successful State delegation, Democratic or Republican, in Congress.
 Colonel Wiley's Diplomacy.
 Congressman Wiley's bill which the President signed this morning, adjusting in an equitable way the land claims un- der the old Mobile and Girard Railroad grant, affects more than 400 homestead CTS. or nearly 5000 persons in the coun- ties of Bullock. Dale, Houston. Coving- ton. Coffee, Pike, Crenshaw. Escambia and Mobile and therefore it's importance can be appreciated
 Colonel Wiley worked like a slave for the bill, but from the outset his col leagues, while sympathiznK with him, did not believe he could possibly get it through in fact in ordinary crcum- stances. the bill had no chance of enact ment. but Colonel Wiley went to work with the saving grace of diplomacy which wins when all things else fail The Mont gomery Congressman won most difficult case by the gentle grace of diplomacy and so he has lifted a load from more than 400 homesteaders in Southea stern Alabama. Likewise Congressman Thomp- son has been remarkably successful. He has achieved wonders.
 One of the features of the gray dawn in the House. the last hours of the life of the Fifty seventh Congress, was a fierce fight Congressman Richardson of Alabama made against the Presidents unexpected and remarkable veto of the bill permitting the Mussel Shoals and Light Company to utilize the waste water power of the government improvement works at Mussel Shoals for the purpose of supplying Florence. Sheffield and Tus- cumbia with electric lights and power.
 It was the Presidents first veto of this session and 1t will cause bitter dsap- pointment ia the three Alabama cities mentioned. Judge Richardson fiercely as- sailed the veto,. but was unable to se- cure the two-thirds majority of the House necessary to pass the bill over the veto and so a measure of great public utility to 15,U00 Alabamians was killed.
 Luclen Julien Walker.