The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-18
Measure Has a Show of
 Passage.
Chairman Grosevenor of House Com mittee Having It in Charge Thinks That It Will Go
 Through Under
 Special Rule.

Washington, Feb. T.-(Special.)-It has suddenly developed that Senator Hanna's famous ship subsidy bill, which passed the Senate last session, Is apparently about to become law, although 1t has been commonly accepted as practically dead in the House.
 Congressman Grosvenor chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, informed The Adyer User correspondent today that while the Democrats on his committee were against the subsidy bill. the large Republican majority favored 1t General Grosvenor laid that he had sent a letter to every member of the committee asking him to De present next Monday to consider this bill.
 Meantime. he personally knows the ma jority will favor the measure and will in- struct him to report 1t favorably.
 Thereupon as a member of tho Commit tee on Rules, he will ask for a rule to consider the bill, which, according to his view, is certain to pass the House and thereby the greatest of MT. Hanna's trt- umphs will be registered.
 Mir. Hanna personally stated to The Advertiser correspondent that he consid- cred Alabama more vitally interested in the shipping subsidy bill than any other State in the Union; that its enactment would mean more to Alabama with that States vs griculture, mineral and tim br wealth than 1t would to any other State whatever.
 that it's enactment would mean more to Alabama with that States vast agricul- ture. mineral and timber wealth than it would to any other State whatever.
 AS the fortunes of the ship subsidy rise. the chances of the omnibus Statehood bill appear to fall.
 Senator Teller on being reminded to- day of the current gossip that he was determined to fight for the attaching of the Statehood bill as a rider" to an ap- propriation bill. asserted that he would not
 We are told that the Republicans in the past have done this sort of thing" said Senator Teller, but such Republi- can wrongs do not warrant similar Dem ocratic wrongs. The Statehood bill will fail as a rider to an appropriation bill While Democratic Senators favor the ad- mission of the Territories of States, there are many of them who are unwilling to create new States by mere parliamen- ta-y trick. You can take my word for it the bill will be voted down by the help of it's friends. the Panama canal treaty and the Cuban reciprocity treaty will be ratified. and there will be no extra ses- sion of Congress or the Senate"
 The proposition of Senator Quay and some of his Republican and Democratic adherents that the omnibus Statehood bill be added as rider to one regular ap- propriation bill is held by most Demo- crats who are on the alert to be equiva- lent to the notorious cloture which Czar Reed forced upon the House; that such a rider" enforces upon the enactment of an objectionable law or the resultant summoning of an extra session of Con- gress, the which is exceedingly obnox- ious.
 Congressman Bankhead of Alabama spent the entire day within the precincts of the Senate. whither he, on account of his prolonged service in the House and his constantly considerate conservatism, had been summoned for consultation as to the proposed plan of forcing the State hood bill as a rider" on an appropria- ton measure.
 Colonel Rankhead declared to demo- cratic Senator's that regardless of his de- voton to the cause of statehood for ter rtories and having regard to the com mands of the last National Convention of the Democratic party that the territories should be admitted as States. he was and must remain opopsed to any thing even remotely resembling the cloture in the senate as was unmlSta <aDIy sent 1orth in the plan to place the Steatehood meas ure as rider" An iniquitous force" bill. or a bill even more iniquitous cut ting down tho representation of the Southern States in Congress and there fore in the electoral college might there by be easily enacted.
 Congressman Bankhead declared in ef- feet to the Democratic Senators and to Senator Quay that it were infinitely better that the territories be kept temporarily out of the Union as States than that the Republican majority be given the power Of such a fatal precedent as the running of a rider" of such vast import upon any bill and thereby give the Republican majority of the Senate the practically un- trammeed power through such riders" to degrade the South for all time to come. cripplng our people politically and degrading them In the governmental sense and fatally hurting them in the business of purely monetary significance
 Colonel Bankhead's earnest pleading with the Democratic Senators Is believed