The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-05
Total of About $25O,OOO
 Secured. DELEGATIONS GOOD WORK Members Stand Together on
 Every Question. clayton's Satire and sarcasfm Can forth Cheers from the Democrats
 and Jeers from tho
 Republicans,

Washingtons March 4-(SpeciazO -Assn68 somewhat muscular. giant type of xoms8 American manhood at whom yoa Wuun4 1 look many times in .. crowd--a man wuob~ ing glasses over impenetrabls sys4 khn. hue of which one never knows but Mh3ch one feels always to be the soul of tln6. iy human nature-a man wrapped in R loose black overcoat of light naaterAk with tall shiny silk hat on hfs uunS- uaily large head. and sitting wtxh oaxa- less grace in an open vehicle drawn 1y pair of supurb mouse-coiored horssa, and followed by numerous mystersous | men on bicycles and in closed carriages. constituted the signal that fian1sd through Pennsylvania Avenue at tenman- utes past 12 o'clock this brilliant setsp- noon. that the fifty-seventh Congress had expired by limitation of law. Needless to say the man thus described was Theodore Roosevelt, and that the men following him were his gwamdA He had been to the Capitol to sign at the last moment such bills and resolutions an might be presented to him by Congress. and was returning to the White House with his burden of grievous disappoint- ments. though to those who in the street recognized him and gave respectful greet ing he showed no sign that all life was not to him supremely joyous.
 Presidents Disappointments
 The Presidents almost mad gallop from the Capitol to the White. House through Pennsylvania Avenue was a scene not to be forgotten by thoughtful men who wit- messed the journey. He looked as glad aa a school boy off for holiday. There were 60 degrees of glorious sunshine Yet grie- vous disappointment held heavily upon ! the heart of thls extraordinary man. Few things in Congress have gone his way, and these by rules of tyranny in l the House never dreamed of heretofore. His party managers have been forced | to set new rules that in the after time must return to vex them.
 The American people have not yet had time to realize the revolutionary depar- lures from free government made within the past few days by the Republican ma jority of the House. Heneeforth all talk about the House being the popular branch of Congress will be mockery. The Republican majority of that now ire sponsible body has in blind partisanism over-ridden all sense of justice and hith- erto guaranteed constitutional rights. The Senate remains the sole guardian | of liberty amongst this people as con cerns legislation.
 In last nights all night session Con- gressman Clayton, of Alabama, gave the Republican tyranny it's hardest and most effective blows. He dealt with it in rtdi- | cule and with rare skill. Some passages | from Mir. Claytons bitter irony might be read of all men with profit to thena- selves. This Alabamians masterful iosfo. his remarkable wit. his piercing yet gra- cious satire and gracefully worded sar- casm set the House in a roar not heard there 1t Is declared, in many years Jeers and Cheers. The Republicans Jeered him. the Demo crats cheered him. Rarely in a genera ton are there uttered so many truiy smart words in bitter invecteve yet wfth- in parliamentary privilege. even by the most masterly leaders. as Mr. Clayton | thundere ed against the Republican ma3og- ity before the sunlight of this day had dawned.
 His readiness of speech and his bitter incisiveness recalled much of the skill Of Garfield and Blaine in their best days when when they fought the Democrats. for whom MT. Clayton was last night the accepted spokesman.
 Upon the whole, Alabama comes we'll out of the Congress now expired. Never | before has Alabamas delegation accom- plished so much in one Congress. never before has that delegation as whole reached so high and distinguished a level | of influence. It is a matter of pleased and pleasing discussion here tonight, that the Alabama delegation has accom- plished more for their State and exeT- | cised a wider influence upon public af- | fairs than the Democratic members Of any other State. Thus in the National sense Alabama passes from the fifty-sev- | enth into the fifty-eighth Congress Tar
 stronger as whole than the State ever
 was before, not having regard to tndi-
 vidual members specifically, past or
 present.
 For Rivers and Harbors.
 In the matter of river and harbor irn- movement. for example, Congressman Bankhead, the Alabama member of tho River and Harbors Committee. by hard
 struggling, succeeded in obtaining for
 himself and those of his colleagues di-
 rectly concerned, namely, Congressman
 Taylor. Richardson, Bowie, Burnett, Wl-
 lev. Thompson and Clayton, the splendid
 total of S2, 200 900 for Mobile harbor and
 the rivers flowing in Alabama.
 Thus Congressman Bankhead on &C.,
 count of his personal influence with the
 Republican majority, succeeded in secur-
 ing for his own district and for the dis
 tricts of his colleagues, whose essential
 aid he had, a greater sum of money than
 was ever before voted by Congress to Alabama.
 Specifically, the sums which Colonel Bankhead has been able to obtain for
 himself and colleagues as the ranking
 Democrat of the Rivers and Harbors and
 Public Buildings Committees, with their
 necessary aid. are in round figures these:
 For the Warrior River scheme of inl-
 provement, SS64, 900.
 For the Coosa River. $e0,o00.
 For Mobile Harbor. S500.0O0.
 For Colbert Shoals in the Tennessee
 For Mobile Harbor, S5O0.00O.
 For the Chattanoochee River, S100,O00.
 For the Alabama River, $40,0o0.
 For the Choctawhatchie and other rivers
 in the district of Congressman Clayton
 and Wiley, S40,000