The Columbus commercial., 1903-03-03

Fox's Friends at the Capital
Are Anxious to See Him
Elected Goevrnor.


iaI Correspondence )-Senators
from the south who are members
Of the committee on claims of the
senate are very much wrought
up over the contemplate treat
ment they are receiving at the
hands Of the republican major
ity. There are scores of merito-
rious southern war claims pend
ing before the committee and the
republicans steadily refuse 20
permit them to be brought up
for consideration, either in the
committee or in the open senate.
AS consequence these claims
will have to lie over until the
meeting of the next congress in
December. Many of these
claims have been allowed by the
United States court of claims,
quite a number as far back as
four years ago, and all that is
required to insure their speedy
payment is an appropriation for
that purpose. The republicans,
however, persistently refuse to
allow favorable action to be ta-
ken in the premises. Take the
Cotton Claims Bill, for instance.
Every member of the senate
committee, republicans an d
democrats. voted to allow the
bill to be favorably reported to
the senate, but when it was pro-
posed to call the bill up for con-
sideration the republican MEM
bers of the committee who had
voted for a favorable report in
committee voted against consid-
GRAFTON of the matter in the sem
ate.
Senators and representatives
are daily being opportuned by
parents to get their sons out of
the army and navy. Many
young men join the army, and
navy under the impression
that they are going off to a pic
nic, but after tasting of the
drudgery and hardships of the
service they come to the conclu-
sion that all is not gold that gilt
ters and they begin to write let
ters to loved ones at home beg
ging them to write senators and
representatives from their states
to have them discharged. OF
course, the senators and repre-
sentatives make every effort to
have their wishes complied with,
but it is seldom they succeed.
The army and navy need men
and the officials are 10th to let
them 90 when once they are in
the service. AS a rule, soldiers
and sailors are compelled to
serve out their enlistments.
Your correspondent would re-
spectfully advise our young men
to give the enlisting officers of
the army and navy wide berth.
Mississippians s i d n G in
Washington are jubilant over
the candidacy for governor of
Congressman Fuller Fox. Mr..
Fox IS very popular with Missis-
sisppians here, and could they
have the say he would be unan-
imously chosen as the next chief
executive of the grandest and
greatest state in the union.
Fuller Fox is recognized as one
of the ablest men Mississippi has
sent to the lower house of con-
gress in many years. His great
speech in defense of the consti-
tuition of Mississippi, delivered
at the last session of congress,
is considered one of the most
profound and able legal argu-
ments that ever fell from the
lips of mortal man. 1t is consid-
cred a gem in legal lore by all
southern lawyers, and the man
who has failed to read it has,
indeed, missed a rare treat.
Another Mississippian who has
won great distinction in his con-
gressional career is Ezekiel s.
Gambler, jr., representative from
the First Mississippi district.
Zeke Gambler never lets an op-
portunity pass to help his con-
stituents. When the agricultu-
tural appropriation bill was un-
der consideration in the house
recently the alert congressman
from the First had an amend
ment tackled on the bill for ex-
ira money for the propagation
of rare and valuable seeds to be
distributed among the farmers
of the country. Zeke contends
that the farmers are as much
entitled to recognition as the
bankers, lawyers and manufac-
turers, and he proposes to see