The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-27
Persistent Reports That General
 Wright Will Not Return
TOO MUCH A SOUTHERNER
Case of Dothan Postmaster Still Hangs Fire-Senator McCreary Wants Southern Port for Entry of
 Immigrants.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington. December 26.-Reports that Gen. Luke Wright of Tennessee. governor general of the Philippines, Is not to re- turn to the archipelago, are repeated with so much persistency that they have come to be accepted as not far from the truth.
 A story printed today says one of the reasons that Wright may retire Is that he Is a southerner and the race ques- tion in the islands could not be solved by him. Under the Taft administration the great receptions at the Malacanan palace were attended by the leading peo- pie among the natives who were made to feel perfectly welcome These func- tions were made the means of establish ing most friendly relations between the more influential classes of the Filiplnos and the representatives American sover- eighty. The race question was not raised or thought of
 The wealthy and educated classes Of the natives came to regard the American government as the best friend of stable and safe conditions, and were more and more disposed to accept 1t as not merely inevitable but desirable. With General Wright came a new social attitude. The race question as 1t exists in the south was injected into Filipino affairs.
 General Wright it is said, might have been able personally to adapt himself to the conditions of his position but for the stronger prejudices of his wife To turn her official functions into receptions for people of another race was more than the southern woman could do with good grace The potent Filipinos, who had pre- viously been won by the hospitality and democracy of the executive establishment,
 began soon to realize that their welcome
 was no longer ardent It was not long before the effect became apparent in
 many ways
 Cotton Estimates Continue. l Ii is becoming very doubtful if southern members of Congress are going to make
 and considerable protest against the ap- propriation which will be made for the l maintenance of the department of agricul- | ture.
 1 Along In the summer 1t was expected | as an assured fact that owing to the | cotton scandals, the department would l have hard work getting it's regular ap-
 propriation to continue the cotton esti- | mates Southern members have found l however, that the reports of the depart
 ment are more nearly correct than others | issued and the cotton producers would l fare better in the hands of the statistical board two of whose members are south
 erners and their s0000 southern corres-
 pondents than anw other organization.
 Dothan Postmaster Hangs Fire.
 The case of Byron Tramwell the Do-
 than Ala. postmaster, who s.-ed man
 and then pleaded insanity Is still hung 1 up in the postoffice department The case | is complicated by the fact that the Pres l ident's advisers in Alabama, are trying 1 to hold Tramwell in office and decline 1 to endorse some other man. An effort
 to secure Tramwell's retention will prob
 ably be made on the ground that he
 was only temporarily insance when the | killing took place, but has made and will | continue to make a sane postmaster.
 Wants Southern immigration Port. 1 Senator McCreary of Kentucky, who Is l member of the committee on immigra- l tion will introduce soon after the holi- 1 days. a bill to provide southern port l of entry for immigrants, the bill proba- bly providing that each state may keep l an agent at ports where immigrants are l received to look after state interests and l present the advantages of different states
 to desirable immigrants.
 More than 0O1,0G0 immigrants have been
 landed in New York thus far this year. ! transported by few steamship lines and
 distributed throughout the United States
 by eastern railways. An immigrant port 1 in the south would be of auvantage to | southern railway systems which would l transport immigrants to the southern and | western states.